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April 30
- Tech market will reach $8 trillion, predicts Michael Dell
- NHS aims to solve cyber security issues with Windows 10 migration by 2020 deadline
- Welsh government to spearhead digital pilots in the rural Valleys
April 27
- Liberty wins its first fight against the Snoopers' Charter
- IBM demonstrates how blockchain tech can track physical jewellery
- Watchdog faces probe after data leak
- EU rules could allow small businesses to sue tech giants
- Azure at the heart of Microsoft's revenue growth
- AWS soaring sales help boost Amazon's bottom line
April 26
- Department for Work and Pensions to spend £15m on GDPR
- EU outlines plans to promote more data-sharing to fuel innovation
- Government and tech sector invest £1 billion in the UK's AI future
- Argos wants to recruit for 150 new tech roles
- Rackspace delivers VMware private cloud to your data centre
April 25
- Google's G Suite redesign draws on AI to kill email clutter
- WhatsApp raises minimum user age to 16 ahead of GDPR
- Sundar Pichai: Google Cloud is landing "more strategic deals"
April 24
- SAP draws manufacturing industry into the cloud
- IT in jobs boom as salaries, vacancies and applications rise
- Windows Phone apps to be killed off
- Barclays launches new 'law-tech' incubator
April 23
- Community Fibre raises £25m for full fibre rollout in London
- AWS joins the blockchain bandwagon, targeting healthcare and finance
- Kaspersky hits back at Twitter ban with open letter
- MoneySavingExpert founder to sue Facebook over Bitcoin ad 'scams'
- Google gets caught up in Russian internet censorship battle
- Microsoft received nearly 23,000 government data requests over the second half of 2017
- Adobe Flash is nearly dead, with 95% of websites ditching it
April 20
- Microsoft selects Linux over Windows for IoT cloud connectivity and security
- Vince Cable calls for the breaking up of Amazon, Facebook, and Google from their data collection businesses
- LinkedIn AutoFill plugin bug left user data exposed
- Apple finally open-sources FoundationDB
- Google updates App Engine but kills anti-censorship feature
- VMware updates vSphere and vSAN for multi-cloud environments
- Will the iPhone SE 2 be unveiled in June?
April 19
- UK data watchdog calls for tougher investigatory powers under GDPR
- Forget about GDPR fines, says Dotmailer
- Supreme Court sticks to the sidelines in DoJ-Microsoft dispute
April 18
- One year after WannaCry, zero NHS trusts pass cyber security assessment
- New Cybersecurity Tech Accord responds to wave of cyber attacks
- Hacker botnets can automate a cyber attack in 15 seconds
- US sanctions may block China's ZTE from Android OS
April 17
- Tech Talent Charter reaches milestone of 200 signatures
- MPs slam NHS Digital for Home Office data-sharing deal
- Security agencies warn of Russian cyber campaign against company networks
April 16
- High Court rules against Google in 'right to be forgotten' case
- New supercomputers planned at three UK universities
- Research dampens claims cloud providers are GDPR-ready
- House of Lords: AI needs an ethical code of practice
- Google's new AI is able to pick out voices in a crowd
April 13
- Santander rolls out blockchain-powered foreign exchange app
- Android phone makers allegedly lied about missed security patches
- Hackers are increasingly exploiting cryptojacking malware without needing active browsers
- GCHQ reveals ISIS was the target of its first major cyber attack
- Avast plans London listing in UK's largest ever tech IPO
April 12
- Less than 1% of girls choose to study Computer Science at A-Level
- FCA to launch regulatory review of cryptocurrencies
- Gartner: Cloud giants' dominance poses challenges for users
- PC shipments fall for the 14th quarter in a row
- NCSC unveils new cyber attack classification system
- Zuckerberg leaves Washington unscathed, despite these fine efforts to make him sweat
April 11
- UK data breaches decline despite sharp global rise
- NHS trusts spend £1 million to prepare for GDPR
- Cyber innovation centre to boost digital efforts around Olympic Park
April 10
- HTC Vive Pro hands-on review: Ready, player one?
- Scale of cyber risk to UK businesses is "bigger than ever"
- Apple announces all of its shops, offices and data centres are now powered by “100% renewable energy” – but there’s a catch
- Pivotal believes IPO will net $592 million
April 9
- Attackers target vulnerability in Cisco switches
- 57 suppliers sign up to supply Gigabit Voucher Scheme to SMBs
- Google Cloud hits 100% renewable energy goal
- Facebook is one of 30 organisations in ICO's sights
- Windows 10 on ARM devices to run 64-bit apps
April 6
- User error: Businesses expose 1.5bn sensitive files
- Britain's 4G ranks poorly on an international scale
April 5
- 5G auction raises £1.35bn from mobile networks
- Microsoft will plough $5bn into IoT over the next four years
- Apple poaches Google's AI top brass for Siri push
- Zuckerberg to appear before Congress next week
April 4
- CLOUD Act ends Microsoft's US data privacy dispute
- Intel gives up patching some chips with Spectre flaws
- Dell launches wave of new devices
- A10 Networks launches enhanced Thunder Convergent Firewall
April 3
- Grindr says it will stop sharing users’ HIV status with third parties
- Two-thirds of UK businesses financially unprepared for cyber attack
- Google bans cryptocurrency mining extensions from Chrome Web Store
- Prime minister strips government data function from GDS
- Apple could dump Intel from Macs in favour of its own chips
- 150m MyFitnessPal users hit by data breach