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Zytronic is to invest a further £1.5m at its touchscreens factory on Tyneside by summer 2007, with the expansion of the 190-strong workforce. 15-Dec-2006
Sanmina-SCI is to shed about 90 of the 300 jobs at its computer cabinets factory in Lisburn. 13-Dec-2006
Realtime Worlds is to create more than 40 jobs at its video games development centre in Dundee, having secured a £15m investment from New Enterprise Associates of the US. 12-Dec-2006
O2 is said to be considering plans to sell off its Airwave national police communications network for about £2bn. 07-Dec-2006
Intelliden of the US is investing £3.2m at a new telecoms research and development centre at the Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast, with the creation of 35 jobs. 06-Dec-2006
Creating Careers is to relocate its e-learning business and up to 25 staff from Morpeth to a larger site at Seaton Burn this month. 06-Dec-2006
NFU Mutual, the insurance company, has awarded a £130m IT services outsourcing contract to Atos Origin, with the transfer of 78 staff. 06-Dec-2006
Manchester City Council is considering proposals to establish a public wireless broadband network over an area of up to 400 square miles, and will seek funding from the government's Digital Challenge Initiative. 04-Dec-2006
Micron Europe is to set up an additional 24,000 sq ft of office space at the Century Court development in Bracknell. 04-Dec-2006
JP Morgan is to create up to 200 new jobs at its IT operations in Glasgow over the next two years, having won a £3m grant from the Scottish Executive. 01-Dec-2006
Telecom Service Centres is to set up a new call centre in Kilmarnock with the creation of an initial 100 jobs, and the workforce will eventually reach 500. 30-Nov-2006
Control Techniques is to create 20 new jobs as part of a £2m investment at its electronics business in Newtown, Powys. 27-Nov-2006
Phones 4u is to create up to 150 jobs at its mobile phones call centre Newcastle-under-Lyme by summer 2007. 27-Nov-2006
Capita Business Services is to create up to 50 new jobs at its computer support operation on the Wyvern Business Park in Derby. 27-Nov-2006
Kantar Operations is to shed about 30 jobs in Leamington Spa by July 2007, in order to transfer data processing, scriptwriting and coding work to India. 24-Nov-2006
Simclar is to shed up to 240 of the 500 jobs at its electronics factory in Irvine, following the loss of a major contract. 24-Nov-2006
EDM Group is to shed more than 40 jobs at its electronic document management business in Wolverhampton by the end of the year. 22-Nov-2006
Artimi has raised £16m from existing investors to fund the expansion of its Cambridge-based wireless communications business. 22-Nov-2006
Infoserve is to relocate its internet sales office from Stockton to a £3m site at the Morton Palms Business Park in Darlington in December, and plans to create 275 jobs over the next three years. 17-Nov-2006
Promethean, the Blackburn-based supplier of interactive whiteboards, is to shed 40 jobs from its 500-strong workforce. 16-Nov-2006
Alba is planning to shed a further 200 of the 500 jobs in its Essex-based consumer electronics business by June 2007, and may sell or demerge its leisure goods division. 16-Nov-2006
Cumbria County Council and Agilisys are expected to expand the workforce at the Consumer Direct call centre in Barrow, having secured government approval to cover consumer organisations. 09-Nov-2006
KeyPoint Technologies is planning to create 100 jobs at its newly-launched text messaging technology business in Glasgow. 07-Nov-2006
Ericsson is looking to relocate 2,000 former Marconi staff from Coventry within two years, and is considering office schemes of up to 200,000 sq ft in Loughborough and Ansty. 06-Nov-2006
Thus is to install broadband connections to 440 schools, libraries and council offices across the south of Scotland, as part of a £32m contract with the South of Scotland Broadband Pathfinder Project. 06-Nov-2006
Microstencil has secured a £0.5m investment from Braveheart and the Scottish Co-investment Fund to expand its West Lothian-based microelectronics business. 03-Nov-2006
Gemplus is considering plans to close its smart cards factory in Havant, in order to relocate some of the 350 staff to the Axalto site in Segensworth. 02-Nov-2006
Solectron is planning to close its electronics factory in Dunfermline in May 2007, with the loss of up to 480 jobs. 01-Nov-2006
