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Betfair spins into financial trading
News The company set up an internal VC unit to explore other ways to exploit its exchange technology - Tradefair, which launched in late 2007 as a subsidiary of Betfair, is the result. Online betting exchange Betfair has spun... [10 Nov 2008]
Twitter steps up fight against spam
News The latest job posting "is another sign that Twitter is maturing as a business and is using its VC funding wisely", says a post on the Stop Twitter Spam blog. Twitter is stepping up its actions to fight spam, which has... [17 Oct 2008]
Google to invest in start-ups?
News Other Silicon Valley companies with extensive VC track records include Intel, HP and Motorola, among others. A report from Dow Jones VentureSource earlier this month stated that VC investments dropped 12... [31 Jul 2008]
Pharmaceutical Client Seeks Assistance in Prioritizing Its Nanotechnology R&D Strategy
White Paper The GBS Strategy and Change team then used IBM's Business Insights Workbench (BIW) tool, VentureSource, and a host of other third party research to search for existing pharmaceutical nanotechnology-related patents, VC... [11 Jun 2008]
How Cisco Deploys Enterprise IP Video Conferencing
White Paper Cisco uses an IP-based Video Conferencing (IP/VC) solution with approximately 800 IP/VC endpoints deployed at worldwide Cisco locations, with an average usage of 700,000 minutes per month. Al Navas,... [05 Mar 2008]
Providing Rate Guarantees to TCP Over the ATM GFR Service
White Paper Edge devices connecting LANs to an ATM network can use GFR to transport multiple TCP/IP connections over a single GFR VC. It has been shown that in general, FIFO queuing is not sufficient to provide rate guarantees, and... [31 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07
Round-Up Five years ago web entrepreneurs in his position would have sold the company and formed a VC firm with the resulting millions. When a 23-year-old college drop-out with a novelty website is voted the most influential... [19 Oct 2007]
Blog standard
AS Analysis He was described as having a "huge amount of power in the entrepreneurial and venture capital community" and "essentially having all the right early stage VC valley gossip". Bloggers are now so influential that for the... [12 Oct 2007]
A VC-Based API for Renegotiable QoS in Wireless ATM Networks
White Paper Quality of Service (QoS) support for multimedia applications has been widely discussed in the context of high speed wired networks. As interest increases in wireless ATM networks that extend the connection to a wireless endpoint, the... [23 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment Talk soon turned to a VC many of us know who has maybe three to four thousand contacts on LinkedIn. Heard about the new game? When you meet friends or colleagues and have a few minutes to kill, take a punt on how long it... [31 Jul 2007]
After the tech boom - what's India's next big thing?
News It pointed out that more than 40 VC firms were looking to invest $4.4bn in the country over the next four or five years. Following the dramatic success of India's IT services companies over the last decade, many industry... [29 Mar 2007]
Threshers outsources core IT in £8m Xansa deal
News We are owned by a VC and we can grow but also shrink, and if any piece of the business is sold off IT can become a millstone," he said. High-street off-licence group Threshers is to outsource its core IT systems to Xansa... [20 Mar 2007]
Cisco embraces 'videoconferencing as a service'
News Cisco has made a significant move with the Regus deal, by putting VC right in line with its professional services' strategy. Giving presentations on VC really brings home the need to be able to share... [20 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn
Comment A lot of the US venture capital (VC) firms are now setting up in London. We've got really big VC investment - which in London was £485m in 2005 - and the US overall has about 10 times the amount of... [01 Mar 2007]
A Basic Introduction to RFID Technologies and Its Use in the Supply Chain
White Paper Everyone from journalists, analysts, VC's, technology companies and retail giants like Wal-Mart were making public statements, mandates, predications and investments based on the promise that RFID was set to... [16 Nov 2006]
