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Cricket World Cup 2007 is here
A question people ask from me is do I support Sri Lanka or England. The cheeky answer is it depends on who is winning! Seriously, when it comes to cricket, just like all other Asians living in England, we all support the country we were born in. Here was our moment! Can we repeat it? […]
Fully integrated EIPP Proposition from American Express
In December 2005, I reported the acquisition of Harbor Payments by American Express. At the time, American Express claimed that Harbor technology would become the basis of its Source-to-Settle (S2S) e-purchasing system, driving greater levels of cost savings while improving control and compliance requirements across its customer base. Today, American Express (Amex) announced further information […]
Is Manchester ready for OpenCoffee?
I live in Manchester (well actually in Greater Manchester, a place called Cheadle Hulme in Stockport). Having lived in Sri Lanka (first 19 years), Brighton (3 yrs), Leicester (1 yr – thank god for that), Newcastle Upon Tyne (5 yrs), Abu Dhabi (nearly 4 yrs) and now Manchester (over 6 yrs), I feel at home […]
My old blog vs. new blog
http://manojranaweera.wordpress.com (last posted on 29/01/07) continues to be more popular than http://www.manojranaweera.com. Here is a comparison of the two blogs: WordPress hosted Hits: 16,082 Google page rankings: 5 Technorati rankings: Rank: 129,676 (104 links from 31 blogs) Self-hosted (somewhere on earth) Hits: 14,841 Google page rankings: 0 Technorati rankings: Rank: 462,695 (15 links from 9 […]
EIPP Vendor News Roundup – Feb 07
Here is a roundup of news from vendors during the month of February 2007: Accountis: Accountis Supports 3rd European EXPP Summit Rapid European EIPP growth will continue in 2007 “We don’t do anything electronically” Supplier E-Invoicing Survey New XML.org site for ebXML Ariba: Ariba Launches SupplyWatch Roadshow Series Ariba Kicks Off LIVE 2007 Global Conference […]
Realising Your Dream
Here are the slides I used in my speech to MBA students at Manchester Business School today. Tags: entrepreneurship, startup, MBA, Manchester Business School, MBS, ebdex
Microsoft – Change the world or go home
Tags: Microsoft, blue monster, Hugh Macleod, grapingvoid
Speaker profiles of NW Start Up 2.0
Speaker 1 – Anish Kapoor – CEO of Yuuguu Anish was co-founder of TeleCity PLC, the pioneering European collocation and data centre service provider. He is currently NXD for Jacamar, an online gaming infrastructure provider and a NXD for Xware, a mobile gaming software developer. In addition he has held various executive roles at […]
e-invoicing projections from Billentis
Copyright: Billentis According to Billentis, number of B2B e-invoices exchanged in Europe will grow by 75% from 240 million to 420 million. This is still a small fraction of the overall invoicing market constituting both paper and e-invoices. According to the presentation given by Bruno Koch at ExPP summit, the average number of e-invoices exchanged […]