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Anker, the Bolton-based supplier of software for cash registers, has raised £31m in a share placing. 20-Dec-2004 Business Serve has acquired the 16,000 sq ft Leapfield House data centre in London's Docklands, in order to expand its telecoms co-location services. 15-Dec-2004 Intellego has raised £0.5m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its e-learning software business. 13-Dec-2004 Marconi is to set up a 310,000 sq ft headquarters at New Century Park in Coventry. 13-Dec-2004 Vertex is to shed 500 full-time and 400 part-time jobs at its call centre in Speke, following a reduction in its outsourcing contract with Vodafone. 10-Dec-2004 Apple is planning to relocate its European headquarters from Paris to a 25,800 sq ft office in Hanover Street, London, next summer. 06-Dec-2004 Pure Wafer is planning to raise up to £8m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Swansea-based silicon chip recycling business. 06-Dec-2004 Staffline Recruitment has raised £7.3m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its recruitment outsourcing business, which currently operates from 33 sites. 02-Dec-2004 Marlborough Stirling, the financial services software company, has put itself up for sale. 01-Dec-2004 Incat of Bristol is planning to raise £4m in a flotation to fund the international expansion of its IT business. 30-Nov-2004 Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, is planning to shed 500 jobs and close eight regional offices in London, Harlow, Woking, Birmingham, Pudsey, Leeds, Preston and Manchester. 24-Nov-2004 Lagan, the Belfast-based software company, has secured additional funding from DN Capital and existing investors that will lead to the creation of 38 jobs. 23-Nov-2004 NEC has announced plans to dismantle its 127-acre mothballed semiconductor plant in Livingston to make way for a new development, having received little interest from semiconductor manufacturers and other cleanroom users. 23-Nov-2004 Ascribe, the Bolton-based software company, is planning to raise £5.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of clinical information systems. 22-Nov-2004 MMO2, the mobile phone company, is to expand its office at the Arlington Business Centre in Leeds, with the creation of 300 customer service jobs. 19-Nov-2004 Citigroup, the US banking and insurance company, is planning to set up a back-office IT operation in Belfast, with the creation of 375 jobs over the next five years. 18-Nov-2004 DAT Group is planning to raise £7m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of software for mobile phones. 15-Nov-2004 Cable & Wireless is to relocate its head office from London to Bracknell, as part of a reorganisation of its telecoms business that will involve the loss of 600 jobs across the UK and Europe. 11-Nov-2004 Sarantel, the developer of a new antenna design for mobile phones, is looking to raise £10m to fund the expansion of its manufacturing capacity. 10-Nov-2004 Dudley Council is to create about 50 jobs at a new £0.8m customer contact centre in Castle Street by next spring. 09-Nov-2004 Avanquest UK, the software development company, is to expand its sales and marketing office at Lee Mill in Devon, with the creation of 12 jobs over the next few years. 09-Nov-2004 ClientLogic is to create a further 100 jobs at its call centre in Newcastle by next April, as well as 400 at sites in Derby and Watford. 08-Nov-2004 Granville Baird Capital Partners has invested £5m in Capital Consulting, the human resources outsourcing company that has just merged with Business HR Group and Renoir Christian & Timbers. 08-Nov-2004 Cornwell Management Consultants, the supplier of consultancy services to the public sector with a network of 300 associates, is to raise £6m in a flotation on Aim. 03-Nov-2004 Tyco Electronics is to shed 91 of the 145 jobs at its Dorman Smith switchgear plant in Preston before the end of the year. 03-Nov-2004 Fonebak, the provider of mobile phone recycling services, has raised £12m of funding from Bank of Scotland Corporate. 02-Nov-2004 MGt is planning to set up another call centre in Fife, with the creation of 250 jobs, and a number of potential sites are being considered. 01-Nov-2004 Empresaria is to raise £3.1m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its recruitment services business. 01-Nov-2004 Nallatech is looking to raise a further £10m to expand its Cumbernauld-based computer technology business. 