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The information below comes from the
UK Activity Report.
Alba is to set up an electronics distribution centre at the Cortonwood Business Park near Barnsley, with the creation of up to 70 jobs. 31-Dec-2002
Garlands is to recruit 200 staff for a new call centre at the Centre North East office block in Middlesbrough, having won a new contract from an internet service provider. 24-Dec-2002
Bradford Council is seeking two external partners to update its computer systems, which could lead to the loss of 50 jobs over the next three years. 23-Dec-2002
Marconi is seeking a further £30m of cost savings in its telecoms equipment business, and its Cambridge research and development site will close with the loss of 80 jobs. 18-Dec-2002
The Learning & Skills Council is to reorganise its operations across the country over the next 18 months, with the loss of 500 of its 4,800-strong workforce. 17-Dec-2002
Vertex is said to be planning to close its recently-acquired 7C call centre in Pembroke in January with the loss of up to 223 jobs. 13-Dec-2002
Liberata has won a £230m contract to provide back-office and IT services to Redcar & Cleveland Council, which will involve the transfer of 1,000 council staff. 13-Dec-2002
Arvato is planning to create 400 new jobs on Merseyside to expand its call centre management, e-commerce and distribution operations, and is searching for additional office space. 12-Dec-2002
Ventura is to create about 500 jobs at its Dearne Valley call centre in South Yorkshire, having won a number of new orders from existing clients. 12-Dec-2002
Scottish Enterprise has confirmed plans to set up three Intermediary Technology Institutes, including an energy centre in Aberdeen, life sciences in Dundee and communications technology in Glasgow. 12-Dec-2002
APW Enclosures is to close its electronic components plant in Hamilton with the loss of 300 jobs. 09-Dec-2002
Xansa is planning to shed up to 430 jobs in its IT services and outsourcing business over the next four months, affecting sites in London, Reading and Hemel Hempstead. 06-Dec-2002
Sage has announced plans to create a further 200 jobs at the new headquarters for its accounting software business in Newcastle next year. 05-Dec-2002
Bulgin Power has closed its electronic components factory in Lincoln with the loss of about 70 jobs. 04-Dec-2002
Display Products Technology has secured £8m of venture capital to expand its East Kilbride-based computer repair business, and the company is looking to set up an operation in China. 04-Dec-2002
Project Telecom is recruiting 75 extra staff in Newark, to fill vacancies in administration, finance, customer service, IT and sales. 29-Nov-2002
Logica has won a £30m contract to provide IT management services for Northern Electric. 29-Nov-2002
Damovo is looking to make a major acquisition early next year to expand the data communications side of its business, and is particularly interested in France, Spain, India and the US. 28-Nov-2002
Hutchison 3G is considering plans to shed up to 200 jobs in its product and marketing division, but new jobs are being created at its Glasgow call centre. 25-Nov-2002
Chester College is to set up a £3m business management and IT training centre at its site in Warrington, to help develop a skilled workforce for the proposed Omega Development. 22-Nov-2002
Xchanging has secured a further £50m of private equity from General Atlantic Partners for the international expansion of its support services outsourcing business. 21-Nov-2002
Etol is to create up to 30 new jobs at its OC5 business on Teesside over the next three years, having won a customer services outsourcing contract from Centrica Business Services. 19-Nov-2002
Acuid has raised a further £5m of private equity from HgCapital to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based silicon chip design business. 18-Nov-2002
Centurion Electronics, the manufacturer of in-car entertainment systems, is planning to raise £2.5m in a flotation on Aim next month. 18-Nov-2002
Cheshire County Council has announced a £10m investment in a wireless-based broadband network, in order to link up 500 schools, libraries and council administration centres over the next two years. 15-Nov-2002
Capita Business Services has indicated that up to 1,000 jobs could be created at its new call centre in Coventry, which has been set up to handle a £230m contract for London's new road transport charging scheme. 15-Nov-2002
Lexicon Group is planning to expand its workforce training business in South Wales with the creation of 350 jobs by the middle of next year, and will set up a new headquarters and customer support centre. 14-Nov-2002
Cable & Wireless has announced plans to shed 3,500 of the 12,500 jobs in its global telecoms business, with its US operations being hardest hit. 14-Nov-2002
Inmarsat, the provider of satellite telecom services, has been put up for sale with an expected valuation of £1bn, and bids have been received from three private equity firms - Apax Partners, Apollo Advisors and Permira. 13-Nov-2002
Stream International is to shed 48 of the 550 jobs at its IT support services call centre in Londonderry. 07-Nov-2002
Alphyra, the provider of electronic fund transfer services, is considering plans for a management buy-out. 07-Nov-2002
Acterna is considering plans to close its telecoms marketing and development office in Plymouth, with the loss of 120 jobs. 06-Nov-2002
Chunghwa Picture Tubes of Taiwan is said to be planning to close its television and computer electronics plant in North Lanarkshire with the loss of up to 600 jobs. 01-Nov-2002
Ordnance Survey, the mapping agency, is planning to shed 300 of the 1,450 jobs at its Southampton headquarters. 30-Oct-2002