Picsel Technologies, the Glasgow-based supplier of mobile phone software with 207 staff, is planning to create up to 40 new jobs and seek a dual listing on the London and Tokyo stock exchanges. 01-Nov-2006
Packard Bell is to close its computer factory in Livingston with the loss of 120 jobs, in order to transfer production to the Czech Republic. 30-Oct-2006
BT is looking to recruit 400 apprentice engineers for its Openreach broadband division, while a further 150 will be temporarily transferred from its global services unit. 30-Oct-2006
BT is to take over most of the European networking infrastructure services operation of Capgemini, with the transfer of about 250 staff. 26-Oct-2006
Turbo Power Systems is to set up a new £1m 50,000 sq ft electronics factory in Gateshead, with the creation of about 100 jobs over the next three years. 24-Oct-2006
Aviza Technology is to invest £6.4m in the expansion of its semiconductor equipment business in Newport, South Wales, with the creation of 30 research and development jobs. 23-Oct-2006
ClientLogic is to reopen its telecoms technical support call centre in Derby with the creation of 300 jobs. 23-Oct-2006
K3 Retail Solutions is creating 30 new jobs at its Oxfordshire-based retail software business. 18-Oct-2006
Celestica has confirmed plans to close its electronics factory in Telford with the loss of more than 600 jobs, having failed to secure new contracts. 13-Oct-2006
Onyx Group is looking to create up to 200 new jobs at its Middlesbrough-based internet solutions business over the next few years, in order to help US-based NCR Incorporated launch a radio frequency identification network in the UK. 12-Oct-2006
Ambergreen, the Edinburgh-based internet marketing firm, has put itself up for sale with an estimated price tag of £10m. 12-Oct-2006
BroadSoft, the US telecoms company, is setting up a £0.4m software centre in Belfast, creating up to five jobs for telecoms and software engineers. 11-Oct-2006
K3 Business Technology has raised £1.6m in a share placing to fund acquisitions and the development of its enterprise software business. 11-Oct-2006
Accent Optical Technologies is said to be considering plans to close its factory in York with the loss of up to 100 jobs, in order to transfer production to South Korea. 11-Oct-2006
Spirent is planning to shed a further 100 jobs from its global telecoms testing business. 09-Oct-2006
Vodafone is to outsource some of its back-office IT work to EDS and IBM, including application development and systems maintenance, which will affect about 6,300 global staff and external contractors. 09-Oct-2006
Infosys Technology is planning to recruit 25 students from 12 universities across the UK to train at its facilities in India next year. 04-Oct-2006
Solectron is to shed 41 of the 170 jobs at its computer components factory in Cwmcarn, Gwent. 03-Oct-2006
Gem is to create 300 new jobs at its call centre in Belfast, having won new contracts from companies involved in online entertainment and travel. 03-Oct-2006
SSP, the Halifax-based insurance software company with 355 staff, has raised £31m in a share placing on Aim. 03-Oct-2006
Codeworks is to relocate its centre of excellence for digital technology from Newcastle to St Peter's Gate in Sunderland next month, including project and management staff. 02-Oct-2006
Mobile Cohesion has secured a £2.6m cash injection to fund the expansion of its Belfast-based telecoms software business. 27-Sep-2006
Bookham Technology is to sell its assembly and test plant in Paignton to an unnamed buyer for £5m, and is now seeking a new research and development site for its 100 staff. 25-Sep-2006
EDS is planning to recruit 40 graduate and IT trainees from universities in Lancashire by the end of the year, and existing staff have started relocating to its new site in Preston. 22-Sep-2006
Northbrook Technology is to invest £23m in the expansion of its software operations in Belfast and Derry, with the creation of 400 jobs. 22-Sep-2006
NTL Telewest is to shed 62 jobs at its call centre in Glenrothes by early next year, as part of a recently-announced reorganisation that will cut 750 jobs across the country. 21-Sep-2006
Sega is to create 60 jobs at the Blythe Valley Business Park in Solihull over the next 12 months, in order to produce racing and driving games. 20-Sep-2006
