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£80 million boost for R&D tax credits
Tax credits to encourage small businesses to invest more in research and
development will increase by £80 million a year from 1 August, bringing the
total tax relief available to around £300 million a year. Click
here to read more.
Seven steps for precluding profitable
exits (aka ‘worst practices’)
Step one - acquiesce to the entrepreneur’s requested stratospheric valuation in
the first round (because you can’t build a partnership if you start by being
disagreeable). Click
here to read the remaining six steps.
Motorola's deal for ex-GEC-Hirst
Researcher
Sanjay Jha, who was once with GEC-Hirst Research Centre in the UK, has gone a
long way - Motorola Inc. is making a $30 million bet that as the new co-chief
executive and CEO of its mobile phone business, Jha, will bring the company
back to glory. Click
here to read more.
Early stage fund marriages
Smaller angel and super angel funds, VCTs, and to some extent publicly
sponsored funds, are all consolidating, but some funds have become very
reluctant brides, and are holding out, despite running low on funds, as
exemplified by Angle plc’s refusal of a marriage proposals from Braveheart.
Click here to find out more.
Profile: Quotient Diagnostics
Quotient Diagnostics is a start-up company that has developed an effective test
for the monitoring of diabetes, which gives clinicians insight into the
long-term progress of the disease in a diagnosed patient, as opposed to the
short-term picture provided by regular blood glucose testing. Read The Chilli's
profile of the company -
click here.
Mobile phones to reach 1.28
billion units in 2008, but…
Mobile phone sales growth will increasingly rely on emerging markets as mature
regions such as Western Europe, Japan and North America reach saturation.
Hardware based starts-ups are beginning to lose their love affair with the
mobile sector.
Click here to read more.
RF market for 3G to decline
Wireless infrastructure represents the largest segment for RF power
semiconductors, and it contains the largest sub-segment: cellular/3G.
Click here to read how niche markets for RF will make up for the
erosion in revenues for RF power semiconductors.
Mixed signal EDA testing firm secures
£750k
If there is any proof of how publicly supported initiatives can result in new
high growth ventures, than ATEEDA - founded in 2006 to exploit technology
previously developed with Scottish Enterprise’s ‘Proof of Concept’ funding – is
a case in point. More information
here.
Nokia and Qualcomm exchange patent
currency
Recognising that patent portfolios carry huge exchange currency, used as a
lever for negotiating equitable deals, Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to settle
their long running patent disputes and bury the hatchet. Click
here to read more.
Promising science: is magnetic
logic the answer to faster processing?
EU-funded project MAGLOG has now come to an end, and has demonstrated for the
first time the possibility of producing processors from ferromagnetic materials
that are faster, smaller and more efficient than conventional silicon chips.
Click here to read about the spin-out company considering exploiting
this technology.
World’s first commercial step
towards enhanced HSPA
Start-ups in mobile broadband, should note: Ericsson and 3 Italia recently
announced they had achieved an industry first, by successfully establishing
enhanced HSPA mobile data connections in a commercial network. Read more
here about this development and its implication.
DN Capital opens US office
DN Capital, a European early stage and growth equity investor in fast growing
companies in the software and digital media sectors, has opened a US office in
Palo Alto, California, relocating its managing partner and co-founder from
London. Click
here to read more.
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