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The information below comes from the
UK Activity Report.
Pace Micro Technology, the developer of TV set-top boxes, is looking to recruit a further 200 software and hardware engineers to work at offices in Bradford, Cambridge and the US. 22-Dec-2000
Wind River is planning to relocate its software business from Lower Stratton to larger premises at the South Marston Industrial Estate near Swindon, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 21-Dec-2000
Datalink, the Edinburgh-based computer systems company, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 40 jobs. 21-Dec-2000
Innovation Group, the supplier of insurance software, is to step up plans to expand in the US and is in negotiations with a number of North American insurers. 21-Dec-2000
ICL is to relocate its Tyneside office from the Newcastle Business Park to a new building at the Cobalt Business Park. 20-Dec-2000
Railtrack is forming a joint venture with Marconi to build 5,000 radio masts for mobile phone operators on Railtrack sites over the next three years. 20-Dec-2000
Energis is to acquire a 75% stake in Ision, the German web hosting company, for £496m. 20-Dec-2000
Logical is to recruit a further 70 staff at its computer services business in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and is seeking larger premises in the area. 19-Dec-2000
Anderson Manning Associates is planning a £1m expansion at its internet services business in Bangor, North Down, with the creation of 55 jobs. 19-Dec-2000
Vodafone is to expand its mobile phone network in remote parts of Scotland by using 10,000 pylons owned by Scottish & Southern Energy. 19-Dec-2000
Densitron is raising £20m in a rights issue to fund the purchase of a 23% stake in Vbest, the Taiwanese manufacturer of liquid crystal displays. 19-Dec-2000
Sotas, the US network monitoring company, has opened a European headquarters in Bristol, with an initial 12 staff. 18-Dec-2000
Crown Castle, the US-owned operator of network infrastructure for the BBC, is considering plans to list on the London Stock Exchange in order to improve its chances of winning contracts to operate mobile phone networks in Europe. 18-Dec-2000
APW Electronics is looking to recruit 200 new staff following the expansion of its radio base stations factory at Chandler's Ford in Hampshire. 15-Dec-2000
NEC has sold its mobile phone factory in Telford to Celestica of Canada, and Celestica is expected to double the 460-strong workforce in order to produce phones under licence for NEC. 15-Dec-2000
Telewest has awarded a £24m contract to Conduit of Ireland for the supply of directory inquiry services to its telephone customers. 15-Dec-2000
Zeus Technology has raised a further £5m to fund the expansion of its software business by creating new sales and marketing teams in overseas markets. 14-Dec-2000
Dolphin Telecom is looking to raise up to £270m to complete the roll-out of its digital telecoms network. 14-Dec-2000
NewNet is setting up a new 4,000 sq ft data centre at the Cams Hall Estate in Fareham, in an attempt to become the largest business to business internet service provider on the south coast. 14-Dec-2000
Xerox is to set up a call centre at the Cams Hall Business Park in Fareham, with the creation of 40 jobs. 13-Dec-2000
BSOFTB, the Manchester-based developer of internet software, is planning to create 40 new jobs and expand into the US by opening offices in Denver and San Francisco. 12-Dec-2000
GN Netcom is planning to shed a further 100 jobs at its telephone headsets factory in Washington next year. 12-Dec-2000
Warthog is planning to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its computer games business. 11-Dec-2000
Vodafone is planning to buy a 15% stake in Japan Telecom for £1.7bn, in order to gain majority control of the J-Phone mobile phone business. 11-Dec-2000
John Menzies is to close its computer games operation in Eastleigh with the loss of up to 90 jobs, having decided not to renew a distribution contract with Nintendo. 11-Dec-2000
Wax Digital, the supplier of internet-based trading software, is to create 40 jobs at its Cheshire head office and expand into continental Europe in a £4.5m investment programme. 11-Dec-2000
Cambridge Display Technology is to build a £17m plant at Godmanchester to produce light emitting polymers, with the creation of up to 25 new jobs and the relocation of 15 existing jobs. 11-Dec-2000
Viaken, the US application service provider for the biotech sector, is to open a European headquarters in Cambridge, with the creation of 20 jobs. 11-Dec-2000
Lucent Technologies, the telecoms equipment supplier, is considering plans to set up a new administration and research centre on a 30 acre site at South Marston near Swindon, with the creation of hundreds of new jobs. 11-Dec-2000
Cable & Wireless is to shed up to 75 jobs at offices in Milton Keynes and Bletchley, where about 650 staff are employed in processing bills and accounts. 08-Dec-2000
Telecom Service Centres expects to open a further two call centres in Scotland over the next few months, with the creation of hundreds of jobs. 08-Dec-2000
Attenda has raised £15m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its web hosting business, while Project Advantag-e has raised £85m to open a chain of internet co-location centres. 08-Dec-2000
Sage is seeking acquisitions to expand its accounting software business, and is particularly interested in the US, France and Germany. 07-Dec-2000
Quadstone has raised £21m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its marketing software business in Edinburgh, London and the US, which will involve the creation of 50 new sales jobs. 07-Dec-2000
ICL has confirmed plans to restructure its computer services business, which will involve 200 job cuts over the next three months and the creation of three main divisions - infrastructure services, projects and multivendor computing. 07-Dec-2000
IMS has announced a £200m deal with British Telecom to set up a national network offering cheaper phone calls, and the operation will be handled by BT Wholesale. 07-Dec-2000
Wireless Systems International is to create 260 jobs at a new mobile phone equipment factory at Llantarnam Park in Cwmbran over the next five years, with 30 staff being relocated immediately from Bristol. 06-Dec-2000
Kamelian is considering plans to set up an opto-electronics factory at the Oxford Industrial Park with the creation of 70 jobs, while a further 30 jobs will be created at its Glasgow headquarters. 06-Dec-2000
British Telecom is forming an alliance with IncuVest of the US to commercially exploit new technologies at the Brightstar incubator near Ipswich, and a new research facility will be established to sort through BT's portfolio of patents. 06-Dec-2000
Seagate is planning to close a computer hard drives operation in Irvine with the loss of 85 jobs, unless a buyer can be found by March 2001. 05-Dec-2000
Simutech, the US electronics company, is to set up a European base in Livingston's Alba Centre, creating up to 20 jobs. 05-Dec-2000
Bolero.net has raised £35m of venture capital to fund the commercial development of a new electronic system for transmitting trade documents. 05-Dec-2000
Zygon has raised a further £6m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its catalogue management software business, including a new sales office in San Francisco. 04-Dec-2000
Motorola is in negotiations with Slough Estates to build a new headquarters for its mobile phones business at Farnborough Aerodrome. 04-Dec-2000
Braxtel Communications has set up a UK headquarters for its customer contact software business in Nottingham, employing 10 staff initially. 01-Dec-2000
Caudwell of Stoke is relocating its Singlepoint mobile phone call centre to Chesterton, while its 20:20 Logistics operation will move from Crewe Hall to a property nearby, as part of a £10m expansion that will create hundreds of new jobs. 01-Dec-2000
Interoute is to shed hundreds of jobs and close some telephone card operations in continental Europe, but additional staff will be required to complete its pan-European fibre optic network. 01-Dec-2000
British Telecom and United News & Media are looking to sell their LineOne joint venture, which could lead to a £180m deal with a rival internet service provider. 01-Dec-2000
The Industrial Development Board is supporting a £8.5m investment in Belfast by Avalanche, the US supplier of IT outsourcing services, which will create up to 500 jobs over the next five years. 30-Nov-2000
Smarterwork, the online business services company, is shedding 40 jobs and closing offices in Spain and France in order to reach profitability sooner. 30-Nov-2000
Generics is to float 30% of its shares, giving the group a valuation of £226m, in order to expand its Cambridge-based scientific and licensing business. 30-Nov-2000
Global Switch has raised £168m in the form of an investment loan to fund the international expansion of its internet co-location facilities, and is setting up a £42m US internet services business based in Virginia. 30-Nov-2000
Thus is creating 450 jobs at a new telecoms call centre in Glasgow. 29-Nov-2000
Kingston Communications has dropped plans to invest £1bn in a national high-speed internet service, and will instead limit spending to £150m by forming partnerships with other telecoms companies. 29-Nov-2000
BYG Systems is to create 40 new jobs in Nottingham having won a contract to develop electronic point of sale training software for Lloyds pharmacy stores. 28-Nov-2000
E-principals, the internet strategy specialist, is looking to create up to 20 jobs at its new base in Sheffield over the next year. 28-Nov-2000
Torch Telecom is to set up a new office at the Paragon Business Village in Wakefield next year, where it will employ 60 staff. 28-Nov-2000
Tertio, the software company, is to recruit a further 95 staff following its move to new offices in Bath. 27-Nov-2000
The Industrial Development Board is in talks with two technology companies - E-host Europe of Dublin and Etranslate of the US - about plans to set up new offices in Northern Ireland with the creation of 300 jobs. 27-Nov-2000
British Telecom is planning to float up to 25% of Yell, its Yellow Pages directories business, in order to raise about £1bn. 27-Nov-2000
Cable & Wireless is considering plans to outsource its £800m property portfolio, and talks are underway with five facilities management groups. 27-Nov-2000
Fibernet is to raise £77m in a rights issue in order to fund the development of DSL services in the UK and a fibre-optic network in France. 24-Nov-2000
Agilent Technologies is creating a further 350 jobs at its telecoms test equipment plant in South Queensferry, and also plans to recruit 100 marketing and administration staff at new offices in Dunfermline. 23-Nov-2000
Conduit, the Dublin-based teleservices specialist, is planning to set up a call centre in Cardiff, with the creation of up to 1,400 jobs over the next two years. 23-Nov-2000
AppsCo Software, the Aberdeen-based developer of business intelligence software, has opened a new US headquarters near San Francisco and also announced plans to change its name to Appsmart Software and double its workforce over the next year. 23-Nov-2000
Fujitsu is planning a restructuring programme at ICL, the IT services business, which will involve an unspecified number of job cuts in the 13,000-strong UK workforce. 23-Nov-2000
SDL Integrated Optics is planning to expand its telecom switches factory in Witham, with the creation of 200 jobs. 22-Nov-2000
Oftel is launching an investigation into telephone directory inquiry services, which could lead to the market being opened up to more competition. 22-Nov-2000
Garlands is to create a further 400 jobs at its call centre in Hartlepool, having won two new contracts from companies sub-contracting out their customer service departments. 22-Nov-2000
Energis, Norweb Telecom, Chorus, Eircom, Faultbasic and Broadnet have paid a total £38m for 16 of the 42 available government licences to provide high-speed internet access over the airwaves, while the other licences remain unsold. 21-Nov-2000
IP Powerhouse has raised £39m to fund the development of up to 12 internet co-location centres across Europe by the end of 2003. 21-Nov-2000
Bulldog Communications is looking to raise £35m to fund the installation of DSL equipment outside British Telecom exchanges, either in street cabinets or nearby buildings. 21-Nov-2000
Middlesbrough Borough Council is setting up a £260m partnership with Hyder Business Services that will involve Hyder taking over the running of a range of council services with the creation of almost 500 new jobs. 20-Nov-2000
British Telecom is to create a further 60 jobs at its new Manpower-operated call centre in Alness, Easter Ross. 20-Nov-2000
Energis is planning to set up a 60,000 sq ft data centre in Watford next year, and will also expand its centre in Leeds. 20-Nov-2000
British Telecom is to set up a technology incubator arm called Brightstar, based at Adastral Park near Ipswich, in order to encourage the development of an entrepreneurial culture within the group. 20-Nov-2000
Raw Communications has raised £18m from an investment fund to expand its video-conferencing business in Europe, the US and Asia, and is considering plans for a £500m flotation next year. 17-Nov-2000
British Telecom is linking up with Crown Castle of the US to invest £200m in the installation of transmitters on the roofs of 4,000 BT exchanges, in order to support third generation mobile networks. 17-Nov-2000
