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Warthog is planning to raise £3m to fund the transformation of its computer games business, and more of its operations will be moved to the US. 31-Dec-2003 Carphone Warehouse is to create 180 new jobs at its Opal Telecom call centre at the Birchwood Business Park in Warrington by July 2004. 30-Dec-2003 Sifam Fibre Optics is planning to create 40 new jobs at its Torquay factory over the next six months. 30-Dec-2003 Agilisys is expected to create up to 300 jobs in its enterprise solutions business over the next 18 months, and will set up a new 25,000 sq ft office in York by the end of next year. 23-Dec-2003 Accenture is expected to win a £450m software development contract from Barclays Bank, which will involve the transfer of about 1,000 jobs. 18-Dec-2003 Zen Internet is to relocate to new premises in Rochdale early next year, and expects to increase its workforce from 72 to 200 by the end of 2004. 15-Dec-2003 Sanmina-SCI is to shed 250 jobs at its electronics plant in Greenock, due to falling demand for computer products. 15-Dec-2003 Anite is considering plans to sell off some of its non-core operations, as part of a review of its IT services and software business. 15-Dec-2003 Redbus Interhouse is to raise £4.3m in a share offer to provide working capital for its web-hosting business. 11-Dec-2003 Mentmore is to sell its 50% stake in the Iron Mountain Europe records management business to joint venture partner Iron Mountain for £82m. 11-Dec-2003 Arjuna Technologies of Newcastle has secured an undisclosed investment from North-East Seed Capital Fund and others to fund the expansion of its e-commerce systems business. 11-Dec-2003 Department for Education & Skills is planning to shed up to 1,000 jobs as part of an efficiency drive. 10-Dec-2003 Capita is in discussions with Edinburgh City Council about plans to introduce a congestion charge scheme in the city centre. 09-Dec-2003 Nexagent has secured a £15m cash injection from Apax Partners to fund the worldwide introduction of interconnect points for the networks of competing telecoms operators. 08-Dec-2003 Xansa is to withdraw from continental Europe with the loss of 50 jobs, mostly in France, in order to focus on winning work in the UK's IT outsourcing market. 05-Dec-2003 Business Systems Services is relocating its Swansea-based software development business to a new 5,000 sq ft site at the Garn Goch Industrial Estate in Gorseinon. 04-Dec-2003 Sage, the business software company, is looking to spend up to £300m on acquisitions next year, and is particularly interested in mainland Europe and the US. 04-Dec-2003 Merant is planning to shed an unspecified number of jobs in its software tools business, as part of a strategy to reduce costs by 25%. 03-Dec-2003 BT is said to be planning to shed up to 1,300 jobs in its BT Retail pay phones division. 02-Dec-2003 Orange is planning to set up a training academy to improve the quality of its mobile phone sales staff. 01-Dec-2003 Clearswift has secured £7.3m in a financing round to fund the development of software for managing and securing electronic communications. 28-Nov-2003 Avanex of the US is planning to close its recently-acquired Alcatel Optronics plant in Livingston with the loss of up to 100 jobs, unless a buyer can be found. 26-Nov-2003 Radstone Technology has warned that its computer boards factory in Flintshire will close with the loss of 60 jobs, unless a buyer can be found, as it wants to consolidate production at its Milton Keynes site. 25-Nov-2003 Corizon has secured £2m from Atlas Venture, LMS Capital, Reuters Venture Fund and others to fund the expansion of its enterprise software business. 21-Nov-2003 The Welsh Development Agency is supporting the relocation of BSS, the Swansea-based software development company with 14 staff, to a new 5,000 sq ft site on the Garn Goch Industrial Estate. 21-Nov-2003 Zoo Digital is planning to raise £5.7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its computer games business. 20-Nov-2003 Absolute Quality, the US-based software testing and technical support company, is to create 150 new jobs in Glasgow over the next two years. 19-Nov-2003 Vodafone is to shed up to 80 jobs by combining its direct sales forces with those of recent acquisitions Corporate 4u and Project Telecom. 18-Nov-2003 MMO2 has announced plans to shed 200 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its central operations, which will affect staff in Hammersmith and Slough. 18-Nov-2003 Polight, the Cambridge-based holographic data storage company, is closing down due to the difficulty of developing products within an economic time frame. 17-Nov-2003 Wolfson Microelectronics is planning to expand the workforce at its computer chip design business in Edinburgh from 150 to 300 by the end of 2004. 