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Shell is said to be considering plans to outsource its IT division to EDS, AT&T or T-systems in 2008, which could affect up to 3,200 jobs. 31-Dec-2007 Filtronic has sold its microchip factory in Newton Aycliffe to RF Micro Devices of the US for £12m, securing 200 jobs and creating up to 100 new jobs. 24-Dec-2007 Zen Internet is planning to relocate the headquarters of its Rochdale-based broadband internet business and up to 360 staff to Sandbrook Park. 24-Dec-2007 Winning Pitch has undergone a £2.5m flotation, and now plans to raise up to £3m to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based training business. 24-Dec-2007 CSE-Servelec is to invest £1m in the expansion of its Sheffield-based software development business, with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 20-Dec-2007 Twenty4help is looking to expand the workforce at its Gateshead-based technical support call centre business with up to 150 new staff over the next few months. 19-Dec-2007 Hamlin Electronics is to shed about 100 manufacturing jobs in Diss over the next 18 months, in order to transfer electronics production to other countries. 19-Dec-2007 Logical Resources is planning to expand its recruitment business with new offices in London, Glasgow and Cardiff next year, and about 40 jobs will be created. 19-Dec-2007 Datatron is planning to expand the 24-strong workforce at its Tyneside-based document management business by 20% early next year. 18-Dec-2007 Simclar is to shed 80 of the 330 jobs at its electronics factory in Dunfermline early next year. 17-Dec-2007 Capita is to set up offices totalling 60,000 sq ft at Lee House and Churchgate House in Manchester city centre. 17-Dec-2007 Walsall Regeneration Company has unveiled plans for the development of a £80m data centre and business innovation centre by 2010, as part of the Gigaport technology quarter project. 13-Dec-2007 TBS is to relocate its Belper-based software development business to a new £1.5m 10,000 sq ft office at Brook Park in spring 2008. 12-Dec-2007 Connexions Northumberland is expected to shed some of its 105 jobs in Blyth, having lost a contract to provide advice and counselling services to Northumberland County Council. 10-Dec-2007 Glasgow City Council is considering plans to outsource its property and computer services to a new joint venture company formed with Serco, with the transfer of almost 300 staff. 05-Dec-2007 Filtronic is planning to sell its semiconductor factory in Newton Aycliffe to an unnamed company, casting doubt on the future of some of the 200 jobs. 04-Dec-2007 Tekton is to create up to 18 jobs in its Manchester-based construction software business over the next 12 months, with the creation of a new division aimed at architects, quantity surveyors and project managers. 04-Dec-2007 Vodafone is to set up an 80,000 sq ft call centre at the Etruria Valley business park in Stoke-on-Trent in 2009, with the relocation of about 1,200 staff from four existing offices. 04-Dec-2007 Tiscali is to outsource its internet call centres in Stoke, Manchester and Welwyn Garden City to Transcom Worldwide, with the transfer of 774 staff. 03-Dec-2007 QCA, the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority, has confirmed plans to relocate about 500 jobs from London to the £110m Butts development in Coventry in 2009. 30-Nov-2007 E2V is to shed up to 60 jobs at its electronic tubes and sensors business in Chelmsford early next year. 30-Nov-2007 Tyco is to close its electronics factory in Glasgow in March with the loss of about 170 jobs, in order to outsource the work to other companies in the UK and Germany. 30-Nov-2007 Legal & General is considering plans to outsource some of its software development operations, which could affect up to 120 jobs in Hove. 27-Nov-2007 Vega, the Welwyn Garden City-based technology consultancy, has received an unsolicited takeover approach from an unnamed company. 26-Nov-2007 Sematek is linking up with Scottish Enterprise to build a £6m cleanroom facility for the micro and optoelectronics sector at Starlaw Park in Livingston by May 2008. 22-Nov-2007 North East Lincolnshire Council is to transfer 348 staff to a new joint venture company being formed with Capita Symonds, in order to improve IT systems and provide a "one-stop shop" for council services. 20-Nov-2007 Netstore is to raise £7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its data centres, including equipment for a second data hall in Reading. 19-Nov-2007 Huco Lightronic is to close its electronics factory in Limavady in January, with the loss of 70 jobs. 19-Nov-2007 Capgemini is to shed hundreds of jobs employed on an IT services contract with HM Revenue & Customs, affecting many of the 2,200 staff in Telford. 15-Nov-2007 BT has announced plans to shed 4,000 jobs from its 106,000-strong workforce next year, as part of a £450m cost-cutting programme. 