RiverSoft is planning to raise £70m in a flotation in order to fund the expansion of its network management software business. 17-Nov-2000
Leica Microsystems is planning to relocate its 180 staff to new premises in Cambridge, allowing Allied Dunbar Pension Services to build homes on its existing site in the city. 16-Nov-2000
Intel is to acquire a strategic stake in Quantum Beam, the Cambridge-based developer of a new technology that uses light rays to transmit high-bandwidth data into homes and offices. 16-Nov-2000
University College London has announced plans to set up a research centre on a technology park at Martlesham near Ipswich in partnership with British Telecom, in order to develop new networking technologies. 16-Nov-2000
InTechnology is looking to spend up to £30m on European acquisitions and the expansion of its network of data storage centres. 16-Nov-2000
Sir Robert McAlpine has won a £350m contract to build the east14.com data processing complex in London's Docklands. 16-Nov-2000
Vodafone is looking to make at least two significant acquisitions in Asia over the next six months, and may bid for some of the assets that British Telecom is planning to sell off. 15-Nov-2000
Azlan has announced plans to invest a further £1m in the roll out of its online trading system, to grow its training and services operations and to seek acquisitions. 15-Nov-2000
Picdar, the supplier of digital asset management software, has secured a £5m investment from 3i in order to fund the expansion of its sales and marketing operation and to move into overseas markets. 15-Nov-2000
Itouch, the provider of information for mobile phones, is planning to spend £10m on marketing in 2001 and may acquire competitors to fill gaps in its product portfolio. 14-Nov-2000
The Meteorological Office is to relocate up to 1,000 jobs from Bracknell to a new purpose-built headquarters in Exeter by 2003, and a further 200 new jobs will be created. 13-Nov-2000
Intel is launching a recruitment drive in Wales and Scotland in order to meet the demand for up to 1,200 staff at its new £1.4bn semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Ireland. 13-Nov-2000
Atlantic Telecom and Kingston Communications are considering plans to combine their network infrastructure to reduce the cost of launching DSL high speed internet access services. 13-Nov-2000
Mission Testing, the software testing consultancy, is planning to raise £10m in a flotation in order to fund acquisitions and overseas expansion. 13-Nov-2000
Surface Technology Systems is planning to raise £12m in a flotation on Aim next month, in order to fund the expansion of its South Wales factory that produces machines for the manufacture of microchips. 13-Nov-2000
Cambridge Silicon Radio has raised £24m from strategic investors in order to fund an increase in production of semiconductor radio chips and to recruit more engineers. 13-Nov-2000
Ubinetics has raised £50m in a share placing in order to fund the commercial development of its mobile computer technology, and expects to create 150 jobs over the next year. 13-Nov-2000
Vodafone is planning to set up a new regional office for its mobile phones business at Birchwood Park in Warrington. 10-Nov-2000
British Telecom has announced plans to split itself in two, sell £10bn worth of subsidiaries, abandon plans to expand outside Western Europe and Japan and shed a further 5,000 jobs. 10-Nov-2000
NetCall is planning to raise £4.4m in a share placing in order to fund the development of its internet technologies business. 09-Nov-2000
Redbus Interhouse is planning to set up internet co-location centres in Prague, Amsterdam and Luxembourg, while other sites are being fitted out in London, Madrid and Frankfurt. 09-Nov-2000
Nortel Networks of Canada is planning to invest a further £69m at its telecoms equipment operations in the UK, which will create 700 jobs at New Southgate in north London and 600 jobs at Harlow. 09-Nov-2000
Sophos, the developer of anti-virus software, has announced plans to set up a new research centre in Abingdon, open an office in Japan and recruit 100 technical, sales and marketing staff this year. 08-Nov-2000
MMT Computing, the computer services company, is in discussions that could lead to an offer being made for the business. 08-Nov-2000
Iaxis is to be bought out of administration by Dynegy of the US, which should lead to the completion of its European telecoms network. 08-Nov-2000
Axeon has secured a further £2.3m of finance to fund the commercial development of a new microprocessor that will increase the bandwidth of mobile devices. 07-Nov-2000
Vistorm, the internet application service provider, is to expand into a new office at the Oxford Science Park in order to support a recruitment drive. 06-Nov-2000
Dataphone has secured a £2.5m cash injection from 3i, to finance the recruitment of new sales and development staff and fund further international expansion of its telecoms software business. 03-Nov-2000
Knowledge Support Systems is planning to create up to 100 jobs at its business software operation in Manchester over the next year. 03-Nov-2000
Kymata has raised a further £46m to fund the global expansion of its Livingston-based opto-electronics business. 03-Nov-2000
Lynx is to set up a separately listed company called Ascent to supply small and medium-sized companies, as part of a strategy to focus on financial software. 02-Nov-2000
Bovis Lend Lease has won a £8.5m contract to convert a warehouse in Hayes into a data centre for Digiplex. 02-Nov-2000
Cable & Wireless is to set up a customer service call centre at the Atlas Business Park near Manchester Airport next year. 01-Nov-2000
Fullarton Computer Industries is planning to shed about 250 jobs at factories in Irvine, Stevenston and Prestwick, due to a lack of orders. 31-Oct-2000
Fibernet and Redstone Telecom are considering plans to set up equipment outside BT exchanges to gain access to the local loop, and Fibernet has appointed a property company to find suitable sites. 31-Oct-2000
Cable & Wireless is to invest £970m in the development of a new optical fibre network in Japan over the next five years, which will double the workforce at its IDC division to 2,000. 31-Oct-2000
TeleCity is to set up a switching centre at the 54,000 sq ft Solus industrial unit at Old Trafford, Manchester. 30-Oct-2000
Kingston Communications is to restructure its core business into two new divisions, with one handling corporate customers and the other controlling the networks. 30-Oct-2000
Geneva Technology, the developer of electronic billing systems, has opened its new head office at the Cambourne Business Park in Cambridge, and is now planning to open a second office nearby and new offices in the US, Asia and Latin America. 27-Oct-2000
Singularity, the developer of financial services software, has opened a new headquarters in Derry and plans to double in size and create 50 jobs over the next two years. 27-Oct-2000
Chevin has secured a £3m venture capital investment from MTI, in order to fund the expansion of its Yorkshire-based network management software business with the creation of 45 jobs over the next two years. 27-Oct-2000
Transaction Technology has received a £21m strategic investment from Lloyds TSB, in order to fund the expansion of its accounting software business. 27-Oct-2000
Pace Telecom, the Wrexham-based telecom services provider, is planning to create up to 30 new jobs following its recent move to larger premises on the Gresford Industrial Park. 26-Oct-2000
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is to consider plans from Sager Group for the transformation of Billingham House, the former ICI headquarters, into a site for call centre companies. 26-Oct-2000
Infobank International is acquiring a 10% stake in HISL of Birmingham for £8m, in order to gain access to new programming technology that will reduce its software development costs. 25-Oct-2000
Ericsson Intracom is looking to recruit 20 computer software engineers at its site in Leicester, for the development of new internet systems. 24-Oct-2000
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to consider plans from Gladman Developments for the construction of a £6m call centre in Hanley, which would enable an unnamed occupier to create up to 1,000 jobs. 24-Oct-2000
Solectron has announced plans to create a further 45 jobs at its electronics plant in Dunfermline. 24-Oct-2000
Stortext has raised £5m of funding from a consortium of investors, in order to improve its technology and infrastructure and expand its online document storage business into the south of England. 24-Oct-2000
Cramer Systems has raised £17m of venture capital funding in order to expand its network management software business. 24-Oct-2000
Atlantic Telecom has announced a deal to provide a fixed-line telecoms service to Vodafone's small business customers, and the service will be rolled out nationwide in January. 20-Oct-2000
Totalise is raising up to £10m in a share placing on Aim, in order to expand its internet services business. 20-Oct-2000
Progressive Telecom, the supplier of business telephone systems, has set up a new office at the Imex Spaces Business Centre in Burton, and plans to double its workforce of 14 over the next year. 19-Oct-2000
FFastFill is planning to raise £20m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the development of its dealing software. 19-Oct-2000
Charteris, the IT management consultancy, is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim in order to fund acquisitions. 17-Oct-2000
Compaq is to create 30 new jobs in an expansion of its e-commerce business solutions office in Belfast. 16-Oct-2000
Cintra, the US provider of database technology, has set up a UK headquarters in Bristol and has so far recruited 15 staff for the operation. 16-Oct-2000
Marketing Database Associates of the US is to set up an internet-based voice interactive call centre in Londonderry in January, with the creation of 100 jobs. 10-Oct-2000
UTA Enterprise Solutions, the Belfast-based software support company, has been closed by its US parent company with the loss of 26 jobs. 09-Oct-2000
Voxar, the developer of medical imaging software, has raised £5.4m from investors in order to fund a marketing push in Europe and Asia. 09-Oct-2000
TTP Communications has raised £69m in a share placing in order to develop wireless technology for base stations, open new laboratories in the US and Asia, and fund acquisitions. 09-Oct-2000
The Meteorological Office has identified four potential sites for the consolidation of its main headquarters from ten sites in Bracknell, and they include locations in Reading, Exeter, Norwich and Bracknell. 09-Oct-2000
Nortel is planning to take 195,000 sq ft of office space at the Vanwall business park in Maidenhead. 09-Oct-2000
Agilent Technologies has announced plans for the development of a £12m fibre optics R&D facility at its Whitehouse centre in Ipswich, with the creation of 500 jobs. 06-Oct-2000
British Telecom is planning to increase its stake in Blu from 20% to 30%, in order to increase its presence in the Italian mobile phone market. 06-Oct-2000
Marconi is in negotiations to sell five commodity component factories, including sites in Liverpool, Coventry, Italy, Germany and the US, in order to raise funds for the expansion of its optical networking business. 06-Oct-2000
Orange has started a recruitment campaign to find an additional 900 staff for its new call centre at the Cobalt Business Park on Tyneside. 05-Oct-2000
Vodafone is to invest £1.7bn in an alliance with China Mobile, in order to gain access to the Chinese mobile phone market. 05-Oct-2000
Ripcord Systems has raised £9m from Softbank UK Ventures to fund the commercial development of a system that enables companies to link corporate databases to mobile devices. 05-Oct-2000
Entropy is to set up a sales and marketing centre for its internet security business in Belfast, with the creation of 20 jobs over the next two years. 04-Oct-2000
Global Switch has announced a £45m bank loan to fund the expansion of its internet co-location facilities, and is planning a flotation next year. 04-Oct-2000
Fibernet has won approval to set up a nationwide fibre-optic network in France by the end of next year, including 28 regional co-location centres. 04-Oct-2000
NEC is planning to invest a further £20m in the development of new electronic devices at its Livingston plant, helping to secure 1,550 jobs. 03-Oct-2000
Plexus is to create a further 170 jobs at its electronics plant in Kelso, having secured a £1m grant from the Scottish Executive. 03-Oct-2000
Hutchison Telecom has announced plans to set up a technical centre for its third generation mobile phone business at the Grenfell Island office development in Maidenhead, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 03-Oct-2000
One-2-One is to set up a telecoms switching centre at the Moss Side Development Park in Leyland. 03-Oct-2000
Global Email Company is to set up a £14m e-response centre in Londonderry with the creation of 700 jobs, while a further 195 jobs will be created at its Belfast headquarters. 03-Oct-2000
Embedded Solutions, the telecoms software developer with 90 staff, is changing its name to Celoxica in preparation for a worldwide expansion programme. 03-Oct-2000
ZEDA is planning to create 150 jobs at its technical support centres in Sheffield, Nottingham, Hull, Leeds and Stirling, including vacancies for programmers and management. 03-Oct-2000
Cable & Wireless is to switch its voice traffic to a new internet-based network over the next three years, as part of a £1bn project with Nortel Networks. 03-Oct-2000
