HyperConnectivity (comms)

London. 1 December 2021 – London-based RegTech Artesian : DueDil has announced a solution to one of the most complex challenges impacting banks and financial service institutions. The company is set to launch its new Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) API endpoint, to improve onboarding speed and customer experience, whilst vitally mitigating regulatory, financial, and reputational risk.

London, UK. 30 November 2021 – Analysys Mason a specialist telecoms, media and technology consulting and research firm has released its annual industry predictions on the major trends it expects to make an impact in 2022.

One of the greatest cyberthreats today isn’t locked to an earthbound endpoint, data centre or server, but can walk around with us, follow us home and into work all from the comfort of our own pockets, says Richard Melick, director, product marketing for endpoint security at Zimperium.

London. 29 November 2021 – Karma.vc, an early-stage venture capital fund committed to European early-stage deep-tech entrepreneurs, has announced the closing of its second fund ‘Karma Ventures II’ at a hard cap of €100 million. The new fund will target investment in early stage deep-tech start-ups across Europe that focus on commercialising technology innovation needed to solve significant global challenges.

Solace, the specialist in powering real-time event-driven enterprises, announced the results of a survey on event-driven architecture (EDA), shedding light on how organisations are striving to incorporate real-time data and event-driven architecture into their IT landscape. 

In a rapidly advancing digital age, with the power of the internet at our fingertips, voice and the telephony channel is far more prevalent in our daily lives than people realise. However, this channel leaves numerous opportunities for fraudsters to exploit us, says Dr Nikolay Gaubitch, director of research at Pindrop.

Helsinki, Finland. 26 November 2021 – Global cyber security provider F-Secure has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Switzerland-based CyberPeace Institute, an independent non-governmental organisation whose mission is to protect the security, dignity, and equity of people in cyberspace. The letter outlines a broad plan for cooperation in a number of areas, including the forensic analysis of cyber incidents which increasingly affect vulnerable communities. 

AI is, say the experts, set to revolutionise every aspect of connectivity. The zero-touch, software-defined, self-healing, threat-aware networks of tomorrow will be light years from the clunky, hardware-heavy, manually-driven connections of the recent past. We are currently at a transition point between these worlds, says Guy Matthews, editor of NetReporter.

Paris. 23 November 2021 – PKvitality, a French company specialised in Health and Sport bio-wearables announced the start of a clinical study to determine the accuracy of the K’Watch Glucose. The trial is conducted with the AMCR Institute Inc, a clinical research centre focused on diabetes and obesity with worldwide renown medical device expertise in the metabolic area.

As the UK housing market faces an ongoing boom, there’s one profession that’s certainly rushed off its feet estate agents. Stamp duty breaks and a rush for larger homes have meant this industry is working faster than ever to meet demand. Here, Kristian Torode, director and co-founder of business phone systems provider Crystaline, explains how communications technology can help estate agents boost their sales to keep pace with the market.

When casting our minds back to March last year, the MSP (managed service provider) community and our customers went through an initial period of incomparable disruption, dealing with damage to businesses predominantly in the hospitality, retail, travel and tourism industries, says Tarek Meliti, CEO at TDM Group.

Cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S. will be shunned by investors and the Biden administration will force the multi-trillion dollar sector of the future of money away from America, affirms the boss of one of the independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

British tech innovators PixelMax have outlined their vision for the hybrid work revolution and the future of the virtual workplace metaverse in a ground-breaking thought leadership blueprint that will reshape how the workplace and office of the future will evolve. With so much attention and media chatter on what the metaverse will look and feel like, PixelMax have not only outlined their visionary plans, but have also been innovating and developing in this space for the past two years. 

London, UK. 23 November 2021: New research from the BT and Altitude Angel-led “Project XCelerate” Consortium[1] has found over two thirds (68%) of the British public believe drones will have a positive impact on their life in the future, with almost half (49%) saying they are optimistic or excited about the potential drone technology holds.

London, UK. 23 November 2021 – ATTO Technology, Inc., a global provider of network, storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments for over 30 years, announced the findings of an independent survey of IT decision makers across the UK and Germany. According to the survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, organisations adopting enterprise NVMe storage currently face two main challenges: scalability and cost. In addition, the respondents indicated that they still need NVMe to offer greater flexibility, manageability, and affordability.

Vietnam’s ICT firm FPT was featured in HFS Research’s recent report entitled “Smart Enterprises are considering the untapped potential of Vietnam to plug capability gaps in the Virtual Economy”. The paper, conducted by HFS Research with the support of FPT, identifies Vietnam as one of the intriguing IT services destinations for enterprises as the world emerges from the economic trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

London, UK. 19 November 2021 – Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, announced the release of StealthAUDIT 11.5. The new release provides expanded data discovery and permissions reporting capabilities for cloud databases and extends data governance for Microsoft 365.

Data presented by Atlas VPN reveals that 79% of companies have increased their adoption of advanced security technologies to combat the increase in cyber attacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

London, UK – Skillsoft , a global provider of corporate digital learning, has released its annual Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report, exploring the current state of skills gaps, training and development, compensation, and job satisfaction in the IT industry.

Black Friday means online retailers are increasingly putting more effort into monitoring the pricing of their competitors before deciding on a discount themselves. New data from Oxylabs, a web data gathering solutions provider, reveals the product categories that could drive the most competition this year.

Safety technology start-up Tended has secured £2.4m (€2.84m) in investment to further propel its growth, bringing the company’s total funding to £4.4m (€5.21m). The funding was led by existing investor Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from early-stage European venture capital firm Basinghall Partners, UKRI, and a number of industry-specific angel investors. 

16 November, 2021 – Datakeeper, a tech start-up powered by Rabobank, worked with Mobiquity to develop and launch a personal identity wallet app to improve the customer experience of purchasing and registering for products and services securely, while providing customers with full control over their personal data.

London, 16 November 2021 – Unit4, a specialist in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations, released findings from a new global study, the Business Future Index. Conducted by Vanson Bourne, 3,350 decision makers and employees within mid-sized enterprises were surveyed to understand how businesses around the world approach profit and productivity to sustain their businesses during this economically volatile period.

Dubai, UAE. 14 November 2021 –The Dubai-based investment platform, The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), will be providing prizes for start-ups at the start-up pitch competition. The initiative will support and bring numerous opportunities, and aims to facilitate growth and future developments among global start-ups.

Australian technology services and solutions provider, Data#3 announced that it has partnered with global provider, SecurityHQ, to expand its Managed Security services. Data#3’s new Managed Security service adopts a practical and customer-first approach that provides the opportunity to access to the people, processes and technology needed to proactively detect and remediate sophisticated threats, violations and incidents.

Bratislava – Sensoneo, the provider of enterprise-grade smart waste management solutions, raises €2M investment from EIC Fund and Venture to Future Fund to further accelerate the expansion of the company. 

Kivra was founded in Stockholm 2011 and is a secure digital mailbox which facilitates interaction and communication between companies and consumers. Kivra has 4 million users in Sweden and more than 37,000 companies and public organisations send digital mail through the service.