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Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Lane Fox shot to fame in the late 1990s as the founder of the dot-com travel company lastminute.com, and remained on the company's board until its sale in 2005. Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the Agenda Setters list... [30 Sep 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The report names dot-com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox as a Digital Inclusion Champion to evangelise the skills and benefits of digital participation with the aim of encouraging broadband refuseniks - those who can... [16 Jun 2009]
CIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News Nominet, the internet registry for dot-uk domain names, is advertising for a director of IT based in Oxford with a £100,000 salary. Meanwhile, Simon Mouncer has been appointed head of business change and... [27 Jan 2009]
Techies: Should you be job-hunting this January?
News The strategic profile of IT is in far better shape than it was in 2001," after the dot-com bubble burst, he told silicon.com. According to recent research, there's been a record drop in demand for staff in the... [09 Jan 2009]
'We ain't afraid of no downturn' say tech bosses
News Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of CEOs and board members from the tech, media and telecommunications sector believe the situation will be no worse than in 2001, when the tech sector suffered its own recession following the... [11 Dec 2008]
Has tech got the power to punch through the crunch?
News Now here's the good news: whatever job cuts occur in the technology sector in the coming months, they're unlikely to be as deep or as lasting as the cuts that occurred during the dot-com bust, according to statistics... [21 Oct 2008]
CIOs having night sweats over job security
News According to data from analyst house Gartner, global economic problems are impacting IT budgets - however the analyst does not believe the IT industry is in for reductions as large as those seen during the dot-com bust. [14 Oct 2008]
Neil Bacon
AS Profile Dr Neil Bacon is best-known for setting up doctors.net.uk, the social networking website for GPs, back at the height of the dot-com boom in 1998, which now boasts 138,000 users. Bacon resigned as CEO of... [07 Oct 2008]
Leading an Indian giant through a downturn
Comment We did that in the dot-com meltdown and we are doing it again now. The first UK business computer For his leadership role in Indian IT, Premji has earned a spot on silicon.com's Agenda Setters list of... [17 Sep 2008]
Online shopping reaches £4.8bn
News Online shopping revenues in the UK rose, month-on-month, by 11 per cent to £4.8bn in July. According to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index the amount spent online rose, despite a shrink in disposable income,... [20 Aug 2008]
Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment After that she headed up project delivery for the bank's retail ecommerce business at the height of the dot com boom as well as a special project looking at the future of the financial services industry for the bank. [13 May 2008]
IT contractors upbeat about work
News Unlike during the last recession, which was so inextricably linked to the dot-com boom and bust, this time around IT is at the very heart of every successful business. IT contractors are upbeat about job prospects... [20 Feb 2008]
Top 10 skills stories of the year
News Dreams of dot-com glory. There may have been rumbles of economic discontent but nothing could dampen the hopes of dot-com start-up workers who, gripped by the promise of web 2.0-fuelled wealth, were... [17 Dec 2007]
eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment The internet, however, has shaken up the insurance industry where dot-com upstarts like eSure - the one with Michael Winner's "calm down, dear… it's only a commercial" TV adverts - now compete against the established... [27 Nov 2007]
Contractors choose lifestyle over money
News A recent study by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies found strong demand for contractors skilled in Bluetooth and dot-mobi tools that allow websites to be tailored for mobile devices, as well as in the... [20 Nov 2007]