IXEurope is planning to raise about £100m in a flotation, in order to set up new internet co-location facilities across Europe. 03-Oct-2000
Scottish Enterprise is promoting plans for the development of a £60m science park in Glasgow city centre, which will involve the creation of up to 3,000 jobs in software, e-commerce, opto-electronics and life sciences. 03-Oct-2000
Respond UK has attracted £4m in third-round funding from 3i and Interregnum in order to finance the expansion of its database management system into the US and continental Europe. 03-Oct-2000
ANT of Cambridge has raised £5m in a new round of funding, in order to develop software for internet devices and consumer electronics. 02-Oct-2000
Stream is planning to raise up to £6m in a flotation in order to expand its telephone advice lines business. 02-Oct-2000
Marylebone Warwick Balfour is forming an alliance with Antfactory to set up a network of internet co-location centres across Europe, and has already identified sites in Dublin, Lisbon, Frankfurt and Madrid. 02-Oct-2000
ICL is planning to set up a new document processing centre at the Catalyst Industrial Estate in Widnes, which will employ up to 1,000 staff handling the 2001 census. 29-Sep-2000
Vodafone is planning to sell Infostrada, the Italian internet and fixed phone business, to Enel for £7.2bn. 29-Sep-2000
BSkyB is to become a virtual mobile operator in partnership with Singlepoint, and the service will be called Sky Phone and use the Vodafone network. 29-Sep-2000
AVX is planning a £54m expansion at its electronics components business in Coleraine, with the creation of 125 jobs. 28-Sep-2000
Amaze, the Liverpool-based internet consulting company, has raised £7m to fund the development of its IT infrastructure. 28-Sep-2000
Atlantic Telecom is acquiring a 65% stake in Telepartner Plus for £9m, in order to expand its broadband internet and telephony services into the Netherlands. 27-Sep-2000
MCI Worldcom is launching a major recruitment campaign in Reading, having decided to relocate 3,000 London-based jobs to its new European headquarters in the town. 27-Sep-2000
Magic4 has raised £9m of venture capital from 3i to fund the development of its text messaging technology. 26-Sep-2000
Virgin Mobile has secured £115m of financing from JP Morgan, in order to fund the expansion of its mobile phones business by selling the handsets through a wider range of retail outlets. 26-Sep-2000
Stralfors is to close its software duplication business in Swindon with the loss of 40 jobs, but will retain 10 marketing staff in the town. 26-Sep-2000
The Message Pad, the operator of personalised answering services, is planning a £1m expansion programme that will involve opening 20 additional call centres across the country. 26-Sep-2000
Superscape is to raise £8.7m in a share placing in order to set up joint ventures for its interactive 3D software business. 26-Sep-2000
UR Mobile, the telecoms and computer services company, has set up an office at Portlethen near Aberdeen, and is now looking to open a second office in Edinburgh. 22-Sep-2000
Spektra Systems, the Livingston-based supplier of e-commerce software, is planning to create 100 jobs over the next two years, and is also looking to open new sales and support offices in Glasgow, London and continental Europe. 22-Sep-2000
The Welsh Development Agency is set to announce plans by Agilent Technologies of the US to set up a research centre on Swansea waterfront, with the creation of 30 jobs. 22-Sep-2000
Kalamazoo, the software group, has announced a deal with Landcrest Developments that will give it a new Birmingham headquarters building, while the remainder of its existing site will be converted into a business park. 22-Sep-2000
Ubinetics, the wireless communications technology company, is to set up an office at the Delta Business Park in Swindon in October, where it will employ 60 staff. 22-Sep-2000
Marylebone Warwick Balfour, the property company, is planning to move into the market for internet co-location facilities, as part of a broader strategy to introduce technology to its serviced offices business. 22-Sep-2000
Viglen Technology is to change its name to Learning Technologies in order to reflect its new focus on the supply of IT equipment to the educational market. 22-Sep-2000
Arc International has raised £103m in a flotation, in order to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its semiconductor design business. 22-Sep-2000
Ncipher is planning to raise more than £50m in a flotation, in order to fund acquisitions and the development of its internet security products. 21-Sep-2000
Energis is planning to raise £400m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its DSL telecoms network in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. 21-Sep-2000
Colt Telecom is forming an alliance with Hewlett-Packard to set up 20 Colt e-business centres across Europe, which will offer web hosting and application service provision. 21-Sep-2000
Viridian is looking to recruit a further 30 staff at its Sx3 software development centre at Moygashel, Dungannon, and has also unveiled a new £7m corporate headquarters in Newtownabbey. 20-Sep-2000
Redbus Interhouse is planning to raise £82m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its internet co-location facilities across Europe. 20-Sep-2000
Synex, the supplier of voice and data telecoms services, is to create 140 jobs at a new sales and support call centre in Birmingham. 19-Sep-2000
Raft International is planning to raise £6.3m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its financial software business. 19-Sep-2000
Nettec is looking to acquire web design businesses across Europe, and is particularly interested in Germany, France and the Benelux countries. 19-Sep-2000
Amino Communications is forming an alliance with Cyan Technology to develop systems for the connection of domestic appliances to the internet. 19-Sep-2000
Siemens has confirmed the sale of its former North Tyneside semiconductor plant to Atmel of the US, and up to 1,500 jobs will be created over the next three years. 19-Sep-2000
One-2-One has announced plans to create 1,000 jobs at a new mobile phone call centre in Dundee. 19-Sep-2000
British Telecom and AT&T of the US are in discussions to merge their business services divisions, which would include the Ignite international data operation. 18-Sep-2000
The Greater Nottingham Partnership is planning to supply laptop computers to all schoolchildren who need them, as part of a project to set up an e-Learning Foundation. 18-Sep-2000
ID Data, the producer of silicon chips and smart cards, is planning to float on Aim next month with a valuation of about £40m. 18-Sep-2000
Vodafone is planning to sell its 11.7% stake in Shinsegi Telecom of Korea for about £450m, due to concerns about the country's regulatory environment. 18-Sep-2000
Telewest is forming a £4m joint venture with Vis to develop games for interactive TV. 18-Sep-2000
Marconi has won a £62m contract from Belgacom to set up a high-speed optical network across Belgium. 18-Sep-2000
CSC Computer Sciences is to recruit 50 IT staff in Derry over the next few months, in order to provide support to Raytheon's expanding software development centre. 15-Sep-2000
Time 24 is planning to set up a new electronics factory on the Isle of Wight, with the creation of 50 jobs. 15-Sep-2000
Signum Circuits is planning to create a further 100 jobs in Selkirk over the next 12 months, as it takes over the former Viasystems site. 15-Sep-2000
Kingston Communications has applied for access to 1,000 British Telecom exchanges, as part of a strategy to expand its broadband services at a cost of up to £1bn. 14-Sep-2000
Zeus Technology, the internet software company with 55 staff, is moving into the former Ionica building on St John's Innovation Park in Cambridge. 13-Sep-2000
Nortel Networks has won approval to build a £35m research and development centre at its Harlow site, with the creation of up to 600 jobs. 12-Sep-2000
Strategic Software Solutions, the banking software company, is planning to create 130 jobs at a new facility in Alloa, following its recent acquisition by iatmglobal.net of the US. 12-Sep-2000
IX Europe has raised £40m from investors in order to fund the development of a network of internet hosting centres across Europe. 11-Sep-2000
Chelsfield is to invest £50m in the expansion of its Global Switch web-hosting facilities in Europe and the Pacific Rim over the next nine months. 08-Sep-2000
Siemens is in negotiations to sell its disused microchip plant on North Tyneside to Atmel of the US, which could lead to the creation of 1,500 jobs. 08-Sep-2000
The government is to auction 42 licences to provide broadband wireless services around the country in October, and 12 companies have applied to bid. 07-Sep-2000
Marconi is to acquire a 15% stake in Netdecisions, the e-commerce consultancy, for £60m. 07-Sep-2000
Bookham Technology has confirmed plans to raise £122m in a share placing, in order to invest in new manufacturing facilities for its optical electronics business. 07-Sep-2000
JDS Uniphase has confirmed plans to create 1,200 jobs at its opto-electronics factory in Plymouth over the next five years, in a £32m expansion programme. 06-Sep-2000
Instem, the supplier of IT services to utility companies, is to set up a new headquarters at the Stone Business Park in Staffordshire next year, with the creation of 60 new jobs. 05-Sep-2000
Jennic, the electronics design company, is planning to recruit about 100 engineers by the end of 2001, having just moved into new headquarters in Sheffield. 05-Sep-2000
Marconi is planning to create about 160 jobs in Cambridgeshire, having opened a new communications research centre at the Cambridge Business Park. 05-Sep-2000
British Gas has announced plans to enter the UK home phone market by investing £150m in a new telecoms business, which will lead to the creation of about 800 jobs. 05-Sep-2000
TransEDA is planning to raise £7m in a flotation on Aim in order to develop new software for testing integrated circuits. 05-Sep-2000
Guardian iT is planning to spend £30m setting up web-hosting sites, and is negotiating a lease on an internet centre in west London. 05-Sep-2000
Motorola has announced plans to set up a £20m software design centre at the Alba Centre campus in Livingston, with the creation of 550 jobs. 05-Sep-2000
London Bridge Software is in negotiations to acquire Phoenix International, the US developer of retail banking software. 01-Sep-2000
Colchester Council is planning a £2.1m overhaul of its computer systems, under a strategy drawn up by Nineveh Consulting. 31-Aug-2000
Redstone Telecom is in discussions to acquire an internet service provider, as part of a plan to spend £25m on acquisitions. 31-Aug-2000
CMG is planning to expand its computer services business into North America, in a change of strategy designed to create a global operation. 31-Aug-2000
Oftel has been asked by the government to look at the possibility of achieving universal access to high-speed communications networks by 2005, ensuring that all households can receive services such as interactive TV and video-on-demand. 29-Aug-2000
JDS Uniphase has taken over five units at the new Oxford Industrial Park at Yarnton for manufacturing fibre-optic equipment, and expects to create 200 jobs over the next year. 25-Aug-2000
Teletech of the US is planning to set up a new call centre in Belfast for telephone and e-commerce based customer-care operations, with the creation of 900 jobs over the next two years. 25-Aug-2000
Micron Europe is recruiting 112 extra staff having opened a new £10m computer memory plant in East Kilbride. 24-Aug-2000
Landmark Securities has won planning permission to build a 64,450 sq ft call centre in central Cardiff, and discussions are taking place with potential occupiers. 24-Aug-2000
The Highways Agency is seeking a commercial partner to lay cables alongside 3,000km of motorway, in order to provide roadside signs, in-car information systems and broadband telecoms capacity. 24-Aug-2000
Fujitsu has selected the Laganside area of Belfast as the location for a new £29m telecoms software engineering centre, which will create up to 400 jobs. 23-Aug-2000
Epson is planning to set up a new customer call centre at its Telford base next month in order to provide support for its printers, scanners and digital cameras, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 23-Aug-2000
Netstore, the application service provider, is planning to expand into continental Europe by setting up a network of value-added resellers. 22-Aug-2000
Orbital Software is planning to raise £15m in a flotation, in order to fund the development of its internet search software. 21-Aug-2000
E-M-Solutions, the US electronic assembly company, is to set up an office at Larbert, near Falkirk, with the creation of 80 jobs. 18-Aug-2000
British Telecom is forming a marketing alliance with NetStore, in which it will offer NetStore's computer back-up services to small and medium-sized companies. 18-Aug-2000
British Telecom is to double its stake in the Viag Interkom telecoms joint venture in Germany by acquiring a further 45% from Eon for £4.4bn, as part of a strategy to convert minority interests into controlling stakes. 17-Aug-2000
Ubiquity Software of Newport has raised £28m of venture capital funding in order to further the development of software for telecoms service providers, and about 180 jobs will be created over the next two years. 17-Aug-2000
