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Monumental Games is to expand the 23-strong workforce at its computer games business in Manchester with 30 new jobs over the next two years. 24-Dec-2008 Electronic Arts is to shed about 1,000 jobs at its computer games development operations worldwide, which could affect some of the 800 staff at its Criterion and Bright Light studios in Guildford. 22-Dec-2008 AttentionIT, the US environmental software firm, is to set up a £5m headquarters in Warrington, and the initial 15 staff will grow substantially over the next three years. 19-Dec-2008 AVX is to shed 92 of the 390 jobs at its ceramic capacitors factory in Coleraine. 18-Dec-2008 Diodes is to shed up to 80 of the 424 jobs at its semiconductors factory in Oldham. 18-Dec-2008 Laird is to shed 5,000 of the 14,600 jobs in its global electronics business, and manufacturing capacity will be cut by 14%. 17-Dec-2008 Sun Microsystems is to shed 140 jobs at its factory in West Lothian in May 2009, in order to transfer production to the US. 15-Dec-2008 Xyratex is to shed up to 50 of the 600 jobs at its data storage equipment business in Havant by February 2009. 15-Dec-2008 Icera has secured £47m of equity investment and debt financing to fund the expansion of its Bristol-based microchip technology business. 15-Dec-2008 Premier Farnell is to shed about 300 jobs at its Leeds-based electronic components business, in order to help reduce costs by £12m a year. 12-Dec-2008 Convergys is to create up to 300 customer services, technical support and sales jobs at its call centre on Tyneside, having won a new contract from a telecoms firm. 09-Dec-2008 RFMD is to shed up to 99 of the 300 jobs at the former Filtronic microchip factory in Newton Aycliffe. 08-Dec-2008 Alchemy Plus is to submit plans to set up a new £20m 20,000sq ft Cloud data storage centre in Inverness by 2010, with the creation of up to 400 jobs. 02-Dec-2008 Accessories 4 Technology has secured a £4m funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland to help expand its Bolton-based video game accessories business. 25-Nov-2008 WANdisco is to relocate the European headquarters of its software business from London to Sheffield, and the initial five jobs could grow to 50. 24-Nov-2008 FirstSource is to create 160 new jobs at its business process outsourcing call centre in Londonderry by January 2009. 20-Nov-2008 Converso Contact Centres is planning to expand the 250-strong workforce at its call centre in Southend, by acquiring another floor of the Thamesgate House building. 20-Nov-2008 Axis Telecom is to open a second call centre in Hull in December, with the creation of 70 jobs. 19-Nov-2008 GCHQ is planning to build a new office building at its main government communications site in Cheltenham, in order to accommodate the 800 staff still operating from its smaller Oakley site. 17-Nov-2008 BT is planning to shed a further 6,000 jobs from its 160,000-strong global workforce by April 2009, which will mainly affect contract staff and offshore workers. 14-Nov-2008 Connor Solutions is planning to expand the workforce at its contract electronics manufacturing business in Houghton-le-Spring from 190 to 240 over the next two years. 14-Nov-2008 Alba is to shed 22 of the 32 jobs at its Goodmans home electronics repair business in Portsmouth. 14-Nov-2008 Cable & Wireless is expected to shed more than 50% of the 600 jobs at the Glasgow-based headquarters of its recently-acquired Thus telecoms business, as part of a plan to cut 700 jobs across the country. 12-Nov-2008 Gemfire has closed its electronics factory in Livingston with the loss of 250 jobs. 10-Nov-2008 Tech Mahindra of India is planning to open a £5m IT call centre at the Viking Business Park in Jarrow, with the creation of 500 jobs over the next three years. 10-Nov-2008 BT is to outsource the management of its networks outside the UK to Alcatel-Lucent, with the transfer of 90 jobs in the UK and 400 jobs elsewhere. 10-Nov-2008 Pendragon is looking to sell Pinnacle, the supplier of back-office management software to vehicle dealers, for about £60m. 10-Nov-2008 Singularity is to invest £3.5m in the expansion of its software development operations in Londonderry and Belfast, with the creation of 60 jobs. 07-Nov-2008 IBM is to receive a £1m grant from Scottish Enterprise to fund software research and development and secure the future of its Greenock workforce. 