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Aaron Hurst is Information Age's senior reporter, providing news and features around the hottest trends across the tech industry.

Cloud & Edge Computing

BT to migrate mainframe applications to cloud with Kyndryl

As part of a ten-year partnership with Kyndryl, BT Group is moving its mainframes to the cloud, in the aim of reducing costs and energy consumption.

Data Protection & Privacy

Data Privacy Day 2023: keeping data secure and compliant

On the 17th annual Data Privacy Day — also known as Data Protection Day — we explore what organisations need to consider this year when it comes to keeping data secure and compliant with regulations

Careers

What is the role of a CTO in a start-up?

The role of the chief technology officer (CTO) can be vital to the much needed innovation of any start-up. Here, we explore what this entails

AI & Machine Learning

Radical Ventures $550m fund for AI start-ups backed by market pioneers

Toronto-based investment firm Radical Ventures has received backing from several artificial intelligence leaders, to go towards supporting the innovation of AI start-ups.

Manufacturing

Tech leaders call on UK government to deliver semiconductor strategy

In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, tech leaders have asked the government to prepare and publish the UK’s semiconductor strategy as a matter of urgency

IT management

LogicMonitor appoints Taggart Matthiesen as chief product officer

SaaS observability provider LogicMonitor has hired former Lyft and Twitter executive Taggart Matthiesen as its new chief product officer

AI & Machine Learning

Microsoft and OpenAI enter third phase of AI acceleration partnership

Microsoft has announced a new multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, extending the two companies' partnership to accelerate AI computing and research development

Cybersecurity

61,000 open source projects, vulnerable to 15-year-old flaw, now patched

Following discovery of a 15-year-old vulnerability affecting open source projects through Python, Trellix has managed to patch over 61,000 of the ventures affected

Releases & Updates

Google to make 12,000 employees redundant

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced in a company memo that around 12,000 employees in the US will be made redundant, as big tech continues to take cost-cutting measures

Major Contracts

Barclays Eagle Labs awarded Digital Growth Grant to aid regional innovation

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has awarded its £12.09m Digital Growth Grant to Barclays Eagle Labs, to help boost growth of UK tech start-ups and scale-ups

Automation & Robotics

Schneider Electric completes acquisition of AVEVA

UK-based industrial software company AVEVA has been acquired by global automation and energy management specialists Schneider Electric, to bolster industrial digital transformation efforts

Diversity

Women in IT Awards Asia nominations close 10th Feb 2023

Nominations for the 2023 Women in IT Awards Asia close on the 10th February — here's how you can nominate

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