Our Entrepreneur of the Year, Errol, Damelin is the founder and CEO of Wonga.com. Wonga is a ground-breaking online lender backed by major investors. The company launched their first website in 2007 and rapidly became the UK’s most dynamic financial services provider. Errol’s company is transforming the £200Bn UK personal credit market by offering small, [...]
Well it is official – our 2010 Digital Entrepreneur Award winners have been announced. For those of you that braved the sub-zero conditions and were able to attend, I hope you will agree that the event was a resounding success, uncovering and rewarded fantastic talent from right across the web. Here is a little bit [...]
Here at the Digital Entrepreneur Awards we are always keen to hear about the latest innovations online. Today, search engine giants Google have once again proved to be master innovatiors today with their release of Google Instant. The new tool uses 15 new technologies to display search results as users type in their query. Google [...]
Imagine being paid to start a business while getting an MBA. That is the concept behind the full-time MBA Entrepreneur Fellow program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration. “The goal of the Entrepreneur Fellow program is to recruit the best and brightest MBA students who have an entrepreneurial drive and will [...]
When it comes to foreign technology companies looking to set up in Europe, the UK, and more specifically London, is the most attractive location. The findings of the 8th annual Ernst & Young European Attractiveness Survey show that in 2009 the UK attracted 119 software projects from foreign direct investment (FDI), the largest number secured [...]
The British government launched an initiative on Tuesday to unlock new investment in low-carbon technologies and make London a global hub for green finance. The launch of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative (CMCI) is being marked by an event at the London Stock Exchange. Policy makers and investment banks such as Deutsche Bank and Morgan [...]
This week, we caught up with Historic Futures, 2009 Green IT Entrepreneurs of the Year. CTO Simon Warrick filled us in on the work they have been doing over the last twelve months. The company was set up 7 years ago with a desire to make businesses more accountable for the materials they use in [...]
With all of the controversy surrounding the oil and gas industry following the now infamous BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill of late, AmeriLithium Corp is focusing its efforts on the emerging green technologies of the world. For example, the company has been particularly invested in the benefits of the continual advances in plug-in and [...]
Networks giant Cisco has reported strong fourth quarter 2010 results, with sales of $10.8bn, an increase of more than 28 per cent compared to Q4 2009. For the company’s Q4 2010 period, which ended 31 July, the company’s net income increased from $1.1bn to $1.9bn, compared to the same period in 2009, representing a rise [...]
Silicon start-up Smooth-Stone has received $48 million from a syndicate of investors including ARM, Texas Instruments, and Highland Capital Ventures. Smooth-Stone’s goal is to bring the virtues of low-power cell phone technology to servers and, as a result, bring down the staggering power consumption at large data centers. Mega data centers can house tens of [...]
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