Government software supplier Lagan today announced that it was included in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Ireland. Placement is based on average percentage revenue growth over five years. Lagan grew 254 per cent during this period to record its highest ever revenue of over £15 million in the last year. The award marked the ninth consecutive time Lagan has been included in this prestigious assessment of company growth.

Two suspected cases of swine flu in Scotland have been confirmed as positive and both individuals are now recovering at Monklands Hospital in Lanarkshire.

The Information Daily explores whether local government is secure in its relationship with the centre so that it can deliver improved public services and local economic growth.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), has reversed its decision on the prostate drug abiraterone. The drug was previously rejected as it was not deemed to be cost effective.

The National Fraud Initiative (NFI) has helped to identify £939 million worth of fraud, overpayment or human error across UK public bodies over the last 16 years, The Audit Commission has announced, including £275 million in the two years from May 2010.

A group of UN independent experts are urging the EU to take the lead on promoting adoption of a global financial transaction tax to offset the costs of the enduring economic, financial, fuel, climate and food crises.

“Millions of pounds will be saved” from scrapping taxpayer-subsidised appeals from those foreign nationals refused a visa.

Greek President Karolos Papoulias is to set up a caretaker government ahead of new elections next month, which has once again through Greece’s economic future into uncertainty.

All 27 EU finance ministers have agreed new banking rules that will impose stricter financial regulation on the region’s banks.

A new survey by technology services company Accenture has revealed that there is broad support in Singapore for digital public services. Results show that more than half of those surveyed in Singapore found it easy to interact with their government online, whilst 80% found it easier to interact with the government than with the private sector.