29-Oct-2004 Macfarlane of Glasgow has placed its Tom Brands IT services division into liquidation, casting doubt on the future of 43 jobs in Gourock. 29-Oct-2004 Atmel is to expand its electronics plant in East Kilbride, with the creation of 80 jobs. 28-Oct-2004 Visual Science, the Dundee-based video games developer with 90 staff, is looking to raise £6m of venture capital and is targeting a trade sale within three years. 28-Oct-2004 Accenture is to shed 180 jobs at its office in Peterborough, as some of its work for Thomas Cook is being outsourced to the Far East. 27-Oct-2004 Colt Telecom is to continue outsourcing jobs overseas, with 600 staff operating from India by the end of next year. 21-Oct-2004 Northbrook Technology is to expand its software operations in Northern Ireland over the next two years, with the creation of 600 jobs in Belfast, Londonderry and Strabane. 20-Oct-2004 MM Group is to create a further 150 jobs at its call centre in Bangor over the next 12 months, as part of a £4.8m investment programme backed by Invest Northern Ireland. 18-Oct-2004 Yorkshire Forward is to set up a co-ordinating centre in Halifax to support the DTI's plans for the establishment of a network of specialist Radio Frequency Identification technology centres around the country. 18-Oct-2004 Conduit is creating 100 new jobs at its call centre in Swansea, having won a customer billing inquiries contract from Vodafone. 18-Oct-2004 Lionhead Studios has raised £7m of private equity to fund the development of new video games. 18-Oct-2004 Orchard Information Systems of Newcastle is looking to recruit about 15 additional staff, due to rising sales of its software for social housing and local government. 15-Oct-2004 Phoenix IT, the Northampton-based IT services company with more than 1,000 staff, is planning a £200m flotation over the next few months. 11-Oct-2004 Orange is planning to shed more than 200 jobs, which will affect its network and technical systems operations in Bristol and elsewhere. 11-Oct-2004 Global Email Company (Gem) is creating 300 new jobs at its call centre in Belfast by the end of the year, having won a number of new contracts. 06-Oct-2004 Dial is to create 120 new jobs at its outsourcing call centre in Llantarnam, Torfaen, over the next few weeks. 06-Oct-2004 Cambridge Silicon Radio is planning to relocate to the former Marconi building on the Cambridge Business Park. 04-Oct-2004 EasyScreen, the developer of software for trading on electronic exchanges, has raised £3.5m in a share placing. 29-Sep-2004 Infinite Data Storage has raised £2m in a third-round funding package to expand its Dunfermline-based research and development operation. 29-Sep-2004 Fujitsu is planning to relocate 35 staff from the Highland Council headquarters in Inverness to a new office Alness, Easter Ross. 28-Sep-2004 Adiabatic Logic of Cambridge has secured a £0.5m DTI grant to fund the development of power-saving technology for silicon chips. 27-Sep-2004 Ordnance Survey is seeking proposals from developers to find a new site for the relocation of 1,200 staff from its Southampton headquarters. 27-Sep-2004 CSC is to open a new office for about 600 staff in Solihull by the end of the year, in order to work on a new contract for the modernisation of NHS computer systems. 22-Sep-2004 MicroEmissive Displays of Edinburgh is planning to raise £17m in a flotation on Aim next month to fund the commercial development of polymer-based micro-displays. 22-Sep-2004 Filtronic is to recruit a further 50 staff at its electronics plant in Newton Aycliffe, to add to the existing 350. 21-Sep-2004 Invest NI is supporting a £1.9m investment by Indian IT company HCL in a new call centre in Belfast, with the creation of about 250 jobs. 21-Sep-2004 NTL is to invest up to £65m in the installation of equipment in about 300 BT telephone exchanges, in order to offer broadband services to households not connected to its cable network. 21-Sep-2004 Cable & Wireless is to invest up to £50m in the provision of broadband internet services over the next 12 months, and a further £35m the following year. 20-Sep-2004 Ventura, the call centre outsourcing company, is to set up a 35,000 sq ft office at The Cube in Leeds city centre. 20-Sep-2004 Filtronic is to shed 84 jobs at its electronic components plant in Saltaire next month. 17-Sep-2004 Vodafone is to shed 200 jobs at offices in Newbury and Theale by the end of the year, which will affect the marketing, finance and technology departments. 