The Connected Business: How businesses use technology

Highlights

Jan 29, 2013

Audit concerns over cybersecurity threats

Concerns abound on quality of information

Gillian Tett Break a wall of silence on cyber attacks
Bank security study highlights vulnerabilities
Protecting information in the cloud
Leading View Boards must consider internet’s dark side

Regulars

Review: BlackBerry Z10

Has it been worth the long wait?

– Paul Taylor

Connected Business podcast: securing the enterprise

Richard Archdeacon, of HP on how businesses are having to tackle a wider range of threats, Quentyn Taylor of Canon about protecting customer data and biometric experts, Mark Crego and Cyrille Bataller, of Accenture whether that security technology is now ready for busines

– Stephen Pritchard

Tech Blog

Tech comment and analysis

– FT Reporters

Feb 5, 2013

Trends that drive corporate IT spending

Guest column: Deloitte authors explain why, despite an uncertain economic outlook, enterprise IT spending is rising

Jan 23, 2013

Mobility on the menu

Case study: Dallas restaurant chain uses mobile app to manage labour costs and sees big savings, writes Jane Bird

iPads in the field help sell seed
Personal Technology Document scanners for use on the go

Jan 28, 2013

The future of wealth management services

Guest Column: Booz and Company on how digitisation can help wealth management companies make money again

illustration for cybersecurity using the Space Invaders theme

From WORLD Feb 7, 2013

Europe proposes companies disclose hacking

Watchdog advocates companies report cybercrimes

Tech hub

Dell puts special committees in focus
The establishment of the panel in effect shut out the founder from talks on the group’s future and is the latest use of such a body
Equity and debt markets reawaken M&A;
Companies are shaking off anxiety about the sluggish economic climate and returning to dealmaking fray as the market appears to be rewarding acquirers
Man in news: Michael Dell
Intensely personal man takes company private
Google chairman to sell $2.5bn of shares
Move will speed up the rate at which Eric Schmidt has been reducing his interest in the company he joined 12 years ago, and his influence over it
Week in Review, February 9
The private man behind Dell seeks greater control, big-ticket deals return and the subject of banks’ pay policy returns to the spotlight