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25 May 2012 Last updated at 05:01 ET Boris Johnson names BBC journalist as communications director Will Walden has worked at the BBC for 12 years Boris Johnson has appointed a senior BBC journalist, Will Walden, as his new director of communications. Mr Walden is news editor at the BBC's political unit at Westminster and played a key role in the BBC's 2010 general election coverage. He succeeds Guto Harri, another former BBC political journalist, who left City Hall for a role at News International after the London mayoral election. Mr Johnson was re-elected to a second term earlier this month. Mr Walden has worked at the BBC for 12 years in a variety of roles, including as senior producer in the organisation's Washington DC ... Continue reading →

25 May 2012 Last updated at 09:07 Huddle and Sidecar - going global, looking West Information can be shared in the cloud I've been speaking to two smart young technology companies based 5000 miles apart. Both are seeking to transform the way we communicate and both have learned the same lessons. Go global as quickly as possible - and head West if you want funding. First Huddle, a London-based technology firm offering businesses collaborative workspaces in the cloud. Err what? Let me explain. Huddle - which I first wrote about in 2009 - is software that is now used by hundreds of organisations big and small to share information, pool content and even hold virtual meetings from any computer. Last night the company announced major ... Continue reading →

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1. Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street. Whatever positive impression they had of the IPO market and the stock market in general was just torched to the ground. When everyone you know associated with the stock market is telling you and the media is confirming that this could be a huge IPO that will make money for those lucky enough to get shares and the opposite happens, goodnight. All confidence in the stock is destroyed. Put your money in the bank or if you want to gamble, at least slot machines in Vegas pay out 98pct. 2. The Valuation Bubble in Silicon Valley is bursting – but not for the reasons you think. Historically IPOs function as a means of getting stock ... Continue reading →

Léo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant? By James Bandler with Doris Burke FORTUNE -- A few months after she took over as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) last September, Meg Whitman held one in a series of get-to-know-you meetings with employees. To say the audience, a group of software engineers and managers, was sullen would be an understatement. As Whitman spoke, many of them glared at her. Others weren't making eye contact with their new boss. Their heads were down, and they were tapping furiously on handheld devices. "Your comments are being live-blogged," one employee told her defiantly. Whitman challenged the ... Continue reading →