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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]
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]
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]
Bet-mad Brits stake claim on Euro domination
News Shortly after the anti-online gambling act was passed online gambling sites began a losing streak, being ousted from FTSE indices and getting ready to suspend US business. Brits make up nearly one-third of Europe's 3.3... [01 Nov 2006]
Online gamblers demoted on FTSE
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 FTSE 100... [11 Oct 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Richard Segal
News Within months of the IPO in 2005 the company was valued at more than $12bn and PartyGaming became the first dot-com to break into the FTSE 100 index of leading shares since the madness of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. [06 Sep 2006]
silicon.com CIO Forum attracts top tech talent
News The day will consist of a mix of panels, featuring FTSE 100 CIOs, keynotes and clinics, as well as on-stage versions of the McCue Interview (with Suffolk) and CIO Jury, silicon.com's unique approach to gauging the... [07 Aug 2006]
Vodafone IT chief is CIOs' CIO
News Vodafone CIO Paul Wybrow has been voted the top private sector CIO in a poll of IT chiefs from FTSE 100 firms and IT suppliers. Wybrow came top of the poll with 18 per cent of the vote, followed by last year's winner... [30 Jun 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]
'DIY' offshore outsourcing on the increase
News Fifteen companies in the FTSE 100 now have captive operations in India. Four out of five large UK companies will increase their offshore outsourcing over the next two to three years - but many will go for a DIY approach... [08 Aug 2005]
BP pilots IT support opt-out scheme
News Jerram said: "There are FTSE 100 CIOs getting rapped over the knuckles by auditors for not best supporting their workers. BP is giving employees financial incentives to support their own computers. The company is... [08 Jul 2005]