14-Nov-2003 Bermo has closed its electronics factory in Glenrothes with the loss of 60 jobs. 14-Nov-2003 Forth Active is planning to create 50 jobs at its call centre in Glenrothes over the next five years, having secured a deal to distribute software for US-based Comco. 14-Nov-2003 MM Group has acquired Contact 24 of Bristol to create one of the country's largest outsourced contact centre service providers, which will lead to the creation of about 100 new jobs at its site in County Down. 10-Nov-2003 The Learning & Skills Council is to shed 600 jobs from its 5,000-strong workforce, affecting sites in Coventry, London and 47 local offices. 07-Nov-2003 Bookham Technology is recruiting 100 extra temporary staff at its factory in Paignton. 07-Nov-2003 Benchmark Electronics is to close its printed circuit boards plant in East Kilbride with the loss of about 130 jobs. 05-Nov-2003 Monstermob is planning to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its mobile phone content business. 31-Oct-2003 Superscape has raised £9.3m in a share placing to fund the development of 3D technology for mobile phone games. 30-Oct-2003 Deltron Electronics is planning to raise £6.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its electromechanical components distribution business. 29-Oct-2003 Edinburgh University has announced plans to build a new £40m informatics and computer science complex in the city centre by 2007, which would house 600 researchers. 29-Oct-2003 Xansa, the IT outsourcing company, is planning to shed up to 45 jobs at offices in Bristol, High Wycombe and Coventry. 28-Oct-2003 Cadence Design Systems is looking to sell its electronics factory in Livingston, which employs about 150 staff, having appointed DTZ Debenhams to find potential buyers or tenants. 28-Oct-2003 Pixology, the Surrey-based digital photography software company, is planning to raise about £10m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange. 28-Oct-2003 Allen Systems Group of the US is to set up a £3.6m software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 168 jobs over the next three years. 24-Oct-2003 Thus, the telecoms carrier, is to create 250 jobs at its three call centres in Glasgow, to handle an increase in outsourcing work for existing clients. 24-Oct-2003 Reuters is to consolidate its global software development operations at four new hubs, which will result in hundreds of job losses and the transfer of work from sites in London and Nottingham to Paris. 23-Oct-2003 Birchfield Interactive has secured an undisclosed investment to fund the expansion of its Cardiff-based educational software business. 23-Oct-2003 Vertex is to create 700 new jobs at its customer service call centres in Speke and Knowsley, while a further 400 jobs will be created in Bolton. 23-Oct-2003 Vecta Software Corporation, the developer of sales intelligence software, has received £2.5m in investment funding from venture capital firm Add Partners, in order to develop strategic partner channels and drive global expansion. 22-Oct-2003 BAe Systems is to shed up to 60 of the 700 jobs at its defence electronics site in Christchurch, including software, hardware and administration staff. 22-Oct-2003 Manpower is recruiting 70 additional staff for the BT customer services call centre in Newport, South Wales. 10-Oct-2003 Warings has won a £7.5m contract from Hewlett-Packard to extend a data centre in Swindon. 09-Oct-2003 Orange is to recruit 140 staff at its mobile phone call centre in Darlington over the coming weeks, as part of an ongoing programme to meet customer demand. 09-Oct-2003 IQE is to raise £18m in a share placing in preparation for an expected rise in demand for its semiconductor wafers. 08-Oct-2003 Specialist Computer Holdings is looking to expand its IT services business with acquisitions in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. 06-Oct-2003 Xansa has won a £38m three-year government contract to provide IT systems and support to the Learning & Skills Council. 03-Oct-2003 PC Medics is seeking a buyer for its London-based IT services business, and the remaining operations will be liquidated. 02-Oct-2003 Zoo Digital has acquired the intellectual property rights of Gremlin Interactive from Atari, together with a catalogue of 33 computer games, for undisclosed terms. 01-Oct-2003 Advantage West Midlands has announced a £24m investment in the development of e-commerce across the region, which could lead to the creation of nearly 1,000 jobs. 29-Sep-2003 Codemasters, the computer games developer with 400 staff, is considering plans for a £100m flotation. 29-Sep-2003 Parity Group is to raise £10m in a rights issue, to enable it to compete for larger IT services contracts. 