Boots aiming to shave 30m off annual IT

Boots aiming to shave 30m off annual IT costs - Silicon.com Health and danner boots beauty retailer Boots is aiming to cut the cost of running its IT operations by a third after completing a 300m, three-year modernisation programme. Boots' current total annual IT budget is around 130m - split between 100m of Source: www.silicon.com Missteps as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez backs farming - Reuters MANTECAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Deep in Venezuela's sweltering heartland, a gleaming dairy plant sits idle, a testament to missteps that slow President Hugo Chavez's drive to make his oil nation self-sufficient in food. Dozens of workers in yellow Source: www.reuters.com Business Style: Law - Forbes Dressing the part at white-shoe law firms has traditionally involved a style as dry as a legal brief. But the dot-com boom (and bust) introduced varying degrees of informality to corporate America, penetrating the sanctums of even the most Source: www.forbes.com