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• Lina Lim on leading the tech charge at the National Stock Exchange

  Growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lina Lim never imagined a career in technology. Instead her initial dreams were all about becoming a teacher.

• What might your IT organisation look like in 2030?

  It’s time to think like the millennial who will become the CIO of the future

• Gogo's stock crashes after AT&T unveils in-flight LTE network plans

  In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo's stock took a drubbing after AT&T yesterday announced plans for a new air-to-ground LTE service that will surely compete against Gogo, at least in the continental U.S.

• Why Software Testing Can't Save You From IT Disasters

  Some software bugs are like the cicadia, emerging only under the 'right' conditions and wreaking havoc until they're stopped. Without the right tools, no amount of software testing can stop these bugs from causing a meltdown. Just ask Nasdaq.

• 4 Ways CIOs Can to Respond to a Service Outage

  Nasdaq and Intermedia are among the latest firms to suffer lengthy - and public - service outages. Eventually, the same thing will happen to you. Here are four key lessons IT leaders can learn from others' mistakes.

• BlackBerry warns of disastrous Q2

  BlackBerry shares plunged 20% late Friday afternoon as the company announced plans to fire 40% of its employees and eventually cut expenditures in half over the next nine months. The actions were in response to the company's warning of a collapse in second fiscal quarter earnings.

• Security company says Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix XSS flaw

  A Swiss security company said the Nasdaq website had a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability for two weeks before being fixed on Monday, despite earlier warnings.

• Data glitch halts NASDAQ trading

  All trading on the NASDAQ market was halted on Thursday due to a glitch in a system used to disseminate trading information.

• Five indicted in massive hacking scheme

  Five men from Russia and Ukraine have been indicted in New Jersey for charges they conspired with each other in a worldwide hacking scheme targeting major corporate networks that compromised more than 160 credit card numbers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

• Nasdaq settles US SEC charges for Facebook's IPO

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Nasdaq stock exchange with violations of securities law for its "poor systems and decision-making" during Facebook's initial public offering, the agency has announced.

• Execs from NASDAQ, HP Show Operations Some Love

  One of the great joys I have in serving the CIO community is witnessing the openness and transparency you have with each other-especially when given the chance to sit down face-to-face at one of our events. Whether the perspectives you share come from your experience with business, technology or overall leadership, I'm always impressed by how generous IT executives are in exchanging invaluable insights and guidance that ultimately improves everyone's performance.

• Wall Street eyes cloud computing -- cautiously

  While the potential benefits of cloud computing, such as resource flexibility, are appealing to many IT executives, security and regulatory concerns are either limiting or preventing its use by Wall Street financial firms.

• Wall Street Beat: Chips are up, why are stocks down?

  Signs abound that the global chip industry is looking at one of its best years ever. But stock shares in many tech companies are sliding due to concerns over faltering growth caused by debt problems in Europe and elsewhere.

• Wall Street Beat: IT leads market rally

  Are shares of IT vendors set to rise again? Fueled by strong sales reports from Lenovo and NetApp, tech stocks led a broad market rally Thursday that was generally ascribed to news about China's confidence in Europe, which faces a debt crisis in Greece and other Mediterranean countries.

• Wall Street Beat: Nasdaq milestones offer lessons for tech

  The tech sector passed two poignant market anniversaries this week on its way to what investors and vendors hope will be a sustainable recovery from the recession and, in the best-case scenario, another boom cycle.