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Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Satoru Iwata 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.... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Satoru Iwata 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... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo 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... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo 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... [01 Feb 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Satoru Iwata 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... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo 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... [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Satoru Iwata 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... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo 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... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Satoru Iwata 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... [27 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo 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... [22 Nov 2007]
Cost still main reason for outsourcing
News Satoru Iwata 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... [21 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Satoru Iwata Nintendo Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner analyst Marcus Blosch, but only among those IT shops that effectively align themselves with business goals. Each... [21 Nov 2007]
Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource
News Satoru Iwata 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... [20 Nov 2007]