12-Nov-2007 O2 is creating up to 1,000 jobs at call centres in Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff and the Dearne Valley, in order to handle sales of the new Apple iPhone. 09-Nov-2007 Sophos is planning to raise £100m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange to fund the expansion of its Oxford-based IT security software business, which currently employs 1,115 staff. 07-Nov-2007 Electronic Arts is to close its computer games development centre in Chertsey, Surrey, as part of a strategy to shed 350 jobs worldwide. 06-Nov-2007 Quative, the Swiss supplier of interactive TV software, is to set up a £1.8m research and development centre in Cwmbran, with the creation of 35 jobs. 01-Nov-2007 BNS Telecom is planning to recruit 30 extra staff at its sales and engineering department in Northumberland by the end of the year, but its network services unit is closing with the loss of 15 jobs in London. 31-Oct-2007 Tiscali is considering plans to shed about half of the 600 staff at its telecoms call centre in Manchester by the end of the year, and there are also concerns about the future of 200 jobs at its Minton Hollins House site in Stoke-on-Trent. 31-Oct-2007 China Netcom is planning to open a European headquarters in London, as part of a strategy to expand its global telecoms network. 31-Oct-2007 Seagate is to close its computer components factory at Limavady in County Londonderry next year, with the loss of about 900 jobs. 30-Oct-2007 Dell is planning to expand the workforce at its Glasgow-based computer business from 830 to at least 1,600 over the next four years, with vacancies expected in sales, finance, technical support and human resources. 30-Oct-2007 Sentrum is to set up a data centre at the 191,000 sq ft Massif distribution centre near Woking, having acquired the site for £26m. 29-Oct-2007 Vertex is to create 350 temporary jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby. 26-Oct-2007 Flextronics is to close its telecoms design business in County Antrim with the loss of 55 jobs. 22-Oct-2007 Prosource.it is planning to create a further 50 jobs at its Aberdeen-based IT outsourcing business over the next 18 months. 22-Oct-2007 Sun Microsystems is planning to shed about 1,500 jobs from its global workforce, which is expected to include 90 in the UK. 17-Oct-2007 Gem is looking to recruit 500 additional staff at its customer services call centres in Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas. 12-Oct-2007 Atmel is to close its semiconductor factory in Tyneside early next year with the loss of 600 jobs, having sold the site to Highbridge Business Park and the equipment to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. 10-Oct-2007 Woodhead Connectivity has confirmed plans to close its electronic components factory in Ebbw Vale in June 2008, with the loss of 215 jobs. 05-Oct-2007 Mformation Technologies of the US is to receive £2.1m from Invest NI to set up a mobile telecoms technical support centre in Belfast, with the creation of 162 jobs. 03-Oct-2007 NCsoft Europe is to relocate its Brighton-based computer games business and up to 112 staff to the CityPoint development in 2009, with the creation of 116 new jobs. 03-Oct-2007 IBM is forming a joint venture with Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Council to provide a range of services to both councils and other organisations, including human resources, property, procurement and IT services. 03-Oct-2007 Light Blue Optics of Cambridge has secured £13m of venture capital to fund the commercial development of miniature laser projectors. 01-Oct-2007 Telecity is planning to raise up to £125m in a flotation in October to fund the expansion of its chain of 18 data centres. 27-Sep-2007 Google is looking to recruit several thousand research and development engineers in Europe over the next few years. 27-Sep-2007 Gresham Computing is to raise £2.7m in a share placing to strengthen its balance sheet and fund the expansion of its global financial solutions business. 25-Sep-2007 Sword is to set up a new £30m software development centre at the Pavilions site in Cwmbran, with the creation of 200 jobs by 2012. 20-Sep-2007 Invest NI is to support plans by US-based 3PAR to set up a £9m software engineering centre in Belfast, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 19-Sep-2007 Warwick Manufacturing Group is considering plans to start building a second £50m digital laboratory at Warwick University next year, with the first due to open in September 2008. 19-Sep-2007 Knowledge IT is to open a 50-seat data recovery centre in Wallsend next month, and work will start on a 100-seat centre in Washington early next year. 17-Sep-2007 Nokia is to close an office in Godmanchester and transfer some of the 80 staff to Farnborough. 17-Sep-2007 Converso is planning to create 150 jobs at its call centre outsourcing business in Southend over the next year, following its acquisition by Usha Martin of India. 