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RSS VCsilicon.com CIO Forum attracts top tech talent
News VC, consultant, ex-BT CTO and prodigious silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane will open the day, with an unusual take on that starting point, and he will help wrap up proceedings too. The silicon.com CIO Forum has added... [07 Aug 2006]
Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks Pro offers solid video conferencing camera for travelers
White Paper The camera provided solid video and sound performance during our video conferencing (VC) tests, although quality depended heavily on the VC software and network connection speed. We tested the camera... [18 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NDAs are worthless
Comment In my role as a business angel and VC, I have become increasingly sceptical about the purpose and validity of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to the point where I will no longer sign them. When someone approaches an... [22 Feb 2006]
Skype backers walk away with awards
News Index Ventures, the venture capital company that backed voice over IP phenomenon Skype and saw it sold to eBay in a deal worth up to $4.1bn last year, walked away with the VC of the Year and the Deal of the Year gongs at... [22 Feb 2006]
IBM expands its clout in developing markets
News For instance, IBM does not place direct investments with start-ups, leaving that instead to VC firms. The company co-operates with VC firms to gather intelligence and the firms reciprocate, said Claudia... [22 Aug 2005]
Vodafone adds VC in board shuffle
News Vodafone has announced several new appointments to its board, the day after it released KPIs (key performance indicators) showing it has now notched up some 165 million customers globally. Among the new additions to the board are Andrew... [26 Jul 2005]
Jewellery database helps to slash fraud
Case Study In 1992 Stevens raised VC funds for his vision from 3i and three years ago his tech business, e-register, was bought by Helphire Group. The founder of Bath-based jewellery outlet, Christopher Milton Stevens, has been... [28 Jun 2005]
CNET 2005 Technology Awards - time for greatness
News Editors from CNET UK's business technology publications will whittle them down and shortlists will be put to a panel of elite judges chosen from the IT user, advisory, VC and legal communities. CNET Networks UK, the... [09 Jun 2005]
VC funding slides in the US
News First timers now account for 26 per cent of VC funding, the highest percentage in two years, compared to 21 per cent last year. Software kept its place as the number one sector for VC cash, with $1.1bn... [26 Apr 2005]
Competition to marry VCs and start-ups
News Zero-to-Hero: The VC Challenge' is the brainchild of Chris Brigden, partner at Catalyst Venture Partners. The competition pulls together incubators SETsquared (a collaboration of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey... [08 Apr 2005]
Leader: Open source to boom?
Leader We - and hopefully the VC community and rest of the industry - learned that lesson with the dot-coms. Is open source the next big boom à la dot-com? Granted the fervour around all things open source, in particular poster... [03 Mar 2005]
How small IT vendors can win big accounts
Comment If a big business is going to buy from a small company, it's going to want to make sure the financials - including revenues and the quality of VC funding - and management team are solid. Despite the perception that large... [18 Feb 2005]
Microsoft CFO quits
News The company said that the 16-year Microsoft veteran would become a partner at Ignition Partners, a Seattle-area VC firm. Microsoft said on Tuesday that chief financial officer John Connors is leaving the company to take... [12 Jan 2005]
Gershon and Pinder take up vendor board positions
News Meanwhile Pinder, formerly a VC, financial services chief and IT director at the Inland Revenue, is to join the board of Dallas-based security and ID company Entrust. Sir Peter Gershon, ex-chief executive of the Office... [16 Nov 2004]
Greg Dyke joins VC firm
News Greg Dyke, who left his post as director general of the BBC in January, has accepted a position at private equity firm Apax Partners. Dyke will serve on Apax's media advisory board examining deals including a possible bid for Big Brother... [12 Oct 2004]