Patsystems, the developer of software for derivatives trading on the internet, is planning to set up offices in Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo and Milan. 17-Aug-2000
Amacis, the internet software company, is planning to create 100 jobs in Belfast over the next 18 months, having won a contract to install systems for HSBC Bank. 16-Aug-2000
Sherwood International is seeking distribution partners for a new subsidiary that sells its internet transaction system to companies outside the insurance sector, and is also looking to acquire businesses in the US and Europe. 15-Aug-2000
Demica has raised £6.2m of venture capital funding in order to develop its business software and consultancy services. 14-Aug-2000
British Telecom has dropped plans to set up a £1bn network of internet co-location centres across Europe, due to shareholder concerns about the group's rising debt. 14-Aug-2000
RSL Communications is to relocate its headquarters from New York to London this month, in order to benefit from the growing European telecoms market. 11-Aug-2000
Sykes Europe, the computer services company that employs 260 in Galashiels and 400 in Edinburgh, is to undertake a cost-cutting review that could result in redundancies of 10%. 11-Aug-2000
Psion is planning to float its Symbian joint venture, which licenses the EPOC mobile operating system, but has not yet set a date. 09-Aug-2000
Colt Telecom is planning to launch high-speed DSL services in Germany and the Netherlands later this year, and will complete five more local networks in Rome, Birmingham, Dublin, Antwerp and Stockholm. 09-Aug-2000
Durlacher, the technology investment bank, has raised a further £5m of funding for KVault Software, the developer of software that enables customers to improve the way they archive e-mails. 08-Aug-2000
NextCall is seeking new premises in Bristol to expand its telecoms business, which could lead to about 30 new jobs. 07-Aug-2000
The Next Level is planning to expand its Hexham-based telecoms consultancy business with the creation of 10 new jobs. 07-Aug-2000
Energis is creating 200 jobs at its newly-opened Leeds office, including human resources, sales, and technical roles for its telecoms division. 07-Aug-2000
Search Consultancy is planning to open a new recruitment office in Manchester in September with the creation of 100 jobs over the next year, and a similar office will also be opened in Crawley. 07-Aug-2000
CMG, the IT and communication services group, has launched a nationwide recruitment campaign to fill hundreds of vacancies at offices across the UK. 04-Aug-2000
Tyco Electronics is setting up a new factory on a site between its two existing cable harness-making plants in Swindon, with the creation of 40 jobs. 04-Aug-2000
ICL has suspended plans for a £3bn flotation due to poor market conditions, and aims to focus on transforming itself into an e-business services company. 03-Aug-2000
Mitel Semiconductor is creating 150 new jobs in Swindon, including 50 in its chip manufacturing plant and 100 in design and customer support. 03-Aug-2000
BT Cellnet has acquired a 5% stake in Worldlink, the wireless data provider, in order to supply financial prices to its mobile phone customers. 02-Aug-2000
Dimension Data of South Africa is to acquire the remaining 50% of Chernikeeff Networks for £200m, in order to consolidate and rebrand its UK operations. 02-Aug-2000
Dataflex is to acquire Telephony Experts, the US telecoms software company, for £7.5m, as part of a strategy to diversify its product portfolio. 31-Jul-2000
Cisco Systems is to take 1.25m sq ft of office space in five separate buildings at Green Park in Reading. 31-Jul-2000
British Telecom is considering plans to split off its UK network business into a separate company, in order to focus on its UK retail and overseas assets and escape some of the new regulatory measures that have been imposed on the group. 28-Jul-2000
TeleWork is raising £17m in a share offer in order to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its telephony software business. 28-Jul-2000
The government has announced plans to auction 42 licences to operate wireless local loop technology for high-speed internet access to homes and offices. 27-Jul-2000
Bookham Technology has started to recruit 270 engineers and operators for its new optical components manufacturing facility in Swindon. 27-Jul-2000
Kingston Communications is looking to sell its telecoms testing business over the next few months, including laboratories in Ontario, Dallas, the Netherlands and the UK. 26-Jul-2000
Capita has won a £400m government contract to set up and run the new Criminal Records Bureau. 26-Jul-2000
Marconi has won a £2bn contract to supply optical electronic equipment for British Telecom's new European broadband network, which is expected to lead to new jobs at sites in Coventry, Liverpool and Italy. 25-Jul-2000
Transco is planning to create 200 fibre optic telecoms jobs at newly-refurbished offices in Queens Road, Reading, and is currently negotiating a lease on the building. 24-Jul-2000
ADC Telecommunications is to create a further 500 jobs at its new £27m facility in Glenrothes, in order to increase production of copper, optical fibre and wireless products for the European telecoms industry. 24-Jul-2000
Telecom Plus is planning to raise £3.5m in a share placing in order to fund the marketing of its virtual network services. 21-Jul-2000
Rubus, the London-based internet consultancy, is to set up a new office in Manchester with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 21-Jul-2000
Veritas, the US data storage software company, is planning to invest £250m in the UK over the next five years with the creation of 2,000 jobs, including the building of a European headquarters in Reading and a research centre in Watford. 20-Jul-2000
Sifam has announced plans to create a further 100 jobs at its fibre optics business in Torbay, by setting up a new factory at the former Devonshire Press site. 19-Jul-2000
Vektor, the language software company, has opened a new corporate headquarters for 40 staff in Manchester city centre, and more employees are being recruited. 19-Jul-2000
Software AG, the developer of data management systems, is looking to recruit up to 20 new staff at its new £1m headquarters at Pride Park in Derby. 18-Jul-2000
STMicroelectronics is looking to set up a new regional headquarters in Bristol, with the creation of up to 250 jobs over the next three years. 17-Jul-2000
JWE Telecom is in negotiations to sell all 21 of its shops in Yorkshire and the Midlands to an unnamed buyer, and has also announced plans to change its name to Convergent Communications. 14-Jul-2000
Durlacher is setting up a new business called App-X in order to help companies set up application service providers, which allow customers to rent software via the internet. 13-Jul-2000
Powernet Telecom is planning to invest £150m in new infrastructure for its internet and telecoms business, with the creation of 500 jobs at sites in Manchester and London over the next 12 months. 13-Jul-2000
CityReach International is to set up 20 secure internet exchanges across Europe by 2002, having agreed a credit facility worth £83m. 11-Jul-2000
ICO is set to receive £210m from private investors in the US in order to fund a new satellite launch programme that will provide high-speed internet access throughout the world. 11-Jul-2000
Nortel has announced plans to create a further 400 jobs at its telecoms components plant in Monkstown this year. 11-Jul-2000
Esoft Global has raised £25m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its online software business. 10-Jul-2000
SecureTrading is expanding its e-commerce business on the Welsh Development Agency's Parc Menai Business Park in Bangor, with the creation of a new financial processing facility, a support and development unit, and a telesales team. 10-Jul-2000
ComXo is raising £2m from investors in order to develop a new telecoms system that enables customers to make calls by clicking on an address book on the internet. 07-Jul-2000
Geo Interactive Media is in discussions with a number of potential strategic partners, in order to further the development of technology that enables video to be shown on mobile phones. 07-Jul-2000
Axxia is to set up a new computer data centre at Tankersley near Barnsley, in order to provide back-up and disaster recovery services to lawyers across the country. 07-Jul-2000
Amec and Carillion are competing for a £100m contract to build a 10-storey telecoms centre at East India Dock in London for Global Switch International. 06-Jul-2000
VIS Interactive has opened a new computer games studio in Dundee, and plans to create about 50 jobs this year. 06-Jul-2000
Cable & Wireless is investing £13m in GorillaPark, the Amsterdam-based internet investment company, and the money will be used to invest in about 15 start-up companies. 05-Jul-2000
Anite is looking to expand its IT services business geographically, by acquiring overseas companies with about 200 staff. 05-Jul-2000
Alphameric is restructuring its IT business into three divisions - retail, bookmaking and finance, and customer services - and is looking to spend £20m on acquisitions. 05-Jul-2000
Hutchison Whampoa is planning to sell a 35% stake in its UK operating company to KPN and NTT DoCoMo for about £1bn, in order to jointly develop its third-generation mobile phone licence. 04-Jul-2000
Mi Services Group, the supplier of IT solutions to the manufacturing sector, is planning to create 200 jobs in Sunderland over the next three years, while its worldwide workforce will grow from 700 to about 2,000. 04-Jul-2000
Indigovision, the developer of visual communication software, is planning to raise £45m in a share placing in order to develop new technology and raise its profile in Europe. 03-Jul-2000
Racal has closed its communications equipment factory in Seaton, Devon, with the loss of 109 jobs, and a buyer is being sought for the site. 03-Jul-2000
Spring Group is looking to sell three non-core businesses - Spring Education, Spring Skills and Spring Personnel - in order to focus on online recruitment for the IT sector. 30-Jun-2000
British Land is linking up with four other leading landlords - Canary Wharf, Norwich Union, Prudential and Legal & General - to install broadband telecoms technology in their buildings, and discussions have begun with a number of providers. 30-Jun-2000
XKO Group, the network systems and e-commerce company, has raised £5m in a share placing and paid £3m for two companies that will take the company into the food distribution sector and give it the ability to create websites. 30-Jun-2000
Inter Digital has raised £36m in a second round of financing in order to fund the expansion of its telecoms network across the country. 30-Jun-2000
Alterian is planning to raise about £20m in a flotation in order to expand its database software business into the US and continental Europe. 28-Jun-2000
PeopleDoc has secured a £2.5m investment from 3i in order to fund the development of its customer information management software and its expansion into the US. 28-Jun-2000
Siroyan has raised £13m in second-round funding, in order to fund the commercialisation of its semiconductor technology. 27-Jun-2000
Climax Group is planning to expand its games software business in Fareham, with the creation of 80 new jobs. 27-Jun-2000
Marlborough Stirling, the developer of software for international finance firms, is planning to recruit a further 300 staff in Cheltenham, taking the total to 820. 26-Jun-2000
Deverill Group has acquired the technical services division of the Prince training organisation, involving the transfer of 20 project management staff to Deverill's Harrow base. 26-Jun-2000
British Telecom is forming a joint venture with Andersen Consulting to provide human resources services to large companies via the internet. 23-Jun-2000
Energis has bought the remaining 25% stake in Business Online, the German internet service provider, for £1.2m. 23-Jun-2000
Independent News & Media is planning to raise up to £100m in a flotation of its ITouch business, in order to fund the development of its mobile phone information services. 23-Jun-2000
British Telecom is to recruit a further 200 staff at its new £6m call centre in Lincoln, which already employs 400 workers. 23-Jun-2000
Vocalis has reached an agreement with British Telecom to develop speech recognition software for call centres. 22-Jun-2000
Birmingham City Council has opened the new £1.5m Information & Communications Technology Centre at Birmingham Research Park, and the first four tenants will be Fungus, CAD-UL, Realtime IT and Systems Solutions. 22-Jun-2000
Web Sight has opened a new office in Exeter for its e-commerce and internet services business, employing 25 staff. 22-Jun-2000
Celestica is creating 100 new jobs at its Kidsgrove computer and telecoms equipment factory in North Staffordshire. 22-Jun-2000
Solectron has announced plans to set up a new printed circuit board plant at Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, creating an initial 80 jobs. 22-Jun-2000
Eidos, the computer games company, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed potential bidder. 21-Jun-2000
PrismTech has raised £6.5m in order to fund the expansion of its software business into continental Europe and the US. 21-Jun-2000
Robert Walters, the recruitment consultancy, is planning a flotation next month that will value the business at up to £165m, and some of the proceeds will be invested in new IT systems. 21-Jun-2000