BeCogent is to create 350 jobs at its outsourcing call centre in Erskine, Renfrewshire, by the end of the year. 19-Sep-2006
Orchard Information Systems is planning to increase the 140-strong workforce at its Tyneside-based IT solutions business to 200 over the next four years. 19-Sep-2006
One NorthEast and County Durham Economic Partnership are planning to set up a £10m Plastic Electronics Technology Centre at NETPark in Sedgefield by 2008, including clean rooms, laboratories, offices and an initial ten staff. 15-Sep-2006
Forest of Dean District Council has approved plans from Vantage Point Developments to set up a £5m electronics recycling facility at Cinderford, with the creation of 40 jobs. 15-Sep-2006
Capula, the IT services company, is planning to double its 40-strong workforce in Cumbria over the next few years, having just opened a new site near Whitehaven. 14-Sep-2006
BT is to shed up to 90 of the 120 jobs at its Goonhilly satellite communications station in Cornwall by 2008, in order to transfer some of the work to Madley in Herefordshire. 13-Sep-2006
Isoft, the software company, is to close its Manchester headquarters and relocate up to 51 jobs to sites in Warrington and Banbury. 12-Sep-2006
The Adult Learning Inspectorate is to close its site in Coventry next March with the loss of 102 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Ofsted in London. 11-Sep-2006
Gowi Group is to raise up to £5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its human resources software business. 11-Sep-2006
Siemens is in negotiations to set up a new 183,000 sq ft headquarters at Frimley Square business park in Surrey, with the relocation of up to 1,400 jobs from Bracknell. 11-Sep-2006
Intel is planning to shed 10,500 jobs worldwide over the next year, casting doubt on the future of some of the 900 jobs at its site in Swindon. 08-Sep-2006
MicroEmissive Displays has raised £5m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its low-power microdisplays. 07-Sep-2006
Organization Metrics, the Canadian developer of human resources management software, is to set up a 3,000 sq ft office on Old Hall Street in Liverpool, with the creation of up to 15 jobs in its first year. 07-Sep-2006
BT is to take back in-house the call centre work that was previously outsourced to ClientLogic in Alness, which will involve the transfer of 61 staff and the creation of 40 new jobs. 07-Sep-2006
QCA, the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority, has indicated that Coventry is likely to be selected as the preferred location for its new headquarters for 550 staff. 05-Sep-2006
Zoo Digital is to raise £3.9m in a share placing to fund the development of its video software business. 05-Sep-2006
Daewoo Electronics is to shed 205 of the 285 jobs at its consumer electronics factory in Antrim. 30-Aug-2006
Rubicon Software is to raise £0.75m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of its customer relationship management software. 28-Aug-2006
O2 is looking to set up a new 200,000 sq ft headquarters in the Thames Valley, and is currently considering sites at Bath Road in Slough and Green Park in Reading. 28-Aug-2006
Vodafone is to sell its 25% stake in Proximus, the Belgian mobile phone operator, to Belgacom for £1.4bn. 28-Aug-2006
Logan Orviss International is considering plans for a flotation to raise funds for the expansion of its telecoms consultancy. 28-Aug-2006
LG Electronics is to close its computer monitors factory in Newport, South Wales, at the end of the year, with the loss of 315 jobs. 21-Aug-2006
Telecom Service Centres is to create 100 new jobs at its call centre in the Dearne Valley, having won a contract to manage sales, order processing and customer service for Office Depot. 18-Aug-2006
Eckoh Technologies, the Hemel Hempstead-based speech-recognition company valued at about £36m, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 15-Aug-2006
Celestica is considering plans to close its electronics factory in Telford with the loss of up to 340 permanent and 325 agency jobs, following the loss of a major contract. 11-Aug-2006
ROK Entertainment is planning a $250m flotation on Nasdaq to fund the expansion of its Wolverhampton-based mobile phone content business. 09-Aug-2006
Infoteam is planning to shed some of the 100 jobs at its computer repair business in Bodmin. 07-Aug-2006
ViewPoint Systems is planning to expand the workforce at its new call centre in Wick from 26 to 50 over the next few months. 21-Jul-2006
