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Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Mark Zuckerberg Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. [27 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'. [22 Nov 2007]
Cost still main reason for outsourcing
News Mark Zuckerberg Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations going down the outsourcing route, despite unsustainable or unrealistic targets for savings. But companies lured into outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting... [21 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said... [21 Nov 2007]
Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource
News Mark Zuckerberg The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing arm of the De Beers family of companies... [20 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping
News Mark Zuckerberg Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. [20 Nov 2007]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Mark Zuckerberg Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [15 Nov 2007]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Mark Zuckerberg Tesco's IT chief is stepping down from the retail giant after six years to pursue a new challenge. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT implementation behind Tesco's first US stores... [14 Nov 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Mark Zuckerberg Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [14 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News Mark Zuckerberg The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining. More than 75 per cent of candidates joining dot-com start-ups through IT... [13 Nov 2007]
Stories of the month - October 2007
News AS Profile: Mark Zuckerberg Meanwhile, October saw the arrival of silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setters list which emphasised the impact of a new generation of tech leaders, with 23-year-old Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, named the most influential... [31 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it should be noted, was not present on the call. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a fad as "a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal". [26 Oct 2007]
Microsoft cuts itself a slice of Facebook pie
News Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it should be noted, was not present on the call. Microsoft will take a $240m equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping $15bn. [25 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07
Round-Up While Zuckerberg may represent both web 2.0 and Bubble 2.0 he certainly isn't following the lead of many of the companies that boomed and busted so spectacularly just a few short years ago. Heading the list this year is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg... [19 Oct 2007]
