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Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News Privacy legal expert Vanessa Barnett, a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that "ultimately only a judge can decide" the legality of Phorm's service. On Tuesday, Number 10 published a... [21 May 2009]
Photos: How Betfair predicts the future
Photo Leighton Vaughan Williams, Professor of Economics and Finance at Nottingham Business School, told silicon.com presidential elections have been predicted by analysing betting behaviour for decades. In the hurly burly of... [22 Dec 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment It was described as the nearest thing the UK had got in the 1980s to a really tough business school and the same Mars management training has also turned out some of the UK's top business leaders today, including Justin King at... [11 Jun 2008]
David Burden
CIO Profile At the time he was spending a gap year travelling across Australia by train, hiking in New Zealand and taking part in ocean swimming competitions but was coaxed into the role by chairman Allan Leighton. [06 Jun 2007]
CIO Jury: $100 laptop will boost Linux
News Janet Day, Director of IT, Berwin Leighton Paisner The $100 laptop could mark a major breakthrough for the Linux operating system, according to leading CIOs. The hand-cranked laptop could be in the hands of... [17 Nov 2005]
Lastminute.chairman quits.com
News Allan Leighton, non-executive chairman of lastminute.com, is to stand down from his post with the pioneering UK e-tailer after four years with the company. Leighton will be replaced by Brian Collie,... [26 Oct 2004]
Royal Mail CIO David Burden
Comment Chairman Allan Leighton coaxed him away from a gap year spent travelling across Australia by train, hiking in New Zealand and living by the beach - where he took part in ocean swimming. It's the day after the England... [17 Jun 2004]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News The deluge of data that hit the infrastructure provider was "so large that it [couldn't have] come from a couple of servers," said Tom Leighton, chief scientist and co-founder of Akamai. While Tuesday's attack was aimed... [17 Jun 2004]
Royal Mail slashes IT bill in half
News A goal of £400m profit in the final quarter has also been set by chairman Allan Leighton. The Royal Mail has slashed its IT spend in half as part of the major cost-cutting programme launched after it made a record £1.1bn... [16 Jun 2004]
Lastminute cuts losses and stays cheerful
News Lastminute chairman Alan Leighton said in a statement: "The indications are that there will be excess capacity in the market as we move towards the key summer quarter and that the demand for late travel will remain strong. [13 May 2004]
Lastminute.com splashes out £55m on OTC
News The acquisition makes good on suggestions last month by lastminute.com chairman Allan Leighton that the company's recent spree was far from over. Serial-acquirer lastminute.com has detailed the terms of its latest... [03 Mar 2004]
Lastminute.com reveals lastquarter.profit
News Allan Leighton, chairman of lastminute.com, suggested that the acquisition spree is far from over. Lastminute.com has announced gross profits for its first quarter of £25m - representing a 128 per cent increase on the... [12 Feb 2004]
Lastminute.com's first annual profits but Lane Fox off
News Allan Leighton, Lastminute.com chairman - as well as Royal Mail chairman and Leeds United chairman, to name but two other posts - said Lane Fox "has played a major role in the progress of Lastminute.com and we are... [20 Nov 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Leadership
Comment So let me focus on three individuals that show the way forward: Metropolitan police commissioner Sir John Stevens, Post Office chairman Allan Leighton, and England football team manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. [27 Aug 2003]
lastminute.com sees record profit
News Allan Leighton, lastminute.com's chairman, said in a statement: "The group has performed exceptionally well against a difficult backdrop for the travel sector of post-Sars, post-Iraq and general war and terrorism concerns. [05 Aug 2003]
