The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has begun a consultation about the introduction of new BDSQs [Basic Digital Skills Qualifications] that are designed to improve the digital skills of adults across England. (more…)

NatWest bank is reported to be testing a new app-based banking platform called ‘Mettle’ that combines banking with other business services, and is specifically aimed at the needs of SMEs. (more…)

At its conference in Barcelona, VMware (tech subsidiary of Dell Technologies and CO2 emission-reducing evangelist) has announced that it has introduced a beta version of blockchain-as-a-service. (more…)

As businesses come to realise that they may be required to store some data for decades, encrypted data should be secure well beyond its useful life, and with this in mind, security architect for Benelux at IBM, Christiane Peters, is suggesting that businesses should start preparing now to implement post-quantum data protection. (more…)

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands have released a paper highlighting several security flaws that they’ve discovered in SSDs which mean that data from a flash disk can be recovered in more than one way, even if it’s supposedly self-encrypted. (more…)

The ICO has this month fined two marketing companies a total of £220,000 for contacting nearly 600,000 people on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) list. It is against the law to contact people on the TPS for marketing purposes and the ICO has fined these two companies accordingly. (more…)

Facebook’s latest push towards complete transparency has backfired courtesy of Vice News’s latest investigative work. The digital news platform posed as 100 US senators and found that the Facebook “Paid for By” system was full of flaws and systemic issues that meant the news company could post ads on behalf of the Senators with Facebook’s full approval. (more…)

New segment analysis can help advertisers understand wider brand engagement experiences by facilitating an offline versus online paradigm shift – one that helps advertisers understand how footfall can impact their digital marketing experiences. (more…)

Facebook, the social networking giant, has this month unveiled a new way that marketing professionals can better engage with their desired audience. Facebook’s Stories are a feature whereby people can share content and discover content in a quick way that is promoted from users’ own accounts. (more…)

The ever-growing power of LinkedIn company pages has empowered Vimeo, the social media video publishing service, to provide an end-to-end integration within LinkedIn to promote a new avenue for marketing video content. (more…)