Scantec Personnel is to relocate its headquarters from Oxton to Twelve Quays in Birkenhead at the end of the year, with the creation of 30 new jobs. 20-Jul-2006
Keypoint Technologies is planning to create up to 100 jobs at its electronics business in Glasgow by the end of the year, including vacancies for software engineers and project managers. 20-Jul-2006
Landmark Communications is to create a further 50 jobs at telesales centres in Llanelli and Carmarthen. 18-Jul-2006
Huntingdonshire District Council is planning to start work on the development of a new £6m operations centre in Latham Road in September. 17-Jul-2006
TTems is to close its electronic components factory in Blyth in December with the loss of 132 jobs. 17-Jul-2006
Pace Micro Technology, the Saltaire-based set-top box manufacturer, is to shed 60 jobs from its 630-strong worldwide workforce. 13-Jul-2006
SPI Lasers has raised £5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its optical fibre-based laser design business. 12-Jul-2006
Yorkshire Forward is to invest £5m in the creation of a European Centre for Automatic Identification & Data Capture at the former Elsie Whiteley Mill in Halifax later this year. 12-Jul-2006
TBS is to create 20 new jobs at its software business in Belper over the next 12 months, due to the success of its Taskmaster data input product. 11-Jul-2006
CODASciSys is planning to split its IT services and software business into two standalone Aim-listed companies called CODA and SciSys. 06-Jul-2006
MGt is to set up a new support services call centre in Kirkcaldy with the creation of 200 jobs, as part of a £9m investment. 03-Jul-2006
Dell has confirmed plans to create a further 450 jobs at its computer operations in Glasgow over the next two years. 03-Jul-2006
Cable & Wireless is looking to sell its 112,000-strong consumer broadband customer base, having appointed NM Rothschild to find a buyer. 03-Jul-2006
Jabil Circuit is to close its electronics factory in Ayr next year, with the loss of 217 jobs. 30-Jun-2006
International Rectifier is to invest up to £100m in the expansion of its semiconductor factory at Newport in South Wales, with the creation of 250 jobs by 2010. 29-Jun-2006
Invest NI is to provide £2.4m of funding to Imagine Communications Group to set up a new business services call centre in Armagh, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 27-Jun-2006
ComputerLand is to create up to 70 jobs at its Nottingham-based IT support services business, having won a £15m contract from O2. 26-Jun-2006
NCR, the data services company, is planning to relocate staff from its London headquarters to a new 40,000 sq ft office in Watford. 26-Jun-2006
QCA, the London-based Qualifications & Curriculum Authority with 650 staff, is looking to relocate to a site of up to 120,000 sq ft, and is considering locations in Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Coventry, Birmingham and Bristol. 26-Jun-2006
LogicaCMG has won planning permission to build a three-storey office for 300 new staff at its site on the Bridgend Science Park. 23-Jun-2006
Mouchel Parkman and Hyder Business Services have formed a joint venture that has been selected as preferred bidder for a £260m contract to provide IT, highways and property services to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council. 21-Jun-2006
Alba is to shed 100 of the 800 jobs in its UK consumer electronics business over the next year. 20-Jun-2006
IXEurope is to build a new £15m 70,000 sq ft data centre in West London by 2007. 14-Jun-2006
United Utilities has appointed Merrill Lynch to review the strategic options for its Vertex outsourcing business, having received a number of takeover approaches. 14-Jun-2006
ICICI OneSource of India is to set up two outsourcing call centres in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, with the creation of 1,000 jobs over the next two years. 14-Jun-2006
Experian, the information solutions company, is to set up a new 48,000 sq ft corporate headquarters at 80 Victoria Street, London SW1. 13-Jun-2006
National Semiconductor is to invest £25m in the expansion of its semiconductor manufacture and design facility in Greenock over the next six months, with the creation of about 160 jobs. 12-Jun-2006
Dillistone is raising £0.7m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its recruitment software business. 12-Jun-2006
