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BarcampLeeds is taking place on 17th November 07, thanks to startup evangelists such as Imran Ali. North’s first Barcamp took place in Sheffield, which I could not attend. Manchester has not yet managed to pull off a Barcamp this year, even though it has been on the agenda and has been discussed many times by North West Digital Community. So what is a Barcamp? According to the official Wiki: BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.…

    It seems that Oracle has given an ultimatum to BEA to accept its offer of $6.7 billion for all stock by Sunday evening. BEA seems to be holding on until another bidder emerges with a higher offer. Potential bidders, SAP, IBM and HP have all declined to comment, suggesting that no other bidder is emerging. Oracle threatened to abandon the bid after its offer of $17 per share was rejected by BEA’s Board on Tuesday for the second time in less than two weeks. So who is bluffing whom? Is Oracle really desperate to own BEA given that…

Today, we had our 7th event of OpenCoffee Manchester, at which I handed the running of this event series to Paul Robinson of Vagueware. I believe Paul is able to unite the Manchester geekup community and the entrepreneur community, especially given that Paul is both a geek and an entrepreneur. As part of the new leadership, there will be a dedicated site setup to promote OpenCoffee Manchester. I will continue to promote and attend the event. Some of the new attendees we saw today included: Birgit Arkesteijn of phonefromhere Simon Jermy of The Conch, a social network for travel Steve Brauner of…

As you probably know we have been developing edocr quietly over the last few months. Today, it was time for us to go public before my presentation at the inaugural Mashup* Manchester. So we issued the following introduction to selected number of bloggers: So this is what some of the bloggers had said so far: Mike Butcher of TechCrunch (first to break the news): edocr joins Scribd, Docstoc in document sharing edocr aims to be YouTube of documents edocr – Crunchbase KillerStartUp.com (as result of review by TechCrunch) Edocr.com – Upload and Share Documents Socially Spendmatters: Web 2.0 Meets Document…

       It is good to hear that Basware has formally joined the Hub Alliance, increasing the member companies to six, which includes founding members Asite, Causeway Technologies and Burns e-Commerce from the UK in addition to more recent members CertiPost from Belgium and Liaison Technologies form the USA. During my assignment with Causeway Technologies, I undertook the obligation to bring Accountis on-board. Whilst there is significant interest from Accountis in principle, nothing positive has come out of it to date – which I must declare as a personal disappointment given my close links to Accountis’ Founder Rhys Jones – as well…

Mashup* Manchester will kick off on 18th October 2007 at Sun Microsystems in Sale, South Manchester with a high level discussion and networking evening themed ‘Web 2.0’. We want to bring together all the innovators, investors, enterprises and media organisations involved in Web 2.0 in the North under the theme of Mashup* Manchester. This event is jointly organised by ebdex (Manchester) and Mashup (Simon Grice). Speakers Speaker 1: David Terrar of Blognation and D Squared C David heads up D Squared C, a consulting firm which advises on the application of web 2.0 and social media tools to business, as…

Just caught up with Marcus Hughes, Head of Financial Supply Chain Solutions, Abbey UK Corporate Banking on his way from SIBOS 07 to learn that he has now taken up the strategic role of “Head of Global Trade, Santander Group“. Marcus joined “Abbey UK Corporate Banking” about 6 months ago, and is credited for launching Financial Supply Chain Solution together with OB10. Marcus speaks fluent Spanish and has a deep knowledge of payments and supply chain finance. His new role is expected to keep him in Spain and Latin America most of the time. Marcus is a keen promoter of web based…

Meeting Henry and Sid Finally, I had the opportunity to meet Henry Ijams, CEO of Paystream Advisors in person at IoD Pall Mall. Henry also brought his friend, Sid Vasilli who recently exited from Bottomline Technologies, about 2 years after his company HSML was acquired by Bottomline for $9.9 million in stock and cash. Sid has immense experience of the purchase-to-payment market and a great person to get to know. In addition to undertaking individual assignments, Sid is currently exploring investment opportunities. So if you are a budding entrepreneur with new EIPP startup or early stage business looking to expand your team…

It’s good to hear that Transcepta is going from strength to strength, servicing the needs of more than 12,500 companies in such a short time, proving that there is a real market for a simple product offering on EIPP. It’s a great story, and my congratulations go to Mitch, Shan and the team. But I wish they do not get carried away with marketing statements such as “the only solution in the market…”. As I stated before there are number of solutions that constitute printer driver technology. Among these are Accountis and EasyInvoice. EasyInvoice’s business model is perhaps closer to…