By John Walker on January 27, 2012
Last Year’s Dragons’ Den was record breaking, attracting more viewers than ever before. New Dragon Hilary Devey arrived, arched her shoulder pads and firmly established her place amongst the revered business leaders, and some of Britain’s best entrepreneurs gained the cash they desperately needed to turn their business fortunes around. Now it’s 2012 and [...]
Posted in Announcements, Business Continuity Planning, Business Support Services, Deals and Agreements, Expansion, Financial Capital, Financial Services, Franchising Out, Fundability, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Lending and Borrowing, Loans and Finance, Management Consultancy, People and Players, Product Research and Development, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, Television and Radio Broadcasting, UK | Tagged Alan Colleran, Barack Obama, Chris Hopkins, Deborah Meaden, Dragons' Den, Duncan Bannatyne, Georgette Hewitt, Hilary Devey, Kirsty Henshaw, Liz Colleran, Natalie Ellis, Peter Jones, Richard Branson, Theo Paphitis |
By John Walker on January 18, 2012
QCon, the Software Development Conference will be taking place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London from March 7th to March 9th 2012 and would be of interest to enterprise software developers, team leads, architects and those involved in project management.
The organisers list Martin Fowler, one of the industry’s most influential authors, [...]
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By John Walker on December 12, 2011
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, December 12, 2011
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the dates for its upcoming LibrePlanet 2012 conference as March 24th and 25th, 2012, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. A call for papers has also been announced. The conference will include talks from the FSF staff and board, GNU project [...]
Posted in Business Software, Charities, Community Interest Companies - CICs, Cost Management, E-commerce, Equipment & Operational Resources, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Security, Intellectual Property, North America, Not-For-Profit Sector, Outsourcing, Political and Economic Philosophies, Procurement, Product Research and Development, Technology, Trade Shows, Seminars and Exhibitions | Tagged call for papers, Eben Moglen, Fedora, Free Software Foundation, Freedom Box Foundation, GNOME Foundation, GNU, Jeremy Allison, John Gilmore, Karen Sandler, LibrePlanet, Máirín Duffy, Matt Lee, PostgreSQL, Richard Stallman, Rob Savoye, Samba, Selena Deckelmann, Software Freedom Law Center, University of Massachusetts |
By John Walker on December 1, 2011
UK scientists and businesses will have access to the most sophisticated technology keeping them at the cutting edge of research and development, as details of the Government’s multi-million pound e-infrastructure investment were announced today by David Willetts.
The investment includes £43 million for ARCHER, a new national supercomputer to support advanced research, such as complex chemistry [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, Business Software, Chemical and Petroleum Products Manufacturing, Critical Infrastructure, Deals and Agreements, Electronic Equipment and Computer Manufacturing, Film Production and Distribution, Grants and Funding Pronouncements, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Market Research, Monetary Policy, Product Research and Development, Production, Public Spending and State Aid, Reporting, Technology, Tendering and Procurement Alerts, Transport and Distribution, UK, Vehicle Manufacturing | Tagged ARCHER, astronomy, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, climate change, collaborative university projects, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus, David Willetts, DNA sequencing, e-infrastructure, food security, genome analysis, Higher Education Funding Council for England, HPC, JANET, Met Office, MONSooN, particle physics, Professor Rick Rylance, Research Councils, supercomputer, The Genome Analysis Centre, UK Space Agency, weather forecasting |
By Robert Steadman on October 14, 2011
Hot water and central heating costs are unavoidable and becoming increasingly expensive but they can easily be managed keeping the size of your bills to the bare minimum. There are many ways to achieve lower fuel bills ranging from changing your fuel supplier to the installation of cavity wall and loft insulation. But, [...]
Posted in Cost Management, Critical Infrastructure, Environmental Issues, Equipment & Operational Resources, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Mining, Energy and Utilities, Natural Resources, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Technology, The Work Place, UK, Utilities, Waste Management | Tagged diesel, electricity, electricity bills, gas, lower fuel bills, save money, utility bills |
By John Walker on September 30, 2011
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the re-launch of its Free Software Directory at directory.fsf.org. The Directory lists over 6,500 programs that are free for any computer user to download, run, and share. It was first launched nearly a decade ago, but the new version brings a [...]
Posted in Arts, Sports and Recreation, Business Software, Business Support Services, Charities, Computer Services, Cost Management, E-commerce, Education, Equipment & Operational Resources, Fashion, Trends and Memes, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Internet Services, Media and Creative Services, North America, Not-For-Profit Sector, Political and Economic Philosophies, Procurement, Product Launches, Production, Professional and Business Services, Publishing, Reporting, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged data-mining, Free Software Directory, Free Software Foundation, FSF, GNU/Linux, John Sullivan, MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, Yaron Koren |
By John Walker on August 24, 2011
What makes business rock?
Bill Roedy, the man behind MTV, gives a preview of his new business memoirs documenting how he built a single channel into the largest media network in the world.
Its global audience is the envy of the world’s media corporations, with a network which included 200 channels and 200 digital properties in 175 [...]
Posted in Arts and entertainment, Brands, Expansion, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Franchising Out, Ideas and Innovation, Market Research, Music Production and Publishing, People and Players, Product Launches, Project Management, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Bill Roedy, biographies, book, MTV, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks |
By John Walker on August 22, 2011
Running her business for five years Clare Muir, from Hampshire, took up a new OSCAR marketing initiative that has helped her to see the bigger picture on how to promote and refocus the image of her business.
“Even after running a successful OSCAR business for five years I still needed to know more and a new [...]
Posted in Brands, Business Support Services, Customer Retention, Customer Support, Food, Drink and Tobacco Retail, Franchises, Franchising Out, Hampshire, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Pet Services | Tagged OSCAR, think outside the box |
By John Walker on August 19, 2011
Michael Wilson and James Glover of Simply Health discuss why employers are still to be convinced of the business case for investing in health benefits and links between wellbeing and productivity.
Companies are struggling to show they care about their staff, according to a new report which reveals that employees believe employers now care less about [...]
Posted in Arts, Sports and Recreation, Business Culture, Employment Levels, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Health Services, Health and Social Care Services, Industrial Relations, Industry Reports, Insurance, Morale, Personal Services, Recruitment, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Skills and Training, Staff, Surveys, The Work Place, UK | Tagged audio podcast, Engaging Employees through Health and Wellbeing Report, James Glover, Michael Wilson, Simplyhealth |
By John Walker on August 19, 2011
As an alternative loyalty scheme to rival supermarkets signs up more than 500 businesses in just six months, a local business owner under the scheme, Heather Copley talks about her experience running a small business in today’s climate.
A shopping loyalty scheme set up to get people out of supermarkets and into farm shops is gathering [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Agriculture, Farming and Farming Support Services, Contact Management, Customer Retention, Customer Reward Programmes, Deals and Agreements, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Food, Drink and Tobacco Retail, Food, Drink and Tobacco Wholesale, Goodwill, Ideas and Innovation, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Outsourcing, Product Launches, Sales, Startups, UK, West Yorkshire | Tagged audio podcast, Farm shop, Farmer Copleys Farm Shop, Heather Copley, Ice scheme, loyalty points, loyalty scheme, start-up advice, take on the big boys |
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