TTPCom, the developer of digital wireless communications technology, is to set up a new 45,000 sq ft headquarters on the Melbourn Science Park in Royston next year. 31-Dec-2001

Liverpool City Council is in talks with British Telecom about the possibility of setting up a call centre to handle calls on behalf of other UK local authorities, which could create 500 jobs. 31-Dec-2001

Cedar, the supplier of customer relationship software, is in advanced talks with three potential bidders, and has warned that it will file for insolvency if the negotiations fail. 31-Dec-2001

Seeda, the South East of England Development Agency, is planning to set up 10 more high technology business centres in order to bring start-up companies and universities together with established businesses and venture capitalists. 31-Dec-2001

QA, the IT training consultancy, is to set up a new administration centre for 200 staff at the Delta Business Park in Swindon in January. 24-Dec-2001

Public Network has acquired 775 new and used internet kiosks from Yava, as part of a strategy to gain access to sites belonging to the Ministry of Defence and a number of leisure groups. 21-Dec-2001

NEC Semiconductors is to mothball its microchip plant in Livingston in March with the loss of 1,260 jobs. 19-Dec-2001

British Telecom and Excite are closing the Excite UK internet portal with the loss of up to 48 London-based staff, having failed to find a buyer. 18-Dec-2001

IBM is seeking a suitable site in Liverpool for an IT service centre for 100 staff to handle a contract with Royal & Sun Alliance, and the deal involves the transfer of 285 R&SA employees at sites including Horsham, Bristol and Halifax. 17-Dec-2001

London Electricity has set up a new subsidiary called 51 degrees to offer broadband capacity in central London to other telecoms companies. 17-Dec-2001

Telecom Service Centres has announced plans to create 600 jobs at call centres throughout the west of Scotland and the Highlands over the next two years, following a rise in demand from the telecoms and financial services industries. 14-Dec-2001

Marconi is to invest £15m in the production of 28,000 internet-enabled payphone terminals, which will be installed and managed by British Telecom at sites around the country. 13-Dec-2001

ICL has announced plans to shed 1,500 jobs in its computer services and software business, which will affect 300 UK-based offices. 13-Dec-2001

Radioscape, the London-based communications technology company, has secured a £3.5m investment from Scottish Equity Partners, as part of a £15m fundraising exercise. 12-Dec-2001

British Telecom is to invest £12m in a pilot project offering broadband internet access in remote parts of Cornwall, and will supply hardware and business support as part of an all-inclusive package. 11-Dec-2001

Northbrook Technology has announced plans to create 300 jobs in Belfast and 250 in Londonderry in a £11m investment in software development. 10-Dec-2001

PSINet Europe, the Cambridge-based internet service provider, is moving its technical support operation to Switzerland and shedding 55 jobs. 05-Dec-2001

British Telecom is to shed a further 4,000 jobs in its retail division by 2003, as part of a strategy to reduce costs by £650m. 05-Dec-2001

TeleWork Systems, the developer of telecoms-related software, is planning to shed 25% of its 250-strong workforce. 04-Dec-2001

Regus, the serviced office provider, is to outsource its IT support systems to a consortium headed by Compaq in a £25m deal. 04-Dec-2001

Hutchison 3G is looking into the possibility of setting up a call centre at the vacant BT building in Nantgarw near Cardiff, with the creation of 400 jobs, and is said to be in negotiations with the Welsh Development Agency. 30-Nov-2001

Zeus Technology has raised £3.5m in a fourth funding round, in order to develop new distribution channels for its internet software. 28-Nov-2001

Synphonix, the Edinburgh-based IT recruitment agency, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 20 jobs. 28-Nov-2001

Terahertz Photonics is to close its optical device division and mothball its coatings division with the loss of most of the 36 staff, having been unable to secure additional funding. 28-Nov-2001

E-blana, the Dublin-based software company, is to set up a new office at the Atek centre in Armagh in January, which will involve the relocation of 30 employees and the creation of up to 10 new jobs. 28-Nov-2001

Marconi has raised £20m from the sale of its 21% stake in Siemens Telecommunications, and a further £25m will come from the sale of 6m shares in Lottomatica of Italy. 28-Nov-2001

British Telecom is to transfer about 350 employees to Telereal, the joint venture between Land Securities and the Pears Group that is acquiring BT's property portfolio for £2.38bn. 27-Nov-2001

MMO2, the recently-demerged mobile phones arm of BT, is to shed 200 IT contracting jobs. 26-Nov-2001

Omne Communications, the provider of TV, telephone and internet services via underground cables, has launched its new Lancaster and Morecambe division, and plans to bring more than 150 jobs to the district. 26-Nov-2001

LANergy is planning to double the workforce of 13 scientists at its new headquarters in Newport, in order to develop new communications networking technology. 22-Nov-2001

Compound Semiconductor Technologies, the hi-tech optoelectronics incubation facility created by Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities at a cost of more than £4m, is expected to be sold to an international consortium of venture capitalists. 22-Nov-2001

Aepona is to shed 35 of the 160 jobs at its Belfast-based telecoms software business. 22-Nov-2001

One-2-One is to shed 900 of the 7,000 jobs in its UK mobile phone business, with most of the cuts affecting its customer services operation. 22-Nov-2001

PA Consulting is to shed up to 200 jobs worldwide, including some administrative jobs at its Melbourn site in Cambridgeshire. 21-Nov-2001

National Grid is looking to sell its Latin American telecoms interests, while its one-third stake in Energis will be put up for sale in the future. 21-Nov-2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is to shed a further 750 jobs in its UK-based IT consulting business. 21-Nov-2001

The Welsh Development Agency has announced plans to set up a £9m Centre for Advanced Software Technology in Bangor, in order to initiate the development of a cluster of software companies in North Wales. 16-Nov-2001

Communisis, the information management company, is planning a £1.2m expansion at its factory in Lisburn, with the creation of 20 jobs. 16-Nov-2001

Hutchison 3G is to set up a headquarters and customer care centre for its new-generation mobile phones business in Glasgow, with the creation of more than 600 jobs over the next three years. 15-Nov-2001

Plexus is to shed 41 of the 300 jobs at its electronics assembly plant in Kelso. 15-Nov-2001

IQE has raised £20m in a rights issue to fund the production of a new silicon wafer for Motorola, which could lead to the creation of about 300 jobs in Wales. 15-Nov-2001

Energis is to shed 250 jobs at offices in London, Reading and Leeds, and has also announced new bank facilities of up to £850m that could be used for the acquisition of smaller telecoms companies. 14-Nov-2001

Ubiquity Software is to shed 48 jobs, including 27 in Newport and 21 in Canada. 12-Nov-2001

Myratech is to shed 15 of the 45 jobs in its Birmingham-based e-commerce business. 12-Nov-2001

Domain Dynamics has secured a £3m cash investment to speed up the commercial development of voice authentication and word recognition systems for handheld devices and smart cards. 09-Nov-2001

Agilent Technologies is to shed up to 165 jobs in its Ipswich-based electronic components business. 08-Nov-2001

British Telecom is to close its directory inquiries centre in York in March, which will involve the loss of 60 temporary jobs and the transfer of 35 permanent staff to the customer services department. 08-Nov-2001

Kyushu Matsushita Electric is to close its telecoms equipment factory in Cwmbran next year, and transfer all 130 employees to a new facility at its Newport site. 07-Nov-2001

British Telecom is to test a new broadband wireless technology called mesh radio in partnership with Cambridge-based Radiant Networks, which could be used to deliver high-speed internet and entertainment services to homes and offices. 07-Nov-2001

Terence Chapman is considering plans to expand into management consulting, using the £16m proceeds from the sale of its back-office software business. 06-Nov-2001

Spider Software is planning to start manufacturing telephone network equipment in Scotland within three years, with its Edinburgh headquarters becoming the focus of its European and Asian sales operation. 05-Nov-2001

StepStone is to close its UK online recruitment business and similar operations in other European countries, with the loss of about 500 jobs. 05-Nov-2001

Lattice has acquired the remaining 50% stake in SpectraSite Transco Communications, the UK telecoms masts business, from joint venture partner SpectraSite Communications of the US for £7m. 02-Nov-2001

Alcatel of France is to shed 90 of the 350 jobs at its telecoms plant in Livingston, as part of a European restructuring programme. 01-Nov-2001

Scottish Enterprise has launched a £9m five-year plan to boost the Scottish electronics industry, including a new apprenticeship scheme to train employees in new technology and research work. 01-Nov-2001

Viglen has won a £16m contract from Northern Ireland's Department of Education to supply 5,200 computers to primary schools. 31-Oct-2001

Telesens KSCL is to shed 350 jobs in its global billing software business, including 90 redundancies in Edinburgh. 31-Oct-2001

British Telecom is to sell its Apollo call centre in Belfast to HCL Technologies of India for £9m, which will involve the transfer of up to 460 staff. 30-Oct-2001

Xnet is to open a software integration and support centre in Belfast, creating 30 jobs over the next three years. 29-Oct-2001

Asita Technologies is to receive an investment of £16m from Softbank Europe Ventures and the European Technology Fund for the development of internet encryption products. 29-Oct-2001

Patsystems is shedding 45 jobs in its electronic trading software business. 29-Oct-2001

Knowledge Management Software is to close its venture capital division and review its US operations, in an attempt to return to profitability by next year. 29-Oct-2001

Cedar is to restructure its software business, which will involve the rationalisation of offices in the UK and US and the loss of 320 jobs. 26-Oct-2001

The National Assembly for Wales is to invest £18m in speeding up the installation of broadband internet technology over the next six months, with the money going to Welsh schools, colleges and local authorities. 25-Oct-2001

Robinson Nugent is considering plans to close its electronics plant at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire, with the loss of 90 jobs. 24-Oct-2001

