News Archive
08 January 2008
GameDailyBIZ
By James Brightman
Coming off its best year ever in which sales were up 38%, Codemasters is very confident in its future. We spoke with CEO Rod Cousens about targeting the U.S. market, the online space, Clive Barker, strategic acquisitions, the console war and more. GameDaily BIZ: Codemasters just had its most successful year in its 22-year history. What's been at t..
08 January 2008
Daily Mail
By Alan O'Sullivan
Budding entrepreneurs and those seeking some extra cash will be able to secure loans through a 'Dragon's Den'-style pitch on lending site Zopa from the New Year. The site, which matches up individuals willing to lend money with borrowers, has arranged almost £20m worth of loan agreements since it was launched in the UK in March 2005. How..
07 January 2008
Information Week
By David Berlind
If you were to take a walk around the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'd probably think that big flat panels and wireless distribution of audio and video are the big stories of this year's show (also, wireless in general). But behind the scenes, DisplayLink is showing off what could be the most killer technology of all ..
04 January 2008
The Guardian
By Rebecca Smithers
They have transformed the way people communicate and attract millions of regular users keen to make virtual friendships or chat about common interests. Of the most popular social networking websites, Bebo is today named in a report as the top performer, beating its rivals Facebook and MySpace. Computing Which? publishes the results of an independ..
21 August 2007
Computerworld
By Heather Havenstein
Bebo Inc., operator of the Bebo social networking site, and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced an agreement to offer the Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service to Bebo users. The agreement also calls for offering users of Bebo Inc.'s site access to Microsoft's Windows Contacts application programming interface to ..
17 August 2007
TMCnet
By Prabhala Ranga Sai
Bebo.com said this week that it is now the most-visited social networking site in the U.K., as of July. Bebo pushed the social networking behemoth Myspace.com to the second position, according to data released by comScore, a company that measure online traffic. During July, Bebo attracted 10.6 million unique visitors - a 63 percent increase in traf..
10 August 2007
VentureWire
By VentureWire
After spending eight years waiting for the telecommunications market to pick up, networking equipment developer Intune Networks Ltd. believes the timing may finally be right for it. The company has taken in $17.75 million in Series A funding to develop its technology, which it hopes will provide broadband-hungry telecoms mo..
07 August 2007
Telegraph
By Scott Denne
The chief of DVD-by-post company LOVEFiLM International tells Andrew Cave about the need to keep ahead of technologyI have a story that Simon Calver ought to like. Before Christmas, a business profile writer I couldn't possibly name hired a five-part obscure Polish art film from a local video shop, overran the rental period and apologetically retur..
07 August 2007
Gameindustry.biz
By Matt Martin
Auran's Unreal-powered Fury due in OctoberCodemasters Online has signed a deal to distribute Fury, Auran's free-to-play MMO, in Europe.Fury combines RPG and shooter elements and is built using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3."We believe this unique and ground breaking product will appeal to MMO and action shooter gamers alike," said David Solari, VP of..
02 August 2007
Wall Street Journal/All Things Digital
By Kara Swisher
While on my visit to London, I wanted to drop into an up-and-coming start-up here, and so I went to see WeeWorld, an avatar-based social network aimed at teen girls mostly. Funded by Benchmark Capital's London colleagues and also Accel Partners, it is typical of European Web company in its worldwide focus (instead of ju..
01 August 2007
Gamasutra
By Gamasutra
Turner's GameTap subscription PC 'all you can eat' gaming service has announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Codemasters, bringing the majority of the veteran publisher and developer's catalog of games, including the recently released DiRT, to North American subscribers. The new deal, which includes multi-year North American ..
30 July 2007
Guardian Unlimited
By Guardian Unlimited
Britain's internet entrepreneurs are no longer languishing in the dot com doldrums, but have emerged revitalised and ready for another round. Bobbie Johnson surveys the scene and lists the top 10 British dotcoms to keep track of. The boom is back. In Britain, the internet doldrums took a long time to disappear – b..
30 July 2007
New York Times
By Saul Hansell
YouTube is shaping up to be the farm team for a generation of aspiring webcam-toting filmmakers. And no one made a bigger debut than the creators of Lonelygirl15, the video confessions of a confused teenager that caused a wildfire of attention as viewers tried to figure out if Bree, the confessional star, was real. (Answ..
29 July 2007
Ireland’s Sunday Business Post
By Emma Kennedy and Gavin Daly
Intune, an Irish laser technology firm, plans to hire 25 more staff after raising €13million in funding. Tom Fritzley, a former Microsoft and Tellabs executive who became chief executive of Intune last year, said the funds would be used to expand the firm’s Dublin base and to develop its product range. Intune dev..
25 July 2007
mad.co.uk
By Nikki Preston
EMI has teamed up with teen social networking site Habbo to promote the digital launch of its latest music compilation Now 67. The deal was brokered by media agency Starcom and enables EMI to promote the album to Habbo’s core teen market through the creation of the Now 67 Summer Beach Café on Habbo.co.uk. In additi..
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