Announcements

London, 30th March 2021 – Colt Technology Services, a leading provider of global high bandwidth connectivity solutions, and IBM [NYSE:IBM] today announced an extension of their existing...

London, 26th March 2021 - Today, UK-based quantum software company Phasecraft announced that it is the latest UK startup member of the IBM Quantum Network, a global community of more than 140...

London, 25th March 2021 - TSB Smart Agent has now been fully integrated into the bank’s mobile app and is already averaging over 1,000 conversations a day on mobile devices, giving customers...

London, 23rd February 2021 - IBM, Rolls-Royce and the Emergent Alliance have launched a selection of dashboards and predictive risk assessment tools using the IBM Cloud Pak for Data, designed to...

ARMONK, N.Y. and LONDON - 14 January 2021 - IBM [NYSE: IBM] and Audi UK, one of the world’s leading premium automotive manufacturers, collaborated to redesign Audi’s website to deliver a far...

A group of University of the Highlands and Islands students are celebrating their success in an international coding competition. Students from the university's applied software development BSc...

London, 25th November 2020 - UCC Coffee has partnered with farmer connect, a coffee traceability platform powered by IBM Blockchain, to launch UCC’s first ever blockchain traced coffee....

London, 8th October 2020 - Sustainability is a growing priority for the fashion industry and retailers are doing more to promote ethical supplier practices and responsible consumption. Consumers,...

By Kristine Long, 23rd September 2020 - We are currently living in an altered world. COVID-19 has shown the fragility of businesses across all industries, but particularly in the fashion and...

London, 4th September 2020 - Today, the British Fashion Council (BFC) is delighted to announce the provisional schedule for London Fashion Week (LFW) September 2020. The gender neutral showcase...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Sreeram Visvanathan has been named Chief Executive, IBM in the UK and Ireland. He succeeds Bill Kelleher, who led UK and Ireland business operations since mid...

London, 11 August 2020 - Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler based on revenue, has signed a multiyear agreement with IBM to accelerate its transformation to...

London, 5th August 2020 - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (“Health Board”) has today announced the launch of its Welsh and English speaking virtual agent, using IBM Watson Assistant....

London, 29th July 2020 - Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the UK Cabinet Office executive agency and trading fund, is taking another step towards breaking down the barriers to public sector cloud...

London, 2nd July 2020 - The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer centre with hospitals in London and Surrey, has announced it has launched its first ever virtual agent called Ask Maisie, using...

London, 25th June 2020 - IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) recently put pen to paper on a new long term contract. It was a natural development for a partnership that has...

As live sport broadcasting returns to our screens, the British public believe live events should only resume when it is safe to do so, and they aren’t in a rush to get back to action according...

London, 12 June 2020 - Britain’s biggest building society is using its virtual agent, based on IBM Watson Assistant, to answer questions about mortgage support for those impacted by coronavirus....

30th April 2020 - A collaboration between the UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach, IBM and Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company, heralds a major breakthrough for the news...

London, 30th April 2020 - TSB has launched a new Smart Agent function on its website (www.tsb.co.uk), to give customers immediate access to the measures the Bank has introduced during the...

Rolls-Royce, 16th April 2020 - Rolls-Royce has invited a group of leading companies to collaborate on Emer2gent, a new alliance of data analytics experts challenged with finding new, faster ways...

London 9th April 2020 - IBM and Cisco have joined forces to offer teachers in over 24,000 schools and staff in over 185,000 charities across the UK free access to video conferencing through use of...

London 9th April 2020 - IBM staff with 3D printers are volunteering to turn their devices and skills to help alleviate the shortage of protective face visors for hospitals. Within just the first...

London 7th April 2020 - University College London is pleased to announce the creation of the IBM Industry Exchange Network (IBM IXN), in collaboration with IBM University Programs and University...

The Athletic, 9th February, 2020 - The Leicester City right-back has taken up a decent defensive position alongside Jonny Evans when he suddenly dashes past me and out towards the touchline to...

Nearly half of sixth form and college students feel "pressure" to go to university. Research polling 189 youngsters in further education found nearly two-fifths would even feel like a "failure" if...

At IBM, we have over 50 Digital and Technology Solutions degree apprentices, studying at University of Exeter, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Open University. Our first cohort of...

