Joe Curtis
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Brexit sees 12% of London's startups lose funding
By Joe Curtis published
News A third of the capital's entrepreneurs have struggled to grow since the Leave vote

UK tech sector's salaries swell as funding hits £7bn
By Joe Curtis published
News Tech City UK report reveals high digital wages, but also a need to navigate EU exit

IT contractors earn more despite Brexit vote
By Joe Curtis published
News Survey: More IT contractors are better off after the vote to leave the EU

BT finally lets go of Openreach
By Joe Curtis published
News Legal separation of fibre network includes transfer of 32,000 staff

Budget 2017: Tech industry welcomes skills investment
By Joe Curtis published
Analysis But vendors believe broadband funding should go further

One-third of Android devices still run on Marshmallow
By Dale Walker, Adam Shepherd, Caroline Preece, Rene Millman, Christine Schauer, Joe Curtis, Clare Hopping, Aaron Lee published
Rumours Despite gains by Nougat, Android Marshmallow is still running on 31% of devices

Just 3% of women plan to embark on careers in tech
By Joe Curtis published
News Male-dominated culture and little information put women off tech sector, says PwC

Getting buy-in on agile
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth How to successfully implement agile development

AWS blames human error and S3's gargantuan scale for outage
By Joe Curtis published
News Engineer pressed the wrong button, cloud giant reveals

Government puts digital skills at the centre of UK's future
By Joe Curtis published
News Digital Strategy relies on private sector to help close the skills gap

Why Amazon Web Services is finally telling a hybrid cloud story
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth AWS's messaging matches its tools as the cloud giant woos the enterprise

Best agile tools
By Joe Curtis published
Best What tools do you need to embark on an agile project?

HP Inc records best PC sales growth since XP refresh
By Joe Curtis published
News Notebooks defy decline, but business printer shipments fall 8%

GDS prioritises data and digital skills in new strategy
By Joe Curtis published
News GDS releases Government Transformation Strategy

Slack and Tesla join tech firms fighting Trump's travel ban
By Adam Shepherd, Joe Curtis published
News 127 tech firms now support legal challenge to Trump's executive order

UKFast eyes G-Cloud revenue, buying S-IA
By Joe Curtis published
News Private cloud acquisition brings in government security clients

HSBC picks Oracle Fusion to 'equip for the future'
By Joe Curtis published
Case Studies CFO explains why moving to the cloud changed HSBC for the better

TechUK: A “disorderly” Brexit would harm tech sector
By Joe Curtis published
News Trade body calls for access to skills and ‘bespoke’ free trade agreement

DDoS attack hits Lloyds Banking Group mobile apps
By Joe Curtis published
News But “vast majority” of customers unaffected over two-day attack

Mozilla’s rebrand confuses web browsers
By Joe Curtis published
News Chrome, Safari and Firefox struggle with moz://a

Ofcom fines EE £2.7m for overcharging 40,000 customers
By Joe Curtis published
News Customers dialling 150 number abroad were overcharged £245,700

Barts Health NHS Trust rules out ransomware attack
By Joe Curtis published
News But hospital trust admits patient data could still be at risk

Do I need a TV licence to watch BBC iPlayer?
By Dale Walker, Joe Curtis, Rene Millman published
In-depth Everything you need to know about the BBC’s catch-up TV service
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