The government has announced plans for a new high-speed internet network to link 700 universities, colleges and research sites, and the contract has been awarded to WorldCom of the US. 20-Jun-2000
Global Email Company (gem) of Belfast has secured £7m to help fund the development of its e-commerce business, and the 25-strong workforce will rise to 90 by the end of the year. 20-Jun-2000
Caudwell is creating 50 new jobs at its mobile phone repair division in Newcastle-under-Lyme, having won a contract to repair digital set top boxes. 20-Jun-2000
Swansea Job Centre has announced that Blurb Direct, the sales agent for the One-2-One mobile phone network, is seeking 500 staff for two new call centres in Swansea and Cardiff. 19-Jun-2000
Dimension Data of South Africa has confirmed plans to raise up to £830m in a stock market listing in London, in order to fund the acquisition of network integration companies in Europe and the US. 16-Jun-2000
Siemens Communications is looking to recruit 25 engineers at its contract design services business in Beeston, Nottingham. 16-Jun-2000
British Telecom has confirmed plans to close a directory enquiries call centre in Belfast, but will offer alternative employment to the 200 staff. 16-Jun-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is making its first move into the Chinese mobile phone market through a technology-sharing deal with China Unicom. 14-Jun-2000
Atlantic Telecom is to invest £120m in the expansion of its network in the UK and Germany this year, and is looking to win wireless access licences in France through its alliance with Skyline. 14-Jun-2000
Canon is to close its printer factory in Glenrothes in September with the loss of 187 jobs. 14-Jun-2000
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is planning to set up a mobile phone call centre at Forres in the Highlands with the creation of up to 725 jobs, in order to support a contract with One-2-One. 13-Jun-2000
Star Technology Group is planning to raise up to £20m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its internet services business, and will open new offices in London, the US and continental Europe. 13-Jun-2000
Carphone Warehouse has sold a 15% stake in its new Mviva mobile internet portal to AOL Europe for £16m. 13-Jun-2000
Marconi is planning to set up R&D centres at the universities of Warwick, Parma and Pittsburgh, in order to develop new communications technology and gain access to trained scientists. 12-Jun-2000
Redstone Telecom is in talks with BT Cellnet and One-2-One about plans to set up a virtual mobile telephone network, and a new service could be announced within months. 12-Jun-2000
Southampton Photonics has raised £37m in a share placing in order to fund the development of new fibre optic products, and plans to create 200 jobs over the next six months. 12-Jun-2000
Zytronic, the manufacturer of components for electronic information displays, is to raise £5.6m in a flotation on Aim, in order to reduce debt and fund development. 09-Jun-2000
First Line has ceased trading with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs at its mobile phone call centres in Swansea and Cardiff. 09-Jun-2000
Aepona is planning a £3.2m expansion at its mobile phone software development business in Belfast, with the creation of 97 jobs. 09-Jun-2000
Videss, the software development company, is to set up a new office at the Shrivenham Hundred Business Park in Swindon later this year. 09-Jun-2000
Telecom Service Centres is to invest £3.3m in a new call centre near Falkirk, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 08-Jun-2000
Lution, the Belfast based e-commerce company that matched new IT business ideas with venture capital, has closed with the loss of 83 jobs. 08-Jun-2000
Cable & Wireless is forming an alliance with Microsoft to develop software products that can be accessed remotely over the internet. 07-Jun-2000
Orchestream is planning to raise £54m in a flotation later this month, in order to fund the development of its internet software business. 06-Jun-2000
JSB Software Technologies is to change its name to SurfControl, in order to focus the business on its internet security software products. 06-Jun-2000
Genesis Communications, the Manchester-based mobile airtime service provider, is to set up five new sales offices with the creation of 260 jobs. 06-Jun-2000
British Telecom has confirmed plans to set up a headquarters for its Btopenworld internet business at Martlesham Heath near Ipswich, in a £12m project with Alcatel, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies and Newbridge Networks. 06-Jun-2000
Rotherham Council has approved plans for the relocation of ACT Computer Services to new premises at Hellaby, with the creation of 200 jobs. 05-Jun-2000
Computacenter has launched a £85m takeover offer for Compel, the computer services company, but the approach has been rejected. 02-Jun-2000
Nevada tele.com is to invest £5m in the expansion of its e-commerce solutions business, which offers voice and data telecoms services to businesses in Northern Ireland, with the creation of 100 jobs over the next four years. 02-Jun-2000
Madge Networks has formed a new subsidiary called Red-M to develop wireless internet servers, and it will employ 40 staff. 01-Jun-2000
Peramon has secured £5m of venture capital to develop software for the mobile internet market, and the company's headcount will be increased to 50. 01-Jun-2000
Pinnacle Software of Belfast is to create 50 new jobs by opening offices in Cork, Galway and Dublin, in order to support the expansion of its Sage partnership. 01-Jun-2000
Barcrest Group has launched a new subsidiary called Vivid Gaming to develop new games for the European gaming industry, and plans to recruit six more staff for its new office in Burton. 30-May-2000
Search Consultancy is planning to expand its recruitment consultancy across the country over the next four years, with the creation of more than 44 jobs. 30-May-2000
Sun Microsystems is planning to create a further 200 jobs in West Lothian, as part of a £26m investment in infrastructure at its Linlithgow site. 30-May-2000
Seagate Technology is to expand output at its disk drive factory in Limavady, Northern Ireland, in a reorganisation that will result in the closure of plants in Mexico and California. 30-May-2000
British Telecom has been ordered by Oftel to allow rival operators to provide unmetered internet access to customers, by giving them access to BT's local network at wholesale unmetered rates. 30-May-2000
GoldMine Corporate Software has relocated 100 staff to a new European headquarters in Reading, and plans to recruit a further 30 this summer. 30-May-2000
Sensei of Aylesbury is to raise £33m to invest in the production of mobile phone handsets. 30-May-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is in talks to sell its Orange mobile phone business to France Telecom for about £30bn. 26-May-2000
The government has announced plans to invest £84m in the new University for Industry over the next year, which will involve a network of 250 learning centres and up to 1m learners by 2003. 26-May-2000
JDS Uniphase is planning to recruit up to 1,600 people at its two fibre optic factories in Plymouth over the next three years, with the exact figure depending on how the plants perform compared to other sites worldwide. 26-May-2000
Karavale Enterprises has closed its printed circuit boards factory in Cwmbran with the loss of 70 jobs, due to financial problems. 26-May-2000
One-2-One has announced plans for a third call centre investment in Sunderland, which will involve the creation of 400 jobs at the Doxford International Business Park. 25-May-2000
Azlan is planning to expand its computer distribution business across Europe through bolt-on acquisitions, and is opening new offices in Spain and Portugal. 25-May-2000
National Grid is investing £40m in a new joint venture project to build a fibre-optic link across the Andes, which could lead to the development of a new telecoms network across South America. 24-May-2000
Intel is opening a new data centre in Reading in order to run web sites and e-commerce operations for third parties, and it will employ 250 staff. 23-May-2000
Entranet, the Reading-based developer of online financial services, is looking to recruit up to 500 new programming and design staff. 23-May-2000
Compass Software, the Leicestershire-based developer of retailing software, is planning to raise £4m in a flotation on Aim, in order to expand its product range and invest in marketing. 23-May-2000
Nortel Networks has won a £470m contract to build BT Cellnet's third generation mobile phone network in the UK. 23-May-2000
Kingston Communications is planning to expand its business telecoms network into the Thames Valley and the north-west of England, and has also announced plans for the development of a £60m glass fibre network in partnership with Colt. 23-May-2000
FOL Agriculture, the agricultural internet service provider, has relocated to a new office facility at Osiers Park in Leicester, and is looking to double the size of its 70-strong workforce. 23-May-2000
Virgin is forming a joint venture with SingTel Mobile of Singapore to provide cellular phone services in Asia. 22-May-2000
Optical Micro Devices of Swindon has raised £15m to build a factory to manufacture devices for the opto-electronics industry. 22-May-2000
Business Systems Group is to raise £40m in a flotation, in order to fund the development of its business providing support and software services to companies wanting to outsource their internet requirements. 22-May-2000
Cable & Wireless has announced plans to invest £2.5bn in the creation of a new global telecoms division. 19-May-2000
Cambridge Recruitment Consultants has won a contract to recruit 300 people for Astrium, the newly-created satellite company that is seeking staff in Stevenage, Portsmouth and Manchester. 18-May-2000
Dundee University is forming a £5.5m joint venture with Scottish Enterprise Tayside called AMCET, in order to develop organometallic compounds for the miniaturisation of electronic devices. 17-May-2000
Energis has announced plans to further expand its telecoms business in continental Europe, including three new Dutch city networks and a £200m DSL network in Germany. 17-May-2000
Marconi has won a £430m contract to design and build a wireless communications network for Thrucomm of Florida. 17-May-2000
Kingston Communications is looking to sell KTL, its Hull-based communications testing subsidiary. 17-May-2000
RM, the supplier of computers and software to schools, is seeking acquisitions and has launched a bid to become the preferred supplier of schools in Northern Ireland. 16-May-2000
IQE is planning to raise £53m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its compound semiconductor wafer manufacturing business. 16-May-2000
Statpro, the developer of fund management software, is to raise £5m in a share placing in order to fund the opening of sales offices in Los Angeles and Germany. 16-May-2000
3Com of the US is to create 50 new jobs at its existing base in Edinburgh, as part of a £6.5m investment in a new business telephone system. 16-May-2000
The Welsh Development Agency is in discussions with Chameleon Software International about setting up a customer service centre in Rhayader for its business management software, with the creation of 40 new jobs. 16-May-2000
Wireless Information Network, the supplier of information services to mobile devices, has raised £8m to fund the expansion of its business in the UK and abroad. 15-May-2000
Oracle has won approval from Wokingham District Council to build a training centre, hotel and leisure centre in Woodley, with the creation of more than 200 jobs. 15-May-2000
Moray Council is considering plans from Call Centre Partners of Edinburgh for the development of an e-commerce centre at a former woollen mill in Keith, with the creation of up to 150 jobs. 15-May-2000
Stream International, the US computer support company, is planning to create a further 150 jobs at its call centre in Londonderry. 15-May-2000
The government is considering plans to curb the building of new mobile phone masts by requiring that all new masts have to pass full planning procedures. 12-May-2000
Marconi is set to announce plans for a new factory at Ansty near Coventry to produce internet switches and routers, which could create up to 2,000 jobs. 12-May-2000
Buchanan International has raised £4m to launch a new internet security business called Actis Technology, and is planning to open three US offices over the next few weeks. 12-May-2000
Fayrewood is setting up an internet investment division, as part of a series of transactions that will also result in the restructuring of its main computer services business. 12-May-2000
Inmarsat is investing £460m in three new satellites in order to expand the capacity of its international telecoms network. 12-May-2000
Atlantic Telecom has announced plans for a new call centre in Manchester, which will create 100 jobs. 12-May-2000
Signum Circuits is to recruit a further 40 staff at its electronics factory in Selkirk. 12-May-2000
IMR Global of the US is to close its software development centre in Belfast, with the loss of 53 jobs. 12-May-2000
Cumbria Inward Investment Agency is close to agreeing a multi-million deal for the creation of a new call centre and 500 jobs in Whitehaven, and a planning application has been submitted to Copeland Council. 12-May-2000
Marconi is planning to expand its Fibreway fibre optic cable network from 1,300km to 3,000km over the next few years, and is also considering plans to sell off or float the business. 11-May-2000
