Rhys Jones #1 – Sanoodi gets seed corn capital

  According to Mobile Magazine, one of Rhys Jones’s startups, Sanoodi has closed an initial seed funding round of £350,000 from a number of private investors in the UK, the US and Switzerland. It seems Sanoodi will use the initial investment to launch its mobile phone GPS platform and to expand its business development activities. Here is […]

Accountis #6 – Billportal joins as a partner

One of the key differentiators of ebdex was that it would have been partner-led (essential ingredient to become high volume transaction business), leaving ebdex to concentrate on developing and operating the ebdex Document Exchange. This is one of the issues I discussed when I met Accountis’s senior management in Q1 2007 in Bangor. Ifor Williams, […]

SAP #9 – Mike Prosceno – SAP’s Social Media Guru – A man on a mission to change SAP’s engagement

This is a comment I was going to post on Mike Prosceno’s blog, but decided instead to post it here…… Let’s be honest Mike, 95% (my gut feel) of global businesses do not get web 2.0. Some have never even heard of it. Others think it’s all to do with consumers and not businesses. So, […]

FreeAgentCentral #1 – Freshbooks for UK?

Dennis Howlett has teamed up with three others to bring a simple yet effective web based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application to the UK market. FreeAgent is an online money management tool intended for small, UK-based service businesses of 1-3 employees. This will include most kinds of freelancers, contractors and consultants. Whether you are just getting started, […]

The Top 50 Business Blogs by TimesOnline

Rhys Blakely of TimesOneline has published a working progress Top 50 business blogs. The Top 50 is split into Banking & Finance Construction & Property Consumer Goods Engineering Health Industrials Leisure Media Natural Resources Retailing Support Services Technology Telecoms Transport Utilities Among the Blogs I recognise include: Scobeleizer – by Robert Scoble, started when he was an […]