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News Bad news continues to dominate the online gambling sector as betting sites 888 and Partygaming have been demoted on prestigious FTSE stock indices. Partygaming was unexpectedly dropped from the... [11 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: In-sourcing - the new outsourcing?
News Peter Dew, CIO at FTSE 100 industrial gases giant BOC, said a failure by some companies to develop a comprehensive sourcing strategy in the past has resulted in the high number of rushed decisions to pull previously... [02 Feb 2006]
Richard Segal
AS Profile PartyGaming.com is valued at several billion dollars and is set to join the FTSE 100, the first online company to do so since the bad old boom days. In this year's number nine spot is the man who proved... [23 Sep 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Online poker
Comment Basically it would be the biggest IPO ever on the London Stock Exchange and put the company straight in on the FTSE with a higher value than stalwarts such as British Airways and Sainsbury's. No, what I'm thinking for... [15 Jun 2005]
Leader: Compliance time
Leader The word compliance means different things to different people and now it seems that - after the excesses of the tech bubble that led to so much wrongdoing - we are now in an era where stringent financial and other rules and regulations... [17 Jan 2005]
Security: Can you really trust JUST techies?
News A massive 86 per cent of the FTSE 350 companies researched said negative publicity for their company would be the key impact and a similar number (84 per cent) said their brand would be damaged by a security breach. [06 Sep 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Process - no substitute for creativity
Comment I spoke at a recent conference where one extremely well-known CIO spoke about transforming the IT of a FTSE 100 company. Consider the move towards open standards (certainly not a totally bad trend). Let... [13 Jan 2004]
"Error-strewn" government websites under fire
News Government websites tend to be large - about seven times the size of the average UK FTSE 100 corporate website, according to Business2www - and many errors are unavoidable in complex dynamic sites undergoing continuous... [22 Nov 2002]
FTSE has a rough morning
News London's FTSE100 was down by 1.8 per cent on yesterday's close to just over 3,900 and the FTSE Techmark began the day down 0.7 per cent at almost 730 points. Stocks in London got off to a bad start this... [06 Aug 2002]
Pace takes a hammering
News Vodafone fell two per cent as the FTSE as a whole slipped back. The firm blamed the bad news on the continuing instability in the digital TV market, with one of its biggest customer, NTL, filing for... [08 Jul 2002]
Nasdaq five-year low hits Europe
News When London woke up this morning the FTSE joined its US cousin in the doldrums. Another bad day on the tech-heavy Nasdaq has seen the index dive to a five-year low. The US index was off by four per cent... [02 Jul 2002]
BT good - almost too good
Comment He had a point - although BT and Vodafone aren't the only two telecoms companies in the FTSE 100 and the others aren't quite "an irrelevance", as he described them. Ten thousand new broadband connections per week simply... [08 Apr 2002]
BT slumps as Euro markets pick up
News The FTSE was up 2.17 per cent after losing 12 per cent last week, the CAC 40 jumped 2.93 per cent after losing 17 per cent and the Dax began to recoup its 20 per cent fall with a 2.88 per cent increase. [24 Sep 2001]
Tech stocks plunge LSE to three-year low
News The FTSE 100 fell 2 per cent to 5,200 points today, into realms unvisited since the end of 1998 - before the hi-tech bubble. Marconi goes from bad to worse http://www.silicon.com/a47164 The London... [06 Sep 2001]
Marconi goes from bad to worse
News The FTSE index also took a battering this morning, dropping 1.31 per cent to its lowest level since October 1998. Marconi was firmly in the red this morning after Standard & Poor's downgrading of the company for the... [06 Sep 2001]