05-Nov-2008 Telecom Service Centres is to recruit up to 150 more staff at its seven call centres in Scotland, due to rising demand for its outsourcing services. 04-Nov-2008 Northern Recruitment Group, the Tyneside-based recruitment agency with offices across the country, is planning to delist its shares and return to private ownership. 03-Nov-2008 CSR is to shed up to 50 jobs at its Cambridge-based microchips business, in order to save £12m in 2009. 30-Oct-2008 Photronics is to close its semiconductor components factory at Trafford Park with the loss of 85 jobs, but will retain a customer support and data preparation centre in Manchester. 23-Oct-2008 ThirtyThree has secured a £4m funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland to expand its recruitment communications business, and up to 42 staff will relocate to a new office in Bristol early next year. 23-Oct-2008 NEC Infrontia is to relocate the European headquarters of its electronics business from Loughborough to a new 11,000 sq ft unit on the Ruddington Fields Business Park in Nottingham. 22-Oct-2008 Kcom is to shed about 35 jobs at its group carrier operations division in Hull. 22-Oct-2008 Cable & Wireless is to review the future of the 1,000 jobs at its recently-acquired Thus telecoms offices in Glasgow and Livingston. 21-Oct-2008 Atlantis Resources Corporation and Morgan Stanley are considering plans to set up a £250m computer data centre at Castle of Mey in Caithness, using tidal power from the Pentland Firth and creating up to 700 jobs. 20-Oct-2008 BTI Systems of Canada is to invest £6.7m in a new European headquarters and software engineering centre in Belfast, with the creation of 60 jobs over the next three years. 17-Oct-2008 ICS Computing is to create more than 20 new payroll and administration support jobs at its IT services business in Belfast. 16-Oct-2008 EDS is to shed 3,378 jobs from its technical services outsourcing operations across the country over the next two years. 10-Oct-2008 International Rectifier is to shed 54 jobs at its semiconductor factory in Newport, South Wales. 10-Oct-2008 The Business Connection is planning to open a further ten recruitment offices in the North West, including sites in Crewe, Liverpool, Manchester and Warrington. 09-Oct-2008 Adobe is to relocate its Edinburgh-based software support office and 35 staff to a 21,000 sq ft unit at Hermiston Quay 2. 09-Oct-2008 IBM is to invest £2m in the development of a mini data centre at its site in Greenock by the end of the year, in order to help smaller companies cut their IT costs. 08-Oct-2008 Listening Company is to open a new call centre at St James Gate in Newcastle next month, and aims to create 500 jobs this year. 06-Oct-2008 Nine K (9K Limited) is setting up a new £1.5m headquarters for its computer systems support business at the Eliot Business Park in Nuneaton this month, and 15 new jobs will be created over the next 12 months. 02-Oct-2008 The Cloud has secured £8.5m of venture funding to extend its wireless broadband network across Europe. 02-Oct-2008 EDS is to set up a £30m data storage centre at Wynyard Park on Teesside, but has not said whether the staff will be new or transferred from other sites. 01-Oct-2008 Thales UK is planning to double the 120-strong staff at its new £10m data centre at Doncaster Lakeside. 29-Sep-2008 Emax Outsourcing is planning to expand the 120-strong workforce at its Tyneside-based call centre to about 400 over the coming months. 26-Sep-2008 NCSoft Europe is considering plans to shed up to 58 of the 112 jobs at its computer games development business in Brighton. 19-Sep-2008 Tesco has agreed a £100m deal with Cable & Wireless to create a private GSM network for its 1,500 stores and distribution centres, enabling staff to use a single handset for both fixed-line and mobile calls. 15-Sep-2008 Wombat Financial Software is in negotiations to set up a 40,000 sq ft office at Adelaide Exchange in Belfast city centre. 