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Earlier this month, during a presentation at London Tech Week, Mario Gruber, a research fellow at King’s College London, discussed the  productivity gap that exists between those companies that are able to take advantage of digital technologies and those that lag behind.

While technology is regarded as a great enabler for smaller organisations, helping them to scale up and reach a wide customer base very quickly, many fail to reap the benefits that IT and advanced digital technologies can offer.

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Cloud-native network software provider teams with digital business and IT services provider, aiming to meet the needs of operators around the world as they build or transition to open and virtualised 5G networks.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled.

Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator.

At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors can be applied to machines.

The appeal court ruled against Stephen Thaler, creator of a system called Dabus, who took a case against the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which refused patents to his AI.

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A financial technology firm has said recruiting "BAME trailblazers" helps to increase innovation in the sector.

Seccl in Bath said it had increased its number of paid summer internships from three to seven to encourage the next generation of technology leaders.

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The most innovative NHS trusts continue to look for new ways to use digital and tech to improve patient care and Northumbria Healthcare is a great example. It’s aiming to transform pathology services across Northumberland and North Tyneside as part of its digital strategy using a new hosted laboratory information management system (LIMS) from CliniSys.

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Changes are afoot in the world of UK Government procurement frameworks. This was highlighted by Crown Commercial Services’ publication of a Prior Information Notice (PIN) last week for a new framework: Digital Specialists and Programmes.

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Last week the Ministry of Defence (MoD) formally came out to tender for its Armed Forces Recruiting Programme (AFRP), an outsourcing arrangement designed to support the recruitment of between 18,000 to 22,000 (Regular and Reserves) new recruits from the UK and the Commonwealth. The MoD has put an estimated value on the contract of just over £1.4bn over 10 years, making it probably the largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) deal in Europe.

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Mastercard, has utilised technology from Accenture and Salesforce in an effort to meet its environmental obligations and take meaningful action against climate change. The card provider hopes that the cloud-based analytics will help it to better understand its carbon footprint and the effect that its network of global suppliers is having on the environment.

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The PRCA's Climate Misinformation Strategy Group has welcomed a new code from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that aims to stamp down on false environmental claims made by businesses. The Code has been developed in response to increasing consumer demand for products and services that protect the environment. 

Read the full article here on PR Week website

The clarification issued by the government will free up hundreds of crores in tax refunds to entities in the information technology (IT), IT-enabled services (ITeS), financial services, and research and development sectors as well as resolve the four-year-old issue that has led to large-scale litigation.

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