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Derek Gannon stepped from IT to COO of newspaper company Guardian News & Media and now moves the company into new horizons. Kevin O'Brien, head of IS at Comet sees networking as the key to the future of the electronics retail giant.
TECHNOLOGY > Internet/eCommerce > NEWS
03/07/2008
Government launches public data mashup competition
The government’s Power of Information taskforce has launched a £20,000 competition for innovative ways to mash up public information.
Readers bored rigid by corporate blogs, finds study
A new report by Forrester Research found that most corporate blogs kept by B2B firms failed to interest their intended audiences or engage them in conversations about trends and products.
02/07/2008
New Microsoft bid for Yahoo search business
Microsoft could team up with Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in a new bid to acquire the Yahoo search business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
01/07/2008
Yahoo comes out fighting over Microsoft and Icahn
Yahoo has issued a presentation to shareholders casting doubt on the sincerity of Microsoft in negotiating to buy the company and attacking investor Carl Icahn who is challenging the board over its handling of the takeover bid.
26/06/2008
Betfair builds in-house platform for faster transactions
Betfair has built an in-house transaction processing and event platform, which it says has the capability of processing up to one million transactions per second, a 100-fold increase on previous rates.
13/06/2008
CIO News view: Yahoo: Dumb call means it’s time for internet Monopoly
Sorry saga of Yahoo’s attempts to avoid being acquired
11/06/2008
CEOs will disrupt companies to challenge them
Forrester warn CIOs that modern CEOs want more than running services and that technology poses a threat to role
09/06/2008
IBM to release enterprise mashup tool
IBM plans to release enterprise-ready mashup products in the third quarter, hopes to offers a free trial version hosted on the Web that customers can test out beforehand.
06/06/2008
Halfords completes five year IT overhaul
Halfords has completed a five-year IT overhaul of in-store, back office and financial systems.
Yahoo denies 'poison pill' plan
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock has rejected charges by shareholder Carl Icahn that an employee retention package was designed to discourage a Microsoft takeover.
03/06/2008
Government backtracks to allow new .gov.uk websites
The government has backtracked on a decision to automatically reject all applications for .gov.uk websites, after the original decision was taken without consulting any local councils.
02/06/2008
Adobe opens online office
Acrobat.com suite aimed at facilitating file management and sharing
22/05/2008
Daily Mail revenues increase as it invests in business systems
Web continues to be important, as Rothermere media Empire looks global
19/05/2008
Microsoft looks to buy part of Yahoo
Microsoft is exploring the idea of doing a new deal with Yahoo - one that may involve buying a part of the company but not all of it.
14/05/2008
Morrison to lead change and IT at Sainsbury’s
IT and Change coupled together for beefed up operating board
06/05/2008
Yahoo shareholders sue over failed Microsoft bid
Yahoo shareholders are suing the company over the failure of the Microsoft deal.
02/05/2008
Sainsbury deploys Aperture datacentre management software
J Sainsbury’s has implemented datacentre management software as part of a plan to consolidate its servers.
01/05/2008
Thomson Reuters strong on efficiencies
Financial and scientific information services company looks ahead as combined giant
30/04/2008
UK gov't websites are 'out of control'
The number of UK government websites has reached as many as 2,500, but more than a quarter of public sector bodies still do not know how much their sites cost, according to the Committee of Public Accounts.
28/04/2008
