According to Library House, 35 European companies raised €52.9 million (15 deals were undisclosed) last week – i.e. an average of €2.6 m per company. Among the UK based deals were: Shiny Media – a blog network – raised $4.5m from Bright Station Ventures in exchange for 50% of the company. Shiny Media attracts almost […]

I moved my blog today (29/01/07) for the second time since starting to blog in Apr 06. Please bear with me whilst I experiement with the freedom this hosted version of wordpress gives. Do let me know your comments as usual and please reset your links. Any idea where I can locate the WP blog […]

In Nov 2006, Causeway reported annual transaction volume in excess of 2.5 million for its Tradex platform, which has been operational for number of years and was originally designed specifically for the construction industry. Causeway also reported the value of transactions to be in excess of £1bn, i.e. an average transaction value of £400. Tradex’s […]

Bruno Koch has been providing consultancy services in addition to running EXPP events for the last 10 years. His company, Billentis offers advisory services to clients seeking EIPP and EBPP solutions, similar to my idea of forming ebdex Consultancy. Bruno has provided consultancy services to more than 100 customers from over 20 countries, a track […]

I spent most of this morning trying to ascertain whether BT Transact can be resurrected, as I saw an opportunity. Alas to my dismay, the decision was taken at least 7 months ago when BT wrote to their customers giving them 12 months notice. BT has made alternative arrangements for these companies including helping them […]

NW StartUp 2.0 brings software entrepreneurs and investment community under one roof. If you are interested in attending the next event, please choose dates you are able to attend from those listed on doodle. References: etribes this blog upcoming.org David Terrar’s blog TechCrunch – Sam’s old blog Tags: NW StartUp 2.0, NW StartUp20, StartUp20, doodle, […]

Recent Readers View Entire Community Provided by MyBlogLog This blog is hosted by wordpress.com. I have been trying to get mybloglog widget to work. Unfortunately, wordpress.com strips out many of the coding including scripts and style sheets which cause significant difficulties when you deal with widgets. Let me know if you have successfully integrated mybloglog […]

Have you visited Version One’s website in the past? Were you impressed? Probably the answer was "no". Have a look at their new website. Except for "Copyright 2006" at the bottom of page, it looks great. My disappointment is that there is no blog. But they have provided a RSS feed. What is also missing […]

Thanks to Bhaskar Mahendrakar, a full time MBA Student at Manchester Business School (MBS), I learned today that the School has finally started a blog in Oct 06. The idea is to capture the thoughts of MBA students during their stay at the School. In addition, MBS finally saw the arrival of their new Director, […]

According to an article published by DDC HRO, Philippines boasts the following facts about its Cyber Services Corridor: 600 miles from Baguio in Northern Luzon to Zamboanga in Mindanao. Served by $10 billion high bond Served by Profiber backbone and digital network Home to 75,000 call centres and BPO agents Speaks English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese […]