Finance and Reporting
Newcastle IT sector salaries boom as digital skills shortages bite
Newcastle and the North East now the fourth-highest paying region in the UK after London, the South East and East Anglia
Salesforce in 'advanced talks' to acquire software firm Mulesoft
A deal could be finalised this week
EU plan to slap tech giants with new tax based on their revenues
EU planning tax directive that would impose a revenue-based turnover tax on technology and internet companies
Bill Gates calls cryptocurrencies "deadly"
Bill Gates becomes the latest billionaire to slam cryptocurrencies - calling them deadly
Political risk broker BPL upgrades entire storage infrastructure to eradicate latency challenges
The firm was hindered by waning storage systems
South Korea reveals $600m in illegal trades but is not planning to ban cryptocurrencies
'No intention to ban or suppress cryptocurrency market'
Apple to pay for new campus HQ with foreign cash
Apple is benefiting from multi-billion-dollar tax break - while staff will receive $2,500 bonuses
Dropbox quietly files for a $10bn 2018 IPO
Dropbox IPO has been a long time coming and would be the largest technology flotation since Snap
Long Island Iced Tea abandons plan to sell shares to buy cryptocurrency mining servers
New stock offering called off, but mining hardware investment plans remain unchanged
Tea company's shares rocket after adding the word "blockchain" to its name
Moribund tea maker sees shares leap almost 300 per cent purely by adding "blockchain" to its name
Toshiba and Western Digital aim to settle chip-sale dispute next week
Deal should pave the way for Toshiba to complete the sale of its chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital
Blockchain firms could get millions in tax relief
Blockchain firms could get hundreds of millions in tax relief from governments
Avaya requests exclusivity extension on Chapter 11
Push for more time would prevent competing plans from being filed
Lenovo's PC business suffers on component shortages
PCs are Lenovo's biggest business area, but the firm lost out to HP in Q2
Digital transformation at Saunderson House - lessons learnt
Nick Rosser, head of IT at wealth management firm Saunderson House, explains how his firm approached its digital transformation journey, and what lessons he has for other firms on the same path
These are the top 5 concerns IT leaders have about the GDPR
The lack of clarity is making business leaders nervous
The transformational potential for GDPR
GDPR presents CIOs and IT directors with the leverage to enforce a culture of secure IT and data management, argues Gordon Morrison
Cisco to lay-off 1,100 more employees as revenues continue to slide
Networking giant to axe more staff on top of the 5,500 to had already planned to make redundant
If Apple has $250 billion in the bank, is a large tech firm acquisition likely?
Could Apple buy out Tesla to give its electric car ambitions moving?
Crypto-currencies like bitcoin surge in value - threefold increase since last year
Crypto market now worth same as AirBnB - and rising
BT issues profit warning as shares lose £8bn in accounting scandal
BT blames 'inappropriate behaviour in the Italian business' for plunging share value
Gates and Bezos create fund to fight climate change
Looking to speed investment into clean energy technologies
Samsung may split in two, report
Company may restructure due to pressure from investors