Innovation Group is planning to raise £50m in a flotation, in order to expand its business supplying claims management software to the insurance industry. 11-May-2000
Crew Services, the Portsmouth-based computer consultancy, is to recruit 25 new staff over the next year to undertake contract work for companies across the country. 11-May-2000
British Telecom has announced plans to set up a new £1.8m call centre in Londonderry, with the creation of 160 jobs. 11-May-2000
Transco has announced plans to spend £235m creating a national telecoms network that will initially link 12 cities, and the fibre optic cable will run through ducts next to its gas pipelines. 10-May-2000
Marconi is launching a new e-commerce business called Marconi Software Solutions, which will employ 400 staff and provide software and support to external companies and other Marconi operations. 10-May-2000
Sage has pledged to create 600 jobs at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne headquarters over the next three years, and is waiting for approval to be given for the proposed expansion of Newcastle Great Park. 10-May-2000
British Telecom is set to win a £500m 10-year contract for the electronic modernisation of Liverpool City Council, including call centres, revenue and benefits services. 09-May-2000
Motorola is said to be looking for up to 500,000 sq ft of office space along the M4 corridor. 09-May-2000
Spring is planning to accelerate the overseas expansion of its IT staffing business, and is particularly interested in the US, Asia, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands. 09-May-2000
Energis has bought a 45% stake in Eurocall, the reseller of telecoms services, for £20m. 09-May-2000
Lynx has set up a new office at Grove Park near Enderby, in order to house a software development team and strategic business unit with 28 staff. 09-May-2000
ARM Holdings is acquiring a £1.2m nominal stake in Dublin-based Parthus Technologies, in order to jointly develop new microprocessors for the electronic devices being designed by Parthus. 05-May-2000
Orbital Software, the internet software company, has raised about £7m of private funding in order to fund the development of new sales offices in Europe and the US. 05-May-2000
One-2-One has announced plans to create a further 2,000 customer service jobs over the next year at sites in Merthyr Tydfil, Greenock, Rotherham and Sunderland. 05-May-2000
Marconi is to create 400 new jobs at sites in Nottingham, Coventry, Liverpool, London and Lincoln, due to rising demand for telecoms hardware and software. 04-May-2000
Aspective, the mobile applications service provider, has raised £38m of private equity in order to fund overseas expansion, investment in computer infrastructure and the recruitment of 400 new staff. 04-May-2000
British Telecom is considering plans to sell off its network construction business, but may opt for a flotation or joint venture instead. 04-May-2000
Terence Chapman is looking to spend up to £100m on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in companies specialising in customer relationship management software. 04-May-2000
Compusolve Innovations is planning to install WebStation internet kiosks in public places throughout the country, and the screens will show advertisements when not in use. 03-May-2000
Retronix is to relocate its mobile phone components business to a new £2m plant being built in Coatbridge, and expects to create up to 150 jobs over the next four years. 03-May-2000
Dabs Direct, the Bolton-based mail-order computer company, is planning to raise £20m in a flotation in order to launch new consumer electronics products and develop the online side of the business. 02-May-2000
Stilo Technology, the Cardiff-based developer of XML software, is planning to raise £7m through a share placing on Aim. 02-May-2000
Venturedome, the internet services company, is planning to raise £3m through a listing on Aim. 02-May-2000
The government is planning to build a £25m surveillance centre called the Government Technical Assistance Centre, in order to monitor the use of technology by criminals, but no decision has been made on the location. 02-May-2000
British Telecom is planning to open a new call centre at Alness in the Highlands, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 02-May-2000
LEAF is planning a £4m expansion at its electronic components business in Newtownabbey, with the creation of 100 jobs. 02-May-2000
Vodafone AirTouch, TIW of Canada, British Telecom, One-2-One and Orange have won the five licences to launch third-generation mobile phone services, and each of them must now build a network that can be used by at least 80% of the population. 28-Apr-2000
British Telecom is planning to contract out the management of its 8,500 UK buildings, and the £800m 10-year contract is expected to be awarded to a consortium of Carillion, Reliance Security and Haden Management. 28-Apr-2000
Opal Telecom is planning to raise £35m in a flotation, in order to invest in telephone network software for the development of broadband services and to increase the capacity offered to internet service providers. 28-Apr-2000
Indicii Salus is selling a 6.5% stake in its London-based internet security business to G-Tech of the US for £5.9m, and G-Tech will use Indicii's systems for the development of new online lotteries. 28-Apr-2000
Staffordshire Moorlands Council is considering plans from 360 Network of Canada for the development of a £4m fibre optic relay station in Cheddleton. 28-Apr-2000
Centrica is to locate its new telecoms business in Manchester, with the creation of more than 800 jobs. 27-Apr-2000
Knowledge Management Software is planning to raise more than £30m in a share placing next month, in order to fund the commercial development of its software for call centres and help desks. 27-Apr-2000
Jennic is to set up a new headquarters for its microchip design and communications technology business in Sheffield, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs. 27-Apr-2000
Centrica is to expand its telecoms business, with Vodafone providing mobile telecoms services to its customers and Torch Telecom and Cable & Wireless Communications providing fixed network capacity. 26-Apr-2000
Zuken of Japan is expanding its software design business in Bristol, with the creation of 40 jobs. 26-Apr-2000
Bull Worldwide Information Systems is to set up a smart card manufacturing facility at Segensworth North in Hampshire, with the creation of about 100 jobs. 26-Apr-2000
Guardian iT is to launch a new business providing an electronic data back-up service to companies, in which data will be transmitted to TeleVault's data vault in London. 25-Apr-2000
AppsCo Software has raised £6.2m to fund a drive to form marketing and development partnerships for its business management software products, and five offices will be opened throughout the world this year. 25-Apr-2000
Zefer, the US e-consultancy, has increased its London-based staff to 25 by taking on most of the former Virgin.net web design team, and is looking to recruit a further 100 people this year. 25-Apr-2000
Motorola is planning to invest £1.3bn at the former Hyundai semiconductor plant in Dunfermline, with the creation of 1,300 jobs over the next five years. 25-Apr-2000
Business Serve, the web site hosting company, is moving to a new office in Lancaster with the creation of 140 jobs. 25-Apr-2000
Actinic, the developer of e-commerce software, is planning to raise £30m in a flotation, in order to fund international expansion. 19-Apr-2000
Cable & Wireless has acquired a 51% stake in Ipergy Communications of Brussels for undisclosed terms, as part of a strategy to develop a pan-European internet business. 19-Apr-2000
Enron of the US is to invest £6m in OS Integration, in order to fund the Surrey-based internet consultancy's international expansion programme. 18-Apr-2000
Zeus Technology, the Cambridge-based internet software company, is planning a flotation later this year with an expected valuation of at least £100m, and about 100 new jobs will be created. 17-Apr-2000
British Telecom is to create four separate businesses in high growth areas - Yell for directories and e-commerce, BTopenworld for mass market internet, Ignite for broadband transmission, and BT Wireless for mobile services. 14-Apr-2000
Freeserve has announced a £4.5m alliance with NetCall and TelePost to develop new value-added voice and data services, such as web-based voice conferencing. 14-Apr-2000
Transco is forming a £260m telecoms joint venture with SpectraSite of the US, in order to offer mobile phone masts and associated infrastructure to the winners of the third generation mobile phone licenses. 14-Apr-2000
Telecom Service Centres is planning to set up a new £2m call centre on the outskirts of Aviemore, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 14-Apr-2000
Atlantic Telecom is planning to sponsor Manchester's 2002 Commonwealth Games at a cost of £8m, in order to supply all radio and telephone communications as well as internet coverage throughout the world. 14-Apr-2000
Wax Digital Marketing Research has secured £1.5m of capital from 3i, in order to fund the expansion of its e-commerce software products into continental Europe. 14-Apr-2000
ICL is to sell off its European spares logistics business, close its trade distribution business, and float its KnowledgePool learning division, in order to focus on e-business services. 13-Apr-2000
Shopcreator Developments, the developer of e-commerce software for small retailers, is planning to raise £25m in a flotation this summer in order to fund an expansion programme that will create 80 jobs in Tadcaster. 13-Apr-2000
Wolverhampton Council is considering plans from B&R properties for the development of a £4.5m two-storey telephone and communications centre at the Wolverhampton Business Park. 13-Apr-2000
NEC has announced plans to invest a further £60m at its semiconductor plant in Livingston, in order to improve productivity. 13-Apr-2000
Vodafone is to close its Cheltenham call centre in July, with the loss of 30 jobs. 12-Apr-2000
Radiant Networks has secured £12m of venture capital funding to develop a sales and marketing campaign for its broadband wireless technology, and it expects to create 100 new jobs this year. 11-Apr-2000
Red Lemon Studios, the Glasgow-based computer games company, is to create 35 new jobs, having secured £1m of venture capital funding. 11-Apr-2000
JHP Group, the supplier of online educational support services, is planning to raise £30m in a flotation on Aim, of which £10m will be spent on acquisitions. 10-Apr-2000
British Telecom is to close its operator centre in Bedminster next year, with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 10-Apr-2000
Policy Master is seeking acquisitions in the US insurance software market, and is also looking to develop its third party administration business. 07-Apr-2000
British Telecom and 3i have announced plans to spin-out a new company to market network performance management software developed at BT's Adastral Park facility in Ipswich. 07-Apr-2000
Bruce Metals has opened a warehouse in Sheffield to sell and repair new and used computer equipment. 07-Apr-2000
Deutsche Telekom is planning to set up a London headquarters for its new mobile internet business. 06-Apr-2000
Project Telecom, the virtual network operator, is planning to raise up to £40m in a share placing, in order to fund acquisitions and the creation of new mobile telecom services. 06-Apr-2000
Band-X, the trader of telecoms capacity, has raised £25m to fund its expansion into the US, continental Europe and south-east Asia. 06-Apr-2000
British Telecom and AT&T have announced plans to invest £1.25bn setting up 30 web hosting centres around the world over the next three years, including sites in Cardiff, Birmingham, Bletchley and St Albans. 06-Apr-2000
Solectron Corporation, the US electronics manufacturing service company, is to set up a new outsourcing facility in Northern Ireland, with the creation of 70 jobs. 06-Apr-2000
North Lincolnshire Council is to consider plans from TS&S Global, the supplier of after-sales repairs of telecoms equipment, to build a new factory in Scunthorpe with the creation of 35 jobs. 06-Apr-2000
Chelsfield is linking up with TrizecHahn of Canada to pay £260m for a 66% stake in Global Switch International, the facilities management business, and they aim to set up a series of international "carrier hotels" for the telecoms sector. 05-Apr-2000
MCI Worldcom is planning to set up a European headquarters at the Reading International Business Park being built by the M4 motorway, where it will employ up to 3,000 staff by 2002. 05-Apr-2000
Magex has raised £50m of private equity funding to develop software for the collection of digital content royalties. 04-Apr-2000
ICL has sold a 16.8% stake in its Finnish business to a consortium of investors for £141m, and plans to seek a separate listing for its Scandinavian operations before the worldwide business floats later this year. 03-Apr-2000
CallNet is raising £10m in a share placing and reverse takeover of Primar-e, in order to fund the European expansion of its cut-price telephone calls and internet services business. 03-Apr-2000
UUNET is to invest £2m in the development of two new internet gateway centres in Glasgow and Aberdeen, and will also develop facilities in Sunderland, Sheffield, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Exeter and Bristol this year. 03-Apr-2000
