budget in comment and analysis
Budget 2002: The prospects for start-ups, by Cliff Stanford
Comment This year's budget will once again try to promote entrepreneurship but will it make any difference? It is expected that this year's budget will see Gordon Brown reviewing tax measures to identify additional ways of raising money. [17 Apr 2002]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment There goes the budget… One in three tech projects runs over budget What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [20 Sep 2007]
What's swallowing your IT budget?
Comment Small is beautiful when it comes to making the IT budget sing, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being more efficient and innovative with their tech spend. Research from the Bathwick Group has found smaller companies are not only... [18 Dec 2007]
A Budget for entrepreneurs?
Comment The UK government's 1999 Budget introduced changes in three key areas designed to help entrepreneurs: investment, research and development (R&D) and employee incentives. David Baxter, director of the Information Society Initiative, told Silicon... [19 Mar 1999]
Leader: Budget blues for the tech industry
Leader The emphasis of the Budget was on tax cuts and green thinking - but once again this means tech has been left out in the cold. While tax credits for spending on research and development are up, it was disappointing that there was a lack of measures... [22 Mar 2007]
John Lamb's Week: What's in the budget briefcase for high-tech?
Comment Inside will be his budget speech, but what will it contain of interest to high-tech industry? Much was made in the last March budget of Gordon Brown's efforts to ease the tax burdens on start-ups. This might be changed in the budget. [02 Mar 2001]
Share and share alike: Why the Budget let down ecommerce
Comment So did Gordon Brown's Budget help or hinder this dream? This year's Budget, according to Gordon Brown, was built on the realties of the UK's new economy. After this budget it looks as if these options will be taxable at 52 per cent on employees who... [23 Mar 2000]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Budget-busting Beeb BBC warned after busting website budget UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants' This is total rubbish! Employers should start thinking about older applicants, many of whom are well qualified but cannot obtain work. [05 Jun 2008]
Brown's Budget: Share and share alike
Comment When silicon.com spoke to influential high-tech industry figures before the budget, they highlighted ecommerce tax breaks, the scrapping and simplification of certain taxes and improving national insurance charges on share options as areas of... [08 Mar 2001]
Why IT must escape the belt-tightening
Comment As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget. Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT... [18 Apr 2008]
Devil's Advocate: "If I ruled the world..."
Comment The biggest single IT budget in the land is yours to spend. First of all, what sort of budget do we have to play with? That gives us a budget of about £25bn, or a good £100m every working day. Even with that tempting budget of £100bn a day, the job... [02 Apr 2002]
The Value Proposition: planning your ecommerce spend
Comment If you have been tracking the size of your IT budget for the last decade, you will have seen it increase year after year. Strassmann's analysis of budgets over the past decade puts IT at around eight per cent of the total information management... [03 May 2000]
The Value Proposition: Budgeting - the first step to information superiority
Comment Building a budget is the hardest task the CIO performs and it is getting harder as the pace of change in IT accelerates. Should you take last year's budget and add 10 per cent? We must conclude therefore that other workers consumed next to no IT... [02 Aug 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Boo's back baby, ISPs go global and Microsoft's Whistler
Comment This time round the guerrilla marketing campaign has a budget of a mere $1m in marked comparison to the original's $40m advertising blitz. The site has been launched with Hollywood-style "Boo.com - the sequel" fanfare, but without the Hollywood... [06 Nov 2000]
The McCue Interview: Vodafone CIO and CTO Paul Wybrow
Comment silicon.com chief reporter Andy McCue this week hands over the writing of the McCue Interview to editor Tony Hallett, who talks to an IT chief with a £1bn-plus annual IT budget, a second hat marked 'CTO' and an ambition to one day be a CEO. [07 Sep 2005]
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