Leo King
Leo is News Editor at Computerworld UK, covering news on major IT projects for both the private and public sectors.
Previously Leo was deputy editor at IT Europa, a pan-European channel publication.
He has a Bachelors degree in French and Spanish from Southampton University.
ING is expanding its use of in-memory business intelligence analytics, using a real-time system from supplier Quartet FS. read more »
Visa Europe has built a data governance function with C-suite leadership, in a bid to improve information management and insight. read more »
Betfair is in the midst of implementing a large business intelligence programme based on Oracle software, aimed at improving its conversion of customer website visits into more spending. read more »
CSC, which is facing cancelled projects, investor lawsuits and an aggressive fraud investigation, has announced a near billion pound charge on its disastrous NHS IT project. read more »
Thomson Reuters is rolling out virtual desktop access, based on VMware technology, to 10,000 employees. read more »
JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are being sued by the New York State Attorney General over an allegedly restrictive and inaccurate database that may have resulted in unfair foreclosures for many home buyers. read more »
Carsten Lind, the chief executive at the Danish division of CSC during a period of crisis, is moving to take a senior role at rival outsourcer Fujitsu. read more »
Unilever has extended an SAP enterprise resource planning rollout to North America, vital to its core business processes including supply chain management in one of its largest business regions. read more »
BT Global Services, the IT arm of the telecoms firm, has narrowed its quarterly losses from £35 million to £25 million in the three months to 31 December. read more »
Two traders at Credit Suisse have pleaded guilty to wire fraud and falsifying data after authorities said they had manipulated the bank's record systems, as the credit crunch approached, in order to help conceal over half a billion dollars' worth of losses. read more »
Commodity trading and mining giants Glencore and Xstrata are in advanced discussions over an $80 billion (£50 billion) merger that is expected to precipitate a vast technology programme. read more »
The government removed £792 million from IT costs over a 12 month period, according to the figures of the National Audit Office. read more »
Lawyers acting for beleaguered newspaper group News International have claimed that an IT upgrade erased a key email chain copied to chief executive James Murdoch. The chain referred to "rife" phone hacking at the company. read more »
Bloomberg has made public its valuable application programming interface (API) for market data, making it free for trading firms and software developers to access the code. read more »
The NHS has inked a £74 million, five year desktop services deal with Atos, replacing supplier CSC on the work. read more »
Rupert Murdoch's News International has reportedly handed over to police a data file containing hundreds of millions of its emails, as part of ongoing phone and email hacking investigations. read more »
Automated software control systems are proliferating in cars, but vehicle safety authorities do not have anywhere near enough expertise to measure or regulate their usage. read more »
Roche has made a $5.7 billion (£3.6 billion) hostile bid for Illumina, with DNA analysis systems as a key focus. read more »
A transformation services framework agreement, worth up to £3.5 billion in total and including IT, is being offered to police forces across the England and Wales. read more »
Mitchells & Butlers, which owns the Harvester, O'Neills and Toby Carvery chains, is rolling out group-wide cloud computing. read more »
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