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£20m on offer for IT entrepreneurs
News Aspiring IT entrepreneurs in the UK are in line to receive a share of a £20m fund set up by the UK government to encourage the next generation of business leaders to forge links with industry and commercialise their research and development.
[August 27, 2002, 14:15]
Nigerian company seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Nigerian company Lancor is seeking $20m from the One Laptop per Child charity, alleging patent infringement. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an organisation that aims to provide affordable laptops to aid education in developing countries, was accused...
[January 3, 2008, 11:12]
US Energy Dept hands out $20m for tech research
News The US Energy Department has decided to award IBM and Corning $20m (£11.9m) to develop high-speed connection hardware for next-generation supercomputers, Big Blue is expected to announce on Tuesday. The 30-month programme will focus on high-speed...
[November 4, 2003, 11:25]
Matalan writes off £20m over failed IT system
News Retailer Matalan is threatening to sue an IT consultancy after spending £20m on an unfinished new computer system that has now been scrapped. The £20m write-off has hit Matalan's profits, which fell from £86.3m last year to £36.3m for the financial...
[May 5, 2006, 9:45]
Conway's fall from grace softened by $20m golden parachute
News PeopleSoft could dole out as much as $20m in a severance package to its ousted chief executive, Craig Conway, a company spokesman said on Friday. The business software maker fired Conway on Friday, saying the board of directors no longer felt...
[October 4, 2004, 9:50]
Open source security push gets $20m
News Open source security vendor Sourcefire has secured $20m (£10.6m) in funding, the company announced on Friday. The network intrusion prevention (IPS) vendor will use the funds to expand in Europe, recruiting country managers and security engineers...
[June 2, 2006, 17:15]
Freecom.net to raise £20m in placement
News Business-to-business online shop Freecom.net said it is in talks with several possible partners for collaborative ventures in Europe, the US and the Far East. The company also announced details of its placing, which will consist of 15.4 million...
[November 23, 1999, 10:31]
EasyScreen set for £20m float
News UK-based EasyScreen said Thursday it will attempt to raise £20m in shares through a floatation on the London Stock Exchange. The company, which makes software for financial institutions, would be via an institutional placing and would give the...
[October 15, 1999, 14:08]
A Year Ago: IBM invests $20m in MR head plant
News IBM is planning to increase production of its MR head hard disk drive technology with a purpose built plant in China. The company has announced plans to pump $20m into the development of a new plant while it has also announced an OEM deal with Maxtor.
[February 19, 1999, 6:33]
IBM invests $20m in MR head plant
News IBM is planning to increase production of its MR head hard disk drive technology with a purpose built plant in China. The company has announced plans to pump $20m into the development of a new plant while it has also announced an OEM deal with Maxtor.
[February 20, 1998, 16:28]
TJX offers £20m settlement over breach
News The parent company of TK Maxx in the UK has offered to settle with banks for $40.9m (£19.8m) over the world's largest commercial security breach. The settlement agreement, which needs to be accepted by 80 percent of Visa issuers to become effective...
[December 3, 2007, 14:22]
Intersolv buys UK firm for $20m
News SQL, which employs 75 people and claims revenues of $9m is a provider of process configuration management solutions, in particular software lifecycle management. Intersolv claims it has bought SQL to primarily add the software lifecycle management...
[March 4, 1998, 14:08]
IBM chief takes $20m home
Talkback It's no comfort to the thousands of employees who have had their pensions significantly reduced so that Palmisano can exceed his forecasts.
[March 10, 2006, 19:50]
Incoming Dell chief reaps £20m of options
News Kevin Rollins, Dell's soon-to-be chief executive officer, exercised stock options worth $35.9m (£19.5m) during the company's last fiscal year. That amount far exceeded Rollins' salary and bonus for the year, according to figures in a Thursday...
[May 28, 2004, 15:00]
Investor wants to pull out of SCO
News BayStar Capital is seeking to get back the $20m (£11.05m) it invested in the SCO Group, raising issues for SCO's expensive and controversial legal campaign that argues that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights.
[April 19, 2004, 12:20]
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News Thousands of UK e-passports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank e-passports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London.
[July 30, 2008, 9:25]
ISPs spell out true cost of data retention
News ISPs say the true cost of storing individuals' communications data as required by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (ATCS) that was rushed through parliament in 2001, will cost far in excess of the £20m estimated by the Government.
[December 12, 2002, 9:00]
KPNQwest network nears closure as legal battle looms
News The epic bankruptcy saga of KPNQwest became still more entangled on Monday as banks joined the clamour for an investigation of the service providers' accounts. KPNQwest's network, which carries a quarter of Europe's Internet traffic, remains live...
[June 24, 2002, 12:36]
US agencies want ways to spend $20bn on IT
News A recent report suggests that US government agencies still have plenty of money to spend on information technology projects as they approach the end of the federal fiscal year. In a report issued last week, consulting company FedLeads said agencies...
[September 3, 2003, 11:10]
Combo chips to upsize Wi-Fi
News For Wi-Fi start-ups, the road to success might be paved with a combination chip. Sychip and other Wi-Fi semiconductor manufacturers are trying to woo customers by integrating radio functions into a single chip or package, company executives said at...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