13-Sep-2007 EDM Group is planning to relocate its document management solutions business and about 300 staff to a new site in Wolverhampton by next April. 12-Sep-2007 Suffolk Coastal District Council is to consider plans from BT for the expansion of its Adastral Park research and development site in Martlesham, including a new business park and space for up to 1,000 jobs. 11-Sep-2007 Borland Software Corporation is planning to expand the workforce at its Belfast-based technical support department from 30 to 80 by 2008. 11-Sep-2007 Smartstream Technologies, the supplier of back office software to banks, is planning to raise £100m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange in October. 10-Sep-2007 BT is to invest £35m in a new research and development centre in Shanghai, in order to offer IT and telecoms services to Chinese companies. 10-Sep-2007 TeleTech of the US is looking to recruit about 500 call centre staff to work from home in the UK. 03-Sep-2007 Tyco is to shed about 100 jobs at its two factories in Swindon, in order to transfer some of the production to the Czech Republic. 30-Aug-2007 Oakland House, the recruitment firm, is seeking 20 customer service advisers and 50 sales staff to work for two undisclosed companies in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Crewe. 28-Aug-2007 AVX is to shed 95 of the 188 jobs at its electronics business in Paignton, affecting staff in all departments. 24-Aug-2007 IBM Global Services is expected to create almost 100 new jobs in Greenock, having won a global IT support outsourcing contract from Xerox. 22-Aug-2007 Intempo has secured £12m to fund the expansion of its Salford-based electronic products business, including £1.8m from the Hotbed private equity network. 22-Aug-2007 Texperts has raised £1.3m to fund the expansion of its 82Ask mobile phone-based information service. 20-Aug-2007 Inkfish is considering plans to close its call centre in Slough and transfer some of the 140 jobs to its site in Brighton. 15-Aug-2007 Apple is seeking a suitable site for a new 300,000 sq ft headquarters in London, in order to consolidate staff from existing offices in Regent Street and Stockley Park. 15-Aug-2007 Ericsson is to relocate 60 jobs from Nottingham to a new £60m research and development site that will employ up to 600 staff at Ansty in the West Midlands from 2009. 03-Aug-2007 Office Depot is to shed 50 jobs at its office supplies business in Leicester, in order to transfer the work to Romania. 02-Aug-2007 Carphone Warehouse is to relocate its OneStop mobile phone mail order business from Crewe to its e2save division in Loughborough, which could lead to the loss of dozens of jobs from the 200-strong workforce. 27-Jul-2007 Southampton City Council is to outsource its customer services, IT, human resources, property and benefits work to Capita, with the transfer of about 650 staff. 20-Jul-2007 Indigovision is looking to expand the global salesforce for its Edinburgh-based digital CCTV business from 36 to up to 250 over the next few years, gaining a presence in all major international markets. 20-Jul-2007 Stream International is to create 450 jobs at its call centre in Londonderry over the next few months, in order to provide product support for a broadband operation. 19-Jul-2007 Carter & Carter is to shed an unspecified number of the 2,500 jobs in its vocational training business, following a shortfall in work from the government's Train To Gain programme. 19-Jul-2007 BT is considering plans to set up an ultra-fast broadband network by installing fibre optic cable close to homes and businesses, and some analysts estimate that the project could cost up to £4bn. 19-Jul-2007 Garlands is to set up a new 47,000 sq ft call centre in South Shields by February 2008, with the creation of up to 800 jobs. 18-Jul-2007 Inkfish is to shed about 250 jobs at its call centre in Brighton, in order to transfer the Post Office customer service work to Londonderry-based Stream. 18-Jul-2007 O2 has launched a recruitment drive for 500 new staff at its Skypark customer services call centre in Glasgow. 16-Jul-2007 CMS Cameron McKenna is to outsource the IT work at its London-based law firm to HCL of India, reducing the department's workforce from 70 to 40. 13-Jul-2007 Skill Training is planning to set up a £2m vocational training centre in Consett next year, in order to double student numbers to 400. 13-Jul-2007 Freescale Semiconductor is said to be seeking a buyer for its factory in East Kilbride, prompting concern about the future of 1,250 jobs. 11-Jul-2007 HM Revenue & Customs is to invest £156m in the modernisation of its IT systems over the next five years, in order to improve accuracy, productivity and performance. 10-Jul-2007 Eircom is to invest £3.5m in the expansion of its telecoms network and service operations in Northern Ireland, including a new centre in Belfast with 15 staff. 