08-Sep-2008 Phones 4u is to outsource most of its IT department to Tata Consultancy Services, with the transfer of 180 staff, while a further 60 head office staff are expected to be made redundant. 01-Sep-2008 Acision, the messaging company, is to set up a 30,000 sq ft office at the Arlington Business Park in Theale, Berkshire. 01-Sep-2008 Insights is to build a new £4m 17,000 sq ft headquarters for its training business at the Technology Park in Dundee, with the creation of an initial 50 jobs. 29-Aug-2008 Ascribe, the Bolton-based healthcare IT firm with 220 staff, is considering plans for a management buy-out, having appointed Altium Capital to provide advice. 20-Aug-2008 E2V is looking to shed up to 50 of the 1,100 jobs at its electronic components manufacturing business in Chelmsford. 18-Aug-2008 Respondez is planning to create 400 jobs at its technical support services call centre in Hartlepool over the next 18 months. 18-Aug-2008 Newport Networks is to shed about 35 jobs at its Caldicot-based voice technology business, and a buyer is being sought. 15-Aug-2008 The Mobile Phone Repair Company (MPRC) is to shed about 110 of its 140 jobs in Crewe, as Phones4u has decided to transfer a contract to A Novo in Norwich and SBE in Ashford. 14-Aug-2008 Mouchel, the business services firm, is to set up a 46,000 sq ft office at Export House in Woking. 11-Aug-2008 Minacs of Canada is considering plans to set up a 50,000 sq ft call centre in Manchester by the end of the year. 11-Aug-2008 Logica is planning to vacate its 100,000 sq ft head office in London, in order to relocate staff to a smaller 30,000 sq ft site and to regional offices. 11-Aug-2008 Russell Reynolds Associates, the recruitment firm, is planning to relocate staff from three London offices to a single 25,000 sq ft site in the West End. 11-Aug-2008 KCRS, the US supplier of HR software, is opening an office in Glasgow and the initial six staff could increase to 100 over the next few years. 23-Jul-2008 Static Burst, the Plymouth-based IT firm, has ceased trading and the assets and contracts have been acquired by NCI Technologies of Cornwall. 23-Jul-2008 Premium People is to open new training and recruitment offices in Sunderland and Darlington over the next few months, with the creation of 24 jobs. 18-Jul-2008 Teledata is creating 40 jobs at its new £4m data centre at Wythenshawe in Manchester. 18-Jul-2008 Eidos is to close its Pivotal computer games development operation in Bath with the loss of 90 jobs, but a further ten staff will be retained to work on specific projects. 18-Jul-2008 Landmark Marketing Services is to open two additional mobile phone telesales call centres in Llanelli and Carmarthen, with the creation of at least 160 jobs. 17-Jul-2008 BT has announced plans to invest £1.5bn connecting 10m homes to high-speed fibre-optic broadband by 2012, in order to offer high-definition TV viewing. 16-Jul-2008 The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) is to build a £50m Hartree computational modelling research centre in Daresbury, while a further £30m will be invested in sensor research centres in Daresbury and Harwell. 16-Jul-2008 South Tyneside Council is to transfer 450 back-office staff to BT, and a further 250 new jobs will be created by BT at a new local authority outsourcing facility being developed at Harton Staithes in South Shields over the next three years. 14-Jul-2008 The Contact Company is to create 150 jobs at its customer management outsourcing call centre in Birkenhead. 09-Jul-2008 Liberata is planning to set up a new business outsourcing office at the Morton Palms Business Park in Darlington, with the creation of about 80 jobs. 09-Jul-2008 Invotec Circuits is to shed up to 45 of the 152 jobs at its circuit boards factory in Blackburn. 07-Jul-2008 Seagate Technology is to invest £120m in the expansion of its disk drives factory in Springtown, Londonderry, by 2010, including new equipment, IT and research facilities. 04-Jul-2008 Leicester Circuits has been bought out of administration by a consortium led by its previous owners, saving 25 jobs at its circuit boards factory in Leicester. 04-Jul-2008 Telmar Network Technology is to expand the workforce at its Solihull-based telecom systems repair business with ten new staff in July and a further 20 by 2009. 