16-Sep-2004 InfoBasis, the Oxfordshire-based provider of skills management technologies, has secured an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from Oxford Capital Partners. 15-Sep-2004 Energis, the telecoms company with 1,200 staff, has warned that it may quit its Reading headquarters if Kier proceeds with plans for a new development on an adjacent site. 13-Sep-2004 Experian is to relocate its MCL Software division and 75 staff to a new £3m office complex in Southport in March 2005, and 25 new jobs will be created. 10-Sep-2004 SESI has secured £2m from Quester to fund the commercial launch of its broker software products from telecom operators. 08-Sep-2004 Psion is looking to spend up to £100m on acquisitions to expand its mobile computing business. 08-Sep-2004 Iron Mountain, the records and information management company, has set up a new headquarters in Livingston, with the creation of more than 50 new jobs. 07-Sep-2004 Anglia Solutions is to close its electronics factory in Wisbech with the loss of up to 40 jobs, but the Anglia Components distribution centre will be unaffected. 06-Sep-2004 SmartFocus is to raise £4m in a share placing to recruit extra staff and fund the development of direct marketing software. 06-Sep-2004 Searchspace, the developer of fraud detection software, has received a £3m investment from Scottish Equity Partners to fund growth in key European and North American financial markets. 03-Sep-2004 TriSys, the data management company, is setting up a sales and technical office at the Heath business park in Runcorn, and is now looking to expand its nationwide presence by adding to existing sites in Bedfordshire, Scotland and Dorset. 02-Sep-2004 Sun Microsystems is considering plans to set up a new £5m "benchmark testing centre" at its plant in Linlithgow. 02-Sep-2004 Murata Manufacturing is to close its electronics factory in Plymouth in November, with the loss of 120 jobs. 01-Sep-2004 ClientLogic is creating 400 jobs at its call centre in Newcastle, in order to expand its technical helpdesk and customer services department. 27-Aug-2004 Scantec Personnel is looking to expand its Merseyside-based recruitment agency by relocating its headquarters to Wirral's waterfront and creating up to 20 new jobs. 26-Aug-2004 Panda Software, the Cambridge-based software distributor with 22 staff, is raising £1.2m in a flotation on Aim. 25-Aug-2004 BT is to close its operator assistance centre in Dumbarton with the loss of about 50 jobs. 24-Aug-2004 Intense of Lanarkshire has completed a £5m funding round to expand the business for volume production of opto-electronic components. 20-Aug-2004 Essex County Council is to shed 45 jobs from its payroll department, following the introduction of a new computer system. 18-Aug-2004 Sanmina-SCI is considering plans to close its electronic cabinets factory in Kirkcaldy, with the loss of 320 jobs. 16-Aug-2004 Detica has won a £20m contract to design and implement IT systems for HM Customs & Excise. 16-Aug-2004 Codemasters is looking to raise up to £30m of private equity to fund the development of its computer games business, having dropped plans for a flotation. 16-Aug-2004 Anite, the IT services company, is to consolidate its telecoms staff from four sites into a new £5m office in Fleet, Hampshire, by April 2005. 11-Aug-2004 A4e Work is creating 100 new jobs in Wales, having won a three-year contract from Elwa to provide vocational training and job recruitment services. 09-Aug-2004 ECI Partners and HSBC are investing £30m in EDM Group, a newly-created group of electronic document management companies including AMI of Wolverhampton, Khaos of Bristol and MBS of Cambridgeshire. 09-Aug-2004 Computer Sciences Corporation is creating 100 new jobs in Knowsley, having won a contract to provide electronic records for NHS patients. 06-Aug-2004 Allianse of Norway is setting up a software integration sales office at the Norwegian Collaboration Centre, which is based at the Fabriam Centre in North Tyneside. 04-Aug-2004 Northbrook Technology is planning to create 300 new jobs in Northern Ireland this year, and a new call centre will be set up in Strabane. 02-Aug-2004 Cable & Wireless is to increase its customer services and sales staff in Leeds and Sunderland from 30 to 60. 02-Aug-2004 SurfKitchen, the Reading-based mobile software company, has raised £9.6m from four venture capital firms in a third funding round. 