Aberdeenshire Council and Scottish Enterprise Grampian are planning to build an e-commerce centre at Peterhead, in order to provide 24 individual business units for local companies. 28-Oct-2002
ATL Telecom, the Cardiff-based manufacturer of telecoms equipment, is planning to create an unspecified number of new jobs, and the workforce could reach 400 over the next few years. 25-Oct-2002
The University of Manchester is planning to merge with the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology to create a "super-university" with 30,000 students. 24-Oct-2002
Focus Solutions, the Leamington-based developer of software for the insurance industry, is planning to shed £1m from its cost base and transfer research staff into revenue-generating jobs. 23-Oct-2002
Viasystems is to shed 65 jobs at its electronics factory in Ballynahinch, County Down. 21-Oct-2002
EDS is to set up a call centre with 200 staff in Preston to handle a new Post Office system of paying welfare benefits to customers, and a similar centre will also open in Barnsley. 21-Oct-2002
NSB Retail Systems is planning to relocate its headquarters to Canada, with the loss of about 100 jobs in Reading, Watford and Birmingham. 21-Oct-2002
Terence Chapman is to go into voluntary liquidation, return up to £9m to shareholders and sell its IT consulting business to CPL for a nominal sum. 21-Oct-2002
Consignia is planning to outsource its IT services to Computer Sciences Corporation, in a £1.5bn 10-year contract that will involve the transfer of about 2,000 staff. 18-Oct-2002
Vodafone has agreed a £4bn deal to gain control of French mobile operator SFR, which would involve the acquisition of an additional 41% stake in Cegetel, the owner of 80% of SFR. 17-Oct-2002
ARM Holdings, the Cambridge-based microchip designer, is planning to shed 80 jobs from its 800-strong workforce. 16-Oct-2002
Coda, the accountancy software group, is to relocate 35 research and development jobs from Nottingham to its Harrogate office, and any remaining staff will be transferred to a new site on the west side of Nottingham. 16-Oct-2002
Nortel Networks has announced plans to shed a further 175 jobs at offices in Maidenhead. 15-Oct-2002
Essex University is planning to build a £6m electronics and computer research centre at its Wivenhoe campus. 15-Oct-2002
Aspects Software has raised a further £5m from existing backers to fund the marketing of its new Java smart card technology. 14-Oct-2002
Xansa has won a £54m IT outsourcing contract from Boots, covering the retailer's supply chain management and other business applications. 11-Oct-2002
Lucent Technologies is planning to shed up to 50 of the 750 jobs at its mobile phone components business in Swindon. 10-Oct-2002
Agilent is planning to shed up to 140 of the 1,400 jobs at its test equipment factory in South Queensferry by the end of the year. 10-Oct-2002
Spirent, the telecoms equipment tester, is to shed 230 of the 2,200 jobs in its communications division. 10-Oct-2002
Logica is in merger talks with CMG, which would lead to the creation of a £950m IT services group. 09-Oct-2002
Cambridge Silicon Radio has raised a further £12m of private equity to fund the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology business. 03-Oct-2002
NEC Computers International is creating 25 new production jobs at its Livingston factory. 02-Oct-2002
BT Group has formed a new mobile phone services division called Mobile Sense, which will use MMO2's network infrastructure. 02-Oct-2002
Colt Telecom is to shed 800 jobs from its 5,000-strong workforce, as part of a strategy to integrate its regional telecom operations in Europe. 30-Sep-2002
Arius3D has set up a new facility in Alva, near Stirling, to scan museum objects, and expects to create 30 jobs. 27-Sep-2002
Quasar Microwave Technology is to close its telecoms components plant at Heathfield in Devon with the loss of 130 jobs. 27-Sep-2002
Blaenau Gwent Council has commissioned the development of a £2.9m Valleys Information Technology & Communication Centre at the Tredegar Business Park, in partnership with the Welsh Development Agency and University of Wales College Newport. 26-Sep-2002
E-blana is setting up a new £0.4m software development facility in Armagh, to support its Eurovet traceability solutions for the livestock and food production sectors. 26-Sep-2002
Vertex is to shed 140 jobs at its call centre in Nairn in November, following the loss of a contract with Legal & General. 24-Sep-2002
Rare, the computer games developer, is expected to be acquired by Microsoft following the sale of Nintendo's 49% stake in the company. 23-Sep-2002
Liquidlogic has secured £0.8m of venture capital from Northern Venture Managers for the commercial development of a software package that will enable government agencies to integrate their databases. 19-Sep-2002
Alcatel Optronics is to shed 40 jobs at its factory in Livingston, as part of a worldwide restructuring programme. 19-Sep-2002
The Welsh Development Agency is to assist Delta Microelectronics of Denmark establish a £1m silicon chip design centre at Ystrad Mynach in South Wales. 17-Sep-2002
Cable & Wireless is to sell its retail voice customer database in the US to Primus Telecommunications for £20m, and further US disposals are expected to follow. 17-Sep-2002
WorldCom has announced plans to shed 750 jobs at sites in Reading and Cambridge, as part of a worldwide restructuring programme. 17-Sep-2002
DVLA, the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, has awarded a £300m 10-year contract to PWC Consulting and Fujitsu to put its services online and change the way applications are processed. 16-Sep-2002
