start-up
RSS start-upCompUSA sees profits tumble
News While revenues of $1.78bn were up 22 per cent on the same period a year ago, profits fell 54 per cent to $15.6m - down from $34.1m last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The CompUSA site will also... [04 Feb 1999]
Share and share alike: Is it time for online trading to clean up its act?
Comment The Internet has opened up world stock markets to the amateur broker. One major problem is that the Web makes it easy to 'day trade' - a process where an investor buys shares and then sells them again at a profit before... [04 Feb 1999]
The unbearable meaninglessness of benchmarking
Comment Hang on a minute, a lot of us don't know what this benchmarking means," someone else piped up. We only have 11 months left before the date change the only government body that's helping local councils to fix their... [26 Jan 1999]
Consultancy boasts start-up success
News Netcentric has two or three very strong projects in the Java world, and it's up to them - if they have the right attitude, with this structure they can go far. Local banks - which will sometimes stump up... [15 Jan 1999]
Lucent snaps up Ascend for $20bn
News The $20bn deal highlights the growing trend for wealthy telecoms hardware manufacturers to buy up smaller datacoms firms in anticipation of a convergence of the two markets. Cisco has to start wondering... [13 Jan 1999]
Oracle sets up Web development fund
News Oracle is to set aside $100m to invest in start-ups developing Web applications based on its software, according to US reports. The database giant plans to enlist the help of venture capital firms to find suitable... [13 Jan 1999]
Target euro network misses the mark
News Banerjee predicted worse disruption once companies in areas other than finance start to change their systems to cope with the euro. It is likely that if and when the UK signs up to the euro, it will have... [12 Jan 1999]
Tide turns against US Net stocks
News Precocious start-ups saw the first signs of frustration on Wall Street this week, as traders down-valued their share prices. Lief added that as more Internet companies started up, they lost their novelty... [06 Jan 1999]
Pension funds urged to back IT start-ups
News John Rogers, director of investments for NAPF, said: "In the past, it's been unrealistic to expect pension funds to invest in start-up companies. The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has... [20 Dec 1998]
Why Oftel ruling won't worry mobile companies
Comment The MMC - following up a request made by Oftel - concluded that between them BT and the nation's two largest mobile network operators charge users too much for calls from BT fixed-line phones to mobiles. [18 Dec 1998]
Developers give up on euro invoicing
News UK software developers have given up their attempts to persuade Customs & Excise authorities to accept tax invoices in the new euro currency. But rather than start developing complex dual-currency... [17 Dec 1998]
Personal privacy threatened by Network Solution service
News He added that the details of the product were up to NSI. Teare said he expected all the leading browsers to start supporting RealNames over the next 12 months. Domain name registrar, Network Solutions... [16 Dec 1998]
High-tech entrepreneurs get cash boost from UK government
News He aims to set up links with schools and businesses to encourage clusters of high-tech expertise and new skills. But reports that large-scale relocation expenses will be cut in favour of incentives for... [13 Dec 1998]
Stock shortage forces Fujitsu to pull out of Tesco deal
News We were in discussions with Tesco about supplying notebooks for a trial, but we realised we didn't have the inventory to supply Tesco in the run-up to Christmas and keep the channel happy," he said. O'Brien said the deal... [07 Dec 1998]
UK firm debuts counterfeit-proof tags
News UK start-up, Flying Null, is offering the manufacturing industry a technology it claims could prevent counterfeiting. Flying Null says its magnetic tags can be read remotely, and are cheap and small... [04 Dec 1998]