FCI Electronics is planning to close one of its two factories in Glasgow, with the loss of up to 140 jobs. 24-Oct-2001

Northbrook Technology, a subsidiary of US-based Allstate Insurance, is to set up a 70,000 sq ft office at the Lanyon Place development in Belfast. 24-Oct-2001

Superscape is to shed 34 jobs from its 118-strong workforce and refocus its virtual reality business on the mobile phone market, which will involve the development of 3D games and messaging systems. 24-Oct-2001

Nortel Networks has announced plans to shed a further 700 jobs in Paignton, due to a fall in demand from the mobile phone industry. 24-Oct-2001

Sun Microsystems of the US has been selected as the private sector partner for the development of a £400m global online university, and will get an equity stake in the operating company UK eUniversities Worldwide. 22-Oct-2001

Inca Digital is planning to expand its workforce from 70 to 250 over the next four years, following the relocation of its print technology research operation to larger premises in Cambridge. 22-Oct-2001

E-know.net of Telford has secured a further £1.2m of venture capital from 3i to fund its expansion in the business software market. 19-Oct-2001

Europa Magnetics is seeking government funding to expand its computer disks factory and offices in Cramlington, which could lead to the creation of 200 jobs. 19-Oct-2001

Xaar is to relocate its inkjet printing technology manufacturing base from Cambridge to Stockholm by April with the loss of 45 jobs, and the Cambridge site will focus on research. 18-Oct-2001

Vodafone is to shed 600 jobs in its domestic mobile phone business, including 250 at its Newbury headquarters. 17-Oct-2001

British Telecom is to set up a £90m BT Ignite data centre at the Celtic Gateway development in Cardiff Bay, which will provide website hosting services and employ 200 people by the end of next year. 15-Oct-2001

TS&S Global is planning a £1.5m expansion at its Kingsway telecoms repair facility in North Lincolnshire, including a new factory, warehouse, offices and a probable increase in the 160-strong workforce. 15-Oct-2001

Consignia is linking up with Tele2 of Sweden to offer pre-paid cards that will give post office customers access to a cut-price leased telecoms network. 15-Oct-2001

Thales, the defence electronics group, is looking to raise up to £1.5bn from the sale and leaseback of its continental property estate. 15-Oct-2001

Celoxica is raising £20m of venture capital to fund the development of software for silicon chip design. 15-Oct-2001

Netcentric, the developer of web content management software, is being wound-up with the loss of the remaining 10 jobs. 12-Oct-2001

I-documentsystems, the supplier of document management systems, has opened an office in Glasgow and aims to create up to 45 jobs helping councils establish electronic services. 12-Oct-2001

AVX is to close its electronic components plant in Larne, County Antrim, with the loss of up to 65 jobs. 12-Oct-2001

Surface Technology Systems, the Newport-based manufacturer of semiconductor machines, is to shed up to one third of its 330-strong workforce. 11-Oct-2001

Compaq is to shed 75 of the 300 jobs at its computer repair facility at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. 11-Oct-2001

Reel Service is to shed about 35 of the 140 jobs at its electronics plant in Glenrothes. 11-Oct-2001

118UK, the provider of directory inquiry information services, is to create 250 new jobs at its Cardiff call centre, in preparation for the deregulation of the market. 11-Oct-2001

Knowledge Support Systems is to move the focus of its software business from telecoms to the petroleum and retail sectors, in a restructuring programme that will halve its workforce. 10-Oct-2001

Aspects Software is to shed between 20 and 50 of the 100 staff at its Edinburgh-based smart cards business. 08-Oct-2001

Virgin is forming a £68m joint venture with Sprint to offer pre-paid mobile phones in the US. 08-Oct-2001

National Grid has agreed to install radio antenna for Hutchison 3G's mobile phone network on up to 1,000 of its electricity pylons. 08-Oct-2001

British Telecom is in talks to outsource its accounting and financial operations, which would involve the transfer of about 500 Birmingham and London-based staff to Xansa of Hemel Hempstead. 05-Oct-2001

Garlands is recruiting a further 100 staff at its outsourcing call centre in Hartlepool, and plans to open a third Teesside centre in the coming months which will employ 500 staff within three years. 05-Oct-2001

Lucent Technologies is planning to close two offices in Malmesbury and Chippenham, although some of the administration and research staff may be relocated to other sites in Swindon. 05-Oct-2001

Colt Telecom has raised £400m in a share issue to finance the expansion of its European network of internet hosting centres. 04-Oct-2001

Native Networks, the Israeli-based developer of optical computer networks with 84 staff, is planning to relocate its headquarters to London. 04-Oct-2001

Alcatel has announced plans to shed 650 jobs at its telecoms plant in Greenwich. 04-Oct-2001

Accenture, the management and technology consultancy, has agreed to take 375,000 sq ft of office space at the Plantation Place development in the City of London, which is due for completion in 2004. 04-Oct-2001

Amino Communications has raised a further £3m of private equity for the continued expansion of its Cambridge-based network appliances business. 04-Oct-2001

Stortext, the Edinburgh-based software company, has secured a further £3.8m of venture capital in order to invest in R&D, new premises in Dunstable and the expansion of its sales and marketing team. 04-Oct-2001

NTL is to close a telecoms call centre in Huddersfield with the loss of up to 160 jobs. 04-Oct-2001

Sage is planning to shed up to 30 management jobs in order to improve the efficiency of its Newcastle-based software business. 04-Oct-2001

WorldCom of the US is to shed about 1,000 jobs in its European telecom and internet business, with most of the cuts taking place in the UK. 02-Oct-2001

IMS Response is to create an additional 150 jobs at its call centre near Keighley in Yorkshire, due to rising demand for its customer response services. 02-Oct-2001

Nexsan Technologies is planning to relocate the Derby office of its data storage equipment business and 20 staff to larger premises at Pride Park in March, with the creation of 10 new jobs. 02-Oct-2001

Virgin Mobile is creating a further 100 jobs at its mobile phone customer call centre in Trowbridge. 01-Oct-2001

Nokia, the Finnish telecoms company, is planning to take 100,000 sq ft of office space at the Chiswick Park business park in London. 01-Oct-2001

London Borough of Lewisham has agreed a £70m five-year deal with ICL and KPMG to update the authority's IT infrastructure and put its services online by 2004. 28-Sep-2001

Logica is said to be planning to shed up to 250 of the 5,000 jobs in its IT consultancy business. 28-Sep-2001

Digital Bridges has secured a further £13m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its Dunfermline-based mobile games business. 28-Sep-2001

NewNet is relocating its internet business to larger premises on the Cams Hall Estate in Fareham, and expects to create up to 50 new jobs. 27-Sep-2001

Insight Enterprises, the US hardware and internet technology group, has confirmed plans to start work on the development of a £70m headquarters in Sheffield next year, with the creation of 1,700 jobs. 27-Sep-2001

Damovo, the communications direct sales and service operation, is planning to create 140 jobs at a new site in Glasgow. 27-Sep-2001

Marconi is considering plans to sell off property worth up to £100m in order reduce debt, and has also announced the £43m sale of a stake in Lagardere of France. 27-Sep-2001

Reed Executive is planning to invest £6m in its internet-based recruitment business this year. 26-Sep-2001

Thales has confirmed plans to close the former Racal Electronics plant in Bracknell, with the loss of 470 jobs. 26-Sep-2001

British Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have announced plans to jointly develop third-generation mobile networks, in order to save up to £2.5bn in capital expenditure. 24-Sep-2001

Cedar Group is looking to sell its Sword bingo gaming subsidiary, which has a 10-year contract with the Club & Institute Union to operate the Carousel national bingo game. 24-Sep-2001

Telegate, the German information services provider, has announced plans to create 400 jobs at a new call centre in Dumfries, following Oftel's decision to open the 192 directory enquiries service to competition. 21-Sep-2001

Misco is expanding its computer products sales and support centre in Wellingborough, and expects the workforce to grow from 250 to 600 over the next five years. 21-Sep-2001

Motorola is considering plans to shed up to 500 jobs at its mobile phone base stations plant in Swindon. 21-Sep-2001

Merant is to relocate its US headquarters from Maryland to Oregon at a cost of £10m, as part of the reorganisation of its internet software business. 21-Sep-2001

Pressac, the communications equipment manufacturer, is considering plans to close its head office in Derby and relocate the 10 staff to other sites. 20-Sep-2001

Project Telecom has won planning permission for the £4m expansion of its customer services centre in Newark, with the creation of 200 jobs. 20-Sep-2001

Tiny is creating 100 new jobs at its customer service and technical support centres in Redhill. 18-Sep-2001

Sopheon is in merger talks with Orbital, the Edinburgh-based software company. 17-Sep-2001

Lattice has won a contract to provide long-distance phone services for Hutchison 3G, using its 2,000km national fibre optic network currently under development. 14-Sep-2001

Consignia has launched a £30m scheme to provide new services in post offices, which will involve kiosks giving information on jobs, training, benefits and grants. 14-Sep-2001

BDR Consulting is to set up a £0.8m e-business systems integration campus at the Floral Buildings in Belfast's new Market Quarter, with the creation of 45 jobs. 13-Sep-2001

Stafford Borough Council has announced plans for a £5m investment in improving the computer skills of local companies, having successfully bid for funds from the government's Single Regeneration Budget. 13-Sep-2001

Prudential has terminated a £35m contract with Unisys for the development of systems for the online processing of new pensions and policies, and may look for a new partner. 13-Sep-2001

BPS Teleperformance is setting up a new teleservices call centre in Edgbaston later this month, as part of an expansion at its Birmingham-based business that will create 275 jobs. 12-Sep-2001

