?1.5bn: The cost of web and email abuse to SMEs
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Time running out for AOL chief
Robert Pittman's days as head of America Online are numbered following reports that parent company AOL Time Warner is looking for a replacement.
Pittman was parachuted...
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SAP issues shock warning
German software giant SAP sent shivers through European stock markets with news it will miss revenue predictions for 2002.
The company blamed customers cancelling orde...
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US gamers go to war for their country
A video game aimed at enticing youngsters into the US army is to be launched with patriotic fanfare today as America celebrates Independence Day.
Nationalist fervour a...
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Yell gets new head
Directory service Yell has named Bob Scott as non-executive chairman prior to its summer flotation.
Australian Scott, 60, was formerly CEO of insurance firm CGNU.
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Yahoo? Not just yet
Yahoo has posted its sixth successive quarterly loss but its CEO predicted the internet giant will hit profitability in 2002.
However, revenues were better than expect...
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The A-Z of ebusiness (M)
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Yahoo! to swoop on hotjobs.com
Hotjobs.com has found itself at the centre of a takeover battle following Yahoo!'s announcement yesterday that it wants to buy the online recruitment site.
Hotjobs is ...
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IBM, Oracle and PwC win ?325m NHS contract
The NHS has awarded a contract worth ?325m to a consortium of technology and consultancy companies including IBM and Oracle.
The deal is for the implementation of an i...
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Geeks with guns and gongs
An Army sergeant major has been awarded an MBE for his work in creating the British Army's website.
Sergeant major Russell Manning has been in the Army since he was 16...
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Stepstone ditches UK listing
Norwegian online recruitment service Stepstone is to ditch its UK listing as trading in the company's shares dwindles.
The company's board, which closed down offices i...
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IT recruitment firms go on the jumble sale trestle tables
IT recruitment trade association ATSCo is forecasting a rush of mergers and acquisitions among IT recruitment companies as the economic downturn takes its toll on the sec...
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IT giants raise relief funds together
IT giants are rallying together to raise relief funds for businesses damaged by last weeks terrorist attacks.
Computer Associates has launched a new fund to help child...
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ITNet exposes job seekers' details online
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Dot-com makes a profit shocker
UK recruitment company RexOnline has bucked the dot-com doom and gloom trends by recording a profit.
The company runs a number of sites including jobtrack.co.uk and jo...
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Adobe predicts web design boom - but expert warns of 'false dawn
Software giant Adobe has been slammed for its over-optimistic predictions for the web design industry.
In a survey, Adobe claims that of the 150 CEOs and MDs of web de...
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Situation vacant: StepStone founder departs
The man jointly responsible for creating recruitment site, StepStone, is looking for a new job today following his surprise departure from the company.
Giles Clark had...
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Ericsson staff prepared for the worst
The telecoms equipment maker is expected to finalise a deal with Flextronics this week to outsource handset manufacturing. The deal will result in 3,500 staff leaving Eri...
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silicon.com launches French sister site
Christophe Lebedan will head up silicon.fr as country general manager while Pierre Mangin will lead the 12-strong editorial team as editorial director.
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Razorfish continues to slash staff
The merger is due to take place within the next two weeks and is expected to produce savings to counterbalance a massive drop in cash reserves from $84.1m in September la...
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RiverSoft increases revenue, R&D, recruitment and loss
The UK company, which produces software to manage faults on data networks, saw losses rise from ?5.3m in 1999 to ?26.5m in 2000.
The company blamed the widened losses ...
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Razorfish cuts 400 staff
The layoffs, which account for almost 20 per cent of Razorfish's 1,900 staff worldwide, will be accompanied by a company restructuring which will see regional consolidati...
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Earnings for internet execs up, expectations for Nokia down
The survey was commissioned by recruitment company Futurestep and compensation company SCA Consulting and carried out by ePay. Respondents were 2,000 senior executives of...
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eDreams launches operations in France
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Busy year ahead for ebusiness strategists
According to New York recruitment specialist John J Davis & Associates, the need for information technology leadership has never been higher, with companies increasin...
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Internet customers bring less cash to Egg
The total customer base of the online bank set up by Prudential now stands at 1.33 million. However, the bank is attracting an increasing number of internet customers, wh...
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Revenue difficulty moves Easier.co.uk to look for buyer
The site has over 15,000 registered users, but failed to achieve enough commission from property sales to make it financially viable.
Easier.co.uk managed to attract ?...
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Morning Edition: boo.com's back, StepStone burns off some pounds and telecoms trickery
Boo.com became a by-word for new media excess as a champagne lifestyle failed to hide the fact that very few people were buying its products. The company went under but i...
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Business as usual' at bol.com after CEO quits
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