Five tech stories you might have missed last week
Amazon brings Alexa to the kitchen, GDPR moves on its first victim, and Apple hands over €14bn in back taxes
CRN's weekly round-up of the more unusual tech stories that happened last week. 1. Vote Leave firm has dubious honour of being first in UK to be slapped with GDPR notice A Canadian analytics firm has...
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Elon Musk is UK channel's most inspiring tech figurehead
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Gartner's top tech trends for 2021
From hyper automation to using tech to influence human behaviour in the workplace, the analyst house lays out its predictions for the top tech trends for next year
BA hit with 'biggest fine to date' from UK regulator for GDPR breach
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Two years after sinking a datacentre off Orkney, Microsoft shares what it's learned
'We don't see Project Natick replacing land datacentres but being an additional offering, where we can deploy these faster than we can build land datacentres,' Microsoft's Spencer Fowers tells CRN
How tech CEOs should adjust to the new reality
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AWS channel chief on partnerships: 'We have more than 50 new partners joining every single day'
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Pandemic has highlighted 'digital divide' among England's schools - Microsoft
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Cloud database vendors lambasted by analyst for expense, 'vulnerable' products and poor support
Gartner takes AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and more to task in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for cloud database management systems
Brexit channel panel: Top five takeaways
As we release an exclusive report on how prepared the channel actually is to exit the EU, check out the top five pieces of advice our panel shared to ensure you are in a strong position
