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BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Verwaayen made silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setter list - ranked 16th - and is noted for championing initiatives such as BT's 21st...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Social networking goes mainstream

AS Analysis So it's very much a case of out with the old, in with the new - as one Agenda Setters panellist said of Murdoch: "He must wish he'd bought Facebook. It is this breakthrough that the Agenda Setters panel was interested in.

[12 Oct 2007]

The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire

AS Analysis Others on the Agenda Setters 2007 panel also pointed out it was Infosys that was rumoured to be eyeing a bid for major European IT services player Capgemini. The shift in the balance of tech power from West to East identified in last year's Agenda...

[12 Oct 2007]

Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list

News Zuckerberg topped the eighth annual silicon.com 2007 Agenda Setters poll, which rates which tech leaders are making the biggest impact. The Agenda Setters top 50 was thrashed out by a panel of industry experts who voted for their favourite...

Tags: apple, roaming, bbc, facebook

[17 Oct 2007]

Agenda Setters 2000 omissions: those who missed out

Comment Michael Armstrong, chairman and CEO of AT&T (44), Ron Somner, chairman at Deutsche Telekom (29) and Bernie Ebbers, president and CEO of MCI Worldcom (25) are just a few of the top 50 Agenda Setters who come from a telecommunications background.

[19 Mar 2000]

BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech

BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech

News Gates saw more pressure than ever, ending up in a tie at number 7 with Linux creator Linus Torvalds - the first time ever two Agenda Setters have tied. For the full list of 2004 Agenda Setters, extended analysis and biographies, plus details on...

Tags: agenda setters

[27 Sep 2004]

The anti-establishment vote

AS Analysis The 2005 Agenda Setters panel proved that though they believe the predictable government officials and big-name tech CEOs do indeed influence the IT industry, those fighting the established order are also ones to watch.

[26 Sep 2005]

Tesco IT chief steps down

News Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Its CEO Sir Terry Leahy has publicly praised the role technology has played in the supermarket chain's transformation into a...

Tags: tesco, cio, colin cobain, retail

[14 Nov 2007]

Vodafone CEO tops Silicon.com's Agenda Setters poll

News For Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2000 poll, a panel of seven IT gurus from across the industry voted Gent the number one Agenda Setter for the new millennium. Silicon's Agenda Setters 2000 were chosen by representatives of the UK IT industry...

[14 Mar 2000]

Reuters appoints Indian IT boss as non-exec director

News Nilekani, who appeared in this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters list, co-founded Infosys in 1981 and has been its CEO since 2002 and is widely tipped to become chairman after NR Narayana Murthy stepped down in this summer.

Tags: nandan nilekani, reuters, infosys

[18 Oct 2006]

CIO power

AS Analysis Nowhere is the importance of technology to a business more apparent than at one of the UK's fastest-growing companies, Betfair, whose CEO David Yu and CTO Rorie Devine both appear on the Agenda Setters list at 18 and 26 respectively.

[12 Oct 2007]

Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year

News Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 This will form part of NHS CEO David Nicholson's wider review of how the health service uses informatics and technology to...

Tags: nhs, richard granger, spokeswoman, health

[05 Dec 2007]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Betfair CEO David Yu set the company's R&D team the task of increasing throughput by 100 times for free.

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

Ebusiness Despatches: The death of the tech CEO

Comment I look at the top of silicon's recent Agenda Setters poll (http://www.silicon.com/as2002 ) and I see plenty of CEOs but the individual I admire the most isn't one of them. I can predict the death of the tech CEO.

[15 May 2002]

Stories of the month - October 2007

News Meanwhile, October saw the arrival of silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setters list which emphasised the impact of a new generation of tech leaders, with 23-year-old Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, named the most influential figure in tech this year.

Tags: it, naked pcs, agenda setters, mcdonalds

[31 Oct 2007]

Eric Schmidt

AS Profile The Agenda Setters panel was particularly impressed by the threat of these web applications to break down the hegemony of Microsoft's Office. Add to this a director seat on the Apple board and it's been a good year for Schmidt, whose experience at...

[25 Sep 2006]

Google and Sun get together for desktop apps

News Details won't emerge publicly until Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Sun CEO Scott McNealy - both featured on this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters list - take the stage on Tuesday at a news conference in Mountain View, California.

Tags: sun, microsoft, openoffice, google

[04 Oct 2005]

Vivendi's 'hacked' vote probably not hacked at all...

Vivendi's 'hacked' vote probably not hacked at all...

News The CEO of Vivendi Jean-Marie Messier is featured in silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2002 survey. The vote on its stock option plan was declared invalid after CEO Jean-Marie Messier refused to accept the results, claiming hackers had interfered with...

[01 May 2002]

The Big Question: Vodafone CEO top of the Agenda

News A select panel of experts affirmed Gent's right to the top spot and confirmed Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2000 poll. Mobile phones are going to completely change the way the world works, and Chris Gent, CEO of Vodafone, will be at the centre of...

[27 Mar 2000]

Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker

Comment The very real threat VoIP poses to incumbent telecoms companies - and the key role Skype has played in popularising the technology - earned Zennström a spot near the top of silicon.com's 2004 Agenda Setters poll.

Tags: niklas zennstrom, skype, voip

[05 Nov 2004]

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