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DoubleClick Buys UK Tech Firm
News For a round-up of the latest tech business coverage, see the Business News Section. Net marketing company DoubleClick said Tuesday that it made an offer to buy UK technology concern Protagona for about $12.9m in cash, in a move to improve its...
[September 18, 2002, 11:12]
UK Tech Week: E-mail Gossip Could Land You In Court
News Citing the recent case where £450,000 was awarded to Western Provident after a court ruled that internal mail at Norwich Union contained 'false and defamatory allegations' against its competitor, Bynoe warns that the libel laws in the UK 'are much...
[October 8, 1998, 8:48]
UK Firm Launches Fabric Keyboard
News A UK company is targeting mobile professionals with a high-tech fabric keyboard that can be used with PDAs and smartphones. At ZDNet UK, we got our hands on the keyboard last week and put it through its paces, and found that it worked well...
[July 17, 2006, 15:45]
Broadband Access Dominates UK Tech Awards
News The awards ceremony was held on the first evening of the UK Tech Summit at the Bloomberg Studios in London to celebrate accomplishments in technology and innovation. Other winners included public relations firm GBC, which took PR Campaign of the...
[October 9, 2003, 10:00]
Vote For Your UK Tech Titans
News The UK's best-kept tech secret? Thought of as one of the UK's leading practitioners of PR, Deeks has always thought beyond his firm. Final voting has opened to find the person who has made the biggest contribution to technology in the UK.
[September 8, 2004, 17:45]
Tax Change Threatens UK Tech Entrepreneurs
News Taper relief was a "fantastic scheme" though it was introduced five years too late — just after the tech bubble burst, said Bennet. But, according to James Bennet, technology director at accountancy firm Ernst & Young, the move will hit...
[October 12, 2007, 15:13]
Broadcom Acquires UK DSL Firm
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. Broadcom will acquire British firm Element 14 in a stock swap worth $594m. Broadcom expects to record a one-time charge for research and development expenses, and insurance expenses for UK employees, in its...
[October 4, 2000, 15:06]
High-tech Fever Hits The UK
News techMARK -- the UK high tech exchange set up to rival America's Nasdaq -- is riding high as Internet fever finds a firm foothold in the UK. After a period of tech-scepticism here, experts now predict technology will become one of the biggest...
[December 14, 1999, 10:07]
UK Leads In Fastest-growing Tech Firms
News The UK is in the lead when it comes to fast growing tech firms, according to the latest figures from consulting firm Deloitte. Internet companies, having lost their lustre with the bursting of the dot-com boom at the beginning of 2000, only make up...
[December 2, 2002, 16:36]
UK's Hottest Tech Prospect Revealed
News The UK's hottest tech prospect was announced on Monday night at the European Technology Forum, as companies were given some salutary advice on how to survive the next decade. Most in the audience were too steeped either in wine or in Olisa's...
[March 4, 2003, 9:07]
Software Firms Dominate Fastest-growing Companies List
News According to these results the fastest growing tech firm in London and the South East is InferMed, a developer of clinical software for cancer research and medical testing applications. It plans to publish a national ranking of all the fastest...
[November 22, 2001, 14:41]
Lawyers Divided Over Amazon IPaq Case
News Writing in ZDNet UK's Tech Update, Nigel Miller, a partner at City law firm Fox Williams, points out that the small print on the Amazon site says: "No contract will subsist between you and Amazon.co.uk for the sale by it to you of any product...
[March 25, 2003, 13:18]
UK Net Firms Running Out Of Cash - Report
News The findings, similar to research that rocked the US high-tech sector a few weeks back, are based on an examination of 28 Internet companies listed on London markets, including techMARK and AIM.techMARK and AIM, in particular, harbour many of the...
[May 17, 2000, 16:03]
WiMax Firm Gets A Slug Of VC Cash
News A US manufacturer of WiMax equipment has won $20m (£10.8m) of investment, as venture capitalists show renewed interest in the high-tech sector. Venture capital has been in short supply in recent years, especially for high-tech companies.
[March 8, 2004, 16:20]
UK Set For Europe's ICT Spending Top Spot
News Forrester also warns that the tech spending gap between Europe as a whole and the US will widen by 4.3 percent, or 62bn euros, this year, and that the technology boom enjoyed by Ireland in recent years is coming to a close.
[February 17, 2003, 17:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A couple of weeks ago I was in a small yet luxuriously decorated room beneath a London hotel, taking part in a "Meet ZDNet UK" evening laid on for various PRs by tech marcom firm Fullrun (If you think Tech Marcom is the name of a film noir...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
Sage Loses Rights To US Brand
News One of the UK's tech success stories, accountancy software firm Sage Group plc, faces a damaging setback in the US after an injunction was successfully brought against the company banning it from using the Sage brand in its product names from the...
[June 6, 2001, 16:54]
UK Firms Don't Believe The Intranet Hype
News While US giants like Novell are betting the farm on uptake, just 13 per cent of the 1,000 biggest UK companies have installed intranets compared with 63 per cent of large US companies, according to data supplied by Durlacher Multimedia, a division...
[February 11, 1997, 11:46]
A Year Ago: UK Firms Don't Believe Intranet Hype
News While US giants like Novell are betting the farm on uptake, just 13 per cent of the 1,000 biggest UK companies have installed intranets compared with 63 per cent of large US companies, according to data supplied by Durlacher Multimedia, a...
[February 11, 1998, 9:34]
Five Years Ago: UK Firms Don't Believe The Intranet Hype
News While US giants like Novell are betting the farm on uptake, just 13 per cent of the 1,000 biggest UK companies have installed intranets compared with 63 per cent of large US companies, according to data supplied by Durlacher Multimedia, a division...
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
