Four former executives of healthcare software company iSoft appeared in City of Westminster magistrates court on Friday, charged by the Financial Services Authority with conspiracy.
The men, including former CEO Timothy Whiston and former chairman Patrick Cryne, are alleged to have conspired to make misleading statements to the stock market, and were first charged back in January. The four have been unconditionally bailed, and are due to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 5 February.
iSoft was taken over in October 2007 by Australian company IBA Group, which renamed the firm iSOFT Group Limited, and is not implicated in the current investigation or the forthcoming court case.
"In an attempt to do the famous 'Charm Thing' with a certain Bill Gates, Tony Blair “got all [his] terminology mixed up”. Whichever Oxbridge-educated candidate ends up heading [fill in appropriate temporal adjective] Labour come the end of September, let's hope they'll be worrying less about the right nomenclature for enterprise computing platforms and more about policies that might get some more wealth-creating industry back in the country.”
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Neal Perry, Country Manager UK, Ireland & Middle East, at EPiServer talks about how some of the UK's European partners are implementing social media to strengthen citizen engagement.
"Across the World, governments created groups to explore the problems and the potential for strengthening citizen participation in local government. They then reunited the ‘champions of participation’ from countries in every continent to identify lessons and how sharing this experience might inform and shape policy and practice. Social media is one tool where organisations can embrace such initiatives and is an especially effective one when it comes to engaging the younger public." Read more
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Source: Gartner