Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up! If you’ve not joined us before, your hosts – Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee – use the next 45mins to discuss tech news that made the headlines over the month of February. We cover the development of offshore wind projects in India, holographic calls and Minecraft libraries. All before ending on two feel good stories.

If you’re interested in attending the International Women’s Day Panel Discussion on March 8th, 12pm, set a reminder for the live stream here – https://youtu.be/PkCR2NqZ_ko

Below are all the news piece for this month’s Friday Tech Round Ups – available to watch on the ECS YouTube channel.

About ECS

ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Are you ready for another Friday Tech Round Up?  

In episode 106, the energy sector suffers the most cyber-attacks, Wired reveals how Big Tech wants in of the success of digital banks like Monzo and Revolut, RWE and Tata Power announce a collaboration, major FinTechs like Starling and Monzo come together to encourage an overhaul of regulation and The Guardian discusses the five ways AI is saving wildlife.  Also, we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing making change happen in the 21st-century business landscape. Five incredibly talented women will be diving into topics like how we can begin to close the 7% gap in leadership roles and the importance of allyships in achieving change.

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

What can you expect in this week’s Friday Tech Round Up?  In episode 105, New Relic puts the last pieces of their project in place, Vodafone adopts new tech to ramp up their 5G offerings – Oracle, TechCrunch explores what fintech investors are looking for in 2022, solar power that can convert carbon dioxide into fuel and National Grid ESO & Octopus Energy launch a winter flexibility trial.  Also, we remind you to reserve your seats for our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March!

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Time for another Friday Tech Round Up!  This week, we look into a sevenfold increase in fintech investment, a €43 billion euro chip supply investment, TechCrunch questions whether journalistic news media missing a huge opportunity, Cloud ME technology – Alibaba Cloud and the Financial Times discusses revolutions in the energy grid.  We also shoutout out our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March, and End Youth Homelessness’ latest fundraiser – Gaming for Good.  

Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!   

#TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #FinTech #Cloud #DigitalEcoSystem #Hiring 

For all links mentioned in the FTRU, visit our Friday Tech Round Up blog

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Time for another Friday Tech Round Up!  Today we discuss HSBC investing in green tech, a Minecraft library making censored journalism accessible worldwide, Nationwide Building Society embracing API tech, BP and HyCC committing to greener projects and AmazeVR forging the future of immersive concerts.  We shoutout out the launch of e-Comply – a tech solution which helps companies review and automatically redact personable identifiable information when a consumer has a data subject access request.

Thank you to Tilly Kenyon FinTech Magazine, Cian Maher The Verge, Karl Flinders Computer Weekly, Power Technology and Kate Park TechCrunch for their pieces this week, and to Louise Fenn for delivering the goods.

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up – your monthly deep dive into off all the tech news covered in January’s Friday Tech Round Ups (episodes 99-102 specifically)

Rather than running through all the news week by week – you can do that in a much more efficient way by watching the FTRU on YouTube– Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee look at the trends that popped up over the month of January, drawing parallels between stories and exploring the knock-on effects of particular bits of news. From the benefits of big tech, to collusion and games of chicken, this is your one stop shop for January’s tech headlines.

Oh, and Bruce Willis makes an debut appearance on the podcast too!

Links that came up in the episode:

Generation UK AWS re/Start Webinar – February 9th - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-the-digital-skills-gap-in-scotland-tickets-244385422377

Gaming for Good charity event - https://gaming-for-good-2022.justgiving-sites.com/?utm_content=195731610

About ECS

ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

It’s Friday Tech Round Up time!  

Today we discuss Starling Bank’s plan for mortgage lending – which would them ahead of rivals Monzo Bank and Revolut, Meta has unveiled their new supercomputer, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics are to invest in new chip-making plants, a bug endangering Linux distributions worldwide and the UK is to launch its first Government Cyber Security Strategy.  We shoutout out End Youth Homelessness and their latest fundraiser, Gaming for Good – which will see our ECS gaming community battle it out head-to-head and do something they love for a great cause. Also, make sure to check out our monthly round-up of the news with Eloisa Tovee and Andrew Tebb on our Tech³Podcast.  Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

On this episode of the Tech3Podcast Ben and Andy sit down and chat with thought lord Simon Wardley. In this conversation we dive deep into his history of being the CEO of Fotango and what that taught him, his thoughts and ideas around mapping plus much, much.

As always if you liked this episode please let us know by sharing your thoughts on LinkedIn or twitter where you can find both Andy and Ben.

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About ECS

ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Today we dive into a game of corporate chicken between Amazon and Visa, an Oracle article revealing the need for smart cities, a no-code and low-code update from TechCrunch, a report by Rolling Stone revealing the UK Government’s plan to tarnish end-to-end encryption’s reputation and a record-breaking Telsa vehicle.  Also, we shoutout our latest inaugural ‘Cloud Cost Optimisation’ blog and our ‘how to stand up a contact centre in 15 minutes' blog,

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.

Celebrating 100 episodes of the Friday Tech Round Up! 🥳  Today we dive into an AI-powered transcription platform called DeepScribe trying to unburden doctors from tedious data entry, Cloud giants are to face greater scrutiny from UK financial regulators, Meta losses an attempt to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram, an open-source developer corrupts a pair of open-source libraries and the World Economic Forum warns that cyber security failure is one of the biggest risks facing countries and businesses.  

Also, we shoutout Fraser Brown for his latest blog on homomorphic encryption and our podcast with guest, Niall McDonagh, and hosts, Ben Shonubi and Andrew Tebb, where they discuss different types of adversity working in technology, as well as Niall’s extraordinary journey navigating different reactions to his sexuality at various points of his career.

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ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so they’re free to thrive like never before.

Introducing organisations to the latest cloud platforms, ECS connects them with strategic partners to offer the best solutions, and trains teams in cutting edge engineering practices. This allows organisations to do three things: Get closer to their customers. Innovate faster. Unlock the power of their most valuable asset – data. And they’ll have the skills and the culture to continue to do this day after day, year after year.