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More than 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday said they planned to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, setting up a protracted legal fight to rein in the power of the Silicon Valley giant.The states would be pushing back on a...
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is replacing an Excel-based system for grant applications with a bespoke data management system (DMS) built by consultancy and software firm Aiimi.
BEIS has signed a one-year contract worth £900,000 to capture and securely procress Covid-19 business...
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More than 5,000 people were wrongly recorded as having criminal convictions after a computer error meant guilty pleas were assigned to defendants in error.
In its latest annual report, HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) revealed that between April 2020 and October 2020, guilty pleas were...
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Alphabet, parent company of Google, posted consolidated revenues of $61.9bn for the second quarter of 2021, up 62%.
Total Google Services revenues were $57.1bn, up 63%. Google Search also reported “other advertising revenues” of $35.8bn. Overall, Google made $50.4bn in revenue from advertising during the quarter....
Source is New York Times
Is your phone’s home screen jampacked with pages of apps in random order — including some apps you never use? Sure, you can always find the program you need with search or the voice assistant, or by browsing the app drawer. But app access...
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Glasgow businesses are to get access to a new digital information hub launched by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC), providing guidance on both physical and cyber security to organisations that will be affected by the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which takes...
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For the past 18 months, employees across the globe have been working remotely from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. One consideration that has been a concern throughout for many security teams is personal device usage. Commonly referred to as bring your own device (BYOD), it...
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As chair of the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s technical oversight committee (TOC), Lee Porte has aspirations to oversee the growth of participation within the developer community.
The core change is the removal of requiring a dojo to be undertaken prior to contributing code to the Cloud Foundry...
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Microsoft has reported a 21% boost in profits for its fourth quarter of 2021, with revenue of $46bn.
Revenue in its commercial cloud business grew by 36% to $19.5bn, while Azure posted revenue growth of 51%.
Revenue in More Personal Computing was $14.1bn, an increase of...
Source is New York Times
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, just made in three months what it took until recently an entire year to earn. That is a level of growth that companies of its size rarely if ever achieve, but the pandemic has erased all the limits for tech...