Misys, the healthcare and banking software group, is considering plans for a management buy-out. 12-Jun-2006
Cable & Wireless is to shed up to 150 mainly sales and marketing jobs in its Bulldog broadband business, in order to focus on the wholesale side of the business. 12-Jun-2006
BT has won a £50m IT contract from the Department of Finance & Personnel to help transform the financial management of the Northern Ireland Civil Service. 08-Jun-2006
Liverpool City Council is to shed 120 tutor jobs following a £1.5m funding cut for its adult education service. 07-Jun-2006
BeCogent, the call centre operator with sites in Airdrie, Erskine, Stirling and Goring, is planning to recruit a further 300 staff by the end of the year. 07-Jun-2006
Citel is to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Nottingham-based telecoms equipment business. 06-Jun-2006
Spinvox is looking at options to raise more than £30m to fund the commercial development of technology that converts voicemails to text messages. 05-Jun-2006
AOL has appointed Citigroup to find a partner or buyer for its UK internet operations, including 500 staff and 2.2m customers. 05-Jun-2006
CapRock, the satellite communications company, has appointed Knight Real Estate to build a new £4m headquarters in Aberdeen by November. 02-Jun-2006
Adept Telecom has acquired 10,000 fixed-line telecom business customers from Fizz Telecom for £3.2m. 02-Jun-2006
Teletech is to shed an unspecified number of the 200 jobs at its call centre in Belfast. 30-May-2006
Vodafone is planning to shed 400 jobs at its headquarters in Newbury, which will involve the outsourcing of various back-office functions. 30-May-2006
Proactis is to raise £4m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its back-office software business. 29-May-2006
BT Group has announced plans to recruit 1,300 telecom engineers across the country, as part of a £1bn project to upgrade telephone lines. 24-May-2006
RHL is to create 500 new jobs at call centres in Glasgow, having secured a £1.8m Scottish Executive grant. 23-May-2006
Cardiff Council and South Wales Police are to set up a 9,000 sq ft call centre at Cardiff Gate Business Park to handle non-emergency calls, with the creation of 50 jobs. 23-May-2006
Venda is looking to raise £10m of debt finance to fund the expansion of its online retailing software business. 15-May-2006
Intel is to close its computer chip design centre in Glasgow by September, with the loss of 17 jobs. 12-May-2006
Cable & Wireless is to relocate up to 740 staff from the former Energis site in Reading to Bracknell in July. 11-May-2006
Unicom, the telecoms services provider, is creating 300 jobs at a new £1m call centre in South Manchester. 10-May-2006
Bookham Technology is planning to shed about 100 of the 200 jobs at its fibre-optics factory in Paignton. 09-May-2006
Orange is to shed up to 2,000 jobs, following a review of the operational costs in its mobile phones business. 05-May-2006
Barnsley Council has awarded a £40m contract to Group Bull to install and manage a new computer system, in order to improve its service to residents and to create new jobs. 05-May-2006
Microsoft is planning to set up an 82,000 sq ft office for its MSN UK division at Cardinal Place in London SW1, in order to relocate staff from Great Pulteney Street. 04-May-2006
BT Group has started recruiting 100 engineering staff for its Openreach phone connections business in Wales. 02-May-2006
Hydrogen Group is planning a £60m flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its recruitment consultancy. 02-May-2006
Sopra Newell & Budge is planning to expand the workforce at its IT services operations in Edinburgh and Glasgow from 506 to more than 600 by the end of the year. 28-Apr-2006
Babble has raised £0.6m in a listing on Ofex, in order to fund the expansion of its internet telephony business. 25-Apr-2006
NewLogic is to create a further 65 jobs at its business outsourcing call centre on Tyneside, in order to increase turnover by up to 50% this year. 21-Apr-2006
Atelis, the telecoms software developer, is planning to raise £1m in a flotation on Aim. 19-Apr-2006
Polaris Software Lab of India is to create up to 158 jobs in Belfast over the next three years, which will involve setting up a banking and financial software certification centre. 18-Apr-2006