03-Jul-2008 McKesson UK is planning to create more than 300 jobs at its office in Bangor, North Wales, over the next three years, in order to develop computer systems for the NHS. 30-Jun-2008 Steria of France is to set up a new IT services centre in Belfast, with the creation of 63 jobs. 26-Jun-2008 Hamlin Electronics is considering plans to relocate its Norfolk-based technical centre and 60 engineering staff from Diss to the Hethel Engineering Centre. 26-Jun-2008 Computer Service Centre is planning to set up a second IT data centre in Norfolk over the next two years, as its existing £1m site at Meridian Way in Norwich is close to capacity. 26-Jun-2008 Symbian is said to be seeking a 100,000 sq ft headquarters in London, having appointed DTZ to conduct a strategic review of its properties. 24-Jun-2008 H2O Networks is to install a fibre-optic cable system in the sewers of Dundee, in a £30m project to supply high-speed communications to homes and businesses across the city. 20-Jun-2008 LinkedIn has secured a £27m cash injection for its internet networking operations in Europe, including the expansion of its London office and the creation of 20 jobs. 20-Jun-2008 Ventura is to close its customer support call centre at Ocean Park in Cardiff in September, with the loss of up to 600 jobs. 16-Jun-2008 TracPlus Global, the New Zealand-based telematics company, is considering plans to set up an operation at one of the Technium business innovation centres in Wales. 13-Jun-2008 Novosco is investing £1.2m in the expansion of its Belfast-based IT services business, including a new staff recruitment and training programme. 11-Jun-2008 Erudine is to expand the 50-strong workforce at its Harrogate-based IT services business with up to 20 new software development jobs. 11-Jun-2008 Listening Company is looking to expand the workforce at its call centre in Tonbridge from 53 to up to 120. 10-Jun-2008 Freescale is considering plans to close its semiconductor factory in East Kilbride early next year with the loss of 800 jobs, having failed to find a buyer. 05-Jun-2008 Nessco has secured £4m from Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital to fund the expansion of its offshore telecoms business, which currently has 140 staff in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Reading, Brazil and Azerbaijan. 05-Jun-2008 Orange is planning to create 400 retail jobs and 100 call centre jobs, as part of a shake-up of its mobile and broadband business that will also include 60 new shops and the loss of 450 back-office jobs. 05-Jun-2008 FFEI, the electronic equipment supplier, has confirmed plans to relocate to a new £2m research and manufacturing centre in Hemel Hempstead in December. 03-Jun-2008 Eutechnyx is planning to expand the 75 staff at its Gateshead-based computer games business with 25 new jobs this year, and will also open its first office in the US. 02-Jun-2008 Unicom is looking to create a further 80 jobs at its Manchester-based telecoms business, with most of the vacancies in sales. 30-May-2008 TLG Education has gone into liquidation through Tenon Group, with the loss of 20 jobs at its Glasgow-based training business. 27-May-2008 Gamma Global, the Manchester-based IT hardware supplier with 50 staff, has secured £12m from Bank of Scotland Corporate to fund acquisitions and organic growth. 27-May-2008 Telecom Service Centres is to create a further 100 jobs at its call centre in Falkirk, having won a new contract from T-Mobile. 23-May-2008 Sony is to create 40 new jobs at its professional camcorders production and service centre in Pencoed. 21-May-2008 Anite is looking to sell its public sector software division next month, and a number of private equity firms are thought to be interested. 21-May-2008 BAA is looking to outsource some of its IT work, with the transfer of an unspecified number of jobs. 19-May-2008 Dialog Semiconductor of Germany has secured a £1.3m Scottish Enterprise grant to set up a new design centre in Edinburgh by the end of the year, with the creation of at least 20 jobs. 14-May-2008 Fujitsu Services is to invest £8.8m in the expansion of its IT systems and support business in Northern Ireland, with the creation of 120 jobs in Belfast and 30 in Londonderry. 