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Day: April 3, 2007

CedarOpenAccounts acquires Version One

According to Master blogger, Dennis Howlett, CedarOpenAccounts has acquired Version One. Dennis has got the information first hand from Mark Lane, leader of CedarOpenAccounts‘ M&A team. Here is a link to the story.  It was not too long ago that I spoke to Tony Bray of Version One about cashing in his investment. But this news came as a bit of a surprise as I thought Sage would be the likely acquirer. Version One is a well run company, a family company, whose businesses has been built through re-investment of profits. Here is the press release: April 2nd, 2007 –…

OpenCoffee Manchester – 2nd Event

I was expecting 4 attendees this morning for the second OpenCoffee Manchester event but only 3 turned up at the end. Here is the list of attendees: David Hawdale (Hawdale Associates) Manoj Ranaweera (moi!) Paul Robinson (Vagueware) David had some interesting ideas around "green" and "free style" themes. We spoke about how these can be further developed and commercialised. Hopefully, David walked away with more thoughts than he came in! Paul spoke about a "localised news aggregator" idea he has been thinking of, and why he thinks Google’s Adsense/Adwords model is under threat. We also spoke about the big game…