Five for Friday is a weekly feature to give a brief roundup of our top five stories from the week that you might have missed.

Iain Shaw, Brigantia Partners commercial director, reflects on a question that recently emerged to him and thinks about the organisation's place in the Channel

Share prices in tech giants such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet all took a sharp tumble yesterday

Jonathan Easton speaks to Symantec about the company’s evolving strategy – both in products and Channel services

The mobile division of the tech giant is the latest major vendor to start up a bug bounty program

Northamber launched new partnerships with big name vendors such as Samsung, Phillips, Ben Q and Ricoh

After an initial conservative approach, the European market is now showing signs of renewed life

Rob Horgan asks the Channel if cyber security experts can get ahead of the hackers

Esports is the biggest growth area in gaming and is creating countless opportunities in the market, says George Brasher, MD of HP, UK and Ireland

The ‘will they, won’t they’ Samsung smart speaker conundrum has finally been given a definitive answer