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How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it

Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case

Bootnotes09 Mar 2023 | 92

Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week

The irony, it burns

Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12

Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 73

Inflation, recession, pah! IT budgets set to rise in 2023

Turns out all it took was a business-disrupting global pandemic

On-Prem27 Sep 2022 | 2

Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s

My friends say I should act my wage. What's my wage again?

Offbeat27 Sep 2022 | 164

Billionaire CEO tells Googlers 'we shouldn’t always equate fun with money'

Updated A day in the G is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet. Every code checkout a parade. I love the G

Bootnotes23 Sep 2022 | 42

Former Digital Realty datacenter reborn as urban farmstead

No, the devil's lettuce isn't on the menu

On-Prem12 Sep 2022 | 5

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff

Comment Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice

Bootnotes09 Sep 2022 | 23

DeFi venture OptiFi permanently locks up $661,000 of assets in code snafu

Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command

Bootnotes02 Sep 2022 | 22

Micro Focus bought by Canada's OpenText for $6b

Resting place of Novell – and one-time home to SUSE – finds new life in the Great White North

Applications26 Aug 2022 | 15

UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses

Updated Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM

AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 71

Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty

Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash

Legal16 Aug 2022 |

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation

Offbeat04 Aug 2022 | 16

VC wells drying up: Y Combinator's latest class shrinks 40%

Time to take another gander at that pitch deck

Software03 Aug 2022 | 2

Intel experiences another kind of meltdown

'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed

Systems29 Jul 2022 | 8

Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing

His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned

Bootnotes26 Jul 2022 | 34

IQE files against Tower Semiconductor claiming theft of trade secrets

Updated Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP

Legal18 Jul 2022 |

UK government extends review of BT stake owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi

Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt

Networks13 Jul 2022 | 9

Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation'

No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter

Software07 Jul 2022 | 27

End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition

Firms accustomed to freebies miffed that web giant's largess doesn't last

SaaS21 Jun 2022 | 47

IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb

CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile

Edge + IoT19 Apr 2022 | 81

HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications

Interesting blue sky research aims to put the quant in quantum, although progress in sector isn't rapid

Systems29 Mar 2022 | 5

Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London

Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage

Security01 Dec 2021 |

When criminals go corporate: Ransomware-as-a-service, bulk discounts and more

Feature Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc.

Security11 Oct 2021 | 14

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

Applications26 Aug 2021 | 18

Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses

Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March

SaaS20 Aug 2021 | 56

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)

Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource

Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44

Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff

Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp

Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22

JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations

Updated Creator suspects his ID was copied, web giant keeps quiet

Applications27 Apr 2021 | 42

Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud

Failed firm was full of it, Feds say

Science22 Mar 2021 | 12

Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash

Including COVID-19 research, it is claimed. And they'll almost certainly never face an American court

Security21 Jul 2020 | 27

WeWork sues SoftBank over 'AWOL' $3bn shares purchase – which included millions lined up for ousted CEO Neumann

Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms

Science07 Apr 2020 | 19

Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc

Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan

Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 17

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Updated Planned obsolescence strikes again

Edge + IoT21 Jan 2020 | 278

Yeah, you better, you... you better tell us how you're misusing people's data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos

Cellular networks asked nicely to 'fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day

Security27 Mar 2019 | 7

Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money

Analysis It's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz

Personal Tech28 Feb 2019 | 30

Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news

Updated Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone

Networks26 Sep 2018 | 6

Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers

Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks

Personal Tech12 Jun 2018 | 19

Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich

Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it

On-Prem20 Dec 2017 | 111

Tech VCs sue Uncle Sam over President Trump's immigration chill

We can't throw money at nerds if they can't get here, wail Silicon Valley's sugar daddies

Legal02 Oct 2017 | 21

Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine

Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores

On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 19

Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses

Management must consider employees' rights in workplace policy

Security06 Sep 2017 | 36

Brexit, schmexit: Christmas sales up 4 per cent at Dixons Carphone

Firm defies forecasts despite warnings of 'uncertain times'

On-Prem24 Jan 2017 | 12

Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website

Health Secretary makes a mint. Good for him, right?

On-Prem16 Jan 2017 | 45

Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies

HP and Samsung had goods stranded at sea by container line's bankruptcy

Channel23 Sep 2016 | 6

Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers?

Pushing for creation of cyberattack database

Channel24 May 2016 | 21

Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable

Crisis management: Audit, access – the whole shebang

On-Prem24 Mar 2016 | 27

New data porting rules mustn't overburden businesses with costs, says UK minister

Costliness shouldn't become 'barrier to entry'

Channel16 Dec 2015 | 7

E.ON fined £7m for smart meter fail

Business customers not hooked up, time to cough up

Legal09 Nov 2015 | 72

Virgin Media boss urges UK watchdogs not to pick wrong BT battle

Broadband World Forum Meanwhile, biz wing of telco to offer SMBs a broadband boost

Legal20 Oct 2015 | 11

Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation

On-Prem15 Oct 2015 | 81

Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep

Maybe a media and software company might like them better

Legal28 Jul 2015 | 28

Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son’s energy biz

That must suck for anyone looking to launch a takeover

On-Prem10 Apr 2015 | 36

IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away

Firm alleges investors didn't realize Big Blue would need to PAY to have its chips hauled off

Channel03 Mar 2015 | 23

Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts

Updated Complain to Ofcom that telco has 'effective monopoly'

Networks24 Nov 2014 | 58