13-May-2008 Wombat is to invest £3m in the expansion of its financial software development operations in Belfast, with the creation of 75 jobs. 09-May-2008 CyberSource, the US-based supplier of internet payment systems, is to set up a research and development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 56 jobs over the next three years. 08-May-2008 Yotta, the digital mapping company, is creating about 30 jobs at its new office in Leamington Spa, including the transfer of work from Oxford, Leicester and Bognor Regis. 08-May-2008 Infinity Group is planning to set up a telecoms equipment store in the Leicester area within 18 months, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 07-May-2008 E-Shelter is forming a joint venture with the PFB Data Centre Fund to develop a data centre on a 50-acre site at Saunderton near High Wycombe. 05-May-2008 FirstSource has been awarded £6.7m from Invest NI to support the expansion of its call centre and back office outsourcing business in Northern Ireland, with the creation of 300 jobs in Londonderry and 500 at an undecided location. 02-May-2008 BNS is to create 200 new jobs at its telecoms services business over the next two years, and is planning a new building at its Northumberland headquarters. 02-May-2008 Croydon Council is to outsource all of its IT services to Capgemini, in a new £83m five-year contract. 01-May-2008 Carphone Warehouse Networks is planning to expand the workforce at its Irlam headquarters from 470 to 600 by the end of the year. 01-May-2008 Dell is planning to shed about 40 of the 830 jobs at its computer sales and technical support centre in Glasgow, as part of a strategy to reduce its workforce in Europe, Africa and the Middle East by 5%. 01-May-2008 SCi Entertainment is to raise £60m in a share placing to secure the future of its computer games business, and up to 25% of the shares will be taken up by Time Warner. 28-Apr-2008 Danwood is planning to expand its Lincoln-based office equipment business with acquisitions and the recruitment of up to 14 new staff, having secured an equity investment from Englefield Capital. 24-Apr-2008 Logica is planning to shed up to 500 back-office jobs at undisclosed locations in the UK, as part of a £100m restructuring plan that will also involve the recruitment of about 1,000 IT consultants across Europe. 23-Apr-2008 Icera has raised £20m from a group of investors to fund the expansion of its chip technology operations in Bristol and Cambridge. 21-Apr-2008 Fujitsu Telecommunications is to shed 140 of the 700 jobs at its telecoms equipment factory in Solihull, in order to transfer printed circuit board production to the US. 18-Apr-2008 Kimball Electronics is considering plans to close its electronics factory in Bridgend by 2010, with the loss of 160 jobs, in order to transfer production to Poland. 17-Apr-2008 UK Biometrics is creating six jobs at its Newcastle headquarters and a further nine in regional sales offices, in order to handle the launch of its new fingerprint reading equipment. 16-Apr-2008 Realtime Worlds has raised £25m from Maverick Capital to fund the expansion of its Dundee-based computer games business. 16-Apr-2008 FFEI is considering plans to close its electronic equipment factory in Peterborough with the loss of 60 jobs, in order to relocate the work to a new site in Hemel Hempstead later this year. 16-Apr-2008 The Welsh Assembly has announced that Next Generation Data is planning to set up a £200m data centre at the former LG site in Newport by the end of the year, with the creation of 100 jobs. 14-Apr-2008 Zen Internet is looking to create up to 250 jobs at its new Sandbrook Park headquarters in Rochdale over the next five years. 14-Apr-2008 Phones 4u, the Staffordshire-based mobile phones supplier, is to create 150 jobs at its call centres this year. 11-Apr-2008 International Rectifier is seeking cost reductions at its semiconductor factory in Newport, prompting concern that between 20 and 100 of the 551 jobs could be lost. 10-Apr-2008 Birmingham City Council is expected to shed about 700 jobs over the next seven years, due to the introduction of Capita's £84m computer system that will increase the flexibility of the 40,000-strong workforce. 