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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  25 April 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Amazon’s soaring first-quarter sales fail to impress investors Closing gender gap could generate extra £2.6bn a year for UK economy European youth believe they lack skills for digital economy Modular datacentres yield 30% more savings than traditional datacentres

PREMIUM CONTENT CIO briefing on agile development How do we create agile organisations and behave in a more agile way? Kelly Waters executive Consultant, Coach, and Interim CTO, offers some answers in this presentation.  Bringing System Management to Messaging & Collaboration The fast growing interaction between email, collaboration and social media is creating new management pressures. Analysts Bernt Ostergaard and Clive Longbottom offer answers in this paper from Quocirca.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK Half UK IT decision makers unaware of coming EU data laws, study shows Only half of UK IT decision makers are aware of the coming EU Data Protection Regulation, a study shows. Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) European insurance firms lagging in digital Insurance companies in Europe are under threat from companies outside their sector as they fail to keep up with digital developments.  Has tech spending moved to the CMO?  Forrester's Andy Bartels spells out the reasons CIOs remain central to tech budgets, starting with the reality that CMOs don't want to go it alone. (SearchCIO.com) UK broadband ranking suffers, with some users getting just 600Kbps Average broadband speed has grown year on year. But the UK is outside Akamai's top 10, according to its State of the Internet Q4 2013 report.  Barclays bank launches investment app Barclays bank has launched an app for investment companies to give them access to content to support their investment decisions. Obituary: Pioneering Computer Weekly journalist Ron Coates Former Computer Weekly deputy editor Ron Coates died recently after a period of ill health. Facebook reports strong quarter driven by mobile ads Facebook has beaten analyst expectations with first-quarter profits of $642m and revenues of $2.5bn, up 72%.

BLOGS Dame Wendy Hall to present 4th Karen Spärck Jones Lecture Professor Dame Wendy Hall will present the 4th Karen Spärck Jones Lecture this year entitled: 'How to enjoy a career in computing.' Hardware Spend - Oil & Other Fuel Industries Hardware expenditure by oil & other fuel companies is in excess of £600 per employee. That is twice the national norm.

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