Carmarthenshire County Council has announced that Elev8 Solutions of Ireland is planning to set up an outsourcing call centre in Ammanford, with the creation of 266 jobs. 12-Sep-2001

Damovo, the former direct sales operation of Ericsson, is looking to set up a global headquarters in the UK, and potential sites are being considered in Scotland, London, Manchester and the Thames Valley. 12-Sep-2001

Ericsson is looking to sell its St James's Square head office in London, in order to relocate the staff to an office in Wigmore Street. 10-Sep-2001

Atlantic Telecom, the operator of business networks in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, has put itself up for sale. 10-Sep-2001

CITEL Technologies has secured £5.4m of private equity to fund the expansion of its Nottingham-based computer telephony business. 07-Sep-2001

Spektra Systems is planning to create 60 new jobs in its e-commerce software business, having just opened a new office at the Alba Campus in Livingston. 07-Sep-2001

Quest, the US software group, is creating 20 jobs at a new sales and support office in Sheffield. 07-Sep-2001

Matsushita Communication Industrial is planning to close the Panasonic mobile phone plant in Thatcham with the loss of 300 jobs. 06-Sep-2001

Carlisle City Council is to consider plans from Capita BS for the development of a £3m business centre at Kingmoor Park, which will house up to 500 staff working for the former design and business service of Cumbria County Council. 06-Sep-2001

Celestica is to close its circuit board factory in Ashton near Manchester with the loss of 570 jobs, while a further 450 jobs will go at its assembly plant in Stoke-on-Trent. 06-Sep-2001

Redbus Interhouse, the operator of internet co-location facilities, is to drop plans for a £20m expansion programme in 2002, but will go ahead with its immediate plan to triple its space in London and add sites in Prague and Amsterdam. 06-Sep-2001

Applied Materials, the US semiconductor company, is said to be considering plans to close its Edinburgh office with the loss of 150 jobs. 05-Sep-2001

Cramer Systems is to shed 40 of the 200 staff at its Bath-based network management software business. 05-Sep-2001

Marconi has announced plans for a further 2,000 job cuts, including 600 in the UK, and will make disposals of up to £500m to focus on its core network communications business. 05-Sep-2001

Argonaut Games has bought the remaining 70% of LTStudios, the Oxfordshire-based computer games development company. 04-Sep-2001

BT Wireless is to rebrand its European mobile phone operations as O2 over the coming months, in order to create a new identity when it demerges from British Telecom. 04-Sep-2001

European PCB Group is planning to shed 850 jobs at the two Viasystems electronics plants on Tyneside, prompting speculation that the Longbenton factory will close. 04-Sep-2001

Public Network is planning to raise £1.2m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its network of 300 public internet kiosks. 03-Sep-2001

The Scottish Executive is taking steps to encourage the development of broadband internet services in rural areas, which will involve users being grouped together and tenders being offered to telecoms companies. 03-Sep-2001

Razorfish, the US-based internet consultancy, is closing its London office with the loss of up to 53 jobs. 31-Aug-2001

JDS Uniphase is to close its two fibre optic component factories in Plymouth with the loss of up to 120 jobs, and the remaining workers will be transferred to its Torquay plant. 30-Aug-2001

TeleCity is to shed up to 10% of the 300 staff in its web hosting business, and has also announced the termination of merger talks with Redbus Interhouse. 30-Aug-2001

Communicata, the East Lothian-based internet software company, has gone into liquidation with the loss of about 15 jobs. 27-Aug-2001

Zarlink Semiconductor, the supplier of communications components formerly known as Mitel, is to shed a further 60 jobs in Swindon. 27-Aug-2001

British Telecom is planning to shed up to 1,000 jobs in its BT Wireless mobile phone business, with most of the cuts taking place in Ireland and the Netherlands. 27-Aug-2001

Agilent Technologies of the US is to shed up to 150 jobs at its test and measurement equipment plant in Edinburgh, as part of a plan to reduce its worldwide workforce by 4,000. 23-Aug-2001

Baltimore Technologies is to restructure its software business by shedding a further 220 jobs and by putting its Content Technologies division up for sale. 23-Aug-2001

Fujitsu of Japan is planning to shed about 16,400 jobs worldwide, including an estimated 900 at its ICL and DMR computer services operations in the UK. 21-Aug-2001

Baron Corporation, the supplier of software to golf clubs, has put itself up for sale having failed to find rescue financing. 21-Aug-2001

Neptune Developments is in negotiations with a call centre operator interested in taking Hangar Two at the former city airport in Speke, which could lead to the creation of up to 400 jobs. 20-Aug-2001

Eircom is to shed a further 50 jobs at its data handling division in Belfast. 16-Aug-2001

EuroTelecom, the communications and internet group, has been closed down having failed to secure a rescue deal. 16-Aug-2001

StepStone, the online recruitment agency, is to close a number of regional offices with the loss of 40 jobs. 15-Aug-2001

Tiny is transferring its PC production from China to Scotland with the creation of 160 jobs, having awarded a £40m five-year manufacturing contract to Fullarton Computer Industries of Prestwick. 15-Aug-2001

Serif, the Nottingham-based desktop publishing and software company, is planning to recruit up to 50 sales staff, upgrade its warehousing operation and expand its customer call centre. 14-Aug-2001

Sherwood International is to close its e2-one internet division in order to focus on insurance software and services. 14-Aug-2001

RiverSoft has announced plans to shed a further 90 jobs in its network software business. 13-Aug-2001

Kewill Systems is to reduce operating costs in its supply chain software business by shedding 90 administrative and marketing staff. 10-Aug-2001

Glasgow City Council has approved plans from TCI and Stonemartin for the development of a £50m internet exchange next to the proposed City-Science project in the Merchant City area. 09-Aug-2001

Gateway of the US is planning to close its computer operations in Ireland and the UK with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs at sites in Dublin and Uxbridge. 09-Aug-2001

Affinity Internet is to acquire the UK indirect residential telecoms customer base of Atlantic Telecom for £1.8m. 06-Aug-2001

Appsmart, the supplier of analytical software packages, is to close down with the loss of 12 jobs in Aberdeen and Guildford. 06-Aug-2001

BitWise is planning to relocate its Dunfermline-based software development centre to larger premises at the Carnegie Campus Business Park, with the creation of up to 45 new jobs. 03-Aug-2001

Ericsson is in negotiations to sell its Leicester-based data communications equipment operation to a management team, and the business would revert to its original name of Camtec Electronics. 03-Aug-2001

Recognition Systems, the marketing software company, is planning to raise £12m in a share placing, shed up to 40 jobs and change its name to Protagona. 02-Aug-2001

QSP is planning to reduce costs in its financial services software business by cutting its headcount by 24% to 495. 02-Aug-2001

Arc International is planning to shed 20% of its 292-strong workforce this year in order to stem losses in its semiconductor business. 02-Aug-2001

Oftel is planning to deregulate the £300m market for telephone number information, in order to provide alternatives to the 192 directory inquiries service. 01-Aug-2001

NEC is to shed 600 jobs at its semiconductor plant in Livingston, as part of a worldwide restructuring programme that will involve the loss of 4,000 jobs. 01-Aug-2001

British Telecom and Gilat of the US are to introduce a high-speed satellite internet service in rural areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland from November, which will require the installation of satellite dishes. 31-Jul-2001

Filtronic has agreed a rescue package with BAe Systems and M/A-Com of the US to save 116 jobs at its microwave technology plant in Newton Aycliffe, which will involve a shift in production from the mobile phone market to the defence sector. 31-Jul-2001

TMB Computer Services has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of almost 50 jobs at offices in Denmead and Nutbourne. 31-Jul-2001

Vertex is planning to launch a major recruitment drive to fill 700 jobs at its new £6.5m call centre in Whitehaven, which is due to open in November. 30-Jul-2001

British Telecom is considering plans to open luxury warehouse-style apartments in a number of unused telephone exchanges, starting with the top three floors of the Marylebone exchange in London. 27-Jul-2001

ITG is raising £18m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its computer services business into France and Germany, and will rename itself Alphyra. 27-Jul-2001

Global Highland is creating more than 40 jobs following the creation of two new divisions - Global Highland Management Services and Global Highland Training & Consultancy. 26-Jul-2001

Storm Telecommunications has raised £25m of private equity to fund the introduction of new ethernet and internet protocol services to complement its European optical network. 26-Jul-2001

Empire Interactive is raising £6m in a share placing in order to fund the distribution of new computer games. 26-Jul-2001

Lucent Technologies is planning to shed at least 15,000 jobs in its global telecoms equipment business, which will include cuts in its 3,000-strong UK workforce. 25-Jul-2001

Unilever is planning to create a further 50 jobs at its new European IT infrastructure headquarters in Flintshire, taking the total workforce at the site to more than 500. 24-Jul-2001

Arrow Electronics is planning to shed 40 of the 450 jobs at its site in Harlow. 24-Jul-2001

Dalau is to shed 35 jobs at its mobile phone components factory in Clacton. 24-Jul-2001

C&D Technologies is planning to close its electronic components factory in Workington in October, with the loss of 56 jobs. 23-Jul-2001

Photonic Materials has raised £8m of venture capital to fund the development of a manufacturing facility for its optoelectronics technology. 23-Jul-2001

Smart Modular Technologies is planning to shed about 90 jobs at its East Kilbride factory, in order to transfer production of embedded computer boards to its sister company in Germany. 20-Jul-2001

Computing Devices Canada has won a £1.8bn contract to supply a battlefield radio system to the Ministry of Defence, and will set up a headquarters at Blackwood in Wales and create up to 1,600 jobs at sites across the UK. 20-Jul-2001

The government is to relaunch a radio spectrum auction in order to encourage the development of high-speed internet services in rural areas. 20-Jul-2001