30-Jul-2004 Liverpool City Council is in discussions with partner BT to double the capacity of the Liverpool Direct call centre, creating 200 new jobs, in order to take on work from other organisations. 15-Jul-2004 PlusNet, the internet service provider with 110 staff, has raised £12m in a flotation on Aim. 12-Jul-2004 Artimi, the US semiconductor company with an office in Cambridge, has raised £8m of venture capital to fund the development of products for wireless connectivity. 12-Jul-2004 Icera Semiconductor of Bristol is to raise £12m of venture capital, and the proceeds will be used to expand its staff from 45 to 100. 12-Jul-2004 The Cloud has received a "significant" venture capital investment from Accel Partners and 3i, in order to fund the installation of wireless internet access points throughout the UK. 12-Jul-2004 The Department for Education & Skills has confirmed plans to shed 1,460 jobs over the next three years, and procurement centres will be established to combine the purchasing power of schools. 12-Jul-2004 Flex Recruitment is planning to double the size of its operations centre in Hinckley and open new offices in Leicester and Tamworth, with the creation of 40 jobs. 09-Jul-2004 Symbian is recruiting an additional 300 staff to strengthen its position in the market for mobile operating systems, and the move is being funded by a £50m rights issue. 08-Jul-2004 Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council are forming a joint venture with BT to set up a call centre to deal with public inquiries on council services. 05-Jul-2004 ATL Telecom is planning to relocate its headquarters away from the St Mellons Business Park, and is seeking a 25,000 sq ft site in the Cardiff and Newport area. 01-Jul-2004 PP Training is planning to open three more training centres across the north-east over the next 18 months, with the creation of 60 jobs. 01-Jul-2004 Celestica is to close its electronics factory in north Staffordshire early next year with the loss of 390 jobs, although 180 staff will be offered the chance to move to its Telford site. 01-Jul-2004 Virgin is planning to raise at least £250m in a flotation of 40% of its Virgin Mobile operation, in order to fund the global expansion of a number of Virgin businesses. 01-Jul-2004 ITNet has lost a £83m IT outsourcing contract from the Cabinet Office, and a new contractor will now be sought to keep the data centre going. 30-Jun-2004 Vishay Siliconix, the US supplier of power semiconductor products, is planning to set up a development centre at the Digital Technium in Swansea University. 30-Jun-2004 Liberty Information Technology is investing £2.9m at its Belfast-based software development subsidiary, with the creation of 26 jobs. 30-Jun-2004 ComputerLand UK is to create 60 new jobs in its Nottingham-based IT services business this year, and is to relocate up to 118 staff to a new headquarters at the Ruddington Business Park by December. 28-Jun-2004 Xansa is planning to double its staff in India to 4,000 over the next 12 months, in order to expand its computer services outsourcing business. 28-Jun-2004 Bookham Technology is planning to transfer its headquarters and stock market listing to the US, in order to reflect its customer base and ownership. 28-Jun-2004 Carrickfergus Enterprise Agency has secured a £1.4m funding package to build a 19,000 sq ft extension to its flexible workspace site at Meadowbank Road, in order to provide training, conference and IT facilities for up to 100 staff. 25-Jun-2004 Barclays is to outsource some of its IT operations to Accenture, in a £400m deal that will involve the transfer of about 900 staff. 24-Jun-2004 Norfolk County Council is considering plans to set up a limited company to operate backroom services such as IT and payroll. 22-Jun-2004 Smtek Europe is to close its electronics plant in Craigavon with the loss of 45 jobs. 21-Jun-2004 TTG Europe has raised £6m in a share placing, in order to refinance its telecom services business. 21-Jun-2004 Reuters has raised £58m from the sale of its 34% stake in GL Trade, the French supplier of electronic trading software. 21-Jun-2004 Imagination Technologies is to raise £7.2m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its chip design business. 21-Jun-2004 Eidos is considering a number of future options for its computer games business, which could lead to a takeover offer from a rival company. 