British Telecom is linking up with Microsoft and AT&T to develop software for mobile phone systems, and will contribute human resources and testing facilities to the project. 31-Mar-2000
Marconi is to invest £40m in a new communications technology centre at Cambridge University. 30-Mar-2000
Mitac Europe is planning a £5m expansion at its computer products facility in Telford, with the creation of 200 jobs. 30-Mar-2000
ERA Technology is planning to create more than 200 jobs at an unnamed site near Ipswich this year, where the focus will be on software testing, e-commerce and multi-media programming. 29-Mar-2000
ICL has sold its 31% stake in Kainos, the Belfast-based developer of customer relationship management systems, to Dublin-based venture capitalist ACT for undisclosed terms. 29-Mar-2000
The University of Glamorgan is linking up with Virgin, Hewlett Packard and Young Enterprise Wales to launch an online college dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship. 28-Mar-2000
Generics Group, the Cambridge-based high technology consultancy, is looking to raise up to £50m in a flotation in order to fund international expansion and the acquisition of start-up companies. 28-Mar-2000
NetBenefit is seeking acquisitions in continental Europe in order to expand its domain name registration business. 27-Mar-2000
ServicePower Technologies is planning to raise £10m in a flotation in order to fund the development of software to help companies manage service engineers and other field personnel. 27-Mar-2000
Ericsson is planning a £10m expansion of its telecoms components business in Scunthorpe, with the creation of 500 jobs. 27-Mar-2000
Cap Gemini is planning to expand its Dingwall call centre in the Highlands with the creation of more than 100 jobs, in order to sell tickets for Virgin TrainLine. 27-Mar-2000
Corporate Services Group is to raise £34m in a rights issue in order to relaunch itself as an online recruitment business. 24-Mar-2000
Skillvest.com has raised £8m of venture capital funding to expand its online corporate training business into continental Europe. 24-Mar-2000
Toshiba is to invest £10m at a new laboratory in Bristol over the next five years, in order to research new mobile phone technology. 24-Mar-2000
First People is creating up to 25 new jobs in Fareham to cope with rising demand for its on-site personnel management services. 23-Mar-2000
Vianet is raising £4.4m in a share placing in order to fund the development of new technology to allow remote monitoring of vending machines and other equipment. 22-Mar-2000
First Line is to expand its mobile phone call centre in Swansea with the creation of 250 new jobs. 22-Mar-2000
DMA Design is to relocate its computer games business and up to 25 staff from Dundee to an existing site in Edinburgh. 22-Mar-2000
Autonomy, the developer of intelligent software, is planning to raise about £90m in a listing on Nasdaq, in order to finance marketing and product development costs. 21-Mar-2000
Eyretel, the developer of call centre software, is planning to float in the spring with a valuation of about £300m. 21-Mar-2000
The Ministry of Defence is to close Portsmouth naval base's telephone exchange, which is operated by a British Telecom-led consortium, in order to centralise its exchanges at sites in Kettering, Wakefield, St Helens and Dumbarton. 21-Mar-2000
Iomart is planning to raise about £20m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its Madasafish internet access service. 21-Mar-2000
Insight, the direct marketer of computer hardware and software, is creating 100 new jobs in Worksop. 21-Mar-2000
British Telecom is said to be planning to relocate almost 4,000 employees to two new offices at Leavesden Park near Watford and City Place at Gatwick, as part of a strategy to move staff away from central London. 20-Mar-2000
Storm Telecommunications is investing over £60m with Telia of Sweden in the development of a fibre optic network to connect Europe's large commercial centres with the US. 17-Mar-2000
Auspex, the supplier of file servers, is to set up a new European headquarters and sales base in Aldermaston. 17-Mar-2000
Cedar Group is to raise £40m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its software business, and is particularly interested in the US financial services sector. 16-Mar-2000
MDIS is to raise £19m in a rights issue in order to fund a restructuring of its lossmaking IT consultancy business, and has also announced the sale of its 70% stake in the Glovia software operation. 16-Mar-2000
British Telecom is planning to build a £8m call centre at the former Nantgarw Colliery near Cardiff, with the creation of 800 jobs. 15-Mar-2000
Scottish Enterprise, the development agency, is to spend £6.4m putting all its internal operations online, including business support, information services and training. 15-Mar-2000
NCorp, the developer of online shopping software, is planning to open sales offices in the US and continental Europe later this year. 15-Mar-2000
Outsource Laboratories of the US is setting up a £2m software design centre in Belfast to develop information services for mobile phones, with the creation of 42 jobs. 15-Mar-2000
Orange is to create 60 new jobs in Northern Ireland this year, by opening five new mobile phone shops and expanding management and technical support. 15-Mar-2000
VirtualInternet.net is to raise £33m in a share placing, in order to finance acquisitions and expand its existing European web hosting operations. 14-Mar-2000
Xyratex has announced plans to expand its electronics research facilities in Havant with the creation of 950 jobs, as part of a £35m scheme that will also see the development of a new B&Q Warehouse at the site. 14-Mar-2000
Kanbay, the global IT consultancy, has opened a European headquarters in Histon, Cambridgeshire. 14-Mar-2000
InterX, the hardware distributor, is to buy the remaining 63% of Cromwell Media, and plans to transform Cromwell into an internet technology provider. 13-Mar-2000
Cityspace has started installing the i-plus network of more than 1,000 e-mail kiosks at hotels, bus stops and railway stations, and aims to attract 2m users a month. 13-Mar-2000
The government is to offer £500 worth of computer courses to jobseekers, and talks are taking place with potential training providers. 13-Mar-2000
Lucent Technologies is to take 61,000 sq ft of office space at the Adelphi on John Adam Street in London's West End. 13-Mar-2000
Information Highway, the Swedish IT company, is to create 30 new jobs following its relocation from Histon to the Cambridge Science Park. 13-Mar-2000
Laird has announced plans to open a £10m telecoms factory near the Irvine Business Park in September, creating a further 750 jobs. 13-Mar-2000
Monster.com Europe is to open a multi-lingual European sales centre for its jobs network in Glasgow in April, and expects to create 200 jobs over the next three years. 13-Mar-2000
British Telecom is to invest £160m in the launch of its Genie mobile internet service in 15 countries, in partnership with more than 30 companies. 10-Mar-2000
Easynet is to raise £52m in a share placing in order to build a high-speed telecoms network in Germany, set up new operations in Italy and Switzerland, and expand its web hosting facilities in London. 10-Mar-2000
Time Computer Systems is to create 150 new customer care jobs at its computer mail-order business in Simonstone, Lancashire. 10-Mar-2000
Redbus Interhouse is planning to raise £20m in a share placing in order to set up a network of internet co-location facilities across Europe. 09-Mar-2000
Infineon of Germany is in negotiations to re-open the former £650m Siemens semiconductor plant on Tyneside, which could lead to the creation of 1,000 jobs. 09-Mar-2000
FI Group is opening a new £1m office in Edinburgh, as part of the ongoing expansion of its e-business activities in Scotland. 09-Mar-2000
Vision IT is to relocate its IT recruitment business from Buckinghamshire to a site in Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, with the creation of 50 jobs. 09-Mar-2000
Pivotal Corporation of Canada is to set up a £20m internet software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 150 jobs over the next five year. 09-Mar-2000
EDS is to install up to 10,000 kiosks in Jobcentres to enable jobseekers to use the internet to search for jobs, and the government is investing £68m in the project. 08-Mar-2000
BGR is planning to demerge Crestport, the developer of software for restaurants with a valuation of about £22m. 08-Mar-2000
Colt Telecom has raised a further £700m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its inter-city telecoms network and to set up a further 20 web-hosting centres. 07-Mar-2000
Pace Micro Technology is linking up with Alba to launch a new television set with built-in internet access. 07-Mar-2000
Morse is forming a new division called Red Creation, in order to provide advice and operational management to new internet ventures. 07-Mar-2000
Kymata is raising £46m from venture capital funds, in order to fund the expansion of its opto-electronics manufacturing facilities in Livingston. 07-Mar-2000
Orange has announced plans to create a further 600 jobs at telecoms call centres in Peterlee and North Tyneside. 07-Mar-2000
Bookham Technology is planning to raise up to £125m in a flotation in order to expand production of optical components, creating 180 jobs at a new factory in Swindon and another 100 at its Abingdon headquarters. 06-Mar-2000
Knowledge Support Systems is planning to raise £30m in a flotation, in order to expand its sales force and launch its software products in the US. 06-Mar-2000
Infobank, the e-commerce software company, is planning to raise £130m in a share issue, and the proceeds will be invested in sales, marketing and infrastructure. 03-Mar-2000
Bowthorpe is to change its name to Spirent in order to reflect its transformation into a supplier of telecoms equipment. 03-Mar-2000
Softmatic, the German supplier of software to processing industries, is opening a UK office at the Europarc in Grimsby, where it will employ at least 25 people. 03-Mar-2000
Viatel of the US has bought the UK telecoms network of AT&T for about £125m, which will involve the transfer of more than 10,000 mainly business customers. 01-Mar-2000
UniComp of the US is planning to create up to 100 new jobs in Belfast this year, following a rise in demand for its e-commerce and software products. 29-Feb-2000
ADC Telecommunications of the US is to set up a £27m network components factory in Glenrothes, with the creation of 300 jobs before the end of the year. 29-Feb-2000
Dimension Data, the South African network integration company, is planning to move its primary stock market listing to London, in order to raise more than £1bn for US acquisitions. 29-Feb-2000
Sigtronics of East Lothian has raised £1m from venture capital companies to fund the development of new technology to produce printed circuit board prototypes. 28-Feb-2000
British Telecom has appointed Lucent Technologies to supply multimedia call centres for its corporate customers, and the services will be immediately available through BT Business Information Systems and Syncordia eCRM Solutions. 28-Feb-2000
Geneva Technology, the supplier of electronic billing systems to the telecoms sector, is opening an office in Paris following the recent injection of £12m of venture capital. 28-Feb-2000
Centrica is to invest £150m in a telecoms and internet service to be launched in September, and will recruit 450 staff for a new call centre. 25-Feb-2000
Redstone Telecom is raising £121m in a share issue in order to fund the development of fibre optic connections from its existing network to British Telecom exchanges and gain access to the local loop to homes and offices. 25-Feb-2000
Electronic Data Processing is to reposition itself as an internet service provider under the Fastfreenet name, in order to speed up the development of its e-business software. 25-Feb-2000
British Telecom is forming an alliance with Panasonic to develop a system that will enable people to download music from the internet via their mobile phones. 24-Feb-2000
RiverSoft has raised £22m of venture capital, in order to fund the expansion of its salesforce and the development of new software to locate failures in web networks. 24-Feb-2000
Austin Taylor, the North Wales-based manufacturer of telecoms equipment, is opening an office in Hong Kong in order to increase sales to the Asia Pacific market. 23-Feb-2000
BG is planning to set up a telecoms venture by the end of the year, which will involve running fibre optic cable alongside its gas pipeline network. 23-Feb-2000
Diagonal is looking to expand its IT consultancy business by making up to six acquisitions this year, and is particularly interested in internet security and remote access systems. 23-Feb-2000
ZEDA is planning to create a further 175 jobs at its Nottingham-based IT business over the next 18 months, having won a contract to supply Baltimore's e-business security solutions. 22-Feb-2000
Mion Electronics is to invest £2.5m at its printed circuit boards factory in Barnsley, in order to increase capacity and upgrade equipment. 22-Feb-2000
Eircom is to invest £25m in the development of a new fibre-optic communications network in Northern Ireland, and expects to create 400 jobs over the next five years. 22-Feb-2000
British Telecom is said to be planning a major reorganisation in order to improve its stock market rating, which is expected to involve a shake up of senior management. 22-Feb-2000
ICL is forming a joint venture with Nokia to develop new applications to improve internal communications at Nokia and increase electronic links with its suppliers. 22-Feb-2000