Misys is to shed 150 jobs in its banking software division, including 20 in the UK, and will relocate its online support facility to Manilla. 20-Jul-2001

Thales is expected to shed at least 400 jobs in Harrow and Bracknell, having failed to win the Ministry of Defence battlefield radio contract. 20-Jul-2001

IBM is setting up a regional headquarters at the Thorpe Park business park on the outskirts of Leeds, and the building is expected to house around 400 staff after completion in March 2002. 19-Jul-2001

MoTech Software is to close its newly-opened European headquarters in Livingston with the loss of 40 jobs. 19-Jul-2001

APW is to close its electronic components factory in Dundee with the loss of 200 jobs, in order to concentrate production at its other plants in Hamilton and Beith. 18-Jul-2001

Mitek Group, the computer component distributor, is to relocate from High Carr Business Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme to a larger warehouse and office block at the Rosevale Business Park. 17-Jul-2001

Yospace is to receive £0.25m from the West Midlands Advantage Technology Fund to expand its wireless technology business into the region. 17-Jul-2001

Alcatel of France is to shed 300 jobs in its UK telecoms equipment business, which will affect sites in Maidenhead, Banbury, Newport, Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs. 17-Jul-2001

AVT Microsystems is planning to expand its workforce from 40 to 80 over the next 18 months, following its move into larger offices in Maid Marian Way, Nottingham. 16-Jul-2001

Caudwell is said to be considering plans to open a new mobile phone repair factory outside North Staffordshire, due to a shortage of skilled labour in the area. 16-Jul-2001

Global Crossing, the US telecoms company, is said to be planning to shed up to 650 jobs at sites in Glasgow and elsewhere in the UK. 16-Jul-2001

Blazepoint has floated on Aim with a valuation of £5.3m, and is planning to reinvent itself as a supplier of internet-enabled kiosks. 16-Jul-2001

Merant, the software group, has put itself up for sale and takeover talks have already started. 16-Jul-2001

Unisys is to set up an office at the 43,000 sq ft Station House in Milton Keynes. 16-Jul-2001

Baltimore Technologies, the internet security group, has rejected a takeover approach from Chantilley Corporation. 13-Jul-2001

British Telecom is planning to separate its fraud protection business into an independent company called Azure, which will have annual sales of about £500m and 200 staff. 13-Jul-2001

DigiPlex is to lease its entire London data centre to Deutsche Bank, in a £50m deal that will provide hosting facilities for Deutsche Bank's internet and telecoms equipment. 13-Jul-2001

Psion is to stop producing handheld computers for the consumer market, with the loss of 250 jobs, in order to focus on industrial handheld devices and high-speed networking technology. 12-Jul-2001

QA, the IT training company, is planning to reduce costs by £1m a year by closing three satellite offices and shedding 5% of its workforce. 12-Jul-2001

Picsel Technologies of Glasgow has secured £7.7m of venture capital to fund the commercial development of software that enables several applications to run on the screen of a mobile device. 11-Jul-2001

Terence Chapman, the financial software and IT consultancy, is planning to reduce costs by £3m a year and shed about 10% of its workforce. 11-Jul-2001

Profec Technologies is planning to shed up to 46 of the 73 jobs at its telecoms components plant in Martlesham Heath. 10-Jul-2001

Project Telecom has acquired the UK Cellnet and Vodafone subscriber base of Newgate Communications for £3.2m. 06-Jul-2001

Albera Networks, the telecoms consultancy, is planning to merge with e2e-IT to form Albera Solutions, and the 33 staff will be moved to larger premises at the St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge. 06-Jul-2001

Specialist Computer Holdings has closed its TW2 e-commerce software business with the loss of about 50 jobs. 06-Jul-2001

ClientLogic is setting up a call centre in Exeter to support customers of British Telecom's internet service, and has already recruited 230 of the 270 staff required. 05-Jul-2001

Polatis is planning to increase the workforce at its new optical switch manufacturing centre on the Cambridge Science Park from 40 to 100 over the next 12 months. 04-Jul-2001

DuPont Photomasks has sold its semiconductor fabrication facility in Hamilton to Intense Photonics, and Intense will transfer equipment from its Glasgow laboratories to get the site operational by September. 04-Jul-2001

British Telecom is selling its 33% stake in Rogers Wireless, the Canadian mobile phone operator, to AT&T for £269m. 04-Jul-2001

Itouch is to acquire a 75% stake in Telequity, the Australian telecoms services company, from Channel 7. 03-Jul-2001

NCorp, the developer of online trading software, is moving to larger premises at the Cambridge Business Park and plans to increase its 25-strong workforce by 50% over the next 12 months. 02-Jul-2001

OnCue Communications, the Manchester-based supplier of broadband internet services, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 105 of the 135 jobs. 02-Jul-2001

Meridio, the developer of document management software products, is to invest £11m in Belfast with the creation of 120 new jobs. 29-Jun-2001

JDS Uniphase is to shed 250 of the 590 jobs at its Sifam fibre optics factories in Plymouth and Torquay. 29-Jun-2001

Comeleon is looking to create up to 300 jobs in its County Durham-based business over the next three years, due to anticipated demand for its personalised imaging technology from mobile phone users. 29-Jun-2001

EDS is creating a further 50 jobs in Swansea to meet rising demand for its IT services. 28-Jun-2001

PowerGen is planning to provide home computers and internet access to its 5,000 UK staff, at a cost of £2m. 27-Jun-2001

ICS Computing, the Belfast-based software development and payroll services company, is planning to open new offices in London, Glasgow and Dublin. 27-Jun-2001

Border Precision is to shed a further 52 jobs at its Kelso factory, following a fall in demand from the telecoms industry. 27-Jun-2001

The South East England Development Agency has announced that Krystaltech Lynx Europe, the German distributor of computer components, is to set up a UK headquarters at Cams Hall in Fareham, with the creation of up to 20 jobs. 27-Jun-2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is cutting about 2,700 jobs in its worldwide IT services business. 27-Jun-2001

Vodafone is to create a further 50 jobs at its mobile phone customer contact centre in Blacklands Way, Abingdon. 26-Jun-2001

Nortel is to shed a further 330 jobs at Monkstown in County Antrim, taking the workforce down to 1,600. 26-Jun-2001

Aiwa of Japan is to shed 95 jobs at its electronics plant in South Wales, as part of a strategy to focus more on the contract manufacturing market. 25-Jun-2001

Radiant Networks is raising £25m in third-round funding to develop its Cambridge-based broadband technology business. 25-Jun-2001

Plasmon is raising £10m in a share placing to fund the development of ultra density optical drives. 25-Jun-2001

Fujitsu is to drop the ICL name from its UK technology division and incorporate the business into its global brand. 22-Jun-2001

IMS Response is creating 50 new jobs at its call centre in Steeton, near Keighley, due to rising demand for its customer response services. 22-Jun-2001

Bookham Technology is to shed a further 100 jobs at its Swindon plant, due to falling demand for optical components. 21-Jun-2001

Level 3, the US telecoms company, is to cut more than 300 jobs from its 900-strong UK workforce, as part of a plan to shed 1,400 staff worldwide. 20-Jun-2001

Liverpool City Council has been approached by FiberCore of the US about the possibility of setting up a fibre optics factory in the city, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 20-Jun-2001

ESM is to shed a further 99 jobs at its semiconductor plant in Newport, reducing the total workforce to about 600. 20-Jun-2001

USI of Taiwan is to shed 160 of the 260 jobs at its contract electronics manufacturing business in Irvine. 19-Jun-2001

Tadpole Technology, the Cambridge-based developer of portable computer technology, is to shed up to 15% of its 150-strong workforce, with most of the losses taking place in California. 18-Jun-2001

Opal Telecom of Warrington is to invest a further £20m on its telecoms network, product range and salesforce and is creating 50 new jobs. 18-Jun-2001

Nimans is creating 50 new jobs at its telecoms distribution business in Salford Quays, following the recent relocation of its business-to-business mail order operation into new premises. 18-Jun-2001

Acuid has secured £5.7m in equity finance from HgCapital to fund the development of new technology for increasing computer processing speeds, and is planning to set up a design centre in Scotland or Ireland. 18-Jun-2001

Redstone Telecom is considering plans to restructure its business in order to raise £25m in a rescue share issue. 15-Jun-2001

InVision Software of Germany is to set up a £0.5m software development centre in Londonderry with the creation of 30 jobs. 15-Jun-2001

Multimedia Workshop of the US has opened its first UK office in Bristol, in order to provide training services in web design and software applications. 14-Jun-2001

British Telecom has confirmed plans to sell its UK property portfolio to a joint venture between Land Securities Trillium and William Pears Group for £2.3bn. 14-Jun-2001

British Telecom is forming a partnership with Deutsche Telekom to develop third generation mobile networks in the UK and Germany, which will involve their BT Wireless and One-2-One subsidiaries sharing capital expenditure. 13-Jun-2001

Vodafone is to close five directory assistance centres, and the 350 employees will be offered alternative jobs. 13-Jun-2001

Rage Software has secured a £20m funding package to help with its transition into publishing its own computer games. 13-Jun-2001

Dell Computer is to shed up to 275 jobs at sites in Bracknell and Dublin, as part of a plan to cut 4,000 staff worldwide. 13-Jun-2001

ANT is to relocate its internet software business to larger premises on the Cambridge Business Park, and plans to double the size of its 60-strong workforce. 08-Jun-2001

Kymata is planning to shed up to 50 administrative jobs in Livingston, as part of a restructuring of its electronics business. 08-Jun-2001

Iomart is planning to shed almost a third of its 155 jobs in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stornoway due to lack of demand from consumers for its broadband internet service. 07-Jun-2001

SAS of the US is planning to double the size of its Glasgow-based software development business over the next 12 months, adding an unspecified number of jobs to the existing 21. 06-Jun-2001

