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Fivetran Snags $565m Funding Round As Snowflake Attempts To Eat Its Lunch With In-house Data Integration Tools

Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m Automated data integration outfit Fivetran has confirmed a $565m fundi... Read more

Raspberry Pi's Trading Arm Snags £33m Investment As Flotation Rumours Sink

Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor' Updated  The ... Read more

Over 9 Months Late, England's Highways Agency Launches Contract To Buy £1bn In IT

Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways National Highways, the UK government-owned company responsible for r... Read more

Hybrid Learning Is A Good Thing – Lets Make It A Good Thing For Everyone

The pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment Sponsored  If you didn’t know what hybrid learning was 18 mon... Read more

We're All At Sea: Navigation Royal Navy Style – With Plenty Of IT But No GPS

El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course Boatnotes II  How do you safely navigate a warship to within a fe... Read more

3.4 Billion People Live Within Range Of A Mobile Network But Lack A Device To Make The Connection

ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G The Broadband Commission f... Read more

Chips'n'China On The Agenda As The Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – Prepares To Meet

Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly A private meeting will be held between President Joe Biden and Indi... Read more

How 'nerd' Culture Powered Through The Pandemic

Meet the online content creators beating the odds to build successful careers from their passions. Read more

Twitter Offers To Cough Up 80 Days Of Annual Sales To Settle 'false' User Count Lawsuit

Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors Twitter has offered to pay... Read more

Like A Phoenix Rising From The Smouldering Ruins Of Its Data Centre, OVH Sets Sights On IPO

Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire' OVH Groupe SAS is edging c... Read more

Three UK Says Its 5G Plans Are Under Threat If Tower Merger With Euro Giant Cellnex Is Blocked

According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog Any attempt to block Cellnex's takeover of Hutchison UK's tower ne... Read more

It's The End Of The World As We Know It, And We Should Feel Fine

Honour thine ancestors, and move on Column  The death of Sir Clive Sinclair at the end of last week has seen an outbur... Read more

I Would Drive 100 Miles And I Would Drive 100 More Just To Be The Man That Drove 200 Miles To... Hit The Enter Key

When a server crash became a motorway dash Who, Me?  The best laid plans of mice or Register readers can founder on th... Read more

Chip Glut Might Start In 2023, Says IDC, And Auto-chip Traffic Jam Could Clear This Year

Shortages in today's supply chains persist and capacity is all but booked. But the future looks bright Analyst firm IDC... Read more

Can Apps Manage Our Chronic Health Conditions?

A Swedish tech firm has created an app to help alleviate people's joint pain. Read more