Rare step for tech industry sees workers at Google form their own bespoke trade union, after years of employee unrest and complaints

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Rare step for tech industry sees workers at Google form their own bespoke trade union, after years of employee unrest and complaints
California exodus? Software giant Oracle becomes latest Silicon Valley firm to move its HQ from California and relocate it to Texas
As the enterprise world adjusts to remote working, Salesforce pay $27.7 billion to acquire Slack for enhanced workplace collaboration
We know that Coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to 72 hours. Ideally, we would have a totally electronic document office by now – banishing paper to history. Of course, the paperless office has failed to become a reality. Silicon UK considers how businesses could adopt more electronic document management techniques to reduce the risk of COVID infection.
Securing video chats. New security features for Meet videoconferencing platform aims to halt uninvited users gate crashing meetings
Global IT spend is projected to contract 8% in 2020, according to Gartner. Gartner expects IT priorities to move away from projects aimed at growth or transformation, in favour of mission-critical technology that supports operations. While companies may pause large-scale cloud projects, public cloud services are expected to grow 19% this year, according to the forecast. What’s your business’s strategy?
Google makes its business-oriented video conferencing app Meet free to all consumers, in a direct challenge to Zoom and Microsoft Teams
Remote working has now become a fact of life for many enterprises as the COVID-19 crisis continues. Is it possible to operate profitably with a remote workforce? What systems need to be in place? And how to ensure security when remote workers are accessing sensitive information.
We spoke to Google’s Joe Valente about the tech giant’s vision of the cloud, privacy, data and security and its plan to put users in control
We speak to low code firm Outsystems about the growing sector, which many predict is going to revolutionise how businesses operate
Monthly prices for competitor to Office 365 to be raised for first time ever
First blood to tech giant HP, in what will likely be a lengthy legal battle in courtrooms on both sides of Atlantic
Good news for tech industry with prediction of significant rise in IT spending thanks to weak US dollar
Slack now has some competition, Microsoft claims, as usage of its enterprise comms app Teams nearly doubles
Consolidation in enterprise unified communications space as LogMeIn opens cheque book for Jive Communications
Dan Martland from Edge Testing Solutions talks about how his hobby became a career and the importance of software testing
CA WORLD 2017: CA Technologies UK CTO Rob Coleman explains the shift at the company and why its accelerator programme epitomises the changes
Facebook boasts 30,000 organisations worldwide use its business chat service
Jon Wrennall was HMRC’s first CTO, a position he now holds for Advanced. Here is is his career in IT
INTERVIEW: As HPE merger takes effect, MicroFocus remains ground zero for COBOL, which still runs most major at-scale transaction systems
Lotus Software had the opportunity to dominate the Office sector for the emerging PC market. What happened?
Microsoft 365 will come in Enterprise and Business flavours
Keen Skype users will need to be using Redmond’s latest Windows platforms to get the most out of the service
OPINION: Microsoft is demonstrating it is back with innovation after being mired in stagnant products for some time
Redmond wants to tackle Google’s Chromebooks in schools with Windows 10 S
UPDATED: Windows 10 Creators Update is now out for everyone to download but what does it bring? Silicon checks out
Google’s raft of updates revealed at GCP Next shows the search giant is chasing enterprise customers
New edition of the developer tool promises easier building of apps, quicker bug fixes, and more collaboration
Windows 10 will get a second major update in 2017 as Microsoft also launches Skype Lite in India
BlackBerry’s BBM Enterprise SDK introduces secure file sharing and communication capabilities