ScotlandIS News Feed

Enterprise agency launches growth campaign

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:16:30 +0100

Scottish Enterprise has launched a campaign to encourage companies to invest in growth to help get the economy moving and has held out the prospect of funding for firms that rise to the challenge.

The agency hopes to persuade firms to take the risks involved in the kind of investment some may be deferring becaus

Jumpstart grows covetable jobs

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:19:00 +0100

Expert business and technical analysts are to be hired in a major recruitment drive by the Scottish R&D tax credit specialist Jumpstart, that will create 40 top jobs for the cream of the UK's scientific and business talent.

The Edinburgh-based company is increasing its expert business analyst team by 20 peop

We are Metadigital

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:44:53 +0100

We've been transforming our clients businesses for years. We thought it was time to transform ours.

For the past 6 years we've been trading as Mimtech and, as the name suggests, our focus was on building technology solutions.

Flexiant Launches v2.0 of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:40:39 +0100

Latest version of cloud orchestration software powers new revenue streams and productivity gains for service providers while reducing the cost and risk of delivering cloud services

Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud

Interactive Intelligence Introduces New Mobile Customer Service Solution

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:54:09 +0100

Interaction Mobilizer™ enables contact centres and enterprises to rapidly deploy customer service applications on mobile devices; bridges gap between mobile self-service and live assistance

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc.

Scots technology firms 'must know true value'

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:49:27 +0100

The head of software strategy at the United States-based IBM Venture Capital Group is warning Scottish companies not to get too carried away with huge technology business valuations.

While Linkedin and Groupon have achieved multibillion- dollar stock market flotations and Facebook snapped up Instagram for $1 bil

Starting up in the midst of a recession was a challenge

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:42:06 +0100

In this week's SME Focus the owners of an IT business that has achieved strong growth amid challenging conditions say ministers could do much more to help small firms access public sector contracts that could provide a real boost to sales.

Name: Allan Sheriffs, Nicole Allan and David Allan

IT companies urged to take on paid interns

Polly Purvis — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:02:42 +0100

Scottish IT companies are being urged to offer paid work experience to computing students to help fill a growing skills-gap and tackle the country’s youth unemployment crisis. The “Let’s Get Paid” initiative aims to match small firms with students who have the right skills to work for them.

Winning Formula : Grand Prix legend Sir Jackie Stewart lights up EIE2012

Polly Purvis — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:07:49 +0100

Thirty early-stage technology companies yesterday pitched their ideas to 80 American, British and European business angels and other investors at Edinburgh University’s “Engage, Invest, Exploit” showcase.

Formula One racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart and Deborah Magid, director of softwar

FreeAgent Kick-Starts Global Expansion with First U.S. Acquisition and Investment

Leigh-Ann Donoghue — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:06:21 +0100

Online accounting software provider FreeAgent has embarked on the initial stage of its global expansion plans after completing its first acquisition in the United States.