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RSS start-upJuniper buys IP start-up for $67.5m
News Juniper Networks announced that it plans to buy start-up Kagoor Networks for $67.5m in cash to expand its portfolio of carrier products. Last year, Lucent started reselling Kagoor's products, and Siemens has contributed to the start-up's $40m in... [30 Mar 2005]
A start-up by any other name: lastminute troubles
Comment The successful start-up's core strength in the UK - the "lastminute" brand - became a problem. What happens in practice is that these cases come to light as soon as the start-up starts taking market share. [13 Mar 2000]
EU skills shortage 'stifling start-up growth rates'
News The growth of high-tech start-up companies in Europe is being stifled by the shortage of highly skilled staff. That's the conclusion of the latest European Benchmarking study from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). [10 May 2000]
Cisco buys data management start-up for $82m
News Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $82m in cash to acquire Actona Technologies, a small start-up that manages data across geographically separate offices. Back in 1999, Cisco bought a web caching start-up called Tasmania for $25m. [30 Jun 2004]
Twingo bingo: Cisco buying security start-up
News Cisco Systems plans to buy security start-up Twingo Systems for $5m to bolster network defences at their outer limits. For the past several months, Cisco has been beefing up its security offering and adding new capabilities to routers. [15 Mar 2004]
Virgin takes axe to broadband start-up cost
News Virgin.net announced on Monday that it is cutting the start-up cost of upgrading to broadband by £20. From 1 May, the ISP will charge £59.99 for a starter pack that includes a SpeedTouch USB modem and two phone line filters, compared to the earlier... [29 Apr 2003]
Google injects $3.9m into biotech start-up
News Google has invested $3.9m in 23andMe, a biotech start-up co-founded by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. With its investment, Google will hold a minority stake in... [23 May 2007]
BT cuts start-up cost of no-frills broadband
News Customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package in the next four weeks will save £30 in start-up costs. By Graeme Wearden The telco announced this week that any customer subscribing to BT Broadband before 20 September will only have to... [21 Aug 2002]
Conditions starting to look up for start-ups?
Comment Eighteen months ago, at the end of two to three years of frenetic start-up activity, we ran our European Entrepreneur 2000 special report (http://www.silicon.com/ee2000 ). Back then it felt like every other person with an idea, some decent contacts... [28 Mar 2002]
Dell's chief techie joins storage start-up
News Dell's former CTO Karl Schubert has joined start-up storage company Zambeel as senior vice president of engineering. During his time at Dell, Schubert led the company's enterprise storage business and defined key technologies and product directions... [25 Sep 2001]
AQA - a mobile start-up that answers any question
News A start-up has promised to deliver "the ultimate data service" by providing the answer to any conceivable question - via a text message. The start-up currently employs up to 50 people, though remote researchers will be brought online as and when... [22 Apr 2004]
CEO departures: dropping out to start up
Comment He will now dedicate his time to the development of start-ups in the Linux arena. Corel pinned its hopes to the Linux mast, witnessed a sharp up-turn in its share price but then a reversal of fortune as its marriage to Inprise/Borland was called off. [18 Aug 2000]
A Reflective Server Design to Speedup TCP-Friendly Media Transmissions at Start-Up
White Paper In particular, TCP's initial start-up behaviour is a problem for streaming applications. The Internet has built its success story to a large degree on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Since TCP still represents the by far most important... [14 Jan 2008]
SmithKline Beecham chief joins son's start-up
News Jan Leschly, CEO of SmithKline Beecham, has become the latest high-profile executive to quit his job and join a dot-com start-up. Leschly last week joined the board of Chemdex, a US business-to-business company that sells pharmaceutical supplies. [28 Apr 2000]
The start-up: Alive and well and living in London
News While a number of the presenting companies are still at first- or second-round funding stage they are a far cry from the image of the stereotypical start-up that burned cash and imploded during the boom and bust cycle, according to James Bennet... [26 Feb 2004]