British Telecom has dropped plans to set up an 800-seat call centre in Nantgarw near Caerphilly, and an alternative occupier is now being sought. 06-Jun-2001

Virgin is seeking a buyer for its virgin.net internet service provider, as NTL has dropped plans to buy full control of the business. 06-Jun-2001

Atlantic Telecom is to shed up to 300 jobs at sites in Glasgow and Aberdeen, and talks are taking place to sell its residential telecoms operation in order to focus on business customers. 06-Jun-2001

Indigo Photonics has secured £4m of venture capital from 3i, in order to combine Aston University's research into optical gratings with the engineering capabilities of Oxford Fiber Optic Tools. 06-Jun-2001

SSS is setting up a new software development office in Nottingham, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 05-Jun-2001

Idesta is raising £6m of venture capital funding to expand its Glasgow-based mobile software business, and will create a further 125 jobs. 05-Jun-2001

Liberty Information Technology of the US is to create a further 40 software development jobs in Belfast this year. 04-Jun-2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is to shed 250 consultancy jobs in the UK, following a downturn in the technology and telecoms market. 04-Jun-2001

Tiscali of Italy is planning to shed 250 jobs in its UK internet operations, in order to integrate recent acquisitions. 04-Jun-2001

Kymata is considering plans for the trade sale of its opto-electronics business, which could be worth about £300m. 01-Jun-2001

Bright Station has raised £13m in a share placing to fund the development of its Smartlogik knowledge management software. 01-Jun-2001

Eidos is planning to raise £51m in a rights issue to provide working capital to prepare for an expected increase in demand for its computer games. 01-Jun-2001

SureSkills of Ireland is setting up a computer training and consultancy business at Upper Arthur Street in Belfast, with the creation of 22 jobs. 31-May-2001

Gameplay, the online games company, has put itself up for sale as a recent restructuring programme has failed to take the business into profit. 31-May-2001

Tiscali of Italy is planning to launch a mobile phone service in the UK and rebrand its recently-acquired LineOne internet business under the Tiscali name. 29-May-2001

Total Repair Solutions is planning to double its workforce to 600 after moving its mobile phone repair business to a new £3m headquarters in Clydebank early next year. 29-May-2001

ICL is considering plans to vacate its office in the West End of London and relocate staff to its other properties, in order to introduce modern working practices. 28-May-2001

Motorola has announced plans to shed a further 200 jobs at sites across the UK, due to a downturn in the electronics market. 28-May-2001

NTL has announced a £1.4bn deal to outsource its IT operations to IBM, which will involve the immediate transfer of about 500 staff. 25-May-2001

British Telecom is to scrap the Cellnet mobile phone brand in order to develop a new international identity in the UK, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. 24-May-2001

Ericsson is in negotiations with an unnamed company to sell its two mobile phone factories in Worksop and north Lincolnshire, which could save more than 1,000 jobs. 23-May-2001

Generics has announced a deal to help Siemens commercialise the research carried out in its laboratories, and a team of about 35 Generics consultants will provide advice in areas such as electronics, telecoms and new materials. 23-May-2001

Joshua Consulting is to open a residential call centre training academy at Talgarth in Mid Wales next month. 22-May-2001

Glotel, the telecoms recruitment company, has scrapped plans to open a further six branches this year, and two offices are being closed and merged into a larger operation in Birmingham. 22-May-2001

Psion and United Business Media have closed their Trivanti mobile internet services joint venture due to lack of demand, with the loss of 16 jobs. 22-May-2001

DAT Group is recruiting a further 22 staff at its new mobile solutions office in York. 21-May-2001

Belkin Components is planning to set up a 238,000 sq ft office and distribution centre at the Express Park in Rushden. 21-May-2001

Anite, the IT group, is discussing plans for a merger with an unnamed company. 21-May-2001

Marconi is considering plans to sell its Ipsaris fibre optic network, and has also outlined plans for the sale of its medical systems business and a £400m restructuring charge relating to 3,000 job losses and an overhaul of IT systems. 18-May-2001

Madison Dearborn Partners is providing £57m of private equity to EON Communications for a £265m project to develop a broadband cable network in northwest England and southwest Scotland. 18-May-2001

ICL is looking to secure new contracts at its Widnes call centre to ensure that the 1,200 staff working on the census will retain their jobs when the processing is finished next year. 17-May-2001

Terahertz Photonics has secured a £0.5m grant from the Scottish Executive to fund the commercial development of components for the opto-electronics industry. 16-May-2001

Baltimore Technologies is to shed 250 jobs in its security software business, in order to save about £15m a year. 16-May-2001

Horizon Technology is to shed 60 jobs in the UK following a fall in demand for its software consultancy services. 16-May-2001

Solectron has confirmed plans to shed 350 jobs at its telecoms equipment plant at Cwmcarn in south Wales. 15-May-2001

Opsys has secured £8m of venture capital backing to fund the development of research facilities for its light-emitting materials business in the US and the UK. 15-May-2001

Photobition, the supplier of graphics displays, is considering plans for a management buy-out. 15-May-2001

Mediasurface is to shed 30 of the 330 jobs in its internet software business. 15-May-2001

DigiPlex has raised £34m of venture capital to fund the opening of internet hotels in London, Milan, Geneva, Oslo, Munich and Frankfurt over the next few months. 15-May-2001

British Telecom has announced restructuring plans that will involve selling its Yell directories business, demerging its BT Wireless mobiles business, raising £5.9bn in a rights issue and renaming the rest of the group Future BT. 11-May-2001

Sendo has announced plans to set up a mobile phone research plant at Sheldon in Birmingham, which could create up to 500 jobs over the next three years. 09-May-2001

Virgin is looking to set up a mobile phone service in Japan by next April, and talks are taking place with local operators to lease airtime. 09-May-2001

Capita has been selected as preferred bidder for a £100m government contract to operate the Connexions smart card system, which is designed to encourage 16 to 19-year-olds to stay in education. 09-May-2001

Energis is planning to create a consortium of telecoms companies to provide local broadband links to homes and businesses in direct competition with British Telecom. 08-May-2001

Computer People is planning to create up to 40 new jobs at its computing staff recruitment call centre in Stoke-on-Trent. 08-May-2001

IXEurope has raised £12m in equity finance to fund the expansion of its chain of European internet hotels to up to 14 centres by the end of the year. 08-May-2001

DuPont Photomasks is to close its semiconductor components plant in Hamilton with the loss of up to 36 jobs, and the equipment will be relocated to other sites. 07-May-2001

British Telecom is to close its Directory Enquiries centre in Stoke-on-Trent in October, with the loss of 125 jobs. 07-May-2001

Pace Micro Technology is to close its set-top box manufacturing plant in Shipley with the loss of 470 jobs, in order to outsource production to overseas companies. 07-May-2001

Birmingham City Council has awarded a £5m contract to Lagan Technologies of Belfast to develop a new online system that will provide a link between local residents and the various council departments. 04-May-2001

Oxford University has secured a £10m donation for the development of an internet institute, which will provide a forum to debate the impact of the internet on society. 04-May-2001

Morse is to shed between 50 and 100 jobs in its software and services business, following a fall in sales. 04-May-2001

Actebis Distribution, the computer components distributor, is planning to open a new office in Newport, South Wales, to house a specialist sales team for high-end system integrator and assembler customers. 03-May-2001

Terence Chapman is looking to expand its IT consultancy business into Germany and the Far East, and will open an office in New York within six months. 03-May-2001

Vodafone has raised £3.5bn in a share placing in order to fund the acquisition of certain assets from British Telecom, including a 20% stake in Japan Telecom and an 18% stake in Airtel of Spain. 03-May-2001

Netstore, the application service provider, is to shed 33 jobs and reduce its marketing budget by £2m. 03-May-2001

RiverSoft is to shed 20 of the 296 staff in its network software business and reduce recruitment targets in order to speed up its path to profitability. 03-May-2001

British Telecom is planning to vacate its City of London headquarters over the next two years, and up to 500 staff will be relocated to smaller offices. 03-May-2001

United Utilities is to change the name of its Norweb Telecom subsidiary to Your Communications at a cost of £1m, in order to shed its regional identity. 02-May-2001

Cooknell Optronics is shedding 60 jobs at its telecom equipment business in Weymouth. 02-May-2001

Solectron has shed 114 contract jobs at its electronics factory in Dunfermline. 02-May-2001

Cable & Wireless is considering plans to combine its seven Midtown offices into a single head office outside central London, and is seeking suitable premises of about 225,000 sq ft. 30-Apr-2001

SMK is to shed 58 jobs at its electronics business in Newton Aycliffe in May, due to a downturn in the mobile phone market. 26-Apr-2001

Lucent Technologies is planning to shed about 6% of its 17,000-strong European workforce, which will affect some of the 1,800 staff employed in Swindon. 25-Apr-2001

Motorola is to close its factory in Bathgate with the loss of 3,100 jobs, due to the decline in global demand for mobile phones. 25-Apr-2001

JDS Uniphase, the manufacturer of fibre optic components, is to shed more than 500 jobs at sites in Fife, Oxford and Bracknell, as part of a worldwide cost-cutting campaign. 25-Apr-2001

Southern Derbyshire Chamber is relocating its headquarters to the Riverside Business Park in Raynesway, where it will employ 70 staff. 24-Apr-2001

3M is planning to shed about 500 jobs at its 18 UK sites, as part of a cost-cutting review that will reduce its worldwide workforce by 5,000. 24-Apr-2001

Altran of France is planning to expand its UK network of technology consultants, with the creation of 500 jobs over the next two years. 23-Apr-2001