26-Sep-2003 Nigel Wright Consultancy is planning to create up to 50 new jobs at its recruitment services business in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 23-Sep-2003 Corporate Services Group is planning to shed a further 280 jobs from its 1,600-strong workforce by the end of next year, as part of a restructuring programme aimed at reducing annual costs by £10m. 18-Sep-2003 Axon, the IT services consultancy, is to continue recruiting new staff following an increase in headcount from 322 to 378 over the past 12 months. 17-Sep-2003 Twenty4help is to recruit a further 100 staff for its IT helpline call centre in Gateshead over the next few months. 15-Sep-2003 CryptoLogic, the Canadian developer of online gambling software, is planning to list on the London stock market in order to improve its international profile. 15-Sep-2003 Procter & Gamble is to transfer 150 human resources staff in North Tyneside to IBM, as part of a 10-year global services outsourcing deal. 12-Sep-2003 Kingston Communications has indicated that it may be interested in a merger, following the announcement of an unexpected profit warning. 11-Sep-2003 Cambridge Silicon Radio is considering plans to float its wireless communications business by early next year. 11-Sep-2003 Vodafone has awarded a £6m contract to Moss Construction to refurbish offices at the Newbury Business Park by January 2004. 10-Sep-2003 NWP Spectrum is forming a partnership with The Cloud to set up wireless internet access points at 7,000 sites across the UK, in order to expand The Cloud's Wi-Fi network. 08-Sep-2003 Dicom is planning to raise £4.3m in a share placing to fund acquisitions for its software development business. 08-Sep-2003 The Welsh Development Agency is to help four hi-tech companies from India establish bases in Wales with the creation of about 300 jobs, and they are GTL, BPL Telecom, Infrasoft Technologies and Elan. 08-Sep-2003 Boston Networks is looking into the possibility of relocating its Glasgow-based telecoms business to England, due to problems finding a large enough site in Scotland. 08-Sep-2003 Nexor is to relocate its Nottingham-based secure messaging systems business and up to 80 staff to Bell House near University Boulevard in October. 08-Sep-2003 Europa Magnetics Corporation is to shed up to 100 of the 440 jobs at its electronics plant in Cramlington. 05-Sep-2003 LogicaCMG is planning to raise £180m in a bond issue to fund acquisitions for its computer services business. 05-Sep-2003 EDS, the US-based IT company, is to relocate its Swansea office, which employs 350 staff, to the Matrix Business Park next May. 04-Sep-2003 Teletech is to shed up to 100 jobs at its call centre in Belfast, due to insufficient demand for its new 118 directory inquiries service. 04-Sep-2003 KVS, the Reading-based software company, has raised £11m of venture capital to expand its global sales and marketing operation. 02-Sep-2003 Temp Team is planning to expand its recruitment agency business with 18 new offices across the country over the next five years, with the creation of 40 jobs. 26-Aug-2003 BT is to create about 100 jobs in Exeter over the next few months with the opening of a new directory enquiries call centre at Exbridge House. 26-Aug-2003 EDExcel is seeking a 100,000 sq ft headquarters in London, and a number of sites have been shortlisted. 25-Aug-2003 Vodafone is planning to close its call centre in Abingdon in November, and some of the 210 staff will be offered the chance to relocate to Banbury or Birmingham. 21-Aug-2003 Centurion Electronics has raised £1.2m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its in-car audio-visual entertainment business across western Europe. 20-Aug-2003 Terahertz Photonics, the Livingston-based developer of optical waveguide devices, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 22 jobs. 19-Aug-2003 EDS, the US-owned IT solutions group, is linking up with Akeler to develop a 200,000 sq ft headquarters complex at its Wavenden site in Milton Keynes, and staff will relocate from Luton and existing offices in Milton Keynes. 18-Aug-2003 NCR is to build a £7m customer care centre at the Eurocentral business park in Mossend, with the transfer of about 300 jobs from Cumbernauld and elsewhere in the UK. 15-Aug-2003 Energis has won a £40m contract from the Office of Government Commerce to provide a new internal network linking 200,000 central and local government workers on the Government Secure intranet. 14-Aug-2003 Eurodis Electron is planning to raise £18m in a share placing in order to reduce debt and to benefit from early signs of recovery in the market for electronic components. 11-Aug-2003 Wolfson Microelectronics, the Edinburgh-based computer chip designer with annual sales of £22m, is considering plans for a flotation later this year. 11-Aug-2003 Viasystems is to close its electronics factory in Coventry later this year, with the loss of 120 jobs. 08-Aug-2003 Glamorgan Telecom is to relocate its Cardiff-based telecoms business and 45 staff to the Cardiff Gate Business Park. 07-Aug-2003 Red Shark, the supplier of print cartridges, is to open a new warehouse in Berwick with the creation of 12 jobs. 07-Aug-2003 PinkRoccade, the Dutch IT services company, is opening a new service centre at the Inchinnan Business Park in Glasgow, with the creation of 100 jobs. 07-Aug-2003 Clinical Computing, the provider of information management software to the healthcare sector, is to raise £2.2m in a share placing. 