03-Apr-2008 Alba, the consumer electronics distributor, is to outsource its Cortonwood logistics centre in South Yorkshire to UPS, with the transfer of 60 staff. 02-Apr-2008 Shell has awarded £2bn of contracts to AT&T, T-Systems and EDS for the outsourcing of its IT and telephone systems, which will involve the transfer of about 3,000 staff worldwide and 170 staff in the UK. 01-Apr-2008 XMA is to create up to 40 sales and customer service jobs at its Nottingham-based IT hardware, consumables and spares business, following its acquisition by Orion Media Marketing. 26-Mar-2008 ITPS is looking to relocate its Gateshead-based IT services business to a larger 20,000 sq ft site this summer, and expects to increase the workforce from 90 to 150 by 2011. 25-Mar-2008 Telehouse Europe is to build a £80m data centre in London Docklands by 2010, to meet demand from financial institutions, media businesses and the London 2012 Olympics. 19-Mar-2008 Vodafone is to shed up to 450 management jobs, but 330 jobs will be created in its retail stores, 130 in sales for its Enterprise business and 30 in online sales and customer service. 19-Mar-2008 Misys is to merge its healthcare software division with Allscripts Healthcare of the US, paying £165m for a 54% stake in the combined company. 19-Mar-2008 The Learning & Skills Council is to be closed by 2010, with the £11bn annual funding being transferred to local authorities and a new Skills Funding Agency. 18-Mar-2008 Mfuse has raised £2.6m to fund the commercial development of gambling software for mobile phones. 17-Mar-2008 Ericsson is to relocate 168 jobs from its telecoms factory in Nottingham to Coventry, while the remaining 147 staff will be offered other work or redundancy. 13-Mar-2008 SpinVox has appointed Goldman Sachs to help raise finance to expand its mobile phone technology business. 10-Mar-2008 Infor, the US software soltuions firm, is said to be planning to set up a 56,000 sq ft office at Blythe Valley Park in Birmingham. 10-Mar-2008 Rocket Science is looking to double the 50-strong workforce at its data analysis business in Middlesbrough by 2010, due to the success of its sales management system. 05-Mar-2008 O2 is planning to create a further 400 to 500 jobs at its Skypark call centre in Glasgow over the next 18 months, due to the success of the Apple iPhone. 03-Mar-2008 SCi Entertainment is to shed about 270 of the 1,070 jobs in its computer games business, and a buyer is being sought to secure its future. 03-Mar-2008 Electronic Waste Company is planning to set up electronic waste recycling centres in Exeter, Telford and Manchester by April. 29-Feb-2008 Parmley Technologies is to relocate its North Tyneside-based electronics business and 17 staff to the Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate, with the creation of 18 new jobs over the coming year. 27-Feb-2008 Capgemini has confirmed plans to shed up to 450 jobs in its consulting and outsourcing business, which is expected to include 200 in Telford, 95 in Basingstoke, 44 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 20 in Worthing. 27-Feb-2008 Main-Tel, the business communications company, has announced plans to open a £1m office in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with the creation of six jobs. 27-Feb-2008 Fidessa is to invest £2.5m in a new software development office in Belfast over the next three years, with the creation of 26 jobs. 19-Feb-2008 Boston Consulting is planning to set up a new office at the former ICI headquarters at 20 Manchester Square in London in July. 18-Feb-2008 Iron Mountain, the data storage company, is to take two units totalling 205,000 sq ft at the White Hart Triangle scheme in Thamesmead, London. 12-Feb-2008 Gem is to create 100 new jobs at its Belfast-based call centre, having won a mobile phone sales contract from Perlico. 11-Feb-2008 Fone Solutions, the Tyneside-based telecoms company with about 20 staff, is planning to expand its field sales team across northern England and open new offices in Leeds and Newbury by the end of the year. 11-Feb-2008 Ant Marketing is to create 50 new jobs at its Sheffield-based telemarketing business, having won a contract to sell Pipex Homecall's telephone and broadband services. 