CIOs Express Caution Over Linux
News We're a FTSE 135 company," he said, "but sometimes it feels like a FTSE 5 company -- if anything goes wrong here everybody talks about it. At the London Stock Exchange, where CIO David Lester has an annual budget of £100m, Linux has a "pretty...
[October 8, 2003, 15:01]
Dot-com Darlings Set For Relegation Shame
News Many financial experts are convinced that, barring a late and unlikely rally in their share prices, QXL, Scoot.com and software designer Izodia will all drop out of the FTSE All-Share Index after a review on Wednesday.
[December 12, 2001, 10:03]
IT Sector Sees Increased Profit Warnings
News Research by Ernst & Young shows profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 percent in the first quarter of 2008. Across all sectors of the FTSE index, 114 profit warnings were issued by UK quoted...
[April 15, 2008, 9:56]
UK Markets Hold Steady
News UK markets avoided the all-out bloodbath some had feared Monday, with the FTSE 100 even recovering some of its losses in the last half-hour of trading. Europe's largest ISP floated Monday and was trading at E34 per share on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt...
[April 17, 2000, 16:01]
Top Firms Fail The Internet Challenge
News This report, called The Third Annual Report on The Home Pages of the UK's Top 100 Companies' Corporate Web Sites, studied the Web sites of the members of the FTSE 100 -- the 100 biggest companies listed on the London stock market.
[January 9, 2004, 16:30]
2000 Roundup: The Dot-com Bubble Pops
News The task should have been made easier by Freeserve's declining share price, mirroring that of other ISPs, which meant it was ousted from the FTSE 100 index in October. The story built up throughout the year: in March there was Lastminute.com's...
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
Orange Float... Sinks
News Shares in BT were down 4.7 percent on the FTSE, as the market cast doubts on its plans to raise money by offering share in its Wireless division, which includes BTCellnet. France Telecom, Orange's owners, floated the company on the London and Paris...
[February 14, 2001, 12:21]
Market Mayhem: Tech Stocks On A Rollercoaster
News Tech stocks on a roll but FTSE 100 declines -- Positive ARM results give techMARK a boost. UK investors holding their nerve amid slump -- Little panic despite dizzying drop Monday in FTSE and techMARK.Mon, 17th Apr 2000
[April 7, 2000, 14:28]
IT Departments Being Passed The Security Buck
News A massive 86 percent of the FTSE 350 companies researched said negative publicity for their company would be the key impact and a similar number (84 percent) said their brand would be damaged by a security breach.
[September 7, 2004, 10:10]
Freeserve Goes Head To Head With AOL Over Unmetered
News This has been costly for the ISP -- and no doubt added to its sliding share price which cumulated in the company being removed from the FTSE 100 index in October. Freeserve (quote: FRE) is reopening the old rivalry with AOL Friday as it launches a...
[December 1, 2000, 15:06]
AOL Deal Good News For Euro Tech, Media Stocks
News Among the top 15 risers on the FTSE 100 index, only one was not media, software or telecoms related. London-listed Internet and media shares surged Monday as the market came to terms with the news of AOL's all-share buyout of media giant Time...
[January 11, 2000, 11:26]
Cable & Wireless Switches Chiefs
News During his period at Cable & Wireless, Wallace issued four profit warnings over two years and saw the value of C&W shares fall by 90 percent from a peak of £15 in March 2000, forcing it out of the FTSE 100 Index.
[April 2, 2003, 17:58]
TechMARK Puts Spotlight On High-tech Companies
News FTSE International will list several techMARK indices including a techMARK 100 and a techMARK All-Share. The London Stock Exchange Thursday launched techMARK , a new market for technology companies. The market is an attempt to lure high-tech...
[November 4, 1999, 12:39]
US Portals To Storm Europe - Study
News Freeserve was recently ousted from the FTSE 100 index after the decline in dot-com shares took its value below the top 100 on the market. While the UK portal continues to expand, its share price has sagged as parent Dixons has struggled to find a...
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