21-Jun-2004 XN Checkout, the supplier of electronic cash registers, is to raise up to £5m in a flotation on Aim. 21-Jun-2004 ProLogic, the supplier of IT systems to the fashion industry, is to raise up to £3.5m in a flotation on Aim. 21-Jun-2004 Multitone Electronics has shed about 25 jobs in King's Lynn, in order to transfer some of its production to Malaysia. 18-Jun-2004 Sentient Learning, the Liverpool-based educational software company, has secured a £0.25m investment from the North West Equity Fund, and is planning to recruit staff in key locations around the world. 17-Jun-2004 E2V Technologies, the developer of electronic components with 1,300 staff, is planning a flotation with an estimated value of £100m, in order to fund a series of bolt-on acquisitions over the next 18 months. 16-Jun-2004 Celoxica Holdings, the Abingdon-based supplier of software tools and development boards, has raised £3.5m of new investment from existing investors. 11-Jun-2004 Spear Business Group, the IT consultancy, is planning to increase its number of franchisees in South Wales from 11 to more than 30 over the next 12 months. 10-Jun-2004 Insightpark has secured a £0.5m investment from Finance Wales to fund the commercial development of web-enabled electronic payment solutions. 10-Jun-2004 Halladale has announced plans to build a new £10m facility for Japanese electronics firm OKI on a 64-acre site in Cumbernauld by August 2005. 10-Jun-2004 BT Group is to invest up to £3bn a year in the development of a new internet-based network called 21CN, which will combine its voice and data communications onto a single system. 10-Jun-2004 VeriSIM of Rosyth has secured £1.2m in funding from Scottish Equity Partners and Albany Ventures to expand its online banking simulation technology into new sectors. 09-Jun-2004 ATL Telecom has shed 23 jobs in Cardiff, in order to transfer some production to China. 07-Jun-2004 Enterprise has won a £250m contract to provide network installation services for BT. 07-Jun-2004 Intec Telecom Systems is to acquire the retail billing software operations of ADC Telecommunications of the US for £44m. 07-Jun-2004 Invest NI is supporting plans from BT to create almost 200 jobs at an e-customer service call centre in Enniskillen. 04-Jun-2004 Cable & Wireless is to invest £70m in the development of broadband services, and is planning to install its own telephone equipment in 200 of BT's busiest exchanges. 03-Jun-2004 Sunbelt Software is planning to expand its 21-strong workforce, having recently moved to larger premises in Worcester. 02-Jun-2004 Circatex, the South Shields-based electronics company with 180 staff, has been bought out of administration by management for undisclosed terms. 01-Jun-2004 Cambridge Positioning Systems has raised £5m from existing investors to fund the global expansion of its location technology. 01-Jun-2004 International Rectifier is to double the production capacity at its electronic components factory in Newport, South Wales, with the creation of 120 jobs. 31-May-2004 IBM has been selected as preferred bidder for a contract worth at least £500m to provide IT services to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 31-May-2004 MM Group, the nationwide network of outsourced call centres, has been acquired by SR Teleperformance of France. 28-May-2004 RM, the Abingdon-based provider of IT services to schools, is seeking 70 more permanent staff and 150 temporary staff. 27-May-2004 Sensory Networks of the US has opened an office in London, in order to co-ordinate the European expansion of its technology for network security applications. 26-May-2004 Marlborough Stirling, the financial services software company, is to shed up to 80 jobs and close a number of loss-making operations. 25-May-2004 Vista Retail Support, the Cardiff-based supplier of electronic point-of-sale equipment, is recruiting an additional 24 engineers. 25-May-2004 Neat Ideas, the stationery supplier, is to expand its call centre in Doncaster with the creation of about 47 jobs, but its warehouse will relocate to Northamptonshire. 25-May-2004 Capita Group is to shed 200 call centre jobs in Sheffield, as internet service provider Wanadoo is transferring work to Middlesbrough and India. 24-May-2004 Bookham Technology is to shed 600 jobs at its semiconductors plant in Paignton over the next 15 months, in order to transfer production to China. 21-May-2004 Office2office, the office supplies company, is planning a flotation in June with a valuation of about £70m. 19-May-2004 Real Time Worlds, the Dundee-based computer games studio with 40 staff, has secured a £1m venture capital investment from CIM Venture Fund. 18-May-2004 Ventura has taken over the former Serco call centre in Cardiff, saving 240 jobs and creating 100 new jobs, in order to provide customer services for mobile phone company 02. 