John Lewell

[London, ENGLAND] E-payments solutions company Trintech Group plc announced Tuesday its acquisition of U.K.-based Checkline plc, a transaction processing firm, for US $44 million. Cyril McGuire, executive chairman of Trintech, said the acquisition of Checkline with its 65 staff would strengthen the group’s position in Europe and open further opportunities in the m-commerce market. One […]

[London, ENGLAND] Finally ending all the speculation, Amazon.com confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch its new French site, Amazon.fr, on Thursday morning. The French site is Amazon’s third in Europe, following the U.K. and Germany. It will be supported by offices in Guyancourt and a distribution center in Orleans, although French customers will have […]

[London, ENGLAND] Norway’s largest real time price comparison service Zoomit.no announced Monday the launch of a pan-European service at Zoomit.com. Zoomit.com enables people to find products ranging from electronics to cars, in 400 shops using 10 different languages. It automatically converts currencies to make shopping across borders easy. “We established Zoomit as the leading price […]

[London, ENGLAND] Finland’s pioneer of “Very-high-speed Digital Subscriber Line” technology VDSL Systems said Friday it has expanded into Denmark to serve the whole Scandinavian region. From Denmark, VDSL will provide service not only to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian markets but also to the Faeroe Islands and Iceland. VDSL Systems offers a range of Ivalo Rapid […]

[London, ENGLAND] With dealings set to begin on August 30, Stilo International plc becomes the first U.K. XML specialist to float on AIM, the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 1995, Stilo develops tools such as XMLDeveloper which it introduced in February this year to help e-commerce and other Web developers […]

[London, ENGLAND] European personal finance aggregator moneygator.com announced Thursday that Barclays, Bristol & West and Diners Club have all joined its network. Launched in May this year, moneygator.com enables its users to make online applications for mortgages, loans and credit cards. It has 32 lenders on its sites who have loaned over $142 million as […]

[London, ENGLAND] European online travel company ebookers.com said Thursday it has introduced an e-ticketing service for air flights booked via its site. Initially, the service will be available for British Airways flights but ebookers said it will extend e-ticketing to United Airlines and other major carriers over the next three months. The move to e-ticketing […]

[London, ENGLAND] XML business web solutions provider Bowstreet announced Wednesday the opening of its operations in the U.K. and Germany, plus a senior sales appointment. Bowstreet has built a successful business in the U.S. by designing what it calls “business webs” — network infrastructures that link various businesses dynamically via extranets. The move into the […]

[London, ENGLAND] Internet broadcast backbone Cidera, Inc. is set to expand its European operations, following an agreement signed this week with co-location specialist CityReach International. CityReach will deploy Cidera Usenet News Service and Cidera Cache Turbocharging at all of its Secure Internet eXchanges (SiX) which are being built in Europe. U.K-based CityReach is building 10 […]

[London, ENGLAND] German Internet security specialist DICA Technologies AG announced Tuesday its merger with U.K. Internet server appliance supplier Equiinet Ltd. DICA Technologies will acquire all of all of Equiinet’s stock in an all-share deal, turning Equiinet into a wholly-owned subsidiary, operating from the U.K. as DICA Technologies Ltd. Dr. Hartmut Ilse, founder of DICA […]

[London, ENGLAND] Swedish Internet company Euroseek announced Tuesday six new collaboration agreements to expand its European portals. The agreements, all of which are for additional content, are with Global Market Insite (online market surveys), Technology Evaluation (IT news), Europages (company directories), EuroBusiness Link (Swedish business directory), Bestwin (competitions), and Jobline (recruitment). Euroseek, which started as […]

[London, ENGLAND] If users say when and where they want to go within Europe, travelFUSION — launched Monday — offers a list of options by plane, train, coach, ferry and automobile, complete with fares. The new travelFUSION service brings together timetable and pricing information from British Airways, TheTrainLine, Swiss Air Group, P&O Stena Line, and […]