London, 15 January, 2020 - TSB today announced it has selected IBM Services as its partner to accelerate the Bank’s ambition to become a truly digital business with IBM cloud capabilities. The...

Except it wasn’t. It was the first-of-its-kind for this ornate, 150-year-old Debating Chamber that once hosted British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, US President Theodore Roosevelt, the...

London 17th October 2019. Today Reach, Britain’s largest commercial publisher and IBM team up to launch Mantis, a new brand safety platform underpinned by IBM Watson Natural Language Processing...

Around the globe, new technologies are rapidly transforming the world of work, and – as a result, the skillsets people need to be successful. To ensure an inclusive workforce, we must change the...

IBM today launched results from its 2019 IBM Privacy study across 11 countries in the Americas, Europe, and East Asia, revealing that consumers across the globe are savvy about what happens to...

London, UK - 11 September 2019: The University of the Highlands and Islands is launching a new, first of a kind Bachelor of Science Applied Software Development degree in partnership with IBM to...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimized it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical...

Highlights Second Quarter: GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $2.81 Operating (non-GAAP) EPS of $3.17 Revenue of $19.2 billion, down 4.2 percent (down 1.6 percent adjusting for currency)...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash,...

London - 02 Jul 2019: Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Moorfields) has launched a new virtual assistant specially designed to engage with patients and the public by providing round...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that more than 500 businesses around the world have chosen the IBM Garage to help them power their digital reinventions with hybrid cloud and artificial...

London, UK - 13 Jun 2019: The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and IBM today continued the pledge of their partnership to leverage disruptive innovation to elevate and differentiate the iconic...

12 June, 2019 | Written by: Jenny Taylor By 2020 the digital skills gap will have grown to a huge 500,000 people according to Europe’s Digital Progress Report 2017. At the same time, UK school...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the first recipients and list of global women leaders and pioneers in AI for business. The list recognizes and celebrates women across a variety of industries and...

London, UK - 12 Mar 2019: Every day millions of people around the world take on caring responsibility for loved ones which can have a detrimental impact on the quality of life for the whole family...

London, UK - 19 Feb 2019: BBH will be tasked with re-imagining all digital touchpoints, while IBM iX will take responsibility for the digital transformation of all Audi channels. The two agencies...

London, UK - 14 Feb 2019: Ava was created to handle the significant increase in inquiries from first time buyers looking to take advantage of the Government’s help-to-buy scheme and the added...

London, UK - 13 Feb 2019: Watson Assistant helps companies manage the large and often wide range of customer and employee service inquiries they field on a daily basis. Companies across more than...

London, UK - 12 Feb 2019: The IBM Institute for Business Value estimates that by 2021, 98 percent of organizations surveyed plan to adopt hybrid architectures, but just 38 percent will have the...

London, UK - 17 Jan 2019: Building on more than two decades of collaboration between the two companies, IBM and Vodafone have entered into a new strategic commercial agreement. It will provide...

London, UK - 08 Jan 2019: IBM Q systems are designed to one day tackle problems that are currently seen as too complex and exponential in nature for classical systems to handle. Future...

London, UK - 01 Jan 2019: Fourth Quarter: • GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $2.15 -- Includes charge of $1.9 billion related to the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 • Operating...

London, UK - 28 Nov 2018: A major part of this new relationship is the Joint Study Agreement between IBM Research and the University of Liverpool. This makes the University a key research partner...

London, UK - 31 Oct 2018: The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has today announced that it has signed a new agreement with IBM for four years as an official partner of England Rugby. The union will look...

London, UK - 28 Oct 2018: IBM and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will...

London, UK - 18 Oct 2018: Despite an increased awareness of human trafficking efforts to manually track and counter the issue through legislation, preventative measures and enforcement, these...

London, UK - 16 Oct 2018: Highlights GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $2.94; Operating (non-GAAP) EPS of $3.42 Revenue of $18.8 billion, down 2 percent (flat adjusting for currency)...

ARMONK, N.Y. - 24 Sep 2018: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new Watson solutions and services pre-trained for a variety of industries and professions including agriculture, customer service,...

London, UK - 19 Sep 2018: The software service, which automatically detects bias and explains how AI makes decisions – as the decisions are being made – runs on the IBM Cloud, and helps...

London, UK - 30 Jul 2018: On LedgerConnect financial institutions will be able to access services in areas such as, but not limited to, know your customer processes, sanctions screening,...