The Learning & Skills Council South Yorkshire is to relocate its headquarters and up to 150 staff to Victoria Quays in Sheffield later this month. 13-Sep-2002
BT is to create 90 new jobs at its call centre in Thurso to deal with inquiries from its retail customer base. 13-Sep-2002
Oracle, the US-based computer company, is to shed about 270 jobs at its UK headquarters in Reading. 12-Sep-2002
Ergo Computers of Nottingham is planning to relocate its headquarters and up to 60 staff to a new office and manufacturing complex at Ruddington Fields Business Park next year. 11-Sep-2002
The Home Office has announced plans to create 300 jobs at the Criminal Records Bureau call centres in Liverpool and Darwen, which are operated by Capita. 10-Sep-2002
Silvaco Data Systems is building a £4m computer chip research centre at St Ives, Cambridgeshire, with the creation of almost 100 jobs, and its sales and support centre will relocate from Guildford. 05-Sep-2002
The Welsh Development Agency has announced plans to set up a £15m optical electronics facility at St Asaph in Denbighshire, as part of the Technium network of industry-specific centres of excellence. 04-Sep-2002
Gwynedd Council has announced that European Union organisation Cymad is planning to create up to 70 jobs at a bilingual call centre at the Penamser Business Park in Porthmadog. 02-Sep-2002
O2 is to create a further 300 jobs at its telecoms call centre in Bury, taking the total workforce to 1,100. 02-Sep-2002
BBR Systems is to close its computer equipment business in Glenrothes with the loss of 75 jobs. 02-Sep-2002
Misco is planning to create a further 100 jobs at its new computer sales centre in Wellingborough over the next few months, and parent company Systemax is already drawing up plans for another centre nearby. 30-Aug-2002
NewNet has acquired the strategic communications teleport centre at Cams Hall in Fareham, and management of the satellite operations will be outsourced to previous owner Merlin Communications. 30-Aug-2002
Carphone Warehouse has paid £2.8m for AOL Europe's minority stake in the Mviva mobile internet business, and has also announced the acquisition of BCS Wholesale for £0.5m. 29-Aug-2002
Pixology is to raise a further £3.7m from investors to fund the expansion of its digital photography software business. 26-Aug-2002
IQE is to shed about 60 jobs in its semiconductor business, which will affect sites in Milton Keynes, Cardiff and the US. 22-Aug-2002
Intense Photonics has secured £10m of funding to expand its optical electronics business, and has already started prototype production at the former DuPont semiconductor plant near Hamilton. 22-Aug-2002
The Office of Government Commerce has invited providers of broadband internet services to tender for £100m of government contracts, in order to link more government departments up to the internet. 22-Aug-2002
Brightview has completed the acquisition of three more internet service providers - Freenetname, Global Internet and Waitrose.com - and is now interested in merging with a larger telecoms group. 19-Aug-2002
Seven C (7C) is to create up to 45 new jobs at its call centre at the Matchworks in Garston, having won a contract from Seeboard to sell electricity and gas to residential customers. 15-Aug-2002
Sanmina-SCI is to close its electronics manufacturing plant in Irvine with the loss of up to 750 jobs. 13-Aug-2002
ADC is to shed 31 of the 130 jobs at its telecoms components factory in Glenrothes. 13-Aug-2002
Freeserve, the internet service provider, is considering plans to relocate its headquarters to a new 70,000 sq ft office in Hemel Hemstead. 12-Aug-2002
BT has announced plans to create 100 jobs at a new Integrated Teleweb unit at Temple Quay in Bristol, which will provide services to its largest corporate customers. 12-Aug-2002
Marconi has announced plans to shed a further 1,000 jobs in its UK telecoms equipment business, which is expected to hit sites in Liverpool, Coventry and London. 09-Aug-2002
SHL is to shed about 70 of the 1,000 jobs in its recruitment services business, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 07-Aug-2002
BT is planning to convert 28,000 phone boxes into internet kiosks over the next five years. 02-Aug-2002
Orange is to shed up to 60 call centre jobs in Plymouth, and a further 250 will go at four other centres across the country. 01-Aug-2002
Freeserve is planning to relocate its AnyTime unmetered internet access service to Madeira, in order to avoid the higher VAT rates payable in the UK. 29-Jul-2002
Samsung is to take 77,000 sq ft of office space at the LakeView building Chertsey. 29-Jul-2002
Belfor has expanded its disaster recovery business into the north-east by opening an office for five staff in Washington, and now has 14 branches. 26-Jul-2002
Portico Software, the developer of software to analyse manufacturing processes, has set up a headquarters for 15 staff in Caerphilly, and hopes to create 35 new jobs by 2004. 25-Jul-2002
Axiomlab is investing £0.7m in Tenison Technology, the Cambridge University spin-off that designs software for the development of microchips. 24-Jul-2002
Synad of Reading is raising £14m in a share issue to fund the commercial development of wireless networking chips, and a sales office will open in Asia. 22-Jul-2002
Norwood Systems has secured a further £9.5m of venture capital to fund the commercial development of new wire-free products based on Bluetooth technology. 22-Jul-2002
Yorkshire Forward has announced plans for a £2m investment in training 2,000 people in IT and creative skills in Yorkshire, in order to encourage international companies to move to Sheffield's e-campus and the Holbeck Urban Village being built in Leeds. 19-Jul-2002