PlusNet, the internet service provider, is to relocate to a 34,000 sq ft office at the Velocity scheme in Sheffield. 18-Apr-2006
Pipex Communications is forming a joint venture with Intel to set up Wimax wireless internet access in eight UK cities by 2008. 04-Apr-2006
O2 has won a £350m ten-year contract to supply a new secure digital radio system to the fire and rescue services. 03-Apr-2006
IXEurope is to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its data centres business. 03-Apr-2006
ZEDA is creating 25 new jobs at its IT services business in Nottingham, and a further 15 in London and Stirling. 30-Mar-2006
Syscap, the company that helps schools buy computers, is considering plans to sell the business for up to £30m, having appointed NM Rothschild to conduct a strategic review. 27-Mar-2006
Lenovo is considering plans to close its computer factory in Greenock with the loss of up to 500 jobs, in order to transfer production to Eastern Europe and China. 24-Mar-2006
Preston Council is to consider plans from an unnamed US company to set up a call centre at the former 42,500 sq ft Tradex building off Ring Way, which could eventually lead to the creation of 1,000 jobs. 16-Mar-2006
TTP Communications has secured a £8.5m investment from a consortium led by Scottish Equity Partners to fund the expansion of its IP Access second-generation pico base-station business. 14-Mar-2006
The Learning & Skills Council for the East of England is to allocate £6.2m for the provision of training for people to work on the 2012 Olympics, including construction work and the teaching of languages. 14-Mar-2006
The North West Development Agency has announced plans to set up a £40m nanotechnology centre called the National Microsystems Packaging Centre at the Liverpool Science Park. 09-Mar-2006
Morson Group, the Eccles-based recruitment company with 300 staff at 22 branches, is to raise £35m in a flotation on Aim later this month. 07-Mar-2006
Technology Services Group is to invest £1m at its Aberdeen office, with the creation of 10 new jobs. 07-Mar-2006
Epson is to shed up to 50 jobs at its printer ink manufacturing plant in Telford. 07-Mar-2006
Computer Service Centre is to relocate its IT services business and 14 staff to a 3,500 sq ft office at the Meridian Business Park near Norwich next month, which will enable it to employ up to 35 staff. 06-Mar-2006
Cohort is to raise £9.5m in a share placing in order to develop its Systems Consultants Services business, which provides technical services to the defence and security sector. 06-Mar-2006
Sandvine is planning to raise £20m in a flotation to fund the expansion of its broadband network business. 06-Mar-2006
Plasmon is to raise £6m in a share placing to fund the development of its data storage systems business. 02-Mar-2006
LogicaCMG is seeking European acquisitions to expand the workforce in its IT services business from 30,000 to 60,000. 02-Mar-2006
Darnley Career Academy is to set up a new distance learning and education support centre in Alva, with the creation of up to 100 jobs over the next five years. 01-Mar-2006
Cable & Wireless is planning to reduce its UK workforce from 5,500 to less than 3,500 over the next few years, as part of a strategy to focus its telecoms business on a smaller number of large corporate customers. 01-Mar-2006
Colt Telecom is considering plans to move to Switzerland or Luxembourg as part of a cost-cutting programme, but its operational head office will remain in London. 27-Feb-2006
Semefab is to set up a nanotechnology design and development centre at its site in Glenrothes, as part of a £15m project funded jointly by Scottish Enterprise and the DTI. 24-Feb-2006
Real Time Engineering, the IT consultancy, is planning to open an office in Edinburgh over the next few months, which could employ about 25 staff within 18 months. 23-Feb-2006
Ebay is said to be planning to set up a 40,000 sq ft office on Stephen Street in London for its Skype internet phone business. 23-Feb-2006
Communications Direct, the mobile telecoms company, is to set up a £4m 20,000 sq ft headquarters at Churchill Way in Cardiff, with the creation of 100 new jobs. 17-Feb-2006
Garlands is creating an additional 150 jobs at call centres in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Stockton, with a new building opening at the Contact Centre Village in Stockton. 15-Feb-2006
Gemfire is to receive a £1.7m Scottish Executive grant that will lead to the creation of up to 346 new jobs at its telecom components factory in Livingston. 14-Feb-2006
