Wants to hire more than a thousand

Facebook will hire 1,000 people in London this year in roles such as product development and safety as it continues to grow its biggest engineering centre outside the United States after Britain leaves the European Union.

UK's fastest-growing sector

The telecoms industry is the UK’s fastest-growing sector when it comes to spending on R&D, the latest ONS data has revealed.

 
At least for downloads

Speed testing giant Ookla has shown that the early 5G mobile networks are more than 450 percent faster than older ones – at least on downloads.

Snubs UK because of Brexit

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the electric car maker is going to build a new vehicle factory, “Gigafactory 4” in Berlin.

Post-Brexit we will need everything on the cheap

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to grant China’s Huawei access to the UK’s future 5G telecoms network, the Sunday Times reported.

Research projects suffer

Hopes that the UK would become a worldwide technological powerhouse after Brexit got rid of its Polish plumbers have been dashed after figures show that research projects are plummetting, as Blighty's brightest brains move out and research funding has fallen by nearly a third since 2015.

Targeted money in the wrong place

The UK Government has been throwing money at driverless cars but has allocated it to the wrong place.

Huawei in Big Push

In an interview in Shenzen with Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei, it became evident very quickly that despite political obstacles promoted by the USA, the firm is very much on track to put in place its 5G infrastructure this year and next.

Choice is not always a good thing warns Amvia

The rapid increase in the number of VoIP providers in the UK has given businesses around the country a wealth of extra choice – but this isn’t necessarily a good thing says one outfit.

“Vague, imprecise and largely a ‘tick box’ exercise” growls watchdog

Porn restrictions that are set to come into effect in the UK next month are a “privacy timebomb”, a new report has warned.