Capita is forming an alliance with Microsoft to develop new online services for schools, including a system to allow parents to monitor the progress of their children. 22-Feb-2000
Synergie.net is planning to raise £2m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its telephony and internet services. 22-Feb-2000
Virgin is planning to set up a mobile phone service in Australia later this year, in a joint venture with Optus. 21-Feb-2000
ASAP International is planning to raise £5m on the Ofex stock market in order to fund the sales and marketing activities of its IT services business. 21-Feb-2000
Memory Corp is forming an alliance with SAP and Microsoft to develop a platform for its internet-based music service. 18-Feb-2000
XTML, the Manchester-based internet services company, is to recruit 50 new staff, in order to expand its sales, technical and support teams. 17-Feb-2000
One-2-One is planning to create up to 2,000 jobs in Scotland this year, including 300 at contract company TSC's site across the road from One-2-One's main Greenock centre. 17-Feb-2000
PNC Telecom is raising £6.9m in a share placing, in order to fund the development of its internet telephony business. 16-Feb-2000
Fullerton Computer Industries is to create 700 new jobs at a new £10m facility in Irvine. 15-Feb-2000
John McGavigan is planning to build a £20m electronic components plant at Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire, with the creation of 400 jobs. 15-Feb-2000
JDS Uniphase is seeking 100 new staff for its fibre optics business in Witney, Oxfordshire. 15-Feb-2000
Parity is linking up with Infobank International to develop a business-to-business trading community for the utilities sector. 15-Feb-2000
British Telecom is forming an alliance with Corning to develop photonics technology for the high-capacity transmission of information, and its Photonics Technology Research Centre will be transferred to the US group for £39m. 15-Feb-2000
Kingston Communications has announced plans to raise £100m in a share placing, in order to fund the expansion of its Torch telecoms business into more cities. 11-Feb-2000
One-2-One is planning a £12m expansion at its telecoms call centre in Sunderland, with the creation of 300 jobs. 10-Feb-2000
Memory Corp is changing its name to Dig, as part of a restructuring programme that will see the group focus on the development of an internet music service. 09-Feb-2000
MGt has secured a number of new contracts to provide customer management services to travel and TV companies, and is seeking 100 new staff for its call centre in Kirkcaldy. 08-Feb-2000
StepStone is planning to raise £60m in a flotation in order to fund marketing and acquisitions for its online recruitment business. 08-Feb-2000
Computacenter is considering plans to float a stake in its Biomni electronic procurement joint venture with Computasoft. 08-Feb-2000
North Notts Training Group is to close its Worksop headquarters next month with the loss of 25 jobs, due to difficult trading conditions. 07-Feb-2000
Element 14 is to open a new engineering facility in Belgium in order to develop DSL technology for broadband internet access. 07-Feb-2000
Fujitsu is to set up a £29m engineering centre for advanced communication technology products in Belfast, which will employ 400 engineers. 04-Feb-2000
Alphameric is seeking acquisitions to expand its logistics software business, in order to benefit from the expected rise in demand for warehouses from e-commerce companies. 04-Feb-2000
Manpower is to announce plans for a new £2.5m call centre at Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire in a joint venture with 7C, which could create up to 600 jobs. 04-Feb-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is planning to move into new premises on the Exeter Business Park at Sowton next month, with the creation of scores of new jobs. 03-Feb-2000
Benchmark Electronics is to cut 95 jobs at its printed circuit board factory in East Kilbride, due to a fall in demand. 03-Feb-2000
Iomart, the Glasgow-based internet service company, is looking to expand the workforce at its call centre on Stornaway from 60 to about 200. 03-Feb-2000
British Telecom is planning to shed 3,000 administration jobs over the next nine months, in a cost-cutting programme expected to save £140m a year. 03-Feb-2000
Future Integrated Telephony is planning to raise £8.5m in a share placing in order to finance the development of its telephone systems business. 03-Feb-2000
Focus Solutions is planning a flotation on Aim in order to fund the expansion of its business providing software products for the financial services industry. 03-Feb-2000
Kymata has announced plans to create a further 150 jobs at its new microchip plant in Livingston. 02-Feb-2000
British Telecom is forming an alliance with two US internet companies - VerticalNet and Internet Capital Group - to invest £141m in new business-to-business web sites. 02-Feb-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is linking up with Casio Computer to jointly develop mobile multimedia palm-top computers. 02-Feb-2000
Motorola is said to be discussing a £3bn plan to take over the Hyundai semiconductor site in Dunfermline, which could lead to the creation of up to 2,500 jobs. 01-Feb-2000
Psion is forming an alliance with Motorola to develop mobile internet access devices, and the product development team is expected to have more than 100 staff. 01-Feb-2000
Virtutel is planning to create up to 200 jobs at its outsourcing call centre in Peterlee, and is also looking for an additional call centre in County Durham or Tyne & Wear. 31-Jan-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is forming a joint venture with Vivendi of France to offer internet services to their 70m customers, including a portal that can be accessed through PC, television or mobile phone. 31-Jan-2000
Energis is forming an alliance between its Planet Online division and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, in order to provide hosting services to internet-based application service providers. 31-Jan-2000
Dataflex is planning to raise £10m in a flotation in order to fund the development of its call routing technology. 31-Jan-2000
Hewlett-Packard is to set up a research facility for its Agilent Technologies division on its South Queensferry site in Scotland, in order to develop new data communication technologies. 31-Jan-2000
Nortel Networks is said to be planning a major expansion at its Monkstown plant in Northern Ireland, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 28-Jan-2000
Hyder is planning to set up a commercial customer call centre in Cwmbran for its business services division, with the creation of 300 jobs. 28-Jan-2000
Energis and National Grid have won a licence to supply fixed line telecoms services in Poland, as part of a consortium with the Polish Railway Company and Poland Telecoms Operator. 28-Jan-2000
Rodime, the Scottish disk drive manufacturer, is to receive £27m from Seagate Technologies of the US in an out-of-court settlement of a patent dispute. 28-Jan-2000
NewNet and Athene Internet are both setting up new offices at the Cams Estate in Fareham, in order to take advantage of the business park's global communication links. 27-Jan-2000
Guildhall Leisure Services is relocating its software business to larger premises in Doncaster, with the creation of 10 new jobs. 27-Jan-2000
Critchley, the manufacturer of tagging systems for cables, has rejected a £94m takeover offer from Brady Corporation of the US. 27-Jan-2000
Marlborough Stirling, the software company, is planning to set up a call centre next to its existing headquarters in Cheltenham, with the creation of 500 jobs. 26-Jan-2000
Knowledge Management Software has raised £2m in a share placing, in order to fund the recruitment of new staff in the UK and a move to new offices in the US. 26-Jan-2000
VIS Interactive, the Dunfermline-based computer games company, is planning to create 200 new jobs having secured £20m of funding from the Bank of Scotland. 25-Jan-2000
Scipher is planning to raise £30m in a flotation next month, in order to fund the development of its three-dimensional sound system for computers. 24-Jan-2000
Project Telecom is to set up a £3m national operations centre near its existing site in Newark, with the creation of 200 new jobs. 21-Jan-2000
British Telecom is forming a joint venture with Banco Popular in order to launch an internet-based shopping mall in Spain. 21-Jan-2000
United Utilities is to invest £100m over the next 12 months in the creation of a broad-band national network for its Norweb Telecom business, including a new sales and marketing support division in Liverpool. 20-Jan-2000
Intel is to set up its first European "server farm" at Winnersh near Reading, which will supply e-commerce computer capacity to corporate customers and create 170 jobs. 20-Jan-2000
Carphone Warehouse is launching a £30m venture capital fund to invest in new wireless technology and internet opportunities, and has already acquired stakes in four companies. 20-Jan-2000
British Telecom has acquired the remaining 50% of Ocean Communications of Ireland for £130m, in order to clear the way for its takeover of rival phone company Esat. 20-Jan-2000
EAE, the Aberdeen-based offshore telecoms company, is cutting 14 jobs in response to a slowdown in oil and gas industry activity, but its operations in London, Belgium and Rio de Janeiro will not be affected. 19-Jan-2000
Sifam is to expand its fibre optics factory in Torquay and build a new plant in Plymouth, creating 1,000 jobs over the next year. 19-Jan-2000
Viglen Technology is planning to launch an internet investment fund, in order to provide funding and management expertise to start-up companies. 19-Jan-2000
Bookham Technology, the Oxfordshire-based telecoms equipment group, is considering plans for a £350m stockmarket flotation over the next two months. 18-Jan-2000
Scottish & Southern Energy has announced plans to build a 1,250km telecoms network linking business centres across the south of England, and intends to lease much of the capacity. 18-Jan-2000
Highlands & Islands Enterprise has announced that an unnamed company is planning to set up a call centre in Aviemore, with the creation of 300 jobs. 17-Jan-2000
Motion Media, the Bristol-based videophones company, is to seek a full listing on the London Stock Exchange this spring. 17-Jan-2000
Nortel Networks is to build a new telecoms network across 96 European cities for Vine Telecom, a new UK carrier that is seeking more than £400m of financing. 17-Jan-2000
NTL has won a £10m contract to build a new radio communications network for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 17-Jan-2000
One-2-One is planning to set up a call centre for its mobile phone business in Wales, with the creation of 800 jobs, and a number of potential sites are being considered. 15-Jan-2000
NextCall is to open an office in Glasgow with the creation of up to 60 sales jobs, following a successful pilot scheme for its low-cost phone service in Aberdeen. 14-Jan-2000
Cable & Wireless has bought a further eight internet service providers in continental Europe, and is looking to invest a further £300m in the expansion of its network. 14-Jan-2000
Plymouth City Council is to consider plans from EBC Developments for the construction of a 100,000 sq ft call centre at Roborough, which could lead to the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 13-Jan-2000
Pace Micro Technology is creating a further 200 jobs at sites in Bradford, Cambridge and the US, in order to cope with rising demand for its digital TV set-top boxes. 12-Jan-2000
DX Communications is planning to expand its chain of mobile phone shops from 170 to 350, and will create 600 jobs including 100 at its call centre in Glasgow. 12-Jan-2000
Seiko Instruments is to close its electronics factory in Livingston with the loss of 100 jobs, and production of microthermal printers and watch components will be transferred to the Far East. 12-Jan-2000
Vodafone AirTouch is to develop new ways of accessing the internet from mobile phones, in partnership with IBM, Nokia, Sun, Ericsson, Palm Computing and Psion. 12-Jan-2000
Opsys has raised £1.5m to fund the development of new light-emitting materials for small electronic displays, and expects to recruit 20 new staff at its headquarters on Oxford University's Begbroke Science Park. 11-Jan-2000
NewMedia Spark has acquired a £0.7m stake in Purple Voice, in order to help the company with the development of software that transmits voice over computer networks. 10-Jan-2000
Integralis, the IT security company, is to move into a 20,000 sq ft office in Theale, Berkshire. 08-Jan-2000
Sage, the accounting software company, has announced plans to move into a new 475,000 sq ft office at the Newcastle Great Park development, as part of an expansion programme that will create up to 1,000 jobs in the north east. 06-Jan-2000
British Telecom has bought 55 yellow-page directories from Sprint Publishing & Advertising for £27m, in order to strengthen the presence of its Yellow Book USA subsidiary in the Chicago area. 06-Jan-2000
British Telecom and Vodafone AirTouch are in negotiations to acquire joint control of Airtel, the Spanish mobile phone group, rather than compete against each other for a larger stake. 03-Jan-2000
Racal Electronics is said to be close to agreeing a takeover offer from Thomson-CSF of France, having held informal talks for about a year. 01-Jan-2000
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