18-May-2004 MM Group is to create 50 new jobs at its call centre in County Down, having won a contract from EDF Energy. 17-May-2004 Cambridge Broadband has raised £9m of venture capital to fund the expansion of its wireless access technology business. 14-May-2004 Tideway Systems, the supplier of IT management software to financial services firms, has secured £5m of venture capital funding from Apax Partners. 07-May-2004 Northbrook Technology of the US is planning to set up a new call centre in County Tyrone, with the creation of between 50 and 100 jobs. 03-May-2004 Shell is planning to outsource thousands of IT jobs from sites worldwide to India by 2006. 28-Apr-2004 ARM Holdings is to create 40 new jobs at its Cambridge-based microchips development business. 22-Apr-2004 Investmaster is to create a further 22 jobs for computer programmers and analysts at its Leicester office, in order to develop software for the managers of wealthy individuals' investments. 20-Apr-2004 Fusion Digital Technology is to launch a range of electronic products for the television industry and is moving its headquarters to a site near Bradford. 19-Apr-2004 Elcom of the US is to raise £1.7m in a flotation on Aim, in order to target the UK public sector market with its electronic procurement software. 15-Apr-2004 Toumaz Technology has secured a £1.5m equity investment from Canadian silicon chips manufacturer Gennum Corporation, and the two companies are collaborating in the development of ultra low-power wireless devices. 14-Apr-2004 StarTek Europe is to create about 100 jobs at its call centre in Hartlepool over the next few weeks, having won a number of new outsourcing contracts. 13-Apr-2004 Alphamosaic, the Cambridge-based semiconductor company, has raised £5m to fund the commercial development of a new range of processors. 09-Apr-2004 Signum Circuits has closed its telecoms components plant in Selkirk with the loss of 105 jobs. 07-Apr-2004 Xansa has won a contract to assist in the £75m upgrade of the IT systems of the Office for National Statistics. 07-Apr-2004 Scipher has sold a majority stake in FRI, its US-based intellectual property consulting business, to management. 05-Apr-2004 OC5 is to expand the 160-strong workforce at its outsourced call centre on Teesside by creating 20 new jobs, having received extra work from Centrica. 05-Apr-2004 FFastFill has raised £4m in a share placing to provide working capital for its ASP software business. 02-Apr-2004 Freeserve is to change its name to Wanadoo, the internet services brand of parent company France Telecom, and £20m will be spent on advertising the change. 02-Apr-2004 HBS is to create a further 100 jobs in Middlesbrough, having won new outsourcing contracts from local authorities across the country. 01-Apr-2004 BT has confirmed plans to close its BT Retail call centre in Inverness in September, with the loss of 133 agency jobs. 01-Apr-2004 Virgin Mobile is to form a £60m mobile phone joint venture in Canada with Bell Mobility, and is also looking into countries such as India, China and South Africa. 31-Mar-2004 Fluency Voice Technology, the developer of speech recognition systems, has secured £6m from Kennet Venture Partners and Favonius Ventures to fund the expansion of its sales and marketing activities. 31-Mar-2004 Minebea is to shed 83 temporary jobs at its electronics business in Renfrewshire. 30-Mar-2004 Caudwell Group is to create 1,000 call centre jobs in Manchester over the next 12 months, as part of a £50m expansion project for its Homecall fixed-line telephone services division. 30-Mar-2004 Kingston Communications is to shed 100 jobs in its business communications division, which will affect sites across the country. 30-Mar-2004 Newport Networks is planning to raise £15m in a flotation to fund the commercialisation of its products for making voice calls over the internet. 29-Mar-2004 Huawei Technologies, the Chinese manufacturer of telecoms equipment, is to set up a European head office in Basingstoke with the creation of 200 jobs. 26-Mar-2004 The North West Development Agency has awarded a £2.5m grant to CallNorthWest, a new three-year project led by the University of Central Lancashire to boost the region's call centre industry. 