07-Aug-2003 Vodafone is to close its Midlands network management centre with the loss of 96 jobs in Solihull, in order to create a two-region structure managed from Warrington and Hayes. 06-Aug-2003 Bookham Technology is to shed up to 180 jobs in its worldwide optical components business, and a fabrication facility in Milton will be disposed of. 31-Jul-2003 Conduit is to recruit a further 300 staff for its 118UK directory enquiries call centre in Swansea by September. 18-Jul-2003 HBS, formerly Hyder Business Services, is recruiting a further 70 staff in Middlesbrough, in order to offer a revenues and benefits processing service for councils throughout the country. 17-Jul-2003 Mondas is to raise £1.5m in a share placing on Aim, in order to expand its banking and educational software business. 15-Jul-2003 Kalido has secured £11m of venture capital to expand its data management software business into the US. 14-Jul-2003 Anite is to shed 130 jobs in its Reading-based IT services business. 14-Jul-2003 Computer Services Group is planning to double the 29-strong workforce at its IT support business in Bridgend over the next five years. 11-Jul-2003 Fujitsu is relocating some of its IT operations from Kidsgrove to a new £8m building at the Crewe Business Park, which will house about 600 staff. 10-Jul-2003 Scottish Development International has provided assistance to Founder Group, the Chinese PC manufacturer that has announced plans to open a sales and marketing headquarters in Glasgow with the creation of up to 100 jobs over the next three years. 09-Jul-2003 Computacenter has won a £70m outsourcing contract from Abbey National, which will involve managing IT and staff computing services across the bank's UK operations. 04-Jul-2003 Imagination Technologies has raised £4.4m in a share placing, in order to strengthen its balance sheet and fund the commercial development of its chip design business. 04-Jul-2003 The University of Liverpool's Advanced Internet Methods & Emergent Systems Institute has secured £2m of EU funding to develop grid computing technology at a new science park next to the Metropolitan Cathedral, which could lead to the creation of 175 jobs. 03-Jul-2003 Seagate Technology is to invest £90m at its Londonderry plant over the next two years, in order to develop new computer disk drives with increased storage capacity and performance. 03-Jul-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry is to invest £90m in the commercialisation of nanotechnology over the next six years, and expects universities and industry to collaborate in their research. 03-Jul-2003 ComputerLand UK is planning to create up to 100 jobs at its Nottingham-based IT services business by building a new office next to its Ruddington headquarters. 30-Jun-2003 Ofcom, the new communications regulatory body, is setting up its headquarters at Chelsfield's 175,000 sq ft Riverside House in London SE1, while Knight Frank has been appointed to dispose of the four central London properties of Ofcom's predecessors. 30-Jun-2003 Vodafone is to close the former Cellular Operations call centre in Swindon later this year with the loss of 480 jobs. 26-Jun-2003 Latens Systems is to invest £2.5m in a new operation to produce digital TV software in Belfast, with the creation of 100 jobs over the next four years. 25-Jun-2003 Thus, the Glasgow-based telecoms carrier, is planning to outsource some of its call centre operations to India, and tenders are being considered from ten companies. 25-Jun-2003 East Midlands Development Agency and the Connect Midlands business advisory network are backing a new scheme called InvoRed, which will provide funding of up to £3m to early-stage technology companies in the region. 25-Jun-2003 Pelikon has raised £3.2m of venture capital to invest in the expansion of its display systems factory in Caerphilly. 20-Jun-2003 Torex is to acquire a 70% stake in Logware, the German software company, for £6m, in order to strengthen its position in the pin-protected credit card market. 20-Jun-2003 NCC is creating a further 50 jobs at its Manchester-based IT consultancy business, following an increase in demand for its Escrow software protection arm. 19-Jun-2003 PCCW of Hong Kong has acquired 13 regional licences to develop a nationwide fixed-wireless broadband network, which could also be used as a relay for 3G mobile phones. 18-Jun-2003 Netstore has won a £6.5m contract to provide IT services and management consultancy to the London Borough of Hackney. 