Acclaim Autism exists to help children with autism spectrum disorder, but before doing so, the Philadelphia-based company has to get approval from US health insurers. Founder and president Jamie Turner says this typically took six months, with 80% of applications initially rejected. Insurer processes vary widely: public bodies are generally easier to work with, but…
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Mariano Albera describes himself as “a software engineer who was demoted to chief technology officer” (CTO). Now at global payments processing company Checkout.com, Albera heads up the operational and customer-facing IT team, made up of around 600 IT professionals. This is a significant portion of the fintech’s total workforce of 2,000, which – if you…
Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…
Dominic Redmond, group CIO of recruitment firm PageGroup, is a digital leader driven by a desire to help his team and the rest of the business use data to boost operational processes and customer services. Having started his career as a project manager, Redmond delivered major initiatives for Xerox and Aon that touched on the…
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Koshiro K/Shutterstock Nearly three decades after the launch of Internet Explorer, or 27 years to be precise, Microsoft discontinued this classic browser to focus on Microsoft Edge. The company announced the end of Internet Explorer’s support cycle in 2021 and retired the desktop application in June 2022, with IE 11 being its last version. Internet Explorer…
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Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft evolving from its predecessor to Windows 11, with future plans to move into an “agentic OS,” it seems there is a risk to using the new functionality. On the eve of the new features rollout that’s coming to select Windows Insiders, Microsoft has issued a warning:…
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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The holiday season is here, and it’s a good time to grab some items you want to give to your friends and family. When you’re on the hunt for the perfect tech gift, it can be difficult to know what to get someone, especially when…
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As the dust settled on a historically close-run Dutch election, a remarkable trend emerged. While party leaders were focused on traditional campaign issues, voters used their ballots to send a clear message: digital competence in parliament is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. This grassroots movement, spurred on by initiatives such as NerdVote, has…
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Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…
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Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…
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