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Microsoft prepares to axe 2,850 jobs as it culls smartphone business and majors on productivity and platforms

Amazon's share price climbed 2% on news of strong second-quarter sales growth boosted by a 58% year-on-year rise in sales of cloud services

Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases

As the skills gap leaves firms scrambling for tech talent, self-taught developers are taking advantage of the need for skilled workers

The Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea and Warwick are giving researchers free access to cloud-based compute resources to speed up scientific discovery process

Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion

Oracle has agreed to buy NetSuite but the acquired company will retain autonomy says Oracle

Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it

IAM + CRM is much more than simply IAM for external users, says Ivan Niccolai

Insiders say senior civil servants want to break up the Government Digital Service and return IT to its previous departmental model