18-Jun-2003 Atmel is to create 40 new jobs at its semiconductor plant in Wallsend, and is importing £34m-worth of production equipment from Texas. 16-Jun-2003 Agilent Technologies is to close its fibre-optic components factory in Ipswich in July with the loss of 200 jobs, while 50 research staff will relocate to a new site. 16-Jun-2003 Logcom is planning a £120m flotation on Aim next April and is looking to acquire up to 100 IT resellers. 16-Jun-2003 Scipher has raised £7.6m in a share placing to provide additional working capital for its technology development and licensing business. 13-Jun-2003 Convergent Telecom, the Yorkshire-based telecoms company with more than 200 staff in Pocklington, has been put up for sale. 11-Jun-2003 Telegate is to create 300 new jobs at its 118866 directory enquiries call centre in Dumfries. 06-Jun-2003 Accenture is to shed up to 30 jobs at its business consultancy in Aberdeen, which will affect staff in finance, accounting and administration. 06-Jun-2003 Cable & Wireless is to shed a further 1,500 jobs from the 5,700-strong workforce in its UK telecoms business, and has also announced plans to withdraw from its lossmaking US division. 05-Jun-2003 Tesco is forming a mobile phone joint venture with MMO2, and each company will invest £8m over the next two years with a view to reaching up to 2m customers within five years. 05-Jun-2003 CRC Group is to shed up to 135 jobs at its mobile phone repair business in Huntingdon, due a reduction in work from Nokia. 04-Jun-2003 Cambridge Positioning Systems has shed 50 jobs at its location finding technology business in Cambridge. 30-May-2003 Cable & Wireless is said to be planning to shed about 200 jobs at its London headquarters, while several hundred jobs will be lost elsewhere in the group. 30-May-2003 Advantage West Midlands has announced a £4.6m scheme to establish a network of "learning zones" on industrial estates in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, in order to improve workforce skills and create 60 new jobs. 29-May-2003 The Number is to establish a new directory enquiries call centre at the Langage Science Park in Plymouth, with the creation of 300 jobs. 29-May-2003 Marconi is to outsource its internal IT systems to Computer Sciences Corporation in a £450m 10-year deal, which will involve the transfer of more than 360 staff. 28-May-2003 Alcatel is to sell its optronics division in Livingston to Avanex of the US for £38m, but about 60 of the 160 jobs will be cut. 28-May-2003 Virgin Mobile is to recruit a further 200 staff at its mobile phone call centre in Middlesbrough next year. 27-May-2003 Baltimore Technologies, the internet security provider, has put itself up for sale with an estimated value of £19m. 23-May-2003 GN Netcom is to close its telephone headsets factory on the Wear Industrial Estate near Washington with the loss of about 60 jobs, unless a management buy-out can be agreed. 23-May-2003 Project Telecom is to shed up to 50 management jobs at its telecoms operations in Newark, London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham. 22-May-2003 Iron Mountain, the US data storage company, is planning to set up a new base at the Primepoint 14 site in Stafford, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 21-May-2003 Vale of White Horse District Council is considering plans for the development of a £4m innovation centre at the UK Atomic Energy Authority site at Harwell, in order to provide flexible premises for small science-based businesses. 21-May-2003 Vertex is creating 90 new jobs at its call centre in Forres, to handle work for the Department for Work & Pensions, Tesco Telecom and an unnamed retail banking organisation. 21-May-2003 Roscom is to create up to 150 new jobs at its Derby-based telecommunications business, in order to carry out testing work for a new police secure communications network. 21-May-2003 BT Group is to accelerate the roll out of public wireless local area network hotspots, in order to offer broadband internet access at 4,000 airports, stations, hotels and cafes by June 2004. 20-May-2003 Birmingham City Council is considering plans to privatise its IT and administrative services, in a deal worth up to £1bn. 20-May-2003 Leicester City Council is to close its Textile Training Unit in Leicester in July, having lost a contract from the Department for Work & Pensions. 20-May-2003 Alcatel is to shed up to 60 of the 140 jobs at its optronics operation in Livingston. 16-May-2003 Atomic Planet Entertainment is creating 20 new jobs at its video games software business in Middlesbrough, and a further 20 jobs will be created over the next 12 months. 15-May-2003 The Office of Government Commerce has selected six companies as preferred suppliers of a £1bn government investment in the roll out of broadband internet services, including BT, Telewest, Fujitsu, Easynet, Synetrix and Kingston Communications. 