News Archive
15 May 2006
Benchmark press release
By Ricall
Ricall, the world’s leading music research and licensing market, today announced that it has raised its first round of institutional funding from Benchmark Capital Europe. The money raised will be used to expand Ricall’s commercial music user network, market the brand and develop the company’s proprietary technology. Benchma..
04 May 2006
Real Deals Magazine
By Benchmark
Benchmark Capital Europe has backed Ricall in the music research and licensing company’s first institutional funding round. The size of the investment was not disclosed. Ricall acts as an online marketplace, bringing together professional buyers and sellers of music via its website to facilitate the licensing of music for business uses such a..
24 April 2006
VentureWire
By Michelle Tsai
Semiconductor company BridgeCo Inc. has appointed Gene Sheridan chief executive and director as the company moves its headquarters from Zurich to Los Angeles to be closer to customers. Sheridan, who left an executive position at semiconductor International Rectifier three weeks ago, takes over the top spot from Angelo Ugge, who left BridgeCo in Jul..
24 April 2006
The Independent
By Manish Madhvani
NEW MEDIA For a decade, the doubters have said you couldn't make money from the internet. But a swathe of British companies are proving them wrong, as Manish Madhvani reports. The apparently simple concept of providing an online facility for two people to bet against each other has been the cornerstone of Britain's fastest growing media company. ..
20 April 2006
EE Times
By Peter Clarke
Fabless semiconductor company Newnham Research Ltd. said it has developed a way of connecting computers to displays through a USB connection. Newnham (Cambridge, England) added that Kensington Computer Products Group would use the technology in a docking station for laptop computers. The so-called NIVO solution — Newnham didn’t say what..
18 April 2006
ElectronicsWeekly.com
by David Manners
For a start-up company to take on the giants of the industry for its first product seems like an insanely ambitious strategy, but three year-old Bristol-based Icera Semiconductor believes it can take on, and beat, the biggest companies in the world making mobile baseband chips.
'We started off with a passion to be a big European-based chip company..
16 April 2006
Sunday Business Post
By Benchmark
Benchmark Capital, the venture capital firm whose partners include former Esat Digifone chief Barry Maloney, has made a multi-million-pound return on an investment in Britain. The funder sold part of its stake in online betting exchange Betfair to Softbank, a Japanese internet group. Softbank has bought a 23 per cent stake in Betfair from some of..
09 April 2006
The Sunday Telegraph
By Lousia Gault
INVESTORS in Betfair, the online betting exchange fast emerging as one of Britain's most successful new companies, are in line for a payout of around pounds 300m. The return to shareholders comes after the unlisted company, which allows customers to bet against each other instead of accepting fixed odds from a traditional bookmaker, closed a deal..
16 March 2006
TheDeal.com
By Phineas Lambert
A British chip developer founded by veterans from Broadcom Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV has lured $40 million in venture capital financing, which the company says should suffice until it breaks even and eventually goes public. The startup, Icera Inc., received the cash in a Series C round led by London-based Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd...
13 March 2006
The Times
By Dan Sabbagh
Ten Major League Baseball games a week will be televised live across Europe in a broadcasting deal that demonstrates the growing value of American sports overseas. NASN, a specialist American sports channel, has paid more than $20 million (Pounds 11.6 million) to show live baseball in Britain and on the Continent for the next five years in ..
21 February 2006
BURLINGTON
By Benchmark
Kalido, the leading provider of enterprise data warehousing and master data management software, today announced that the company recorded its best year to date with nearly 70 percent year-over-year revenue growth during fiscal year 2005. Much of last year's growth resulted directly from the company's rising traction in North America. North America..
13 February 2006
BUSINESS WIRE
By Benchmark
NewBay Software, a leading developer of mobile multimedia solutions, today announced that its FoneBlog mobile blogging and multimedia album services are processing over twenty million messages a month for Mobile Operators worldwide. The FoneBlog system, deployed throughout the world, is providing a compelling application for camera phone use..
06 February 2006
BUSINESS WIRE
By Benchmark
ScanSafe, the worldwide leader in managed Web security, today released its '2005 Web Security Threat Report,' which highlights security trends regarding malware evolution and distribution over the last year. Processing more than 3 billion Web requests each month, ScanSafe is the only organization able to scan all Web traffic across a large gro..
03 February 2006
Games
By Chris Leyton
Codemasters continued transformation took another twist today with confirmation that Chris Deering has joined the company's Board of Management as non-executive Chairman. Having recently stepped down as President of Sony Europe Consumer Electronics Division, as well as Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), Deering is w..
26 January 2006
BUSINESS WIRE
By Benchmark
Sulake Corporation, one of the world's fastest growing interactive entertainment companies and owner of the Habbo Hotel concept, and OPTIC Communications Co. Ltd. (OPTIC Dreamz Division), a subsidiary of CITIC Pacific Limited, a listed company on the Hong Kong stock exchange and the largest conglomerate in the APAC region, have signed an agree..
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