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Start-ups Aim For Web Services Niche
News As corporations begin to use Web services to link their internal systems and services over the Internet, start-ups such as Confluent Software, Amber Point, Talking Blocks and handful of others see an opportunity to provide these businesses with...
[October 22, 2002, 15:18]
Start-Ups Go On Attack Vs. Denial-of-Service Threat
White Papers Four start-ups with their roots in university research are separately concentrating on combating denial-of-service network attacks, a huge threat to e-commerce and a daunting technical challenge because it is so difficult to distinguish "good...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Start-ups Must 'adapt Or Die'
News Big companies have also become adept at adjusting to rapid market changes, which makes life more difficult for start-ups. Entrepreneurs, she added, might in the next few years be better off trying to bring their ideas to fruition by working for...
[October 8, 2003, 10:45]
Intel Pumps Cash Into Wireless Start-ups
News Intel plans to invest $150m in wireless start-ups to help accelerate the worldwide acceptance of Wi-Fi. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker intends to invest in promising start-ups that tackle various elements of creating a complete Wi-Fi...
[October 22, 2002, 9:10]
VCs Urged To Look At UK Tech Start-ups
News Investors who are looking to put money into innovative tech start-ups should pay more attention to young companies in Europe rather than in the US, according to one of the stars of the BBC's Dragon's Den.
[February 20, 2006, 12:30]
IBM Lures VCs And Their Start-ups
News IBM on Tuesday unveiled a specially tailored cross-licensing program for venture capitalists and their start-ups, as it seeks to populate emerging businesses with its technology. Start-ups with annual revenues under $10m (£5.5m) will receive a...
[December 14, 2005, 16:25]
MP Demands More Cash For Tech Start-ups
News Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, is campaigning today for US-style legislation that would plough significant funds into the UK's tech start-ups. The US law demands federal government spend 2.5 percent of its research and development budget...
[March 23, 2005, 8:35]
Not Start-ups At All.
Talkback These companies you call start-ups are Venture Capitalists, ie they have bought the suspect "patents" to profit from them, they have not developed them or injected massive resources into research. Give them the credibility they deserve - none.
[April 3, 2007, 12:31]
Cisco Catches Up With Wi-Fi Start-ups
News According to one analyst, the capabilities provided by the module will put Cisco's gear on par with products from start-ups such as Airespace and Aruba Wireless Networks. But start-ups including Airespace and Aruba have been offering these features...
[May 5, 2004, 9:25]
Malaysia To Invest £23m In Open-source Start-ups
News The Malaysian government has created a fund worth $36m (£23m) for start-ups developing open-source software. The OSS-Platform Investment Program (OSS-PIP) is aimed at forming 40 commercially active open-source software companies over the next two...
[October 30, 2003, 15:49]
Hermann Hauser Plans VC For Euro Hi-tech Start-ups
News Acorn founder Hauser plans to replicate the venture capital model of funding new companies that is common in Silicon Valley but a rarity here where the relatively small number of VC firms that exist take a much more conservative approach.
[June 5, 1997, 10:52]
Nanotech Start-ups Suffer From Telecoms Surplus
News AT&T spokesperson Dave Johnson said that the company keeps a close eye on developing technologies, and it has a team of about half a dozen people that works with start-ups. Analysts estimate that there are roughly 900 start-ups making micro or...
[May 27, 2002, 12:33]
Intel: European Start-ups Starved Of Funding
News While start-ups now have the chance of securing a larger amount of investment individually, Patel said, the bad news is that fewer overall are given the chance to see if their ventures can make it. The amount of money available for investment...
[December 18, 2007, 15:28]
Ballmer Offers Microsoft Support To UK Start-ups
News UK companies with "high potential" can now get a helping hand from Microsoft, the software giant said on Monday, as it launched a new scheme to support start-ups. Once accepted, qualifying start-ups will get access to tools and services to help...
[October 2, 2007, 8:14]
Start-ups Make Flash And PDF Simpler
News Also on Monday, server software start-up Laszlo Systems introduced its first products, which are designed to allow developers to create Web content based on Macromedia's Flash animation format without learning complex Flash development tools.
[June 10, 2003, 10:34]
Start-ups Back Linux For Data Centres
News OpsWare, the start-up cofounded by Netscape pioneer Marc Andreessen, plans to announce that its management software now will be able to administer computers running several versions of Red Hat's Linux operating system.
[January 22, 2003, 10:14]
Open Source Sharpens Competitive Edge
News Several start-ups have adopted open source business models in an attempt to unseat incumbent business software providers. Now, with venture dollars behind them, some open source start-ups are seeking to shed that commodity label for their software.
[August 16, 2006, 17:30]
Investing In Homeland Security Technologies: A Venture Capital Perspective
White Papers Many venture investors are asking if start-up companies will be able to play a major role in the new homeland security technologies (HST) industry, and whether, HST start-ups will make good venture capital investments.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How Google Changed The Rules
News Internet search is reaching an important pivot point, where market leaders are rewarded by Wall Street, laggards are punished, and start-ups try to fill niches left empty by the major players. In the late 1990s, if you were a start-up and went...
[December 6, 2005, 16:50]
Juniper Goes Shopping
News Juniper Networks announced on Tuesday that it plans to spend about $469m (£246m) to acquire two start-ups. The new technologies from the start-ups will help Juniper's business customers access information more quickly and securely, the company said.
[April 27, 2005, 9:25]