15-May-2003 Invest NI is contributing £8.3m towards the cost of a £40m Centre of Excellence for the advancement of digital and electronic communications technology at Belfast's Queen's University. 14-May-2003 Ventura has announced plans to create up to 1,000 new jobs at its customer service call centre at Wath in South Yorkshire. 13-May-2003 Gemplus is to shed up to 80 jobs at its plant in Havant, having decided to stop producing phone cards. 13-May-2003 Marconi is to shed 37 of the 374 jobs at its research and development site in Beeston, and plans to set up a new £40m centre in Nottingham have been dropped. 13-May-2003 Macro 4 is cutting 70 jobs in its software and computer services business, in order to save up to £4m a year. 12-May-2003 Adecco is to expand its recruitment call centre in Middlesbrough with the creation of 80 jobs. 09-May-2003 Essient Photonics has gone into liquidation, one month after opening new headquarters at the Strathclyde Business Park. 09-May-2003 Sage is looking to spend up to £200m on the acquisition of business software companies in the UK and continental Europe. 08-May-2003 Concept 2100, the internet support company, is planning to triple its west Cornwall-based workforce to 30 over the next year. 07-May-2003 RM has won a £34m contract to provide e-learning services to the South Yorkshire eLearning Partnership, including IT infrastructure, software and support. 07-May-2003 Xansa has won a £180m outsourcing contract to provide IT services to the Royal Mail, as part of a consortium with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation. 07-May-2003 Advantage West Midlands is said to be planning to develop a £5m nanotechnology research centre, and details are expected to be announced in July. 06-May-2003 PCCW of Hong Kong is said to have bid for 15 regional wireless licences, in order to set up a new broadband network across the UK. 06-May-2003 One NorthEast has announced that the European Telecommunications Resilience & Recovery Association is to set up a new headquarters at the University of Northumbria's Disaster & Development Centre in Newcastle. 02-May-2003 Infogrames has closed its computer games development office in Sheffield, with the loss of 50 jobs. 02-May-2003 Sherwood International, the insurance software company, is considering plans for a £50m management buy-out. 30-Apr-2003 Global Games, the gaming software company, has undergone a management buy-in backed by Co-operative Bank for undisclosed terms. 29-Apr-2003 LogicaCMG has confirmed plans to shed 95 jobs at its text messaging software development office in Bristol, in order to transfer work to India. 28-Apr-2003 QuikTrak is raising £3m in a share placing to fund the launch of a radio-based tracking service in London, Birmingham and Manchester. 22-Apr-2003 Severn Trent is to shed 90 jobs in its Aseriti IT services division at the Birmingham Business Park. 18-Apr-2003 Knowledge Support Systems, the Manchester-based software company, has put itself up for sale. 18-Apr-2003 Protekila of Turkey has set up a smart card technology development centre in Belfast, where it expects to employ 17 software engineers over the next three years. 17-Apr-2003 Seagate Technology is investing £4m in a new digital storage research and development project at its plant in Springtown, Londonderry. 16-Apr-2003 MMO2 has sold its Dutch mobile phone subsidiary to Greenfield Capital Partners for £17m. 15-Apr-2003 Ericsson is to relocate a corporate office from Burgess Hill to Guildford later this year, which will affect up to 370 staff. 15-Apr-2003 Motorola has announced plans to close its semiconductor fabrication plant at South Queensferry with the loss of 300 jobs. 14-Apr-2003 Andor Technology is to invest £6m in the expansion of its scientific cameras business in Belfast, with the creation of 87 jobs over the next three years. 09-Apr-2003 Brother Industries is to shed 100 of the 280 jobs at its factory in Wrexham by the end of the year, in order to transfer production of personal fax machines to Malaysia. 08-Apr-2003 BT has awarded a £83m outsourcing contract to Indian software technology company HCL, which could create more than 1,000 jobs in New Delhi. 08-Apr-2003 Reed Executive, the recruitment company, is planning to return to private ownership in a deal that values the business at £62m. 07-Apr-2003 The Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire has won a £12m government grant to conduct research into a fourth-generation light source, which would be used for the development of computer memories and pharmaceuticals. 03-Apr-2003 IBM is to establish the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity at Cardiff Business School later this year. 02-Apr-2003 Radstone Technology is to relocate its Foundation Technology electronics manufacturing business and up to 81 jobs from Towcester to Milton Keynes in May, while the remaining Radstone Group headquarters and 225 staff will move to a new site in Towcester. 