Big Blue International, the mobile phone dealer, is to set up a new call centre at Ystradgynlais with the creation of 130 jobs, and will also create a further 100 jobs at its existing call centre in Swansea. 20-Apr-2001

Hosiden Besson, the manufacturer of mobile phone accessories, is planning to shed up to a third of its 240-strong workforce in Hove, due to falling sales. 20-Apr-2001

Redstone Telecom is planning to shed 12% of its workforce in an attempt to reduce operating costs by £6m a year. 20-Apr-2001

Ericsson and Sony are considering plans to form a London-based mobile phone joint venture, which would market handsets throughout Europe. 20-Apr-2001

One-2-One is to build six new offices at the Hatfield Business Park, and Kier has won the £60m construction contract from developer Arlington Securities. 19-Apr-2001

British Telecom and Scitex are to close their VIO Worldwide application service provider joint venture for financial reasons, which will affect 58 staff worldwide. 19-Apr-2001

Action for Employment is expanding its recruitment and training service by opening new offices in towns and cities throughout the country. 19-Apr-2001

Philips, the Dutch electronics group, is to cut up to 7,000 jobs worldwide, which could affect a number of components plants in the UK. 18-Apr-2001

Westwood West has acquired the offices, customer base and sales team of the Amersham division of the integrated solutions provider MRS Systems. 18-Apr-2001

Capita has won a £40m contract to provide IT staff to BAA, and has also secured new outsourcing contracts from Naafi and Haringey Education Authority. 18-Apr-2001

Great Universal Stores has put Breathe.com, the recently-acquired internet service provider, up for sale. 18-Apr-2001

Searchspace, the developer of fraud detection software, has raised £9.5m to fund sales and marketing in the UK and US. 17-Apr-2001

PC Medics is planning to raise £0.9m in a flotation on Aim in order to reduce debt and expand its London-based computer repair business into other regions. 17-Apr-2001

Red-M has raised £30m of venture capital to fund the development of wireless networking products based on Bluetooth technology. 17-Apr-2001

Bluefish Technologies is recruiting development engineers, sales and marketing and customer support staff, following its recent move to new offices near Reading. 17-Apr-2001

Specialist Computer Centres is to create up to 200 jobs after winning a £390m contract to supply desktop systems and services to Computer Sciences Corporation. 13-Apr-2001

Amaze is to shed 14 jobs at its Liverpool-based internet consultancy, which will leave a staff of 115. 12-Apr-2001

Inkfish is planning to set up a call centre in Brighton to provide customer contact services to other companies, with the creation of 400 jobs. 12-Apr-2001

Esgem, the embedded software designer, is to relocate its headquarters from Wotton-under-Edge to Emersons Green, and plans to create about 20 new jobs by the end of next year. 12-Apr-2001

APW Electronics, the manufacturer of cabinets for the telecoms sector, has shed 30 jobs at its manufacturing, sales and finance operations in Hampshire. 11-Apr-2001

Hays has won a contract from the Improvement & Development Agency to create an internet-based purchasing system to cut local authority spending by up to £4bn a year. 11-Apr-2001

Eircom of Ireland is to shed a further 320 jobs, including 40 in Northern Ireland and 80 in other parts of the UK, as part of a strategy to dispose of a number of multimedia operations. 10-Apr-2001

Marconi is planning to shed 1,200 jobs in the UK, mostly at factories in Liverpool and Coventry, as part of a restructuring programme that will involve the loss of almost 6% of its worldwide workforce of 55,000. 09-Apr-2001

Elite Electronics is planning a £3m expansion at its fibre-optics factory in Enniskillen over the next three years, with the creation of 114 jobs. 06-Apr-2001

Research In Motion of Canada is linking up with BT Cellnet to launch its Blackberry portable e-mail device in the UK, and further partnerships are expected with other European mobile network operators. 06-Apr-2001

IBM is planning to create a further 150 jobs at its new human resources call centre department in Portsmouth, which already employs more than 200 people. 04-Apr-2001

Gameplay is in informal discussions to sell its boxed games and technology divisions, and has appointed Commerzbank to review its strategic options. 04-Apr-2001

Cedalion, the Edinburgh-based bespoke software developer, is to create 50 new jobs following a £1.3m equity injection from Northern Venture Managers, and is also seeking acquisitions. 03-Apr-2001

A2Z Computers, the manufacturer of custom-built computers, is creating up to 40 new jobs over the next year with a £2m expansion into larger premises in Loughborough. 03-Apr-2001

ESM is to shed 80 jobs at its microchip plant in Newport in response to a global downturn in demand. 03-Apr-2001

Cable & Wireless has sold its 14.7% stake in Pacific Century Cyberworks, the Hong Kong phone operator, raising a further £1bn for acquisitions. 03-Apr-2001

Moonfruit, the producer of website development tools with 45 staff, has put itself up for sale. 03-Apr-2001

Compaq is to shed 700 jobs at its Erskine computer assembly plant in Scotland, in order to transfer production to a Taiwanese-owned company in the Czech Republic. 03-Apr-2001

City of Edinburgh Council and British Telecom are to launch a 10-year £150m strategy to create a "Smart City", which will involve BT becoming the council's partner in developing new ways to deliver services. 02-Apr-2001

Dolphin Telecom is to shed 600 jobs, mostly in Germany, in order to reduce costs and focus on the development of telecoms networks in the UK and France. 02-Apr-2001

Zen Internet is to relocate its e-commerce business and 27 staff to a new £1.5m head office in Rochdale. 30-Mar-2001

Skillsoft of the US is setting up a £1.1m e-learning development centre at Quay Gate House in Belfast, with the creation of 40 jobs. 30-Mar-2001

Redbus Interhouse is planning to expand its European network of internet hosting centres from three to 20 over the next 12 months. 30-Mar-2001

FI Group, the IT services group, is to change its name to Xansa in order to combine its businesses under a single brand. 30-Mar-2001

Atlantic Telecom is selling its French operations to Inmetex for undisclosed terms, in order to avoid the cost of setting up DSL internet access in France. 30-Mar-2001

ClientLogic is to set up a customer services call centre at Great Northern Road in Derby with the creation of about 500 jobs. 29-Mar-2001

Parc Technologies has secured £15m of private equity funding to expand its telecoms network software business. 28-Mar-2001

Ericsson has announced plans to shed about 1,500 jobs at factories in Worksop and north Lincolnshire, in order to outsource telephone handset production to Flextronics of Singapore. 28-Mar-2001

Mitel Networks is to merge with sister company March Networks, and has announced plans to invest £52m in research and development with the creation of 40 jobs in Glasgow and 60 in south Wales. 27-Mar-2001

Matsushita Mobile Communication Development of Japan is to set up an engineering development centre in Thatcham in April, with the creation of 400 jobs over the next two years. 26-Mar-2001

One-2-One is to install mobile phone masts at more than 250 Shell service stations. 26-Mar-2001

CityReach International has raised £40m of equity finance to expand the range of services provided at its eight data centres, including internet access, managed data storage and managed servers. 26-Mar-2001

ICS Computing is to create 144 jobs at a new facility in Newtownards and an additional 53 at its existing Belfast office over the next three years, as part of a strategy to focus on the growing market for payroll application services. 23-Mar-2001

Orincon Corporation, the US data processing and software group, is to open a European headquarters on the Birchwood Industrial Park in Warrington next month, with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 23-Mar-2001

Seven C (7C) is to create 500 jobs at a call centre in Birkenhead, having decided to relocate its Vodafone mobile phone customer services business from Swindon. 23-Mar-2001

Celestica is planning to reorganise its electronics business in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire by relocating its repair facilities from Bradwell Wood and Byley to showcase plants at Telford and Kidsgrove. 22-Mar-2001

Policy Master, the supplier of insurance software, is seeking acquisitions in the US and has also announced plans to change its name to Sirius and move its listing from Aim to the main London market. 22-Mar-2001

Kamelian has raised a further £5.2m to fund the expansion of its optical component manufacturing facilities in Oxford and Glasgow. 22-Mar-2001

AVX is to shed 50 of the 540 jobs at its electronic components factory in Paignton. 21-Mar-2001

Telsis, the manufacturer of telecoms components with 185 staff, has started work on a new 60,000 sq ft building next to its existing site in Fareham. 21-Mar-2001

Insight Enterprises, the US computer and software group, has announced plans to invest £67m in a new European headquarters in Sheffield with the creation of 1,700 jobs. 21-Mar-2001

The government has announced a £70m fund to boost technology investment, including £20m to set up a centre for producing intelligent products, £30m for electronic trade and £20m for a national computing grid for scientists. 20-Mar-2001

Mitel is to shed 30 jobs in Swindon and 45 in Plymouth due to a downturn in demand for electronic components. 20-Mar-2001

Commtag has secured £3.4m from Amadeus Capital Partners to fund the development of its wireless technology business. 19-Mar-2001

Motorola has indicated that it could build a second software development centre in either Inverness or Dundee with the creation of up to 600 jobs, if the new Livingston site proves successful. 19-Mar-2001

The government is planning a £10m experiment to provide computers and broadband internet access for 12,000 homes, and the project will be targeted at communities in Liverpool, east London, Manchester, South Yorkshire, Cumbria and Suffolk. 16-Mar-2001

European Telecom is to shed up to 100 jobs in its 330-strong UK workforce in order to improve the profitability of its mobile phone distribution business. 16-Mar-2001

Celtic House is investing about £5m in BlazePhotonics, a start-up business spun out of the University of Bath, for the development of a production facility for a new pure silica optical fibre. 16-Mar-2001

Logica has won a £80m IT outsourcing contract from Hyder, and will take on 350 Hyder staff and a data centre in south Wales. 16-Mar-2001

Sophos has announced plans to create 400 new jobs in its anti-virus business over the next two years, as part of a £30m expansion that will involve moving to a new headquarters at the Abingdon Science Park. 15-Mar-2001

