Trading at BATS Chi-X, the largest Europe-wide electronic stock exchange, was yesterday unavailable for an entire day after a serious hardware component failure knocked out operations on its Linux-based matching engine.
A judge has ordered Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted of a massive insider trading scheme involving shares in technology and other companies, to start serving his 11 year jail sentence today.
Thomson Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer is set to step down, a month after he <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3316483/thomson-reuters-regrets-speed-of-billion-dollar-eikon-desktop-switchover/">expressed serious regret for the fast pace of the company's troubled billion dollar market desktop switchover</a>.
A migration of online data to new servers at Royal Mail has knocked out a series of its most important postage websites for consumers and businesses, <a href="http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder">including a Price Finder page</a>, for nearly all of this week.
Infinium Capital Management, one of the world's largest automated trading firms, has been hit with an $850,000 (£542,000) fine after its algorithmic systems wrought havoc on the markets, in some instances following a rapid testing cycle.
Deutsche Bank is set to complete the first phase of a major cloud computing overhaul aimed at improving internal application development.
IT security woes at WikiLeaks have led to the organisation delaying the launch of a system intended to protect whistleblowers submitting sensitive information.
Police have reportedly warned former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain that his computer may have been hacked.
MPs have demanded a rethink on Britain's extradition agreements, branding any deal that would send NASA hacker Gary McKinnon to the US as "lopsided".
Google and Microsoft will today throw their weight behind calls to introduce programming and software coding lessons in Britain's schools.
MF Global, which last month <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3314902/mf-global-it-staff-and-systems-on-the-block-as-broker-dealer-seeks-bankruptcy-protection/">filed for bankruptcy protectio</a>n from its creditors, has been forced back to manual accounting processes in the UK, with staff abandoning its systems.
Nokia Siemens Networks is set to cut 17,000 staff around the world.
Seven in 10 businesses are now seriously concerned about the financial and operational impact of the worsening mainframe skills shortage.
NASDAQ's ageing software and out of date security patches played a key part in the stock exchange being hacked last year, according to the reported preliminary results of an FBI investigation.
Thomson Reuters has said it made a mistake with the fast launch speed of a billion dollar desktop product for financial traders, called Eikon.