31-Mar-2003 South Tyneside Council is helping Amicus Outsourcing set up a call centre with 100 staff in Jarrow. 27-Mar-2003 Amino Communications has raised £2.2m to fund the growth of its Cambridge-based set-top box manufacturing business. 27-Mar-2003 The Scottish Optoelectronics Association has announced plans to open a £4.2m optoelectronics research centre in Livingston this summer. 27-Mar-2003 The Number is to create 300 new jobs at its directory enquiries call centre in Cardiff. 26-Mar-2003 Telecom Service Centres of Scotland is planning to expand its call centre business into England, and sites are being considered in the Dearne Valley. 26-Mar-2003 Rixell is to expand its computer parts factory in County Tyrone with the creation of 90 jobs, but there will be 55 redundancies in its printing and packaging operation. 24-Mar-2003 Hewlett-Packard has agreed a £70m contract to provide IT and communications infrastructure to schools in Northern Ireland. 20-Mar-2003 Hartlepool Borough Council has announced plans for a £5.8m project to set up 18 Community Training and ICT Centres across the town. 20-Mar-2003 Conduit is to create a further 350 jobs at its 118UK directory enquiries call centre in Cardiff over the next month. 19-Mar-2003 Flex Recruitment is planning to open four new branch offices over the next few months, and a new headquarters has been established in Hinckley. 18-Mar-2003 The Ministry of Defence is planning to ask companies to tender for the management of a project to upgrade its IT systems, which could be worth £2bn over five years. 17-Mar-2003 Freeserve is considering plans to relocate its broadband internet operations to Madeira, in order to escape the UK's higher VAT rate. 17-Mar-2003 Computacenter is planning to create a further 150 jobs at its IT hardware distribution business in Scotland this year. 14-Mar-2003 Mobile Cohesion is creating up to 20 new jobs, following a £2.7m investment at its Belfast-based telecoms software business. 11-Mar-2003 Rotherham Council has agreed a £150m partnership with BT, which is expected to lead to the setting up of a call centre with 80 staff, civic offices being demolished and more council staff working from home. 10-Mar-2003 Sunderland Council is to spend £35m on improvements to the way council services are provided, including the introduction of one-stop-shop service kiosks throughout the city. 10-Mar-2003 Solectron is to shed 330 of the 880 jobs at its electronic components factory in Dunfermline. 06-Mar-2003 LogicaCMG has announced the loss of a further 800 jobs in its IT services business, as part of the integration following the merger of Logica and CMG. 06-Mar-2003 Marconi is to sell its private mobile networks unit to Finmeccanica of Italy for £2m and its Marconi Online vending machines joint venture to Coca Cola Amatil of New Zealand for £1m. 06-Mar-2003 GO-teaching is planning to expand its teacher supply agency throughout the country, with the creation of additional jobs at its call centre in Exeter. 05-Mar-2003 O2 is creating a further 180 jobs at its mobile phone call centre in Bury. 04-Mar-2003 FIS, the Israeli supplier of software solutions to the financial services sector, is to set up a permanent office in Cardiff, with the creation of 124 jobs. 04-Mar-2003 Invest NI has announced the creation of a £3m venture capital fund to support the development of research-led businesses in Northern Ireland, and it will target university departments and hi-tech start-ups. 04-Mar-2003 RedTen Computers of Liverpool has secured £0.2m of equity funding from BNFL Enterprising of Preston for the commercial development of a wire-free compact computer. 27-Feb-2003 Sun Microsystems has announced plans to invest £36m at its plant in Linlithgow, in order to boost the site's capacity and set up a customer monitoring service. 27-Feb-2003 Twenty4help is creating at least 50 new jobs at its call centre operation in Gateshead. 25-Feb-2003 Centerprise International is to set up a £5m computer manufacturing and warehouse facility at the 17-acre Duffryn Meadows site near Caerphilly, with the creation of 290 jobs. 24-Feb-2003 Conduit is to set up a new call centre for its 118UK telephone directory inquiry service in Swansea, with the creation of 350 jobs over the next six months. 20-Feb-2003 BT is considering plans to open a directory inquiries call centre in India, prompting speculation that up to 700 jobs could be lost in the UK. 20-Feb-2003 Atos KPMG Consulting is to absorb up to 400 UK-based sales and marketing staff from French parent company Atos Origin. 17-Feb-2003 Radiant Networks has secured a further £12m of venture capital to fund the development of its high-speed internet technology. 