Cannock Chase Technical College is to build a £4.2m technology and training centre at its campus in Bridgtown. 15-Mar-2001

Supanet, the internet service provider with about 280,000 active users, has put itself up for sale. 15-Mar-2001

Cable & Wireless is planning to shed 4,000 jobs over the next 12 months, mainly in the UK and the US, and is also looking to further reduce costs by outsourcing more operations. 14-Mar-2001

Motorola is considering plans to shed 700 jobs at its cellular base stations plant in Swindon, and is also cutting 7,000 jobs at its seven worldwide handset factories. 14-Mar-2001

Razorfish, the US-based internet consultancy, is said to be planning further job cuts at offices in London, San Francisco and Boston. 13-Mar-2001

FI Group is forming an alliance with Axa Sun Life for the supply of applications management services, which will involve the transfer to FI of 400 staff based in Bristol, Coventry and High Wycombe. 13-Mar-2001

Sema, the computer services group, is to lease Minerva's 400,000 sq ft Sampson House property on the south bank of the Thames in London. 13-Mar-2001

Project Telecom has bought 55,000 subscribers from Hutchison Cellular Services for £14m, in order to expand its business reselling services from large telecoms groups to corporate customers. 12-Mar-2001

IT Alliance is to create a further 23 jobs at its new software development and testing centre in Belfast. 09-Mar-2001

Merchants is shedding 750 jobs at its call centre in Milton Keynes having lost a contract to supply mobile phone customer services to One-2-One, but 100 staff will be redeployed at its new utilities call centre. 09-Mar-2001

Viasystems is to shed 98 jobs at its electronics manufacturing site in Coventry due to falling demand from the telecoms sector. 09-Mar-2001

Ericsson is to sell its direct salesforce in 18 countries to the UK private equity group Apax Partners for about £320m, which will involve the transfer of 2,400 staff to a new company called Enterprise Solutions. 09-Mar-2001

Bookham Technology is to shed 150 jobs at its optical component factories in Abingdon and Swindon due to a fall in demand. 09-Mar-2001

Xerox, the photocopier company, is to shed 90 jobs at its Mitcheldean plant and 30 in Dundalk as part of a worldwide restructuring programme. 08-Mar-2001

Digital Rum has raised £11m of venture capital to fund the development of software for wireless commerce. 07-Mar-2001

Guardian iT is considering plans to expand its computer disaster recovery business by opening new facilities in New York, Edinburgh and Zurich. 06-Mar-2001

Anadigm, the Crewe-based producer of analogue semiconductors and associated software, has secured £10m of venture capital to fund the development of a global distribution network. 06-Mar-2001

Project Telecom is planning to create 200 new jobs in its Newark-based telecoms business, with most of the vacancies being in customer service, IT, account management and sales. 05-Mar-2001

Seven C (7C) is shedding up to 128 jobs at its call centre in Swindon, where it carries out customer service work for Vodafone. 05-Mar-2001

Telecom Wales has announced plans to change its name to ITC Management, seek new premises in South Wales and acquire Cardiff-based Solutions Computer Consultancy. 05-Mar-2001

PA Consulting is planning to float its UbiNetics telecoms equipment business later this year, which could be valued at more than £600m. 05-Mar-2001

Marlborough Stirling is planning a flotation in the spring which could value the business at up to £350m, and the proceeds will be used to develop new software products for the financial services sector. 05-Mar-2001

Pinacl is to shed 54 of the 400 jobs at its fibre optics business in Bodelwyddan, as the finance and marketing functions are being transferred to Tyco Electronics in Swindon. 02-Mar-2001

Nortel is to shed 700 jobs at its High Performance Optical Components Solutions operation in Paignton. 02-Mar-2001

Bright Station is to shed up to 15 sales and marketing jobs in its WebTop internet search engine business. 02-Mar-2001

Psion, the manufacturer of handheld computer devices, is to shed 100 jobs and drop plans to develop a wireless personal organiser. 02-Mar-2001

Netshopper is linking up with a number of other North West companies to launch a new e-commerce business in Sefton, and suitable premises are being sought for about 30 staff. 01-Mar-2001

British Telecom is to relocate a call centre from Oxford's Paradise Street to a new building on the Oxford Business Park in June, and 40 of the 76 staff will move to the new site. 01-Mar-2001

Pressac has shed 85 jobs at its electronics components factory in East Kilbride, while 25 jobs are being transferred to a £20m factory at Bishopbriggs. 01-Mar-2001

Ericsson is to shed 83 jobs at its telecoms support services business in Scunthorpe in May. 01-Mar-2001

Project Telecom is planning to expand its corporate services business using most of the £17m raised from its recent flotation. 01-Mar-2001

Highlands & Islands Enterprise is to set up a new 33,000 sq ft headquarters at the Inverness Retail and Business Park in January 2002, while 20 jobs will be created at a new network service centre at Benbecula in the Western Isles. 28-Feb-2001

MousePower is planning to create a further 30 jobs at its digital design business in Corsham, Wiltshire, having formed an alliance the Winsome New Media Group. 28-Feb-2001

Vodafone is to acquire AT&T's 10% stake in Japan Telecom for £930m, taking its total stake to 25%. 28-Feb-2001

Lattice has announced plans to expand its 186k telecoms division, which will involve spending £450m on a national fibre optic network and an extension to its central London network. 28-Feb-2001

InterX has shed about 50 of the 200-strong workforce in its internet software business. 28-Feb-2001

Burns e-Commerce Solutions has sold a majority stake in the business to Mercury Private Equity for £4.5m, and now plans to expand its sales operation and move into the US market. 26-Feb-2001

CGNU is to terminate the Norwich Union contract with IBM in August and transfer its data centre to Norwich, which will involve the loss of more than 200 IT jobs in Perth. 26-Feb-2001

System C is planning to raise £3m to benefit from rising demand for the supply of computer systems to hospitals and health authorities. 26-Feb-2001

Crown Castle is to lease space at 4,000 transmission mast sites to Hutchison 3G UK, in an infrastructure-sharing deal that will enable Hutchison to roll out third generation mobile services next year. 26-Feb-2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is to close its call centre at Forres, which deals with parking fines for the London borough of Brent, and all 50 staff are expected to transfer to another site at Nairn. 23-Feb-2001

Kirklees Council is planning to set up a new £0.25m call centre in Huddersfield with the creation of 20 jobs, as its current telephone system cannot cope with demand. 23-Feb-2001

Colt Telecom is planning to double its number of internet hosting centres to 20 this year and will set up fibre-optic city networks in Manchester, Valencia, Lisbon, Copenhagen and the Hague. 23-Feb-2001

Cable & Wireless has announced plans to expand its Globalnet high-speed internet access service into the UK and other European countries. 22-Feb-2001

Innovation Group is in negotiations to acquire Huon Holdings, the supplier of claims management software for insurers. 22-Feb-2001

Merant is to withdraw from internet consulting and focus on higher-growth areas such as e-business software. 22-Feb-2001

Barron McCann, the IT services company, is creating between 50 and 100 jobs by relocating some functions from Burton to new offices in Derby over the next 18 months. 21-Feb-2001

Orange is to relocate its London headquarters to a new building at Paddington Basin by the end of 2002, which will involve moving 100 staff. 21-Feb-2001

Sun Microsystems has awarded a £22m contract to HBG for the construction of research laboratories and other buildings at the Guillemont Park Development in Fleet. 21-Feb-2001

TeleCity is seeking additional funding of £50m to finance the expansion of its computer facilities business. 20-Feb-2001

Your Move is seeking 70 new staff at its estate agency call centre on the Newcastle Business Park in Tyneside. 19-Feb-2001

Knowledge Management Software is in talks to acquire Orbital Software, the developer of collaboration software, for £40m. 19-Feb-2001

Manpower is to create up to 200 jobs at a new call centre at the former Claridge Mill in Selkirk, and is in talks with companies who may use the facility. 16-Feb-2001

NSB Retail Systems is to take 17,000 sq ft of office space at Arlington's Birmingham Business Park. 15-Feb-2001

Tessella Support Services, the scientific software developer, is looking to recruit up to 70 staff at offices in Burton, Abingdon, Cambridge, Winchester, Warrington and Den Haag. 14-Feb-2001

Leicester City Council has set up a Call Centre Forum with a number of other local organisations to seek European funding to establish a call centre college in the city. 14-Feb-2001

Elateral is planning to raise £30m in a share placing in order to fund the expansion of its salesforce and the geographical reach of its marketing software business. 14-Feb-2001

British Telecom is to reduce the workforce in its BTopenworld internet business by 20%, which will involve transferring 200 staff to other parts of the company. 14-Feb-2001

Corus has been approached by EXi Telecoms about the possibility of offering re-training to 4,000 steel workers during their notice period, which would lead to new jobs in cabling, electronic switching and fibre optics. 14-Feb-2001

Digit, the internet and network solutions company, is to open a new office in Aberdeen and is looking to recruit eight e-business consultants, developers and project managers. 13-Feb-2001

Intelek is planning to raise £10m in a share issue to fund the expansion of its electronics manufacturing business, and has also announced the acquisition of satellite modem company Paradise Datacom. 13-Feb-2001

Amstrad is forming a joint venture with Haier to manufacture and distribute mobile phones in China. 13-Feb-2001

Magic Moments Internet is acquiring a 51% stake in One-2-One Advertising of Germany for £1.7m, and has also announced plans to change its name to Host Europe and form a strategic partnership with Atlantic Telecom. 13-Feb-2001

Atmel of the US is to start production at its new North Tyneside microchip factory in June, and is looking to recruit 500 people by the end of the year. 12-Feb-2001