26-Mar-2004 NCC Group, the Manchester-based software services company, is considering plans for a £80m flotation in July. 26-Mar-2004 Printware, the laser printer supplier with 70 staff, is to relocate to a larger £2.4m site in Southsea in July, and expects to create 25 new jobs by the end of the year. 25-Mar-2004 Infor Business Solutions is to shed 20 of the 50 jobs at its UK headquarters in Tewkesbury. 25-Mar-2004 Glasgow City Council has selected Thus as preferred bidder for a £42m contract to upgrade and replace its communications network infrastructure. 22-Mar-2004 LogicaCMG is planning to expand its IT services operation in Bridgend with the creation of 750 jobs, including 415 at a new business process outsourcing office. 19-Mar-2004 SeeWhy Software has secured £1.1m from Pentech Ventures, Delta Partners and other investors to fund the commercial development of its business software products. 19-Mar-2004 EIBS, the Nottingham-based web content management provider, is planning to expand its workforce from 16 to more than 30 over the next three years. 19-Mar-2004 Scottish Enterprise Tayside is supporting plans from Foxdown Properties to develop a new 20,000 sq ft call centre building at the Kirkton Enterprise Park in Arbroath. 15-Mar-2004 BT is planning to close its Telephone House office in Preston and relocate about 100 staff to offices in North Street, Moor Lane and Bolton. 12-Mar-2004 Capital One, the Nottingham-based credit card company, is to shed 50 of the 350 jobs in its IT department. 12-Mar-2004 Bookham Technology, the optical components manufacturer, is to shed 70 of the 1,000 jobs at its Paignton factory, in order to transfer some production to China. 10-Mar-2004 DMT Communications, the Plymouth-based specialist in installing transmitters that provide internet access for laptop computers, has ceased trading with the loss of the remaining 11 jobs. 10-Mar-2004 Linx Printing Technologies is to expand its workforce to handle the launch of a new range of inkjet and laser printers. 10-Mar-2004 Invest NI is to assist IceMOS Technology of the US with plans to set up a £10m electronic components factory in Belfast, with the creation of 52 jobs. 09-Mar-2004 EWA is to create 14 new jobs at its teacher training call centre in Chelmsford, having won a £10m Teacher Training Agency contract. 08-Mar-2004 Swindon College is to shed about 150 teaching jobs from its 1,100-strong workforce, in order to improve efficiency and cut costs. 05-Mar-2004 Sheffield Futures, the provider of careers and personal advice services to young people in Sheffield, is to shed 34 jobs. 05-Mar-2004 Imprint Search & Selection is planning to double the size of its recruitment business this year, increasing the number of fee-earning staff from 37 to 84. 02-Mar-2004 Co-operative Financial Services is to shed about 130 IT jobs in Manchester, and is looking to outsource its software development work. 02-Mar-2004 Angle Technology, the technology consultancy, is planning to raise up to £9m in a flotation. 01-Mar-2004 Digital Union has received a £1.5m venture capital investment from Quester to fund the development of its e-sourcing and e-procurement software. 27-Feb-2004 Technology Concepts, the Ebbw Vale-based developer of wireless network products with 20 staff, has gone into liquidation with debts of more than £1.1m. 27-Feb-2004 Hometech, the East Kilbride-based developer of audio and home cinema systems, is planning to raise £3m to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its business into England. 25-Feb-2004 BT has won a £18m contract from BAA to install up to 180 internet kiosks at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. 25-Feb-2004 Ubinetics has secured a £15m private equity investment from 3i to fund its 3G mobile communications development programme. 23-Feb-2004 ServicePower Technologies is to raise £5.9m in a share placing to fund the development of its scheduling software business. 23-Feb-2004 BT has won a £530m seven-year contract to provide broadband services to the NHS. 20-Feb-2004 Radstone Technology has confirmed plans to close its computer board assembly plant in Flintshire with the loss of 52 jobs. 19-Feb-2004 Torex Retail, the developer of software for retailers, is planning a £60m flotation on Aim. 17-Feb-2004 Ordnance Survey is considering plans to relocate its 1,200 staff in Southampton to a smaller site. 16-Feb-2004 Cambridge Silicon Radio is to raise up to £68m in a flotation this month to fund the development of its Bluetooth wireless chips business. 