Clare Hopping
Clare is an experienced marketer and entrepreneur. In 2016, she founded Blue Cactus Digital, a digital marketing company that helps ethical and sustainability-focused businesses grow their customer base, where she remains its director. Clients include the likes of the University of Surrey, the History Market, Confident Tiger, and Rethink Partners.
Between 2014 and 2016, she also spent time at Thunderfoot, Harver, and Swan Creative in creative and marketing roles. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
Prior to her marketing career, Clare was a journalist specializing in mobile devices. She worked as a staff writer and later the features editor at What Mobile, before becoming the founding editor of Know Your Mobile. She later moved on into freelance writing for a number of years.
It was during her time as a freelance journalist that she regularly wrote for ITPro, covering a range of topics as a news reporter, as well as drawing on her knowledge of mobile technology when writing features.
She also penned a number of tutorials for ITPro helping users navigate knotty issues around Windows 10 and various email applications, as well as in-depth explainers of topics like the semantic web and how to get started with data mining.
Latest articles by Clare Hopping
Kaspersky Lab aims to improve security awareness
By Clare Hopping published
News Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform teaches 350 new skills to all levels
Best iPhone apps for 2019
By Clare Hopping, Dale Walker, IT Pro published
Best Get the most out of the new range of iPhones with the top business, productivity and collaboration apps
Apple and Qualcomm's chip trial begins
By Clare Hopping published
News The firms are arguing over Qualcomm's "unfair" pricing structure
Article 13 gains European Council approval
By Clare Hopping published
News However five European countries opposed the copyright directive
Email security market to boom as firms head to the cloud
By Clare Hopping published
News Security vendors should take advantage of this trends, offering new products and services
Firms failing to implement cyber security incident response
By Clare Hopping published
News Without a fully tested plan, organisations may find a breach costs $1million more than those whose plans are tried and tested...
Bounty fined by ICO for unlawfully sharing member data
By Clare Hopping published
News The company shared the data of 14 million people without gaining full permission to do so
Pulse Secure teams up with DWWTC for reseller training programme
By Clare Hopping published
News Its reseller training programme will help partners get the most out of Pulse products
Mitel extends partnership with Westcon-Comstor for UCaaS distribution
By Clare Hopping published
News The move is a reflection of growing UCaaS demand in APAC and EMEA
Fortem migrates away from legacy tech
By Clare Hopping published
Case Studies The company has started its digital transformation journey for its communications and disaster recovery functions
5G set to boom, but may be held back
By Clare Hopping published
News Confusion around achievable speeds is holding its potential back
Google's new G Suite tools focus on collaboration in the enterprise
By Clare Hopping published
News Updates to Sheets, Hangouts, Calendar, and Gmail are on the horizon
HPE and Nutanix deliver hybrid cloud as-a-service
By Clare Hopping published
News The solution combines HPE’s GreenLake and Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software
Python is now more popular than Java among developers
By Clare Hopping published
News Report also shows developers are entering the industry at a much earlier age
EE dominates mobile market as fastest network provider
By Clare Hopping published
News The company won all five national awards issued by Opensignal and majority of regional accolades too
Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure IT aims to ease data centre deployment
By Clare Hopping published
News The data centre management platform can be easily deployed to offer key insights into efficiency
Rolls-Royce uses mobile gaming to drive STEM skills
By Clare Hopping published
News Hackathon seeks to encourage under-represented demographics into gaming and app development
Microsoft joins forces with HackerOne to boost bug bounties
By Clare Hopping published
News Security researchers will be able to get their hands on the money before they're fixed
Huawei 5G ban could cost UK economy £6.8bn
By Clare Hopping published
News Replacing 5G components could also delay the nationwide rollout by 18-24-months
ICO fines Newham Council £145,000 for gang data gaffe
By Clare Hopping published
News Details about 200 supposed gang members were leaked via Snapchat
Amazon joins the race for space-based broadband
By Clare Hopping published
News The retail and tech giant wants to install more than 3,000 satellites around the globe to beam broadband back to earth
Birmingham New Street becomes UK's first 5G train station
By Clare Hopping published
News Vodafone has installed it 5G tech for customers to trial
VMware reveals overhauled Partner Connect programme
By Clare Hopping published
News Partners will now be rewarded for providing value to customers instead of sales
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