UK
UK Government Rolls Out £3.6bn Management Consultancy Framework Amid Scrutiny Of Rising External Expertise Spending
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Accenture poised to get contracts for hardware, software and IT advice as mega-pie sliced UK government has dished out ... Read more
Over 9 Months Late, England's Highways Agency Launches Contract To Buy £1bn In IT
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Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways National Highways, the UK government-owned company responsible for r... Read more
We're Going Deeper Underground: New Digital Project To Map UK's Sub-surface 'assets'
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4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place The UK is pushing ahead with the next phase of a pro... Read more
UK Celebrates 25 Years Of Wasteful, 'underperforming' Government IT Projects
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National Audit Office's scathing report blames fails on lack of experience Government IT projects are poorly thought ou... Read more
BT To Phase Out 3G In UK By 2023 For EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile Subscribers
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Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah? BT is going to wind down 3G connectivity by 2023 as it looks to inc... Read more
Uber Drivers Can Now Unionise After Ride Biz Recognises GMB, One Of The UK's Largest Trade Unions
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Not everyone is celebrating Uber has officially recognized the trade union GMB, clearing the way for as many as 70,000 ... Read more
Following Supreme Court Ruling, Uber UK Recognizes Drivers As Workers, Offers Min Wage, Holiday Pay, Pension
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Nice but still not good enough, says union After years of aggressively fighting any efforts to force it to recognize it... Read more
Air India Gets Reprieve In UK Court Over Aircraft Lease Payments
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The Indian state-owned carrier has been seeking a buyer for some time now as the government wants to divest its 100 per ... Read more
IT Workers Join Elite Sports Stars, Fat Cat Biz Execs, Celebs And Posties For Special Treatment Under England's COVID-19 Travel Isolation Rules
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Arriving from a listed at-risk nation? New rules in place mid-December IT pros have joined the elite of high-flying biz... Read more
India, UK Strike Tech Co-operation Pact And Plot Deeper Links Once Brexit's Done
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Details vague, but ambitions cover 5G, security of comms infrastructure and sharing R&D India has signalled it will... Read more
UK Covid Lockdown 2.0: Supermarket Shelves Left Empty Amid Fresh Wave Of Panic Buying
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Supermarket shelves across the UK have been emptied of tinned goods, dried pasta and loo rolls despite reassurances of c... Read more
UK And Japan Agree To Free Trade Deal That Excludes Data Localisation Requirements
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Template for post-Brexit bilateral deals excludes algorithmic disclosures too The UK and Japan have agreed to a new tra... Read more
UK, Bharti Enterprises Win OneWeb, To Spend $1 Billion On Revival
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The deal could be a game-changer for hinterland connectivity. Read more
Under Pressure Boris Johnson Launches UK Public Spending Drive
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Johnson's new package is intended to meet the unprecedented challenge the pandemic has posed to the economy, and restore... Read more
BoE's Andrew Bailey: UK Risks 'longer And Harder Recovery'
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Britain's economy shrank in the first quarter at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis as the country went ... Read more
Virus-slammed UK Economy Slumps At Fastest Pace Since 2008
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The nation's second-quarter contraction is meanwhile expected to be far steeper than the first. Read more
Uber Loses $2.9 Bn In Coronavirus Crisis, Drops Bike And Scooter Business
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Demand for the Eats business grew 89 per cent in April, excluding India, and we've seen an enormous acceleration in dema... Read more
Tata Group-owned Jaguar-Land Rover To Revive Largest Plant By Mid-May
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JLR's factories around the world will opened in a sequential manner that will be determined by the conditions and govern... Read more
Eurozone Economy Suffers 'unprecedented' Collapse
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Employment in Europe plummeted for the second month running. Read more
UK High Court Defers Bankruptcy Plea By SBI-led Banks Against Vijay Mallya
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This bankruptcy petition is by any measure extraordinary. The banks are pressing for a bankruptcy order at a time when t... Read more