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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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft 'offered To Underwrite SCO Funding'
News BayStar admitted in March 2004 that it had been introduced to SCO by Microsoft, after a leaked email appeared to reveal that Microsoft was responsible for $86m of funding received by SCO. Microsoft played a key role in encouraging SCO's ongoing...
[October 9, 2006, 13:35]
The Effects Of Performance Budgeting And Funding Programs On Graduation Rate In Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities
White Papers The study presented in this paper was conducted to determine whether states with performance budgeting and funding (PBF) programs had improved institutional performance of higher education over the five years (1997 through 2001) considered in this...
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
SETI@home Looks For User Funding
News The director of SETI@home -- a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life -- has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis.
[November 13, 2002, 9:38]
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]
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]
Rural Broadband Conference Sunk By Funding Squeeze
News But the organisation announced late last week that the event has been pulled, due to lack of funding. Rural campaigners have failed to persuade government and industry that the non-availability of faster broadband services across the UK is a...
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
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]
Auditors Criticise EC Over Technology Funding
News Auditors have taken the European Commission to task over how it has evaluated its technology research funding for the past 12 years. On Wednesday the European Court of Auditors roundly criticised the Commission about how it has assessed the success...
[December 20, 2007, 12:21]
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]
Intel: European Start-ups Starved Of Funding
News Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chipmaker, has said that European venture funding has slowed down. After a record year in 2005 for investment in European companies, with investment hitting €42.6bn (£30.4bn), funding fell away to €28bn last...
[December 18, 2007, 15:28]
Funding Boost For New Technology Firms
News An existing company will be able to win up to £3m in funding through InvoRed, while a previously unfunded organisation is eligible for between £15,000 and £500,000. Small technology companies and individuals based in the East Midlands could benefit...
[June 3, 2003, 14:59]
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]
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]
Tech VCs Toughen Up On Funding Terms
News With venture capital mired in the doldrums and scant demand for initial public offerings, technology entrepreneurs are jumping through increasingly onerous hoops to get funding. During the bubble, no venture capitalist would bring (terms like this...
[March 18, 2002, 13:01]
OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea
News OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system. OpenSSH, a secure network connectivity tool project...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
