Taiwan’s Wistron says iPhone factory riot won’t cause significant impact to its business Dodges reports alleging Apple has put it on probation 22 Dec 2020 | 5
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Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces 18 Dec 2020 | 93
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna needs new business cards already after appointment as board chair Ginni Rometty’s retirement confirmed tho Big Blue’s keeping her on as a part-time $20k/day consultant 17 Dec 2020 | 23
What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live 14 Dec 2020 | 11
Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates 14 Dec 2020 | 7
New t-shirt slogan: 'My job was outsourced to an Indian company that moved it to Vietnam' HCL heads to Hanoi in search for 3,000 new workers, which is just two percent of headcount and one quarter's usual hiring rate, but a vote of confidence 14 Dec 2020 | 15
UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010 'Fragile and ageing legacy systems' need to be replaced – now 11 Dec 2020 | 37
Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable, claims it misled standards bodies IP arm of Finnish firm should have spoken up sooner... or so the lawsuit claims 10 Dec 2020 | 23
Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings 09 Dec 2020 | 34
UK Oracle users are all of us: They care more about Brexit and the pandemic than, say, cloud transitions On the other hand, they're not going anywhere, so it's win-win for Big Red 07 Dec 2020 | 4
Uber’s Asian outpost wins Singaporean banking licence Grab grabs a license and so did China’s Ant Group 07 Dec 2020 | 7
China’s digital currency finds its first cross-border payments buddy: Hong Kong The possible plan to create a parallel financial system also adds bump-to-pay in new domestic trial 07 Dec 2020 | 14
Uncle Sam sues Facebook for allegedly discriminating against US workers in favor of foreigners on H-1B visas Ad biz supposedly barely advertised jobs to staff if a visa worker applied 04 Dec 2020 | 70
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IBM warns Global Tech Services staff that 346 UK heads will roll in latest redundancy action Volunteers sought to join the COVID-ravaged jobs market 01 Dec 2020 | 12
‘Father of the Indian IT industry’, Tata Consulting Services founder F. C. Kohli passes, aged 96 Hailed as visionary pioneer who changed both India and the software industry 30 Nov 2020 | 8
Dell reports green shoots in enterprise infrastructure biz after seven consecutive quarters of shrinkage SMEs are spending again, claims tech giant 25 Nov 2020 | 2
It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon Software dinosaur will run alongside new CDS platform, says HMRC 24 Nov 2020 | 266
Millions wiped off value of Capita outsourcing deal with English councils amid 'further contract variation agreement' Updated Procurement services? Not any more. Exchequer services? No thanks. IT Services? Reduced 23 Nov 2020 | 36
Dell's UK tentacle was in rude health just as world plunged headlong into a pandemic Companies House filing for year ended 31 January 2020 shows strong growth 23 Nov 2020 | 1
Pass us a tissue: Capita CFO calls it quits, talks of 'privilege' to work at 'centre' of biz that 'touches the lives of millions' New interim human calculator hired, permanent replacement being hunted 16 Nov 2020 | 12
Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info Tribunal ruling prevents the Zuckerborg from swallowing GIF peddler until further notice 16 Nov 2020 | 14
UK West Midlands town finds five-year HR system deal is only offer on the table in pandemic-stricken procurement Five more years, five more years... or nothing! 16 Nov 2020 | 19
Stop worrying and learn to love COVID-driven digital transformation, says Gartner Survey sees CIOs loosening purse-strings, execs feeling mushy about IT crowd (but there are caveats) 11 Nov 2020 | 7
Amazon makes big bet on New Zealand to crack Indian market This one's all about putting cricket behind a paywall for nine-figure audiences of ardent fans 11 Nov 2020 | 14
European Commission to take a closer look at how Amazon uses business data of third-party sellers using its platform Preliminary view is that antitrust rules have been breached 10 Nov 2020 | 22
More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday You're probably reading this on your work laptop when you should have been down the pub 06 Nov 2020 | 23
Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early Exclusive A sliver of functions coming back in house, most being offshored to India and 380 UK roles put 'at risk' of redundo by Capita 06 Nov 2020 | 46
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently? 04 Nov 2020 | 155
Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry 11.11 event should be four times bigger than Amazon Prime Day 03 Nov 2020 | 20
iPhone sales shrink for 2nd year in a row as delay to next-gen mobile launch hits hard An unsightly stain among otherwise solid Apple results – considering the sh*t show that is 2020 30 Oct 2020 | 31
Alphabet thanks ads and AI for its $124m-a-day quarterly profit, and comes out swinging against antitrust action 'We are proud people choose Google Search not because they have to, but because it's convenient,' states CEO 30 Oct 2020 | 23
Amazon blasts past estimates, triples profits to $6.2bn but says COVID will cost it $4bn over the next quarter Bezos predicts a very Merry Christmas 29 Oct 2020 | 18
Watch as UK government magically makes value of £500m framework contract swell to four times the size And for my next trick... behold! Digital transformation! 29 Oct 2020 | 8
Alibaba’s Ant Group aims to carry away $34 billion with imminent listing Alipay operator prices itself as most expensive IPO of all time 27 Oct 2020 | 1