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
Sennheiser taps into AWS for cloud-based call and management capabilities
By Clare Hopping published
News Amazon Connect and Amazon Chime will boost the conference calling functionality and management of devices
Microsoft researcher will lead UK's NCCE
By Clare Hopping published
News Simon Peyton Jones will head up a strategy to change the way computing is taught in schools
Government earmarks £1m to fund 5G R&D projects
By Clare Hopping published
News Companies are advised to apply for £500,000 to be in with the best chance of receiving funding
Dropbox enforces three device limit on free accounts
By Clare Hopping published
News The cloud storage specialist is trying to convince dedicated users to upgrade to a paid plan
London's top attractions victim to more than 100m attacks
By Clare Hopping published
News Kew Gardens, National History Museum, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum are often attacked by potential data thieves
Google adds pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo into Chrome
By Clare Hopping published
News French privacy search engine Qwant has also been tagged on in some territories
Barracuda acquires Managed Workplace to enhance security portfolio
By Clare Hopping published
News The purchase will bring site security assessments, Office 365 account management and integrated third-party antivirus into the mix
Mercedes-AMG migrates to TIBCO for enhanced data analysis
By Clare Hopping published
News TIBCO's platform is helping to model data to refine Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport's Formula One performance
Google employee uses cloud to break Pi world record
By Clare Hopping published
News Emma Haruka Iwao worked out 31.4 trillion digits, but it took four months to complete
SMEs prepped to increase security budgets by 14% in 2019
By Clare Hopping published
News Although a quarter of threats still aren't investigated because they lack automation resources
Businesses confused by security's role in DevOps
By Clare Hopping published
News Claranet says businesses must be prepared to train employees, encouraging security teams to work with developers and operations staff
Gogo takes to the cloud with AWS infrastructure shift
By Clare Hopping published
News The inflight entertainment firm will be able to service more airlines with its robust infrastructure
Bank of England's legacy systems cost it heavily
By Clare Hopping published
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said it needs to report back with a plan to modernise systems and processes by June
Google scaling back hardware resources
By Clare Hopping published
News The company is advising its tablet and laptop staff to look for jobs elsewhere in the company
Windows 10 can automatically uninstall fault-causing updates
By Clare Hopping published
News The feature will kick in if the computer fails to boot after installing bug fixes
IBM fails to get user consent to use AI training photos
By Clare Hopping published
News Although they were used with a Creative Commons Licence, the subjects didn't say they were happy for their faces to be used in research...
Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Intel and others create Advance CXL to boost data centre performance
By Clare Hopping published
News The businesses want to create regulation interconnects between CPUs, platforms and workloads
ICO raids offices of nuisance call businesses
By Clare Hopping published
News The ICO fires "a clear warning shot" at perpetrators of nuisance calls
Mozilla launches Firefox Send to all users
By Clare Hopping published
News The file sharing platform avoids the cloud to make sure it keeps files safe and secure
Phishing attacks affect half of UK businesses
By Clare Hopping published
News Sophos highlighted larger businesses are more likely to be targeted
HPE Tech Pro Community expands across the globe
By Clare Hopping published
News The community brings together partner solution architects and HPE pre-sales professionals to solve customer problems
AMD appoints Mario Silveria to head up EMEA sales
By Clare Hopping published
News Silveria will report to AMD's chief sales officer Darren Gatsby
NatWest and RBS trial biometric bank card
By Clare Hopping published
News The card will use an embedded sensor activated by existing card machines to check the user's fingerprint
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