Simclar is to shed up to 70 of the 400 jobs at its electronics factory in Dunfermline. 14-Feb-2006
Capgemini is to recruit 200 extra call centre staff in Inverness and Nairn over the next few weeks. 14-Feb-2006
Ovum, the London-based technology research company with about 200 staff, is to raise £7.5m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund acquisitions. 13-Feb-2006
Micron Europe is to shed 134 of the 300 jobs at its electronic components factory in East Kilbride, in order to focus on distribution and sales. 10-Feb-2006
Barclays has awarded a £130m five-year contract to Getronics to provide desktop and application management services to over 30,000 users. 08-Feb-2006
Google of the US is looking to recruit managers for its new London headquarters, as part of a strategy to expand the European side of its search engine business. 02-Feb-2006
BT is planning to relocate staff from 115,000 sq ft of offices at Grand Island in central Manchester to two sites in Stockport and Salford. 30-Jan-2006
JP Morgan is planning to expand its technology centre in Glasgow, with the creation of 100 jobs for software engineers. 30-Jan-2006
Agilent Technologies is to invest £5.6m in the expansion of its telecoms testing facility at South Queensferry near Edinburgh this year, with the creation of 20 research and development jobs. 30-Jan-2006
Vodafone is considering plans to outsource its billing, software development and customer-relationship management operations, prompting speculation that a large number of staff could transfer to IBM. 30-Jan-2006
Benchmark Electronics is to close its printed circuit boards factory at the Meridian Business Park in Leicester in April, with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 26-Jan-2006
Pentland Systems is planning to double the workforce at its Livingston-based defence electronics business to 40 over the next three years. 25-Jan-2006
Ncipher, the Cambridge-based cryptographic IT security company valued at £70m, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 25-Jan-2006
Lexmark is to close its inkjet cartridge factory in Rosyth by the end of the year, with the loss of 700 jobs, and further cuts are expected at its Marlow office. 25-Jan-2006
SunGard, the IT company, is to set up a 75,000 sq ft headquarters at 25 Canada Square in London. 25-Jan-2006
Aberdeen City Council is considering a £1.5m plan from Connected Aberdeen to roll out a Wi-Fi internet communications network across the city. 20-Jan-2006
Amteus, the Leeds-based developer of software applications for secure transmission of voice and data over the internet, has raised £3.4m in a share placing on Aim. 19-Jan-2006
Arvato Services is to shed 175 of the 300 jobs at its call centre in the Cunard Buildings, Liverpool. 19-Jan-2006
Tiger Telematics is seeking a £55m funding package to secure the future of its Gizmondo hand-held games console. 17-Jan-2006
Vertex is planning to shed 100 jobs from its technology services operations in Liverpool and Manchester, in order to transfer the work to a new joint venture in India. 16-Jan-2006
Pipex is planning to roll out a nationwide WiMax broadband internet service, depending on the success of a trial in Stratford-upon-Avon. 16-Jan-2006
Surrey County Council is considering plans to shed up to 784 jobs from its 7,000-strong workforce, as part of a £50m cost-cutting programme. 13-Jan-2006
Inventec Scotland Servers is to close its computer factory at Hillington near Glasgow by the end of August, with the loss of 370 jobs, in order to transfer production to the Czech Republic. 12-Jan-2006
Sanmina-SCI is to close its computer factory in Greenock with the loss of up to 300 jobs. 09-Jan-2006
Warwick Manufacturing Group is planning to set up a £50m digital technology research and training centre at Warwick University later this year, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 09-Jan-2006
IQ Ludorum has raised £2.3m to fund acquisitions for its gaming software business. 05-Jan-2006
SubHub is relocating its internet software business from Hertfordshire to Mount Stuart Square in Cardiff, where it expects to create 20 jobs. 04-Jan-2006
BNB Recruitment Solutions is planning to raise £5.1m in a share placing to fund the development of its recruitment business. 03-Jan-2006
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