04-Jul-2007 Pelikon is to invest £3m in the expansion of its electronics display technology business in Caerphilly, and is considering plans for a flotation in the coming year. 04-Jul-2007 Vertex is to shed 80 jobs at call centres in Prescot and Warrington, in order to transfer IT services work to India. 03-Jul-2007 Excel Fortune of Hong Kong is planning to set up a £6m mobile phone recycling operation and call centre at the Selectron electronics plant in Cwmcarn, Gwent, with the creation of up to 250 jobs. 28-Jun-2007 PacketExchange is considering plans for a flotation that could value its London-based internet network business at up to £250m. 27-Jun-2007 Onyx Group is to set up a £2m disaster recovery centre in Gateshead by July, creating ten jobs and providing managed workspace for up to 200 people. 26-Jun-2007 I4u, the Newcastle-based developer of medical referencing software, is planning to double its staff to 20 over the next 12 months. 26-Jun-2007 PicoChip has raised more than £13m from Highland Capital Partners to fund the expansion of its Bath-based wireless technologies business. 26-Jun-2007 Filtronic is to shed 115 of the 319 jobs at its electronics factory in Newton Aycliffe later this year, and may sell off its semiconductor business. 26-Jun-2007 FMS NI is to invest £2m in the expansion of its notebook computer factory in Crumlin, with the creation of ten jobs. 21-Jun-2007 Spiral Gateway has secured a £0.3m venture capital investment from Braveheart to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based microchip technology business, and expects to raise a larger sum early next year. 18-Jun-2007 Lagan Technologies is to create 100 new jobs at its Belfast-based software development and support centre. 15-Jun-2007 Fonebak is planning to close its mobile phone repair operation at the Newstead Business Estate in Stoke-on-Trent, with the loss of 80 jobs. 11-Jun-2007 Wombat Financial Software is to invest £2m in the expansion of its software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 77 jobs. 08-Jun-2007 Fujitsu is to set up a £18m IT services centre in Londonderry with the creation 328 jobs, and a further 74 jobs will be created at its Belfast operation. 07-Jun-2007 BT is to expand the 140-strong workforce at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent with 33 new jobs over the next few months. 05-Jun-2007 RDF Group is planning to expand the workforce at its Brighton-based IT services business from 130 to 160. 30-May-2007 Tech Mahindra of India is considering plans to set up a £6m software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 30-May-2007 UK Digital Storage is planning to relocate its Tyneside-based electronic data storage business to a larger 100,000 sq ft office, where it will create 30 new jobs over the next five years. 29-May-2007 Affinion, the supplier of ID protection systems, is planning to create 100 new jobs at its call centre in Portsmouth by the end of the year. 29-May-2007 Liberty Information Technology is to invest £6.6m in the expansion of its software development operations in Belfast, with the creation of up to 175 jobs. 28-May-2007 O2 is to create 50 new jobs at its customer contact centre in Bury, having decided to transfer its eService department from India. 16-May-2007 Global Telecoms & Technology is to relocate its Bury headquarters and 130 staff to a new £5m site in Hornby Street, and 125 new jobs will be created over the next 18 months. 16-May-2007 Autonomy is planning to raise £70m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Cambridge-based software business. 14-May-2007 DEM Solutions, the Edinburgh-based developer of particle mechanics simulation software, has raised £2m of venture capital to expand its sales and marketing activities. 10-May-2007 FollowUs has raised £1.1m ahead of a flotation on Aim for its mobile phone tracking service. 07-May-2007 Vertex is to create 100 new jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby, having won an outsourcing contract from an unnamed firm. 04-May-2007 Telent, the telecoms company, is to relocate from Coventry to an 83,000 sq ft building on the Opus 40 Business Park in Warwick next year, securing the future of 450 jobs. 03-May-2007 Colt Telecom is planning to set up a 210,000 sq ft data centre at a former Somerfield site in Welwyn Garden City. 01-May-2007 Iris Software, the accountancy software supplier, has been put up for sale by HG Capital and LDC with an estimated price tag of £250m. 30-Apr-2007 BT is to restructure its telecoms business into two divisions called BT Design and BT Operate in July, with the transfer of 20,000 staff, as part of a strategy to focus on software-based services. 25-Apr-2007 Garlands has announced plans to create a further 320 jobs at its call centres in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Stockton, taking the total Teesside workforce to about 3,500. 