Charlotte Trueman
Staff Writer
Charlotte Trueman is a staff writer at Computerworld. She joined IDG in 2016 after graduating with a degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. Trueman covers collaboration, focusing on videoconferencing, productivity software, future of work and issues around diversity and inclusion in the tech sector.
PayPal to lay off 2,000 employees
The online payments company becomes the latest tech employer to announce mass layoffs.
Tribunal rules MI5 acted unlawfully when retaining intercepted personal data
A panel of three judges has ruled that “widespread corporate failure” led to the UK spy agency and the Home Office not taking its legislative obligations for data retention seriously.
Tech layoffs in 2023: A timeline
So far in 2023, technology companies have laid off more employees than in any other month since the pandemic started. Here's an updated timeline of the more notable layoffs, and the reasons why Big Tech is in turmoil.
Intel suffers double-digit revenue decline in Q4 2022
Intel’s two biggest business units were hit hard during the last three months of 2022, as the PC market continued to experience its biggest slump in decades.
Atlassian doubles down on automation with new capabilities for Confluence
Three years after adding no-code automation to its Jira platform, Atlassian is looking to bring those same benefits to Confluence to automate content management tasks.
Microsoft Teams and Outlook suffer global outages
Users across the globe were struggling to access multiple Microsoft products after the company implemented a network change.
Big tech backs Google in defending internet liability protections
Tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, and Twitter have filed briefs warning the Supreme Court against narrowing the Communications Decency Act's Section 230 to allow lawsuits against content-recommendation algorithms.
Google's parent company Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs
Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai, told employees on Friday that the company would be reducing its global workforce by around 6%.
Tools, training and company culture drive productivity, says UK worker survey
New research from ClickUp seeks to uncover the trends that determine whether a company has high or low levels of productivity.
UK gov't amendments to Online Safety Bill include criminal liability
The legislation, which has already been updated numerous times, now includes a provision that will make tech executives criminally liable for violating the bill’s enforceable requirements.
Enterprise software, services to boost 2023 IT spending by 2.3%: Gartner
While the slump in hardware device sales will take longer than expected to rebound, much of enterprise IT spending — for example on cloud technology — is locked in and inflation-proof.