Lynx Technology is to relocate 70 staff from Belper to its newly-opened office at Barlborough Links near Sheffield later this year, and then a further 30 staff will move to a new administrative centre at its site in Little Eaton. 19-Jul-2002
AIT, the financial services software group, has received a £8.5m rescue package from a consortium of private investors, and a further £11m will be raised in a rights issue. 17-Jul-2002
Vertex has won a £422m 10-year call centre outsourcing contract from Westminster City Council. 17-Jul-2002
Energis, the telecoms carrier, has secured a further £150m from its bankers, as part of a restructuring that will pass control of the group to a new shell company called Chelys. 17-Jul-2002
The Ministry of Defence has allocated £578m of its budget increase for the development of a new computer system for the Armed Forces. 17-Jul-2002
Coventry University is to build a new computer centre by August 2003, having won a £2.4m grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. 16-Jul-2002
ClientLogic is set to announce plans for the creation of a new call centre for 500 staff at an unspecified site on Tyneside, and 60 additional jobs will be created at its existing rail inquiries centre in Newcastle. 15-Jul-2002
ISky Europe has announced plans to set up a customer care call centre at the Portal Hosting site in Tannochside, near Glasgow, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 15-Jul-2002
The Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire is planning to set up a £53m supercomputing service in partnership with Edinburgh University and IBM, which will involve the installation of the country's most powerful academic computer. 15-Jul-2002
The National Assembly for Wales is planning a £100m investment in high-speed internet services, in order to provide broadband access to 310,000 Welsh homes and 67,000 companies. 11-Jul-2002
ID Data is to announce plans to close one of its smart card factories in Corby, Lewes or Coventry in September, in order to save £1.5m a year. 10-Jul-2002
Jobcentre Plus is planning to set up a new call centre in Torquay by next March with the creation of 100 jobs, in order to provide advice on local work and training opportunities. 10-Jul-2002
Torex, the IT company, is building a new £5m office near Banbury for its healthcare division, with the relocation of about 140 staff from Bromsgrove and Basingstoke and the creation of 130 new jobs, while 100 staff will be moved to a new office for its retail division in Witney. 10-Jul-2002
Pace Micro Technology, the supplier of set-top boxes for digital TV, is to shed a further 180 jobs at sites in Saltaire, Cambridge and Bracknell. 09-Jul-2002
JoeKnowsIt is looking to create more than 50 jobs at its new online computer training business in County Durham this year. 09-Jul-2002
Accenture has shed 150 senior management jobs at its London-based management consulting business, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 08-Jul-2002
Hewlett-Packard is to shed 1,400 jobs across the UK, including 450 at the former Compaq computer plant in Erskine, Scotland. 05-Jul-2002
The University of Sheffield has announced a multi-million pound staff expansion programme that will involve the recruitment of 70 additional academics in all seven faculties. 04-Jul-2002
Bookham Technology is to close two optical component factories in Swindon and in Maryland, US, with the loss of 70 jobs, in order to concentrate production at its plants in Milton Keynes and Caswell. 04-Jul-2002
The Home Office has published a consultancy paper for the introduction of national identity cards for British citizens, which would cost up to £1.3bn over 13 years. 04-Jul-2002
African Lakes is to raise up to £10m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its internet and technology business. 01-Jul-2002
IXEurope has raised a further £7.5m from existing investors to fund the expansion of its data hosting business. 01-Jul-2002
Orange is recruiting 500 staff for its mobile phone call centres in Darlington, Peterlee and North Tyneside, as part of an ongoing process to replace people who have left. 28-Jun-2002
Regus is to set up a £4.4m multi-lingual shared services centre at its Clarendon Dock site in Belfast, with the creation of 295 jobs. 28-Jun-2002
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has announced plans to shed a further 5,500 jobs in its IT consultancy business, including 250 in the UK. 28-Jun-2002
WorldCom, the US telecoms group that has 2,500 UK staff based in Reading, faces an uncertain future following the discovery of a $3.8bn profit overstatement and consequent collapse in its share price. 27-Jun-2002
Rage Software is planning to shed about 66 of the 245 jobs in its computer games business over the next few months, affecting sites in Liverpool, Warrington, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bristol and Newcastle. 27-Jun-2002
Arius3D of Canada is to set up a £7m digital imaging centre in Dundee, in partnership with the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay, with the creation of 250 jobs. 26-Jun-2002
Isardata Software Quality Engineering of Germany is to set up a £0.5m software testing and development operation in Downpatrick, with the creation of 15 jobs over the next three years. 26-Jun-2002
Microlise is relocating its electronics manufacturing business and up to 240 staff to a larger site at Eastwood in Nottingham. 25-Jun-2002
Red Lemon, the Glasgow-based computer games developer, is going into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 20 jobs. 24-Jun-2002
Qinetiq and Rotch Property have been appointed by the Church of England as approved installers of mobile telecom masts in at least 5,000 churches. 24-Jun-2002
