financing in comment and analysis
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment Financing and going 'backstage' And then every band in the showcase that has enough support will then go onto financing. In the financing stage, we put up 3,000 'backstage passes' which are £5 coupons that entitles the buyer to a free copy of the... [18 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up Microsoft will take a $240m equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a fad as "a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal". [26 Oct 2007]
Leader: Bring on the new search engines
Leader Some might argue the European search market is becoming a bit crowded - along with Quaero and Theseus, yet another European search project, Pharos, has sprung up and received financing from the European Commission. [08 Jan 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Big ideas for developing economies - and a spot of mobile porn
Comment Yunus announced yesterday that he'll be teaming up with some heavyweights of tech including Cisco and Qualcomm to launch an 'ICT empowerment network', using the same micro-financing model and the experience of tech companies to help more people... [04 Dec 2006]
Opinion: Corporate IT - you can help fight cyber crime
Comment Once considered to be a victimless nuisance and glossed over or relegated to the latter pages of the business press, it has come to the fore in recent years with high-profile prosecutions and a post-7/7 focus on terrorist financing. [03 Oct 2005]
ITU 03: Regulation more critical than ever to 3G's success
Comment For their part, operators and even most equipment giants - prone to vendor financing deals as they were - are not trying to blame the telecoms bubble on others. Renegotiating 3G licensing terms would appear to be a way of making sure the technology... [16 Oct 2003]
3G - now is not the time to give up
Comment Those around the world without access to ongoing financing - from markets, fail-safe parent fixed line telcos or even benevolent governments - may find waiting for the right handsets (in volume) or content people will pay for, tips them over the... [19 Aug 2002]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 2
Comment After planning advanced further, another round of financing would rely on OPM - Other People's Money - which would come in when Webvan commanded a much higher valuation. In this, the second excerpt from eBoys, the story of the Benchmark Capital... [09 Apr 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: knowing you knowing SME, euro costs, and what marketers do
Comment The programme also provides financing for small resellers through IBM Global Finance. With minimal budgets, SMEs do not present major revenue streams on their own but when added together it is the sheer number of such organisations that makes them... [10 Sep 2001]
Lucent on the ropes
Comment What's more, its overly generous vendor financing plan has landed it in hot water. Schacht has blamed financing associated with ONE.Tel for depreciating its latest loss per share by 13 cents. Suzanna Kerridge opens the storybook. [27 Jul 2001]
Indian tech giants aim high in troubled times
Comment IT is inseparable from modern business. We have heard the mantra so often that we have come to believe it, to the extent that it now seems impossible IT suppliers can benefit from a recession. You can't have it both ways. [06 Apr 2001]
Mobile giants give content the cold shoulder
Comment Infrastructure was the only category of investment for internet (including wireless internet) that saw an increase in VC financing last year. Accurate, up-to-date figures for the European mobile market are hard to come by, but the... [07 Mar 2001]
Online help: can the web set the political agenda?
Comment But this does beg an important question: what is the point of politicians recognising that social inclusion and the internet can go hand in hand if they don't identify ways of financing the partnership? [21 Jun 2000]
Transatlantic Cable : The CIA gets into Venture Capital
Comment One prominent VC analyst commented: "Say the CIA said that wrist phones are critical for our agents and we will buy 10,000 of them.as long as there is a consumer market for it, a bunch of entrepreneurs will go down to Sand Hill Road (where many VC... [06 Oct 1999]
Diary of a start-up (2): 'Please sir, can I have some more?' The search for capital
Comment One of the most important things we've had to deal with lately is preparing for a second round of external financing. Every Easter, I used to take a couple of leisurely weeks holiday, spending time with the kids and getting involved in lots of... [23 Apr 1999]
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