24-Apr-2007 OGL Computer Services is to open a new office in Kidderminster with the creation of 30 jobs, and a further ten sales and support jobs could be created later in the year. 24-Apr-2007 Anglia Ruskin University is planning to shed up to 90 jobs at sites in Cambridge and Chelmsford this year. 19-Apr-2007 Linn Products is planning to shed an unspecified number of the 280 jobs at its consumer electronics factory in East Renfrewshire. 19-Apr-2007 Mando Group is to relocate its Liverpool-based web development business and up to 30 staff from the Wavertree Technology Park to the Liverpool Science Park. 13-Apr-2007 O2, the mobile phone operator, has agreed a pre-let with Slough Estates to set up a 110,000 sq ft office on the Slough Trading Estate. 12-Apr-2007 IT Installations is planning to increase the turnover of its Sheffield-based communications business from £1.5m to £3m this year and to £5m by 2009, with the workforce rising from 20 to 40. 11-Apr-2007 BT Wholesale is to replace 17 outdated fixed-line networks with a new multi-capability system called 21C, which is expected to lead to the loss of thousands of engineering and call centre jobs. 10-Apr-2007 Gem is to create 150 new jobs at its customer service outsourcing call centres in Belfast and Londonderry, having won a number of new contracts in telecoms and gaming. 03-Apr-2007 Harris Systems, the developer of communications systems, is to set up a 72,500 sq ft office at a new building planned by Slough Estates at Winnersh Triangle near Reading. 03-Apr-2007 Solectron is to close its electronics factory in Cwmcarn, near Newbridge, in October, with the loss of more than 150 jobs. 02-Apr-2007 Synchronica has raised £3.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its business developing mobile synchronisation and device management solutions. 30-Mar-2007 Linden Lab is seeking a suitable site to set up an online games development office in Brighton, with the creation of up to 15 jobs. 29-Mar-2007 Valtech is planning to set up a new software development office in Caerphilly in May, with the creation of up to 40 jobs in the first year and 170 jobs over the next three years. 28-Mar-2007 Quantix, the Nottingham-based IT services company with 31 staff, is planning to relocate to the Chetwynd Business Park at Bulwell in May, and is also looking to create new jobs and make acquisitions following a £10m buy-out from Lynx. 28-Mar-2007 Rebellion is seeking a new site for its Oxford-based computer games development business, having just taken on 30 additional staff from Ignition Banbury. 28-Mar-2007 Xchanging is planning to raise £150m in a flotation to fund its expansion in the business process outsourcing market. 27-Mar-2007 The London Development Agency is to help fund a bid by Inmarsat to win a £600m satellite development contract from the European Space Agency, which would support 200 London-based jobs. 27-Mar-2007 RB Solutions is planning to create up to 75 jobs at its business process outsourcing division in Middlesbrough over the next two years. 26-Mar-2007 Plexus is currently relocating its electronics design centre to a larger site on the Alba Campus in Livingston, and a further 19 jobs will be created over the next two years. 22-Mar-2007 COE Group has raised £1.2m in a share placing to fund the recruitment of sales employees for its video surveillance systems business. 19-Mar-2007 ICM Recovery Services is considering plans to set up a 96,000 sq ft office and data centre at Discovery Place in Farnborough. 19-Mar-2007 Infinity Group is planning to expand the workforce at its Leicester-based telephony products business from 33 to 70 by the end of the year, and is currently seeking a larger site. 15-Mar-2007 The Serious Games Institute is to set up a £3.3m computer games development centre at Coventry University Technology Park by this autumn, with funding from Advantage West Midlands. 01-Mar-2007 Dartington Tech, the Paignton-based skills training charity, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 80 jobs. 01-Mar-2007 The University of Edinburgh is to set up a £113m super-computer at an undisclosed site in Midlothian, in order to "revolutionise academic research across Britain". 23-Feb-2007 Alchemy Plus is planning to set up a new computer data centre on a 2.4-acre site at Dingwall Business Park next year, and the 12-strong workforce will rise to 30. 23-Feb-2007 MRC International, the recruitment firm, is to create up to 35 jobs at a new office due to open in Shrewsbury on March 1, with vacancies for accounts and administration staff. 23-Feb-2007 Sanmina is to close its computer cabinets factory in Lisburn with the loss of 300 jobs, in order to transfer production to Hungary. 22-Feb-2007 O2 is to create 120 jobs at its broadband customer service call centre in Glasgow this year, and a further 50 jobs will be created in Leeds. 