Apple is latest tech giant to pull out of South By Southwest in Texas over coronavirus fears

Apple has become the latest company to pull out of the South By Southwest festival due to coronavirus fears. The tech giant has canceled scheduled premieres for its Apple TV Plus original documentary Beastie Boys Stories from director Spike Jonze as well for animated musical series Central Park and the docuseries Home.  Also scrapped is … Read more

Tech titans including Sky and Mastercard join disability drive

Tech titans including Sky and Mastercard join disability drive By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:46 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 23 February 2020 Tech industry titans including Sky and Mastercard have announced commitments to encourage more disabled people into the workforce. The two firms, along with Audi and travel website Trivago, … Read more

Health chiefs to spend £40million to cut ‘ridiculous’ NHS tech delays

Health chiefs to spend £40million to cut ‘ridiculous’ NHS tech delays and reduce the amount of time doctors and nurses spend logging on to computers Matt Hancock said it will help deliver ‘most basic frontline technology upgrades’ Health officials hope to be able to reduce the dependence on passwords The Health Secretary pledged to banish … Read more

World Health Organization holds secretive talks with tech giants over coronavirus misinformation

Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants spent a day in secretive talks with the World Health Organization to tackle the spread of coronavirus misinformation. Social media companies including Twitter and Youtube have already been working to remove post about the virus that are proved to be fake. The World Health Organization (WHO) has offered … Read more

Amazon’s opens huge Manchester tech centre

Amazon’s opens huge Manchester tech centre which it claims will eventually employ 600 people By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:08 GMT, 15 January 2020 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 15 January 2020 Amazon has opened a new corporate base in Manchester as it continues to ramp up its presence in the North. The … Read more

Google set to become fourth tech firm with a $1 trillion market value 

Google set to follow Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to become the fourth tech firm with a $1 trillion market value By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 13 January 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 13 January 2020 Google’s parent company was poised last night to become the fourth tech group to reach … Read more

Fraud claims against tech tycoon Mike Lynch ‘plucked from the air’

Fraud claims made against UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s were ‘plucked from the air’, court told By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 January 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 January 2020 A judge has been urged to dismiss ‘manufactured’ fraud claims against Mike Lynch as the British tech tycoon’s trial … Read more

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch branded ‘thoroughly unreliable witness’

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch branded ‘thoroughly unreliable witness’ as £4bn Autonomy fraud trial enters final stages By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 12 December 2019 | Updated: 10:47 BST, 13 December 2019 Mike Lynch was accused of telling ‘lie after lie’ in court yesterday as the £4billion Autonomy fraud trial … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Amazon is home to best tech minds, so if anyone can stop scammers, it’s them

When was the last time that you received an email from Amazon warning you about fraud? Scouring my inbox, I can see an alarming number of delivery notifications for books and films — but not a single fraud alert. Yet, as we have revealed, scammers are clearly targeting Amazon on an industrial scale. As the … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: The US-China tech war will last a generation and affect all of us

The trade war is becoming a tech war, and it will carry on long after Donald Trump leaves the White House.  A few days in Washington have convinced me we are in the early stages of a new conflict akin to the Cold War between the US and Russia, with the world’s two most powerful … Read more