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IBM to run Tory council's services in £5bn deal

The technology giant’s contract is being seen as blueprint for local government services under a Conservative government

Microsoft's finance chief goes to General Motors

Carmaker has continued its top-level management shake-up by appointing Chris Liddell chief financial officer

French toast triumph over Google

In historic ruling, Paris court rules that extracts from books offered by the search engine amount to breach of copyright

Google fined for online French books

A Paris court has put a spanner in the works for the internet giant's plans to digitise worldwide publishing

Fujitsu workers in first national IT walkout

Members of the Unite union will today walk out at 20 Fujitsu locations in a dispute over pay, pensions and job cuts

Microsoft vow opens window for smaller rivals

World's biggest software giant reaches agreement with Europe choice for customers over internet browsers

Business big shot: Peter Hill

Analysts yesterday issued a "buy" note on Laird, the electronics and technology firm Peter Hill has steered for eight years

FTC takes Intel to court over 'market abuse'

The US regulator is seeking relief that would prevent Intel's alleged manipulation of the prices of its CPU and GPUs

Detica dismisses internet spying concerns

The online security group is to launch a system that can monitor illegal filesharing over Virgin Media’s network

Reborn AOL sets sites on content

The American web giant is building 'hyper-local' content and advertising aimed at smaller communities and their advertisers

Spinvox close to accepting £92 million takeover

A sale to American rival Nuance Communications, the speech-recognition group, could be announced before Christmas

What's on menu for Toptable website founder

Make do and mend attitude sees Crofter’s daughter reach the top table and consider an eventual flotation of her business

Twitter finally in the money with Google link

Google’s millions of users can see a scroll of updates, many from Twitter, in their results pages when they make a search

Union members vote to strike at Fujitsu

Staff at the Japanese-owned technology company will walk out on six days before January 15 over cost-cutting meausures