20-Feb-2007 Danwood Group is to set up a new 100,000 sq ft office equipment distribution centre and call centre at Swinderby in Lincolnshire by October, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 19-Feb-2007 Sifam Fibre Optics is creating 20 new jobs at its telecoms components factory in Torquay, having won a number of new contracts. 19-Feb-2007 Applied Materials is planning to close its Applied Implant Technologies computer parts factory in Horsham by the end of the year, with the loss of up to 270 jobs. 16-Feb-2007 Junction Solutions, the US-based software company, is to create about 30 jobs at its new European headquarters in Sheffield by the end of the year. 15-Feb-2007 Pipex, the broadband and telephone service provider, is looking to recruit 20 credit control staff at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent. 15-Feb-2007 Redknee, the Canadian mobile software company with an office in Reading, is to float on Aim with a valuation of £60m. 13-Feb-2007 Fusion Contact Centre Services is to open a new call centre in Peterlee in March, which will create up to 600 jobs over the next three years. 13-Feb-2007 Hexagon Human Capital is to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim to provide funds for acquisitions and working capital for its executive search and interim management business. 12-Feb-2007 IX Europe is to raise £5.1m in a share placing to fund the development of data centres in London, France and Germany. 06-Feb-2007 O2 is said to be looking to set up a new mobile phone call centre in South Yorkshire, and is seeking a suitable site of between 80,000 and 120,000 sq ft. 05-Feb-2007 Capita has won a £230m outsourcing contract to provide back-office services for Swindon Council, which will involve the transfer of 400 staff. 02-Feb-2007 Paver Downes Origin has raised £1m to fund the expansion of its Liverpool-based interactive voice messaging business, and its name will change to Qire. 01-Feb-2007 Atos Origin is to relocate its Nottingham office to a 40,000 sq ft site on Beeston Business Park after a two-year design-and-build phase. 31-Jan-2007 SPI Lasers has raised £10m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Southampton-based optical fibre lasers business. 30-Jan-2007 Filtronic is planning to vacate its 100,000 sq ft Saltaire headquarters and relocate all staff to its electronic components site in Shipley. 30-Jan-2007 Simclar is to close two electronic components factories in Irvine and Kilwinning with immediate effect, with the loss of 420 jobs. 30-Jan-2007 Microsoft is forming an alliance with Cisco, State Street and Fairbridge to provide IT training to 100,000 people in Scotland over the next three years. 30-Jan-2007 Thermastrate of Northumberland has secured £0.6m to fund the development of new technology for the production of electronic components, and will create up to 25 jobs for technical managers and sales people. 29-Jan-2007 BT is creating 40 jobs at a new £6m call centre in Londonderry, in order to handle calls from both business and domestic customers. 26-Jan-2007 Hutchison Whampoa is planning to shed about 120 jobs at its mobile phone call centre in Glasgow over the next few months, but some will be redeployed in "3" retail outlets. 25-Jan-2007 Business Link for Greater Merseyside is to shed about 40 administration jobs in March, as part of a merger with other local business support services to form North West Business Link. 19-Jan-2007 EMag Solutions of the US is to set up a European headquarters for its computer forensics business in Cardiff, with the creation of 23 jobs. 18-Jan-2007 The Office for National Statistics is drawing up plans to close its London headquarters by 2010, in order to relocate most of the 600 staff to Newport, South Wales. 17-Jan-2007 Carphone Warehouse is to set up an £8.5m call centre and engineering headquarters for its Opal Telecom business in Irlam, Manchester, by February 2008, with the creation of up to 300 jobs. 15-Jan-2007 Frontier Silicon has secured a £16m equity investment to fund the expansion of its Watford-based silicon chip business. 15-Jan-2007 Teleperformance is to set up a new £6.5m call centre in Newry, with the creation of about 450 jobs over the next three years. 12-Jan-2007 Geko Direct is to expand the 80-strong workforce at its Telford-based mobile phones business with 50 new staff this year. 10-Jan-2007 Sandwell Council and BT are seeking a suitable site in the Black Country to set up a new £50m call centre to handle inquiries from the public, with the creation of about 450 jobs. 05-Jan-2007 Wyre Forest District Council is to consider plans from Severntech for the development of a computer recycling centre in Stourport, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 03-Jan-2007 Carphone Warehouse is considering plans to expand the workforce at its mobile phone call centre in Preston from 800 to up to 2,000. 03-Jan-2007
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