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IBM: Replacement cycle is headed for the scrapheap
News We really do see more (funding) now than a year ago, now that projects are going forward. Additionally, he said, large companies are once again funding internal technology projects. Furthermore, companies are not fully funding multiyear, major...
[May 15, 2003, 7:50]
The Day Ahead: Value America board members throw cash into the pit
News Egghead.com, CDNow, Peapod.com and Drkoop.com have received -- or are expected to receive -- additional funding. And now we're expected to be enthusiastic about an upside surprise and more funding? Actually, board members are just trying to recoup...
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
Dot-com shutdowns taking summer holiday
News The company had been seeking funding for the past seven months, according to the email. They told us a couple of weeks ago that funding was an issue to keep the doors open," said the employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
[August 2, 2001, 9:19]
Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza
News Google employees have been spotted with Google Ventures name tags, but it is not clear whether the Pixazza funding is part of that project. Given the similarity to AdSense, perhaps it is not a surprise the search giant responded when Pixazza sought...
[March 25, 2009, 8:55]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News The complex, one of the first Innovation and Knowledge Centres in the UK, is tagged as the country's lead cybersecurity research organisation and has funding for an initial five-year lifespan. When the centre's funding was announced in November, it...
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
Dot-coms now closing at one a day
News Last week TheStreet.co.uk, the UK branch of US financial site TheStreet.com, abruptly shut down operations with two months of funding left, while the US site cut jobs and ended a joint newsroom with the New York Times.
[November 20, 2000, 10:50]
UK schools' IT spending to drop by £9.8m: Report
News Education funding has not been reduced and schools know that they have necessary funds. Barker added that ring-fenced funding for IT has ended and that schools are making their own purchasing decisions.
[October 1, 2009, 9:12]
Powerline broadband gets financial boost
News The company said it has raised $24.5m (£13.6m) in new funding. BCE Capital, which is affiliated with Bell Canada, Canada's largest communications company, led the funding round. Previous investors, including Comcast Interactive Capital, Duchossois...
[August 25, 2005, 16:20]
Gov't body spends on environmental data
News As part of the programme, the board has launched a funding competition named Gathering Data in Complex Environment. The investment will provide partial funding for winning projects that involve businesses working collaboratively with other...
[February 6, 2008, 9:15]
Gates donates £2.6m to provide UK libraries with Net access
News Authorities eligible for funding will be informed over the next few weeks about the size of their windfall, and will be expected to spend the money on the provision of new terminals, although printers and cabling are also eligible.
[July 25, 2001, 12:38]
Andreessen's Loudcloud in IPO high-wire act
News All are struggling with funding and revenue models. Already, proceeds from funding rounds totalling close to $200m are disappearing quickly, being spent on network operating centres, engineering testing facilities and other costs.
[January 31, 2001, 10:25]
Linux cluster firms win financial backing
News Penguin's new funding will let it improve the Scyld software, marketing, sales force and professional services, chief executive Enrico Pesatori said in an interview. To boost the Scyld technology, Penguin Computing will use some of the funding to...
[November 5, 2004, 7:38]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News The project is funded for three years -- we have funding until the 31 October, 2006. OpenAdvantage, created in January this year with £4.5m of government funding, aims to promote open source and support those companies using, developing or selling...
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
Novell exec's start-up goes bust
News Tilion had raised $46.5m (£32.6m) in two rounds of venture funding, according to the company's Web site. At the time of his departure from Tilion, Stone said the company remained well-positioned and had a large chunk of cash left in the bank from...
[June 18, 2002, 14:44]
Americans reject antiterrorism database
News Originally, only the Senate version of the annual Defense Department appropriations bill included the funding restriction, while the House bill did not. Although TIA was the subject of the most attention, the conference report appears to slice...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
Fixing the bug fixers
Leader Perceiving that an increasing amount of the nation's critical national infrastructure is based on open source, the US Department of Homeland Security announced in January 2006 that it would donate $1.24m in funding to researchers from Stanford...
[March 28, 2007, 18:13]
Europe signs sci-tech agreements with Japan, Jordan
News The Commission has been critical of IT research funding levels in Europe. In January, it warned that research and development funding in the EU was "stagnating", largely because of a lack of investment by European businesses.
[December 1, 2009, 12:17]
Open-source search looks for Web niche
News Two researchers from Overture -- an advertising-supported search service in the process of being acquired by Yahoo -- approached Cutting last year with interest in providing funding for an open-source search system for academic research.
[August 18, 2003, 17:05]
IT skills academy gets gov't green light
News The academy will share a pot of £30m in government funding with academies for enterprise, power and social care. That £8m is to cover the first three years of the academy — both its start-up and its running costs for three years — and that money is...
[October 9, 2008, 15:03]
EU states reach agreement over tech institute
News The level of funding for the EIT was also revealed on Monday. The European Commission will contribute €308.7m (£207.7m) to help cover the costs of the EIT's governing structure and co-ordination between the KICs, with further funding coming from a...
[June 26, 2007, 13:17]