SCi Entertainment is to raise £3.1m in a share issue to fund the development of new computer games. 21-Jun-2002
Redstone, the virtual telecoms operator, is to double the size of its salesforce and increase its total headcount from 390 to 440. 21-Jun-2002
Nortel has announced a further 200 job cuts at its Monkstown telecoms plant in County Antrim. 21-Jun-2002
Xansa and HBOS are to terminate their First Banking Systems IT outsourcing joint venture next year, and responsibility for 550 Xansa staff will transfer to HBOS. 20-Jun-2002
Bristol Water has awarded a £10m six-year contract to ITNET UK to run its computer facilities, and many staff are expected to transfer from existing contractor SchlumbergerSema. 20-Jun-2002
AIT, the financial services software group, has put itself up for sale following a profit warning and consequent fall in its share price. 14-Jun-2002
Vertex has announced plans to create a further 50 jobs at its outsourcing call centre in Whitehaven. 13-Jun-2002
Connectology, the Thame-based internet technology company, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 20 jobs. 12-Jun-2002
Creature Labs, the computer games developer, has been bought out of administration by a management team, saving 43 jobs. 11-Jun-2002
Alcatel has announced plans to expand its optical components division in Livingston, which will involve the transfer of optical wavelength filter production from Canada and the creation of about 60 jobs. 10-Jun-2002
Project Telecom is to shed about 50 jobs at its retail services division in Newark, although some staff will transfer to its expanding corporate services division. 07-Jun-2002
Sopheon is shedding 20 jobs at its recently-acquired Orbital Software business in Edinburgh. 07-Jun-2002
Arrow Electronics is to relocate its marketing support and administration departments to a single site in Harlow next month, with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 06-Jun-2002
Telesens KSCL, the developer of telephone billing software, may have to shed 350 jobs in Edinburgh if its German parent company becomes insolvent. 05-Jun-2002
Avalanche Technology has ceased trading with the loss of about half of its 27-strong Belfast workforce. 05-Jun-2002
Scottish Enterprise has announced plans to invest £100m creating a series of "intermediate technology institutes" over the next five years, in order to encourage the commercialisation of academic research in communications, life sciences and energy. 31-May-2002
Circatex is planning to shed up to 100 jobs at the former Viasystems telecoms factory in South Shields. 28-May-2002
NEC is considering plans to sell its personal computer factory in Livingston to a subcontractor, which would affect up to 300 jobs. 28-May-2002
Rage Software is planning to raise £5.6m in a share offer, in order to secure the future of its computer games business. 28-May-2002
Eastbourne Borough Council is considering a £35m proposal from Carillion for the construction of two call centre buildings at Sovereign Harbour, which could lead to the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 24-May-2002
ID Data the smart cards manufacturer, has raised £4.1m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its systems business. 24-May-2002
Consignia is planning to close Viacode, its loss-making secure e-mail services business, later this year. 24-May-2002
Conduit is preparing plans to expand its network of call centres following the Oftel decision to end BT's monopoly on directory enquiries, which could lead to the creation of hundreds of jobs in Cardiff. 23-May-2002
Noble & Company has launched a £25m investment fund for computer games developers, which means that developers will no longer need to seek an advance from publishers. 23-May-2002
Tyco Electronics is closing one of its two fibre optic factories in Bideford with the loss of 40 jobs. 22-May-2002
Elev8 Solutions is seeking a suitable location to set up a second call centre in South Wales, which could create up to 400 jobs. 22-May-2002
Terahertz Photonics is in negotiations to sell its coatings division to Far Blue, the technology venture capital firm, for about £0.2m. 21-May-2002
Marconi is planning to float a majority stake in Strategic Communications, its Italian defence electronics business valued at more than £200m. 17-May-2002
Unisys is considering plans to move out of its 54,000 sq ft office in central Slough. 14-May-2002
BT Group is to shed 2,200 jobs in its BT Ignite business services division, but 1,200 new jobs will be created in sales and marketing. 13-May-2002
Energis is to close its Ision web-hosting business in Germany, having dropped plans to find a buyer. 13-May-2002
Logica has announced plans to shed 700 jobs, including 400 in its mobile networks division, and close offices in the UK, Japan and Ireland. 13-May-2002
Aiwa has sold its electronics manufacturing plant at Newbridge in South Wales to Hong Kong-based investment company Sen Hong, securing 200 jobs, and the new business will be known as Axiom Manufacturing Services. 10-May-2002
Seven C (7C) is to create scores of new jobs at its Park On Line joint venture call centre in Birkenhead over the next few months, to add to the existing 400. 10-May-2002
The University of Birmingham has announced plans for the £20m expansion of its business school, with staff numbers doubling to 110 over the next five years. 10-May-2002
Orchestream is to shed a further 84 of the 234 staff in its internet software business. 09-May-2002
The University of Central England has been named as one of 18 New Technology Institutes being set up across the country, as part of a £25m government-funded scheme to provide IT training to businesses. 08-May-2002
