Infographic of Scottish Technology Companies In the previous infographics in the 2019-2020 series we provided insights into tech companies across Scotland, and focused on tech in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen. This week we start to look at what is happening in various industry sectors. The first of the sector infographics provides insights to the Scottish Oil and ... Read more

The fifth in our new infographic series (you can check out the others here) covers all of Dundee city. This infographic features 89 IT/Tech companies based in the Dundee City council area. 21% of the IT companies work within the games sector and many of the other companies  have games related skills such as 3D art, animation and ... Read more

The Fourth in our new infographic series (you can check out the others here) covers all of Aberdeen city. This infographic features 203 IT/Tech companies based in the Aberdeen city. Aberdeen has a huge proportion of it’s IT companies working in the Oil & Gas sector (53%), along with related sectors such as Engineering, Energy and Marine. ... Read more

Edinburgh city is the focus of our 2019-2020 new infographic. (Previous infographics Infographic One: 2,656 tech companies in Scotland and Infographic Two: Review of 624 Glasgow tech companies) This infographic features 645 IT/Tech companies based in the Edinburgh city. Edinburgh has a strong financial services industry with over 12% of it’s IT companies working in this sector. We recently updated all ... Read more

We continue our 2019 infographic series on tech companies with a look at 485 tech companies that have skills in security / infosec. Company Connecting has details of 4,700 tech companies on its database of which 3,000 are in Scotland. So about 10% of the tech companies have some cyber security /infosec skills. We always find Cyber ... Read more

By the end of the 1950s, Romania was one of  only eight countries who managed to create an electronic computer. As a communist country, the state supported the IT field as it was in a continuous competition with the other “imperialist” countries. The year of 1989 put the freshly democratised Romania in a situation where smugglers ... Read more

Artificial Intelligence – what is it all about – I feel a song coming on! Our guest author, Antero Duarte takes a wry and somewhat insightful look into the world of all things AI. Take it away Antero……………or should that be Siri, Hal, or even Holly…………? Unless you live under a rock, you have been constantly bombarded on allfronts about Artificial Intelligence (even in ... Read more

Artificial Intelligence – it’s everywhere whether you know it or not Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more prevalent in our everyday lives, from chatbots to voice-controlled virtual assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and Cortana. We are in the midst of a digital revolution which is ever more dependent on AI-powered applications. 61% of companies ... Read more

Company Connecting asked Graeme Gordon of IFB for his views on technology in the Oil & Gas sector and the impact of the recent downturn. Graeme provides some great insights including a comparison between transferring Oil & Gas assets with transferring Ronaldo! A bit about youI am a qualified Electronics Engineer and the first part ... Read more

Earlier this week Company Connecting published an infographic which looks at 289 IT and telecoms companies providing services and products to the Oil & Gas sector. More than half of these companies are in the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshireshire council areas. The industry is of huge importance to the North East of Scotland. In conjunction with the infographic we are publishing ... Read more