13-Feb-2004 Nord Anglia has won a £10m contract to develop an online learner support service for 25,000 young people in Worcestershire and Wolverhampton, under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. 11-Feb-2004 Psion is to sell its 31% stake in the Symbian mobile software joint venture to Nokia for £136m, in order to focus on wireless computing devices and networks. 10-Feb-2004 Woo One is to close its computer casings factory in Hartlepool next month, with the loss of 68 jobs. 09-Feb-2004 Scipher is planning to restructure its technology development business by selling three operations - Monox monoxide sensors, QED patent licensing and the CRL laboratory. 06-Feb-2004 Danka Business Systems is to restructure its photocopier business with the loss of 375 jobs. 05-Feb-2004 Business Serve, the Lancaster-based internet service provider with 200 staff, is planning to raise £4.5m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund acquisitions. 02-Feb-2004 I-Train, the provider of online software training services, is planning a £0.7m share issue to fund the development of a UK sales team. 02-Feb-2004 Isoft is in discussions to sell its Torex Retail software business to an unnamed company for about £65m. 29-Jan-2004 Mesophotonics has raised £5.5m from investors to fund the commercialisation of disruptive photonic crystal technology developed at the University of Southampton. 28-Jan-2004 Northgate Information Solutions is to shed about 180 of the 550 jobs at its recently-acquired Rebus payroll software business in Peterborough, which could lead to the closure of one of its two sites in the city. 28-Jan-2004 Atmel is to invest a further £100m at its semiconductor plant on North Tyneside, with the creation of 150 jobs. 28-Jan-2004 Vodafone is to create 100 new jobs at its recently-acquired Project 5 telecoms facility in Newark, and the site will become a centre of excellence for services to business customers. 28-Jan-2004 ZEDA, the Nottingham-based IT services company, is to open its first office in London in February. 27-Jan-2004 Photonic Materials, the Bellshill-based manufacturer of optical crystals for medical scanners, has secured a £3.7m funding package from 3i, Scottish Equity Partners and Royal Bank of Scotland. 26-Jan-2004 Epson, the electronics company, is seeking a suitable site for a 50,000 sq ft office in the Hemel Hempstead area. 26-Jan-2004 Xansa is planning to sell or close its North American business, which provides IT services for defence and aerospace projects and employs 140 staff. 23-Jan-2004 Plastic Logic is to shed 14 of the 44 jobs at its plastic microchip development business in Cambridge. 23-Jan-2004 Genesis Communications is planning to create 100 new jobs over the next 18 months, following the relocation of its mobile phone services business to parent company Dixons Group's site in Bury. 20-Jan-2004 Offshore Telecom is to change its name to Matrix Communications Group, in order to reflect its new focus on IT network solutions. 20-Jan-2004 Solectron is to close its electronic components factory in Carrickfergus by the end of March, with the loss of 74 jobs. 19-Jan-2004 Civica, the software services company, is planning to raise £40m in a flotation next month. 16-Jan-2004 Samsung is to close its microwave and computer monitors plant on Teesside with the loss of 425 jobs, and the site has already been sold to an undisclosed buyer. 16-Jan-2004 Alchemy Partners has announced that Phoenix IT, the software services company, is considering plans for a flotation this summer, with an estimated value of £200m. 13-Jan-2004 The Financial Services Authority is planning to invest £4m in a new IT system that will alert staff to unusual movements in share prices. 12-Jan-2004 BlackSpider Technologies has secured a £4.6m investment from Cazenove Private Equity to fund the European expansion of its Reading-based managed e-mail security solutions business. 09-Jan-2004 BT Group has reached agreement with McDonald's to set up WiFi internet access points at more than 500 fast food restaurants. 08-Jan-2004 Envesta Telecom is planning to expand its wholesale telephone services business into Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. 06-Jan-2004 INVU, the Northamptonshire-based supplier of document management software, is to raise £2.5m in a flotation on Aim. 05-Jan-2004 Dyfed-Powys Police is to create 50 jobs at a new call centre in Carmarthen by the summer, in order to handle non-emergency calls. 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