T-Mobile is recruiting an additional 50 staff at its mobile phone call centre at Doxford Park in Sunderland. 08-May-2002
Tamura Hinchley of Japan is to stop production at its electronics factory in Devizes this summer with the loss of up to 95 jobs, in order to transfer production to other countries. 08-May-2002
Hyder Business Services is expected to create hundreds of jobs on Teesside over the next few years as a result of its partnership with Middlesbrough Council, and will establish a regional headquarters in the town. 07-May-2002
Nexagent is forming a partnership with Cisco Systems to develop an information exchange that will enable telecoms carriers to combine their networks, and the company is thought to have raised up to £15m of venture capital. 07-May-2002
Fretwell-Downing Informatics has secured a £3.2m investment to fund the expansion of its Sheffield-based business supplying IT systems for library and information markets worldwide. 02-May-2002
IXEurope has announced a £4.5m funding deal with RWE of Germany to grow its pan-European internet facilities business. 02-May-2002
Fujitsu Consulting is to shed 180 jobs in its IT consultancy operations in the UK. 01-May-2002
JDS Uniphase is to close its electronics factory in Torquay in September, with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 30-Apr-2002
Motion Media is to shed 40 of the 100 jobs in its videophones business, in an attempt to reduce costs by £3m a year. 30-Apr-2002
Orange has announced plans to invest a further £15m in the expansion of its mobile phone network in Northern Ireland over the next two years, which will involve 90 new transmitters. 29-Apr-2002
Baltimore Technologies, the internet security software company, is to shed a further 50 jobs and may put the business up for sale over the next few months. 24-Apr-2002
Spectel, the Dublin-based developer of web-enabled conferencing services, is planning to raise about £30m in a flotation on the London and Irish stock exchanges to fund acquisitions, marketing and research. 24-Apr-2002
Siemens has paid £14m for a 5% stake in the Symbian wireless software business. 24-Apr-2002
Jabil Circuit is to shed 475 jobs at the former Marconi telecoms equipment factory in Liverpool, and a further 220 jobs at the Coventry site. 23-Apr-2002
Plastic Logic has raised £6.3m of venture capital to expand its Cambridge-based microchip development business and increase the 22-strong workforce. 22-Apr-2002
Siemens is looking to sell its UK-based network systems business for about £160m. 22-Apr-2002
Chronos Technology is to create a new data communications networking subsidiary in the Forest of Dean called Bluewire Solutions, with the creation of up to 25 jobs. 19-Apr-2002
Hutchison 3G is planning to set up a 35,000 sq ft regional office for its growing telecoms business at the Birmingham Business Park, with the creation of 100 jobs. 18-Apr-2002
Redstone has sold its UK voice network to BT Group for a nominal sum, in order to become a "virtual" telecoms operator. 17-Apr-2002
Vecta, the developer of sales software, is planning a £13m flotation on Aim, and the proceeds will be used to fund expansion and recruit additional sales staff. 16-Apr-2002
FD Systems is to relocate its Cardiff-based financial and management systems software business to a larger site at Nantgarw, and the workforce will rise from 30 to 40. 12-Apr-2002
Avantis, the developer of CD and DVD servers, is considering plans to relocate its 29 staff from Abercynon to Cardiff. 11-Apr-2002
BT Group is planning to set up more than 4,000 wireless local area networks in locations such as hotels, airports and stations, in order to enable business users to access their company networks and the internet. 10-Apr-2002
Virgin Mobile has started a recruitment campaign to find 150 additional staff for its mobile phones business in Trowbridge. 09-Apr-2002
Jade Software of New Zealand is planning to set up a UK headquarters in York, with the creation of 25 office-based jobs for software developers and hundreds of home-based jobs for sales staff. 09-Apr-2002
ServSoft, the Bellshill-based software company, is said to have been closed down with the loss of 23 jobs. 08-Apr-2002
Dream Direct, the mail order software company, is to acquire cash shell Willisham for up to £2.3m, in order to gain a stock market listing and raise funds to exploit TV retailing. 08-Apr-2002
Energis is to close its Swiss communications business with the loss of about 130 jobs, prompting speculation over the future of its operations in France, Italy and Poland. 05-Apr-2002
Norwich City Council has confirmed that 120 jobs will be lost over the next three years because of the £80m Norwich Connect scheme, which will involve a private consortium supplying cost-cutting business advice, computer technology and training services. 04-Apr-2002
RM has won a £1.4m contract from the Department for Education & Skills for a five-month pilot project to develop teacher training courses. 03-Apr-2002
Astrium is hoping to create up to 250 more jobs in Portsmouth following an EU decision to proceed with the development of the £700m Galileo network of navigational satellites. 28-Mar-2002
Avalanche Technology of the US is planning to create 40 jobs at its Belfast-based IT outsourcing business this year, having raised new funding to establish additional services and expand sales and marketing initiatives. 28-Mar-2002
BT Group has announced plans to spend £100m creating 30 "next generation multi-function customer contact centres", but up to 2,200 jobs will be lost through the closure of 53 existing sites over the next two years. 28-Mar-2002
