News Archive
02 April 2007
Financial Mail
By Helen Loveless
A growing dislike and distrust of banks - their hidden fees, extortionate penalties and poor service - is driving many people to look elsewhere for loans and savings. And Zopa, the world's first online lending and borrowing exchange, is one of the biggest beneficiaries. In two years, Zopa, which stands for zone of po..
02 April 2007
The Guardian
By The Guardian
Katie Allen Sony BMG is poised to unveil a partnership with one of the world's leading online music databases making thousands of back catalogue tracks available to advertisers. Falling CD sales in recent years have prompted the big music labels to look for new ways to make money out of their vast catalogues. One way of plugging the gap has come fr..
29 March 2007
Accountancy Age
By Alex Hawkes
With public perception of high street banks at an all time low, Giles Andrews, CFO of ZOPA, tells our reporter about his company's revolutionary approach that's fit for the iPod generation Giles Andrews is not an accountant, he insists as we arrange our interview. But in some ways, you wouldn’t expect him to be. As the CF..
28 March 2007
The Independent
By Nic Fildes
Bebo has signed an exclusive partnership with the UK technology company 7Digital that enables musicians to sell their music directly to the social networking website’s 31 million global users. Bebo already has around 450,000 bands using its “Bebo Bands” service. The partnership with 7Digital will enable thos..
28 March 2007
Reuters
By Reuters
Mobile phone group Orange will offer its UK mobile customers access to social networking Web site Bebo via their phones, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator said on Wednesday. The group said it had signed an exclusive deal with Bebo for the service in the UK for an undisclosed period of time, and the service would rolled ..
28 March 2007
Business wire
By Business wire
NewBay’s User Generated Content Gateway Now Allows Users to Upload Mobile Photos Direct to Bebo NewBay Software, the leading provider of mobile multimedia and social networking solutions, today announced that its UGC Gateway now supports interaction with Bebo, one of the world’s largest social networks. Beb..
26 March 2007
BusinessWeek
by BusinessWeek
Paul Cunningham Ages: 29 Company: Azuro Funding: $13.3 million from Benchmark Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, TTP Ventures, and angel investors In their quest for growth, makers of cell phones, laptops, and music players need to pack devices with more features and the computing power to run them. But faster chips drai..
26 March 2007
Red Herring - Print Issue
By E.C. Rebtel, J.L.S. Spodtronic/Liquid Air Lab, A.B. Zopa, S.M. Yoox and S.M. Zubka
7digital
LOCATION London, England URL www.7digital.com SECTOR Entertainment/Media FOUNDED 2004 CEO Ben Drury EMPLOYEES 25 FUNDING N/A KEY INVESTORS Benchmark Capital Europe Music lovers who don’t like iTunes’ closed nature will be pleased with 7digital. Unlike most major competitors, the media delivery company’s ..
20 March 2007
BusinessWeek
By BusinessWeek
The Britain-based peer-to-peer lending company secures $12.9 million of investment for brand marketing and a U.S. launch Zopa, the peer-to-peer lending and borrowing marketplace, has secured an additional $12.9m of investment to expand its business in the UK and to launch in the US. The company has also appointed Douglas Dol..
18 March 2007
Detroit Free Press
By Georgea Kovanis
I am so intrigued by the great designer clothing and accessories being sold at www.yoox.com. Lanvin! Dolce & Gabbana! Jil Sander! Much of it is overstocks and leftovers, which doesn't bother me one bit. There's a limited availability of sizes, and you'll do best if you're small. But where else can you find so much desig..
12 March 2007
The Times
By Elizabeth Judge and Amanda Andrews
Lovefilm, Europe’s largest online DVD rental group, has appointed Goldman Sachs to advise it ahead of a possible £100 million flotation. Goldman is reviewing all options for the business, including a possible sale or a float. Both Apax, the private equity house, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, the investm..
07 March 2007
Reuters
By Jennifer Hill
Retirement savers will soon be able to hold a new asset class in their self-invested personal pension funds -- unsecured loans.
Zopa, Britain's first social lending exchange for people to lend and borrow money, is finalising deals with a number of specialist SIPP providers to accept Zopa lending as a new investment class.
The l..
26 February 2007
TechscapeTV
By TechscapeTV
In my case, social lending is usually what happens when I go to meet mates in the pub and forget my wallet, but still want to buy a round. Thankfully, that’s not the general idea behind Zopa. Instead, it’s like a financial cross between eBay and spread betting, matching up lenders and borrowers, making its money by..
19 February 2007
Worcester Business Journal
Irish Examiner
Globoforce, a Westboro-based employee reward and recognition outsourcing company, was named the number one provider of such things by the Brown-Wilson Group survey.
Brown-Wilson, a nonprofit group that puts out "The Black Book of Outsourcing," researched more than 3,500 outsourcing vendors in 27 countries for the 2006 su..
09 February 2007
3GSM World Congress
By Business wire
NewBay Launches New Mobile Video Server
New video server enhances NewBay’s mobile multimedia services giving operators increased support for user generated mobile video NewBay Software, the leading provider of mobile multimedia and social networking solutions, today launched a new mobile video server which gives mobile ..
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