eBay won't pass UK Digital Service Tax costs on to third-party sellers – unlike Amazon, which simply can't afford it
Stop sniggering, don't forget those 'indirect taxes' Amazon says it pays
13 Aug 2020 | 26
Paul Kunert is the UK editor at The Register. In addition to running the London office, areas of coverage include the technology supply chain, IT outsourcing, cloud services and more.
Ink tanks park themselves all over the lawns of Western Europe as orders flood in
Get off my grass! ... And onto my WFH desktop
13 Aug 2020 | 29
How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China
So it's working really well
12 Aug 2020 | 55
What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM
ExclusiveHR boss warns staff Big Blue will 'suspend' salary reviews, shunt rises into 2021
12 Aug 2020 | 15
Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud
For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen?
10 Aug 2020 | 25
With this Uber get-to-work-safe app, you are really spoiling us, ServiceNow
The. Defining. Enterprise. Software. Company. Of. The. 21st. Century
10 Aug 2020 | 15
Work-from-home shift trickles down to Western Digital as cloud builders stuff storage in bit barns to meet demand
How to survive a pandemic
06 Aug 2020 | 1
EY to outsource compute function, sending 800 staff into the loving arms of... IBM
ExclusiveGlobal Service Delivery Centres in Poland, Argentina, India, China and the Philippines all impacted, as are staff in UK and US
06 Aug 2020 | 27
Dogged by sickly supply chain, Arista cats warn of networking gear shortages until the end of 2020
CEO bemoans looming recession and 'trade wars', but hey, we're halfway through the week
05 Aug 2020 |
Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer
'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst
05 Aug 2020 | 5
European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy
'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst
04 Aug 2020 | 10
Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled
More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive
04 Aug 2020 | 16
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home
Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it?
04 Aug 2020 | 8
Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner
Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe
04 Aug 2020 | 4
In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb
PC giant blames restructure costs
03 Aug 2020 | 6
How to democratise IT: Tech big four hoover 63% of global cloudy infrastructure spending
No, we have not used the term 'digital transformation'... oh bugger
31 Jul 2020 |
13 – lucky for some, but not BT because that's how hard pre-tax profits crashed in Q1
COVID-19 ravages former state monopoly as nearly all divisions shrink
31 Jul 2020 | 8
Humble-bragging ServiceNow CEO tells anyone who listens: 'Our destiny is to become the defining enterprise software biz of 21st century'
Larry, stop giving Bill ideas
30 Jul 2020 | 14
IBM talks up open cloud, downplays vendor lock-in as it signs public cloud framework with UK.gov
Now just AWS waiting in the wings under One Government Cloud policy
30 Jul 2020 | 9
UK's Co-operative Group to centralise IT teams across various divisions, warns redundancies 'inevitable'
ExclusiveTata Consultancy Services to run application and infrastructure support - oh, and security
17 Jul 2020 | 23
Everything must go! Distributors clear shelves of ALL notebooks in Q2, even ones gathering dust over last 12 months
UK portable sales-out (the stuff shipped to customers) more than double in lockdown buying frenzy
17 Jul 2020 | 28
Downwardly mobile? Well, things aren't looking up for Dixons Carphone's phone biz
Sales crash by 20% and that break-even period has just been pushed out by up to another year
15 Jul 2020 | 3
Burn baby burn, infosec inferno: Just 21% of security pros haven't considered quitting their current job
Chartered Institute of Information Security finds many overworked, under-resourced, stressed
14 Jul 2020 | 18
Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y
Don't even get started on 2021.... please
13 Jul 2020 | 6