Axiomlab is investing £0.25m in iBase Image Systems, the Ilkley-based digital image management company, in return for a 22% stake. 27-Mar-2002
BT Group has awarded a £150m computer support services contract to Computacenter, which will involve the transfer of 362 BT staff. 26-Mar-2002
Synaptics, the developer of communications devices, is to set up an 8,000 sq ft office and research facility at the Cambridge Research Park. 25-Mar-2002
Chelsfield is to acquire full control of the Global Switch telehousing business, in a £106m investment funded by a share issue. 21-Mar-2002
Regus has agreed a £100m five-year contract with Nokia to relocate 20% of Nokia's workforce to Regus business centres. 21-Mar-2002
Hutchison 3G is to set up a regional base for its new mobile phone network at the Manchester Business Park, which will involve the creation of about 150 new jobs and the relocation of a further 150 jobs from Heald Green. 19-Mar-2002
Detica is planning to raise about £16m in a flotation in June, in order to reduce debt and expand its IT services business. 19-Mar-2002
Nortel has announced plans to shed a further 350 jobs at telecoms plants in Maidenhead, Harlow and North London. 18-Mar-2002
Sharp Electronics is planning to shed 314 of the 834 jobs at its factory in Wrexham, due to falling demand for video recorders. 14-Mar-2002
Codemasters is planning to create 35 new jobs at its computer games programming business in Warwickshire. 14-Mar-2002
Lagan Technologies is planning to create 60 new jobs at its Belfast-based software business over the next two years, which will involve the expansion of its sales and marketing operation. 13-Mar-2002
Bradford Council is considering plans to seek tenders for the creation of a £40m IT partnership, in order to computerise the various departments and transform the way the 23,000 staff work. 08-Mar-2002
Ritek of Taiwan is to invest £28m in the creation of a new company, Rixell, to make optical storage discs in Omagh, with the creation of 150 jobs over the next three years. 07-Mar-2002
Dell has awarded a £15m contract to Carillion to build a four-storey office block in Bracknell. 07-Mar-2002
Genesis Communications is planning to expand its network of 12 telecoms offices with new branches in Belfast, Birmingham and London this year, with the creation of 150 jobs. 05-Mar-2002
Apama, the Cambridge-based software start-up, has raised a further £6.9m of funding from Carlyle Group, Anschutz Investments and Providence Investment Company. 04-Mar-2002
QED has won a contract to exploit up to 60 optoelectronics patents for Royal KPN of the Netherlands. 04-Mar-2002
Viridian is to split its Sx3 Newtownabbey-based IT business into four divisions with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 01-Mar-2002
ELWa, the Welsh education and training agency, is to shed up to 120 jobs in a major cost cutting programme. 01-Mar-2002
BT Group has sold its 50% stake in the e-peopleserve human resources outsourcing business to Accenture for £50m. 01-Mar-2002
Nortel Networks is planning to relocate up to 600 staff from New Southgate to its site in Harlow. 28-Feb-2002
Compaq is to sell its printed circuit board plant in Ayr to Jabil of the US, and about 400 jobs will either be lost of relocated to its Erskine site. 28-Feb-2002
Logica has won a £17m IT outsourcing contract from George Wimpey, which will involve the transfer of 20 staff. 28-Feb-2002
Intel has won permission to expand its European headquarters in Swindon with a new four-storey office block, which could create up to 300 jobs. 25-Feb-2002
The Industrial Development Board has announced that Advanced Digital Technology of South Korea is setting up a £2.8m digital set-top box factory in Downpatrick, with the creation of 70 jobs. 22-Feb-2002
ICL is planning to relocate its Manchester-based IT operations to a new £35m building at the North Manchester Business Park, securing the future of 2,000 jobs. 22-Feb-2002
Colt Telecom is planning to mothball seven data centres and shed a further 500 jobs. 22-Feb-2002
Energis is planning to sell its loss-making overseas telecoms business and shed a further 400 jobs in the UK. 21-Feb-2002
British Telecom is planning to rationalise and modernise its 150 call centres, in order to create a smaller network of "world-class" centres and save £150m a year by 2004. 15-Feb-2002
Norwest Holst is to build a £6m call centre and office for Barbury House Developments in Birmingham. 14-Feb-2002
Exabyte, the US data storage technology company, is to close its factory in Larbert with the loss of 105 jobs. 13-Feb-2002
DeltaSeal Software, the developer of e-mail tracking software, is to create up to 30 jobs at its new sales office in York over the next two years. 13-Feb-2002
Regus has won a £24m contract to provide serviced office space for 450 Compaq staff around the UK. 12-Feb-2002
InterX, the internet software company, is planning to sell its head office in Brentford, west London, and some of the 100 jobs will be lost. 12-Feb-2002
Insolutions, the US supplier of online billing software, has opened a European headquarters in Cardiff with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 11-Feb-2002
Seven C (7C) is recruiting up to 700 staff for its new £5m multilingual call centre at the Matchworks in Liverpool, and is using computer-based technology instead of telephones. 08-Feb-2002
Fujitsu is planning to transfer the ownership of its Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe electronics plant in Belfast, which has 61 staff, to TriVirix International of the US. 06-Feb-2002
MMO2 is to shed 1,900 jobs in its UK and German mobile phone operations, which will affect administrative staff in Leeds and Slough and include the closure of 133 of its 320 UK retail outlets. 06-Feb-2002
