building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Property lawyer Katherine Hardie has been appointed head of law firm Pinsent Masons’ Scottish and Northern Irish operations, succeeding Richard Masters who is leaving the legal sector. Katharine Hardie becomes the first female chairman of Scotland and Northern Ireland 29
One of the UK’s fastest growing and largest independent software testing companies, Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, is encouraging Scottish students to consider software testing as a career with a target of a further 100 graduates over
If the business world seems to move much faster these days, that’s because it does. For a long time, change happened slowly. Take economic cycles: In the 1900s, it took about 19 years to go from the bottom of a
Stirling is on track to become a world leading Gigabit City providing a full fibre network to nearly every home and business by summer 2020. CityFibre has completed more than half of its build programme to install full fibre directly
CENSIS is Scotland’s centre of excellence for sensing, imaging and Internet of Things technologies. Last year over 500 people attended the 5th Summit and the event has established itself as a fixture on the Scottish tech scene and is a growing
A nationwide Digital Schools Awards scheme has been extended to include nurseries in an attempt to inculcate digital skills at ever younger ages. Six pre-schools across Scotland have been awarded ‘Digital School’ status in an initiative supported by tech giants
What is artificial intelligence (AI) – and how can businesses use it to increase their profits and enhance their services – were among the big questions at The Herald’s inaugural AI Business Breakfast in Glasgow yesterday. The event attempted to
Scottish digital skills academy CodeClan has announced the first industry partners to join its new Highlands campus in Inverness. Companies that have joined the campus’ partner programme get early access to students on CodeClan’s full-stack web development course as part
An inspirational north-east businesswoman has been recognised with a national award for her role in an Aberdeen company’s continued success. Sheryl Newman, managing director of technology consultancy Appetite for Business, received the Business of the Year honour at the Corn
Edinburgh is third in the UK in terms of locally available tech talent, according to a survey by a leading business consultancy. Scotland’s capital comes after London and Manchester respectively for its pool of digital professionals, per Accenture’s UK Tech Talent