Marconi is to invest £40m in the acquisition of a minority stake in ArrayCom, the US developer of smart antenna technology for mobile phone networks. 12-Feb-2001

Shell Transport & Trading is to spin off its Kalido business, which develops data management software that enables large companies to monitor their global business performance. 12-Feb-2001

Welwyn Components is creating 60 new jobs at its electronics factory in Bedlington, following a £2m investment in an extension. 09-Feb-2001

Yes Telecom is planning to open five new regional offices throughout the UK, as part of a £20m expansion scheme that will create 50 jobs. 09-Feb-2001

Labtech is planning a further expansion at its microwave printed circuit boards factory at Presteigne in Mid Wales, which will create up to 30 jobs over the next 12 months. 09-Feb-2001

British Telecom is seeking a partner for its telemarketing centre in Belfast, which employs more than 600 staff. 08-Feb-2001

British Telecom is to acquire the remaining 49.5% stake in Esat Digiphone, the Irish mobile phone network, from Telenor of Norway for £810m. 07-Feb-2001

Nortel is to shed 220 telecoms research jobs in Harlow, as part of a plan to reduce its worldwide workforce by 4,000. 06-Feb-2001

Sema, the computer services company with about 21,000 staff, has received a number of takeover approaches from unnamed companies. 06-Feb-2001

Codemasters is to shed 90 of the 450 jobs at its computer games development sites in Warwickshire and abroad. 05-Feb-2001

Quasar Microwave Technology is seeking permission to expand its mobile phone components factory near Bovey Tracey in Devon, with the creation of 80 jobs. 05-Feb-2001

Orange, the mobile phone operator, is to take 135,000 sq ft of office space at the Aztec West business park in Bristol. 05-Feb-2001

Sendo, the Birmingham-based mobile phone company, has secured a £6.7m government grant to set up a £36m research and development centre. 05-Feb-2001

British Telecom has opened a new £5m data centre in May Street, Belfast, which will supply web hosting and other internet services to companies throughout Northern Ireland. 01-Feb-2001

CCC Network Systems of the US is to create a further 150 jobs in Belfast over the next three years, with vacancies in engineering and hardware and systems development. 31-Jan-2001

Xenicom, the Bristol-based supplier of software services to mobile phone operators, has secured a £2m investment from venture capitalist group 3i to expand its operations worldwide. 31-Jan-2001

Thus has dropped plans to install equipment in British Telecom exchanges, and will instead focus on expanding its Demon Internet business and reselling BT's wholesale service. 31-Jan-2001

Acer of Taiwan is to set up a computer technical support centre in Belfast, with the creation of 143 jobs. 30-Jan-2001

Filtronic is seeking a partner to share the cost of running its new compound semiconductor factory in Durham, where it manufactures gallium arsenide as an alternative to silicon chips. 30-Jan-2001

Psion is to shed 120 jobs at its computer products plant in Oxford in order to transfer production to the recently-acquired Teklogix plant in Canada. 30-Jan-2001

Warthog has raised £5m in a share placing to expand its computer games business, and now plans to recruit 30 new staff. 29-Jan-2001

C-MAC Network Systems of Canada is to open a £14m electronics factory in Carrickfergus in November, with the creation of 150 jobs. 29-Jan-2001

Severn Trent is to move into the residential telecoms market in April, following the £1.5m acquisition of a 49% stake in UK Talks. 29-Jan-2001

Ericsson is to outsource the production of mobile phone handsets to Flextronics of Singapore, which could involve the transfer of up to 1,000 staff at factories in Worksop and Scunthorpe. 29-Jan-2001

Nortel Networks of Canada is to shed 120 jobs in its telecoms equipment business in Northern Ireland, as part of a restructuring of its worldwide workforce. 26-Jan-2001

InterCall of the US is planning to create 100 jobs at a new call centre for its conferencing business in Gloucester. 26-Jan-2001

British Telecom is to create about 100 new jobs in Scotland in order to roll-out its ADSL high-speed internet service, and is using Hampshire-based recruitment specialist White & Nunn to find 545 engineers throughout the UK. 26-Jan-2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is looking to recruit a further 250 staff at its One-2-One mobile phone call centre in Moray. 25-Jan-2001

The Meteorological Office is looking to recruit a number of IT and science specialists in Bracknell, in preparation for its relocation to Exeter in 2003. 24-Jan-2001

MoTech Software is to set up a European headquarters for its global software and IT consultancy business in Livingston, where it will create 250 jobs over the next 12 months. 23-Jan-2001

Avaya, the US voice and data network specialist, is to close offices in Farnborough, Fleet, Winchester and Gerrards Cross and set up a new UK headquarters in Guildford, where it will employ up to 550 staff. 23-Jan-2001

Celestica is to restructure its electronic design division in North Staffordshire, which will allow it to increase its existing 50-strong team and focus more on mobile phone technology. 23-Jan-2001

Surface Technology is starting work on a £4.7m expansion at its microchip machine factory in Newport, which will create 83 new jobs. 23-Jan-2001

Atlantic Telecom is to shed 350 jobs at sites in London, Manchester and Aberdeen, as part of a strategy to reduce its residential business and cut costs by £30m a year. 23-Jan-2001

Redstone Telecom is to launch high-speed internet access services in Southampton, Portsmouth, Newbury, Cambridge and Nottingham over the next few months, having reached agreement to set up DSL equipment outside British Telecom exchanges. 22-Jan-2001

Magenta NetLogic is planning to double its 30-strong workforce over the next year in order to expand its telecoms software business into overseas markets. 19-Jan-2001

British Telecom has agreed to open up more of its telephone exchanges to competition, in order to enable rival operators to install high-speed internet access equipment at more profitable locations. 19-Jan-2001

Wisdom Information Technologists of Livingston is planning to expand its IT management consultancy into England by opening up to 10 satellite operations, and will then move into continental Europe. 18-Jan-2001

FirstMark is to close its London headquarters with the loss of most of the 190 jobs, having scaled back its ambitions to become a pan-European provider of broadband internet access. 18-Jan-2001

Viatel is to shed about 600 jobs worldwide and close a number of consumer telecoms operations in Europe. 18-Jan-2001

British Telecom is to set up a new call centre in Fort William with the creation of 200 jobs over the next year. 17-Jan-2001

TFM has relaunched its telecoms network division and opened a new office in Glasgow as the first of five regional offices. 16-Jan-2001

Amphion Semiconductor, the communications software company, has secured £6m of private equity to fund the expansion of its office network and to recruit a further 30 staff in Belfast. 15-Jan-2001

Entranet is to create 50 new jobs at its online financial services business in Scotland this year, having opened a new office in Edinburgh. 15-Jan-2001

Idesk is to receive £10m of additional funding to expand its corporate internet services into overseas markets and to develop new products. 15-Jan-2001

Cable & Wireless is to invest £300m in a new transatlantic cable being built by Alcatel to carry internet traffic, and will become the exclusive distributor of capacity. 15-Jan-2001

Marconi is planning to build a £35m research and development centre in Nottingham with the creation of 500 jobs, which would involve moving from its Beeston premises to the Nottingham Science Park. 12-Jan-2001

Condat, the German IT company, is to invest £5.5m at a new site in Edinburgh city centre over the next three years, with the creation of 25 jobs. 11-Jan-2001

CardBASE Technologies, the supplier of smart card solutions for secure e-commerce, is to invest £1.9m in Belfast, with the creation of 90 jobs over the next three years. 11-Jan-2001

Softmatic, the German software company, is to close its office in Grimsby with the loss of eight jobs. 11-Jan-2001

Ramesys is to reorganise its e-business services division with the loss of 30 jobs in Nottingham and Manchester. 11-Jan-2001

Marconi is to set up a £33m telecoms research centre at New Delhi in India in April, employing up to 200 engineers. 10-Jan-2001

Apax Partners and a number of banks are investing £34m in Pure Wafer, a start-up business that will develop a silicon wafer reclaim plant in Swansea with the creation of 120 jobs. 10-Jan-2001

Oxford Semiconductor is planning to recruit a further 20 design engineers following its move to Milton Park, near Abingdon. 09-Jan-2001

Kingfisher is to sell its 35% stake in LibertySurf, the French internet service provider, to Tiscali of Italy for £149m. 09-Jan-2001

One-2-One is planning to recruit 100 people a month at its new Merthyr Tydfil mobile phone customer service centre until June. 08-Jan-2001

Intercede is planning to raise £2.2m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its security software business. 08-Jan-2001

Speech Recognition Company is raising £5m of private equity to fund the expansion of its business into new telephony voice recognition services. 08-Jan-2001

Vodafone is to acquire a 34% stake in Grupo Iusacell, the Mexican wireless operator, for £648m. 08-Jan-2001

British Telecom has announced plans for the sale and leaseback of its £2bn property portfolio, and discussions are taking place with companies interested in acquiring the estate of 7,500 buildings. 05-Jan-2001

BT Cellnet has bought 70% of RSL Com's consumer mobile subscribers in the UK for about £10m, and RSL is now looking to sell the remaining 30%. 05-Jan-2001

Aspects Software has raised £12m to fund the commercial development of new software that enables mobile phones to be used as cashless payment devices. 04-Jan-2001

British Telecom has bought out its mobile phone partner in Germany in a £1bn deal that involves Telenor of Norway selling its 10% stake in Viag Interkom. 02-Jan-2001

Highlander is to relocate its sales and marketing staff to larger premises in Wilkinson Street, Sheffield, as part of the ongoing expansion of its IT solutions business. 02-Jan-2001

Lazy Software has raised £3.5m of venture capital to fund the worldwide expansion of its database software business. 02-Jan-2001

Kenexa Technology, the US human resources software company, has opened a European headquarters in Sheffield and expects to create 60 jobs by May. 02-Jan-2001

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