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News As of Monday afternoon, shares had lost 43 per cent of their market value on the FTSE by mid-afternoon on Monday, falling from £4.55 to £2.05 per share. In a statement issued on Monday, the telecommunications giant said... [06 Jul 2009]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile In an organisation as vast as the public sector (Suffolk likes to remind people that it's bigger than the UK's top 250 companies on the FTSE index put together), breaking down fiefdoms is a challenge but he adopts a... [03 Jun 2009]
Sage chief on Gen Y and tackling the recession
Comment With 5.8 million customers, annual revenue of nearly £1.3bn and as a member of the FTSE 100, Sage is, along with Autonomy, one of the success stories of the UK software industry. Sage chief executive Paul Walker talks to... [28 Apr 2009]
Taxman hunts for new CIO for £1bn IT dept
News The site says the ideal candidate should have "management experience" within a FTSE 100 or a large public sector organisation. The taxman is looking for a CIO to complete the transformation of its IT department. [13 Jan 2009]
Tech job demand rallying in economic storm
News Typically a FTSE 250 organisation implementing a new system will take several years to do so and you don't stop implementing a system at the drop of a hat. Tech jobs appear to be suffering less during the economic... [08 Jan 2009]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News The website currently only offers financial spread betting - and a high low betting game based on movements of the FTSE 100 - as it awaits authorisation from the FSA, expected in early 2009. Online betting exchange... [10 Nov 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News The exchange said capacity on the platform has increased tenfold over the last 12 months and it has contributed to an 82 per cent growth in trading volumes on Sets (the Exchange's single platform for the trading of the constituents of... [20 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Figures from the UK's tech industry skills body e-skills UK reveal less than one fifth (16 per cent) of tech workers are women, while Cranfield University's School of Management annual Female FTSE Report 2007 shows a... [11 Jun 2008]
Tech profit warnings rise as market confidence falls
News Research by Ernst & Young shows that profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 per cent in the first quarter of 2008. Across all sectors of the FTSE... [14 Apr 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Leading police officers, global cyber security chiefs and FTSE 100 companies are backing a new campaign by silicon.com for the creation of a dedicated UK national cyber crime police unit. Paul Simmonds, global head of... [12 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
News The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, a former White House cyber security adviser, blue chip FTSE 100 companies, the Association of Chief Police Officers... [12 Mar 2008]
AppLabs Case Study: Provident Financial
White Paper Provident Financial is a UK FTSE 250 global lending company. Due to its agent workforce and regional branches, Provident Financial's account management systems were heavily reliant on manual processing. [25 Feb 2008]
Admiral digitises supplier payments
News We are a FTSE 350 company and we were still sending out written cheques to our suppliers. Insurance specialist Admiral Group has implemented an £80,000 document management system from Version One to automate its... [29 Oct 2007]
CIOs 'last three years'
News The survey of CIOs at FTSE 350 companies also found the majority (41 out of 50) have a technology background and most (38 out of 50) are recruited from outside of the business. CIOs stay in their job for just over three... [24 Aug 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile After graduating in mining engineering from University College Cardiff in 1978 Lamey spent 22 years at FTSE 100 industrial gases group BOC where he rose to become director of global information and management. [06 Jun 2007]