06-Feb-2008 Quartix, the Powys-based supplier of vehicle tracking systems, is planning to double its workforce to more than 30, having secured a £12m debt and equity funding package from Bank of Scotland. 05-Feb-2008 Arcotronics is to close its electronic components factory in Towcester by July, with the loss of 90 jobs, as parent company Kemet has decided to transfer production to Mexico and China. 30-Jan-2008 Microsoft is to set up a 12,000 sq ft office at the Waverley Gate development in Edinburgh. 30-Jan-2008 Segro is to prelet a 30,000 sq ft office at Winnersh Triangle business park in Reading to Microchip, and another 30,000 sq ft office will go to Norbain. 29-Jan-2008 Northgate Information Solutions, the software company with 500 staff, has reached agreement with Morley and Stanhope to build a new 96,500 sq ft headquarters in Hemel Hempstead by 2009. 28-Jan-2008 Advantage West Midlands is to help fund a £1.8m scheme to establish up to 20 new learning centres across the region, in order to improve workforce skill levels in partnership with industry and trade unions. 25-Jan-2008 QGS Synergy is to create 30 new jobs at its Gateshead-based corporate training business this year, having secured £0.5m from a syndicate of private investors. 25-Jan-2008 Plexus has secured a £1m regional selective assistance grant to expand its electronics factory in Kelso, with the creation of 39 jobs. 23-Jan-2008 Gaia Technologies is to expand the workforce at its Bangor-based IT services business from 19 to 39. 23-Jan-2008 National Semiconductor is to shed 60 of the 464 jobs at its microchip factory in Greenock. 23-Jan-2008 NewLogic is to create up to 70 jobs at a new call centre due to open on the Pattinson North Industrial Estate in Washington this spring. 23-Jan-2008 H2O Networks is planning to set up ultra-fast broadband networks in the sewer systems of up to 15 cities over the next five years, at a cost of about £20m each. 23-Jan-2008 Capita Group is to close its business services site at Wythall in Worcestershire with the loss of 375 jobs, in order to transfer work to Glasgow and India. 21-Jan-2008 Moneypenny is planning to expand the workforce at its Wrexham-based remote reception services business from 120 to 170 this year. 17-Jan-2008 TTPCom is to shed 155 jobs at its mobile phone technology business on the Melbourn Science Park near Royston. 16-Jan-2008 Vodafone is thought to be considering plans to set up a new 140,000 sq ft office in the Thames Valley, and possible locations include Reading, Guildford and Hammersmith. 16-Jan-2008 Research in Motion, the supplier of wireless communications products, is to set up an additional 30,000 sq ft office at Thames Valley Court in Slough, opposite its existing site. 14-Jan-2008 Business Link is to set up a regional co-ordination centre with more than 100 staff at Capitol Park in Dodworth in April, in order to centralise work currently carried out in Leeds, Hull, York and Doncaster. 11-Jan-2008 CRC is to shed 90 of the 500 jobs at its Glenrothes-based technology repair services business. 11-Jan-2008 Andronics is looking to create up to 100 new jobs at its Londonderry-based asset monitoring systems business over the next three years, having just been acquired by Sars Corporation of the US for undisclosed terms. 10-Jan-2008 Newport City Council is to consider plans from the Welsh Assembly for the development of a computer data centre at the former LG semiconductor plant in Newport. 09-Jan-2008 Leicester Circuits has been acquired by One Way Circuits of Norwich, which could lead to the expansion of the workforce at its Leicester-based printed circuit boards factory from 62 to up to 100. 09-Jan-2008 Unicom is planning to create up to 100 jobs at its Manchester-based telecoms business this year, with vacancies in sales, customer service, IT, credit control and administration. 04-Jan-2008 Garlands is planning to create a further 3,000 jobs over the next three years, including vacancies in South Shields and new call centres outside the North East. 03-Jan-2008
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