British Airways IT outage reportedly caused by a contractor who accidentally shut down power supply

A contractor doing maintenance work at a British Airways data center inadvertently switched off the power supply, knocking out the airline’s computer systems and leaving 75,000 people stranded last weekend, the Times newspaper reported on Friday. Quoting a BA...

Next ‘Google-scale’ start-up will be an A.I. firm from Europe, not the US, top VC says

“Never underestimate the value of innovation … we will see some interesting companies coming out of Europe and the ambition level now exists to take those to those almost Google-scale outcomes, whereas perhaps there was more of a temptation to be acquired...