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News BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Verwaayen, who will also step down from the BT board on 30...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Ben Verwaayen Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for...
[26 Mar 2008]
News Ben Verwaayen BT Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service...
[03 Mar 2008]
News Ben Verwaayen BT Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online world...
[01 Feb 2008]
News Ben Verwaayen Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste management...
[11 Dec 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen BT Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. He explained that many of the concerns expressed by Oracle UK...
[10 Dec 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme...
[05 Dec 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen BT Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune, which also praised...
[29 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Graham Yellowley, director of technology...
[27 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen BT At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links...
[22 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations going down the outsourcing route, despite unsustainable or unrealistic targets for savings. But companies lured into outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting...
[21 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen BT CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner...
[21 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing arm of the De Beers family of companies - will...
[20 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Colin Cobain, group IT director for Tesco, who...
[20 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT implementation behind Tesco's first US stores, which opened in Los Angeles this month. Cobain plans to take a break to consider his future options...
[14 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20
[14 Nov 2007]
News Ben Verwaayen The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining. More than 75 per cent of candidates joining dot-com start-ups through IT...
[13 Nov 2007]
News Ramji and Louwhoff will now report directly to group chief executive Ben Verwaayen. The chief executive behind BT's £10bn national network, 21CN, has resigned just six months into the job. The telco announced that Andy Green will leave to become...
[10 Oct 2007]
News BT Group CEO Ben Verwaayen said with more than 400 million "rising consumers" in China and the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the way, many global customers are keen to take advantage of China as "a key growth market".
[07 Sep 2007]
News BT's chief executive, Ben Verwaayen, said: "This is the second phase of BT's transformation. BT has announced a major internal reorganisation aimed at making it easier for the company to develop and roll out web-based services.
[24 Apr 2007]
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