Last month it was announced that the UK would be making a sudden u-turn on its contact tracing strategy, adopting a Bluetooth-powered decentralised contact tracing app using a framework developed by Apple and Google instead of the centralised app that was being developed by NHSX.

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As many businesses face financial difficulty, marketing and advertising spending has been scaled down – especially in the context of cancelled events and remote working. Ellen Daniel explores the impact on the adtech industry.

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UK Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said coronavirus has "delivered a sucker punch to our economy – and we really need tech to get us back on our feet". Ed Targett reports.

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Mark Denney led a 200-strong team to deliver the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), which supports the incomes of more than six million people. Oscar Williams talks to him.

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Among his priorities: using predictive analytics to spot future skills gaps. Claudia Glover reports

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Angela Logothetis is the CTO of Open Network at Amdocs, a telecoms company that specialises in software and services for communications, media and financial services providers and digital enterprises.

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Paddy Cosgrave has said that hybrid events that combine virtual, interactive experiences with physical in-person conferences will be the dominant format in the future.

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Digital Concepts Engineering (DCE) has used its experience in the military, agricultural and nuclear industries to repurpose its tech with the aim of responding to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and the result is self-driving hospital beds designed to safeguard medical staff, and social distancing sensors for unmanned vehicles.

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Estonia is a small country with big ambitions when it comes to fostering innovative companies. In early March Robert Scammell visited the Baltic nation to find out why the conditions are right for startups to flourish.

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“I think the time for reflection and the time for critique is probably going to be 18 months from now."

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