Cliff Saran

4 days ago | computerweekly.com | Cliff Saran

Under the Digital Markets Competition Regime, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed to designate Google with “strategic market status” (SMS). Google Search accounts for more than 90% of all general search queries in the UK, with millions of people relying on it as a key gateway to the internet and more than 200,000 businesses in the UK relying on Google Search advertising to reach their customers.

5 days ago | computerweekly.com | Cliff Saran

AI and data One of the areas the government wants to unlock is capitalising on the value of UK data by treating it as an economic asset. The industrial strategy covers Labour’s ambitions to enable the use of high-quality data across the private and public sectors, extending smart data initiatives with £36m of funding, and establishing a clear framework to value and license public sector data assets.

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Cliff Saran

Among the questions a head of technology may ponder are, what does it mean to be innovative, and perhaps, what technology can be used to drive an innovation strategy?

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Cliff Saran

The G7 meeting of world leaders is a clear indication of how the leading economies see AI. With the stagnation of economic growth alongside rising costs of maintaining existing public services, artificial intelligence (AI) is being seen as a quick, technological fix, that conveniently papers over the cracks inherent in society.

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Cliff Saran

A poll of major businesses from the Capgemini Research Institute has found that while using artificial intelligence (AI) for automating repetitive business tasks offers significant savings, the tasks being improved are relatively simple. A significant number of the business leaders surveyed also say they prefer proprietary AI implementations over open source alternatives.