14-Feb-2003 Symbol Technologies is planning to relocate its international repair centre business from Reading to continental Europe later this year, with the loss of 90 jobs. 14-Feb-2003 Nokia is to shed 130 jobs at its mobile phone research and development site in Camberley. 13-Feb-2003 Redbus Interhouse, the data warehousing company, is planning to raise £4m in a share issue to provide additional working capital. 12-Feb-2003 Sun Microsystems is planning to make a "significant inward investment announcement" at its West Lothian plant within two weeks. 12-Feb-2003 Conex Data Communications is expanding its computer networks business into Scotland by opening a new office for eight engineers in Livingston. 11-Feb-2003 Agilent Technologies has closed its research operation at the Swansea Technium, which had envisaged creating 27 jobs, due to the downturn in the communications sector. 06-Feb-2003 Bookham Technology is creating 60 new jobs at its telecom components plant in Paignton, but 200 jobs are being lost at its research and development centre in Milton, Oxfordshire. 06-Feb-2003 Ballast has won a £5.4m contract to build a communications centre in Glasgow for Strathclyde Police. 06-Feb-2003 IQE, the supplier of customised wafers to the semiconductor industry, is to shed 60 of the 135 jobs at its Cardiff headquarters. 05-Feb-2003 Abbey National has awarded a £125m contract to BT for the outsourcing of its telecoms infrastructure, which will involve the transfer of about 50 staff. 04-Feb-2003 Caudwell Group is considering plans to set up a £10m call centre for its Phones4U mobile phones business at the Celtic Springs business park in Newport, with the creation of up to 900 jobs. 03-Feb-2003 Alcatel is to close its telecoms equipment branch in Banbury, and many of the 152 staff are being offered relocation to Maidenhead or Newport. 31-Jan-2003 Udex has secured £3m of venture capital from 3i to fund the expansion of its barcode computer systems business in Europe and the US. 30-Jan-2003 Raytheon is to create 20 jobs at its electronic components factory in Glenrothes, having won a new weapons contract for the British Army. 30-Jan-2003 BT is planning to relocate up to 160 call centre staff from Bangor to Colwyn Bay. 29-Jan-2003 Filtronic is planning to increase the workforce at its electronic components plant in Newton Aycliffe from 262 to 500 by the end of 2004. 29-Jan-2003 FCI is to close its electronic cables factory in Port Glasgow, with the loss of 180 jobs. 27-Jan-2003 Imerge of Cambridge has raised £1.5m of venture capital to fund the development of technology for internet-connected hard disk-based audio products and media appliances. 24-Jan-2003 Jigsaw Customer Management is planning to create 50 jobs at a new call centre in Cambridge over the next 12 months. 24-Jan-2003 Jabil Circuit is to close its telecoms equipment plant in Coventry with the loss of 400 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Hungary. 24-Jan-2003 CBE Business Schools is to set up a call centre in Peterborough to handle enquiries about government-funded training, with the creation of more than 100 jobs over the next 18 months. 23-Jan-2003 Display Products Technology is to close its computer screen repair operation in East Kilbride with the loss of about 30 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Ireland. 22-Jan-2003 Cambridge Semiconductor has raised £3.7m from a consortium of investors to fund the development of chip technology for the power supply of consumer electrical goods. 21-Jan-2003 Inverness & Nairn Enterprise has provided £0.6m of funding to a new IT training scheme being operated by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, which will lead to the creation of more than 200 local jobs. 15-Jan-2003 Vodafone is planning to spend up to £1.3bn acquiring the minority stakes in its Swedish, Dutch and Portuguese subsidiaries. 14-Jan-2003 Pace Micro Technology, the manufacturer of set-top boxes, is planning to shed up to 50 jobs over the next six months. 14-Jan-2003 IBM is to transfer 650 staff and its computer manufacturing plant in Greenock to US contractor Sanmina-SCI, as part of a strategy to outsource some of its global manufacturing capacity. 08-Jan-2003 Corporate Services Group, the owner of the Blue Arrow recruitment agency, is to raise £25m in a share offer to strengthen its balance sheet. 07-Jan-2003 Fullarton Computer Industries is to close its computer assembly plant at Gourok with the loss of 500 jobs. 07-Jan-2003 BT has raised £82m from the sale of its 21% stake in SmarTone, the Hong Kong mobile operator, to Sun Hung Kai Properties. 02-Jan-2003 Codemasters is looking to expand the workforce at its Warwickshire-based video games business, and is seeking programmers, designers, artists, project managers and technicians. 02-Jan-2003 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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