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BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News Funding for research councils has been slashed by £68m this year, from £196m to £128m, the government announced last week, with science and technology councils bearing the brunt of the cuts. On Monday the British Computing Society (BCS) expressed...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Net leads in US venture capital funding boom
News While the number of new companies receiving funding rose slightly from the first quarter, from 1,627 to 1,695, the percentage of e-commerce investment plunged down around 44 percent. Fuelled by the Internet, venture capital investments nearly...
[August 7, 2000, 13:18]
VC funding rains down on The Cloud
News Wi-Fi hot spot 'wholesale' provider The Cloud has received venture capital funding from 3i and Accel Partners Europe. The deal sees The Cloud emerge from under previous parent Inspired Broadcast Networks and is the first round of VC funding.
[July 12, 2004, 16:10]
Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding
News Bletchley Park has won £460,500 in lottery funding for its restoration, and is in line to receive a further £4.1m to help it become a heritage and educational centre. The base for Britain's codebreakers during the Second World War, Bletchley Park...
[September 29, 2009, 12:48]
Laser startup garners $50m in funding
News The funding round was led by GM Capital Partners and included London Merchant Securities in addition to AirFiber's existing investors, such as Nortel Networks, Qualcomm and venture capital firms Foundation Capital and Enterprise Partners.
[April 5, 2001, 14:09]
News Burst: LetsBuyIt secures funding, shares double
News LetsBuyIt.com announced Wednesday it has avoided bankruptcy and secured 50m euros (around £31.6m) in funding, and has since seen its share price double. In talks late Wednesday night, LetBuyIt managed to raise the 4m euros needed to avoid...
[January 25, 2001, 9:15]
Bletchley Park disappointed by funding rebuff
News Bletchley Park, the home of British code-breaking during World War II, has called Number 10's refusal to provide it with additional funding "disappointing". The prime minister's office said while it recognised the historical significance of the...
[August 28, 2009, 16:58]
Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding
News Hummer Winblad was likely to buy into that vision and grant the funding, Robel said. If you took your money in 1999 or 2000 and you're coming up to your next funding round now, it's not at all certain that you'll even get anything.
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
News SQO-OSS is the second open source project to secure significant funding from the European Commission this month, following the extension in capabilities of the Open Source Observatory. A European Commission-funded consortium has raised over three...
[October 23, 2006, 17:10]
Red Hat doubles JBoss funding
News The first wave of funding around JBoss went into the field, improving sales and support. Yeaton claimed that the decision to plough more funding into JBoss was not an attempt to boost internal and external perceptions of the organisation after the...
[March 15, 2007, 12:34]
MP calls on government for Bletchley funding
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK code-breaking during World War II. In an early day motion filed on Monday, MP Phil Willis called on the government "to provide operational funding whilst...
[July 24, 2009, 13:15]
Debian start-up wants more funding
News Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialise the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed. Ian Murdock, chief strategy officer and a co-founder of both Debian and Progeny, said his company has...
[August 15, 2005, 9:15]
Gov't rejects call for Bletchley Park funding
News In a debate on Tuesday in the House of Lords, the chamber was told funding is needed to help keep the site financially viable while restoration work to the home of the World War II codebreakers is carried out.
[May 20, 2009, 9:10]
VC funding tops $9bn in 3Q
News Venture capitalists continue to throw an astounding amount of cash at the tech sector as funding reached a record $9.04bn in the third quarter, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey, released Monday.
[November 16, 1999, 10:30]
SETI@home director denies funding crisis
News Werthimer recently emailed SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Australia chairman, Frank Stootman, informing him that the US-based academic research group had stopped work to include Australia in the next generation of the project...
[October 18, 2002, 10:09]
Worldpop lands £5m funding
News The funding includes £3m from investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and other investment from 3i Group and Amadeus Capital Partners. It may be getting more difficult for new-media startups to find financing, but Worldpop, for one, has pulled...
[January 15, 2001, 12:54]
No lottery funding a dissapointment.
Talkback Considering where other lottery funding has been granted, it's extremely disappointing that this project is not considered worthy. I question the intelligence of those handing out the money
[September 8, 2008, 17:55]
VoIP in K-12 Education: Leveraging Data Networks and E-Rate Funding
White Papers Phone systems in schools across the country are undergoing a major transformation, fueled by E-Rate funding and VoIP technology. Phones and advanced applications are being deployed to every teacher and classroom at minimal cost, by leveraging data...
[October 2, 2008, 9:43]
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The European Space Agency has awarded Avanti Communications €250,000 (£220,000) in funding for the design of a super-fast satellite broadband system called Hercules. The proposed satellite could deliver between 2Mb and 50Mb broadband access to 2.5...
[May 26, 2009, 12:27]
