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Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. Perhaps it comes from his background as an engineer rather than a sales... [01 Aug 2008]
Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told
News Gartner's tips for retailers wanting to get in on the social network action include looking beyond the big names of Facebook and MySpace due to the huge amount of activity in the area. Amazon, for example, recently... [02 May 2008]
Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
News Facebook is also the most visited site for Vodafone mobile broadband users, followed by Google and the BBC. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer -... [01 May 2008]
Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord
News Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing... [22 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of... [03 Mar 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News Facebook has suffered its first monthly drop in UK users for 17 months, falling by five per cent to 8.4 million unique users between December 2007 and January 2008. Alex Burmaster, European internet analyst at Nielsen... [22 Feb 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid... [01 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video Cheat Sheet: ID cards ¦ Photos: Zoom in on London from the air… ¦ Photos of the month - January 2008 ¦ Legal Eye:... [31 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News Business execs snub Facebook But one group not down with the social networking trend is CIOs - a poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel found most snubbed Facebook because of the amount of "silly... [30 Jan 2008]
Oracle users demand better support
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User... [10 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC 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... [29 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced... [22 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ashley Highfield BBC Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner analyst Marcus Blosch, but only among those IT shops that effectively align themselves with... [21 Nov 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 02.11.07
Round-Up Podcast The end of cash, the BBC's iPlayer, Cliff Richard goes download and Facebook for the over-50s are all discussed in the latest Weekly Round-Up podcast. Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by... [02 Nov 2007]