Business Serve is to create up to 60 new customer services and sales jobs in Lancaster following the acquisition of internet services company Cerbernet. 04-Feb-2002
Amey has won a £36m outsourcing contract to provide IT systems to Northern Ireland's public libraries, and will start installing equipment in May. 31-Jan-2002
British Telecom is to close its directory inquiries call centre in Durham with the loss of 120 jobs, and similar sites will close in Leamington Spa, Hemmel Hempstead, Truro, Irvine and Glasgow. 30-Jan-2002
Solectron is to close its electronics factory in Carrickfergus with the loss of 185 jobs. 30-Jan-2002
British Telecom is planning to shed several hundred of the 1,500 jobs at its BT Ignite business services division in Germany, as part of an overhaul of its European operations. 30-Jan-2002
Xansa has won a £125m five-year outsourcing contract to supply IT services for Barclaycard. 30-Jan-2002
Intovation, the Leicester-based computer and IT services company, has ceased trading with the loss of 22 jobs. 29-Jan-2002
ASC Computer Software has secured £2.2m of equity finance from Lloyds TSB Development Capital to fund the commercial development of handheld computer devices for hospital doctors. 29-Jan-2002
Vertex is to shed 430 jobs at its call centre in Knowsley as two major contracts are about to expire. 28-Jan-2002
Warthog has raised £2m from institutional investors to fund the expansion of its games software business, and is currently negotiating an acquisition. 28-Jan-2002
Terahertz Photonics of Livingston has secured £6m of second-round funding from Scottish Equity Partners and Add Partners to complete the testing of its optoelectronics technology. 25-Jan-2002
Energis is conducting a strategic review of its telecoms business, which could lead to a rights issue, the closure of some overseas operations or the entire group being put up for sale. 25-Jan-2002
Thames Water is linking up with the 186k telecoms division of Lattice Group to invest £34m in the development of a fibre communications network in London's sewers. 24-Jan-2002
Misys has announced plans for the development of the AssureWeb online transaction system for independent financial advisers, which will include a £9m investment from Norwich Union, Scottish Widows and Friends Provident. 24-Jan-2002
IMS Group, the telecoms services company, is looking to organise a rescue rights issue and negotiate new banking facilities. 22-Jan-2002
CallPoinT Europe, the provider of temporary call centre space, has secured a further £0.9m of funding from Pertemps Recruitment and property developer Credential Holdings to expand throughout the country. 21-Jan-2002
The Industrial Development Board is supporting a £2.4m investment by 8over8 in a software development centre at the University of Ulster's science park, which could lead to the creation of 100 jobs. 18-Jan-2002
British Telecom is to create a further 30 jobs at its Internet Designers Limited venture in Belfast, in order to develop a range of internet-related software and computer technologies. 18-Jan-2002
Filtronic is planning to create a further 90 jobs at its Newton Aycliffe electronics plant over the next year, to manufacture broadband communication products. 17-Jan-2002
Xansa is to shed 250 jobs in its Business Change IT services operation. 17-Jan-2002
Pierbridge has set up a £0.5m software research office in York and plans to increase the workforce from four to 20 over the next two years. 16-Jan-2002
Marconi is planning to close a number of unidentified telecoms equipment factories with the loss of 4,000 jobs, including 1,000 in the UK. 16-Jan-2002
Online Direct Mobile has gone into liquidation with the loss of 90 jobs at a mobile phone call centre in Swansea and 40 jobs at a warehouse in Llanelli. 14-Jan-2002
Birmingham City Council is to set up a call centre for up to 170 staff at the Waterlinks House office complex near the Aston Science Park, and the service will be operated by outsourcing specialist Vertex. 11-Jan-2002
IBM is to outsource its PC manufacturing operations in the US and Scotland to Sanmina-SCI, which will include the transfer of 80 staff at Greenock. 11-Jan-2002
Vodafone has announced a £20m investment in China, which will involve the acquisition of a 10% stake in the Aspire mobile internet joint venture between China Mobile and Hewlett-Packard. 10-Jan-2002
Motorola is planning to close its South Queensferry semiconductor plant near Edinburgh by the end of the year, although some of the 550 jobs may be relocated to its East Kilbride site. 09-Jan-2002
ICL has awarded a contract to HBG to build a 50,000 sq ft office at the Crewe Business Park in Cheshire, and about 600 staff will relocate from its existing premises in Kidsgrove early next year. 09-Jan-2002
Marconi has raised £10m from the sale of a property portfolio to Ashtenne, including offices in Harlow, Wellingborough and Liverpool. 09-Jan-2002
Vodafone and Vivendi Universal are to restructure their Vizzavi internet portal business, which will involve a 12% reduction in European staffing levels and a change to the way it shares revenue with mobile phone operators. 08-Jan-2002
Haslemere is linking up with NTL to provide shoppers with improved mobile phone coverage in seven of its shopping centres, including Bangor, Chelmsford, Sutton, Hartlepool, Leeds, Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh. 04-Jan-2002
Logica has won a £200m contract to provide IT services to the Crown Prosecution Service, which will involve transferring the current paper-based system to the internet by 2004. 03-Jan-2002
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