John Lewell

[London, ENGLAND] Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has invested in Magex, the company with technology to ensure fans pay for their music rather than share it with a little help from their friends via MP3. Magex has not revealed the amount invested by McCartney, saying merely that it is “in addition to” an $80 million […]

[London, ENGLAND] Telecom giant Cable & Wireless announced Thursday an alliance with Reality, the logistics arm of Great Universal Stores (GUS), to create a one-stop shop service for European e-tailers. The two partners will offer a wide range of e-commerce services, including Web hosting, Web design, customer relationship management, online credit verification and home delivery. […]

[London, ENGLAND] According to analysts at Forrester Research, 27 million Europeans will have broadband access by 2005. The latest projections will be encouraging to content providers with streaming media, Internet TV, and other bandwidth-hungry applications, but there could be dire implications for the Internet access industry, warns Forrester. “To date, broadband has been unavailable, unaffordable, […]

[London, ENGLAND] A new report published Wednesday by technical recruitment agency Wynnwith Engineering confirms what many U.K. job seekers have long suspected — that online recruitment is riddled with inefficiency, misleading information and outright fraud. The report — entitled “Is the Net Working for Job Seekers?” — was produced independently for Wynnwith by specialist Internet […]

[London, ENGLAND] With ambitious plans to conquer Europe, Danish investors launched Tuesday a full-scale Internet TV venture named ScoopStation. Initially aimed at the Danish market, ScoopStation has five program channels and covers subjects ranging from news and documentaries to music, lifestyle, motors, and what is rather cryptically called “extreme.” ScoopStation acquires content from local and […]

[London, ENGLAND] Scandinavian mobile solutions company Aspiro announced an agreement Tuesday with Simple Mobile Solutions of the Netherlands to supply a range of mobile Internet services. Aspiro will supply its Icons, Ring Tones, and Electronic Postcards applications and the Aspiro International SMS (Simple Messaging Service) Network. Simple Mobile Solutions aims its services at the youth […]

[London, ENGLAND] Late deals company lastminute.com announced Monday a partnership with performance marketing specialist Be Free, Inc. to develop a pan-European affiliate marketing program. Initially, the program will launch in the U.K. and will then be extended to France, Sweden and Germany. The U.K. launch is said to be “imminent,” although no fixed starting-date has […]

[London, ENGLAND] KPN Royal Dutch Telecom and Perot Systems Corporation announced Monday the formation of a new company which is intended to generate US$300 million in revenues from Internet, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and call center applications. Strategically, the new venture will put together front-end applications and customer service technology not only for KPN and […]

[London, ENGLAND] European Internet investment bank net.IPO Aktiengesellschaft announced Friday a preliminary operating income before tax of DM 3.2 million (US $1.56 million) in its first complete fiscal year to the end of March 2000. In the year in question, net.IPO handled 20 initial public offerings and two capital increases on the Neuer Markt, and […]

[London, ENGLAND] European market research company NetValue revealed Friday that there were 10.15 million home Internet users in the U.K. in June, an increase of a quarter of a million on the previous month. Why this sharp increase in early summer? One answer given is the effect of soccer tournament Euro 2000. But far from […]

[London, ENGLAND] Jacobs Rimell, the technology consultancy for service suppliers that claims to offer its employees a “fun alternative to corporate life,” has raised $10 million of private funding. Employing around 80 staff at its offices in the U.K. and California, Jacobs Rimell plans to use the money in its development of provisioning and management […]

[London, ENGLAND] Five leading European financial institutions announced Thursday their plans to launch an e-marketplace for Treasury and Capital Markets products by the spring of 2001. The five partners in the project are Spain’s Banco Santander Central Hispano, Germany’s Commerzbank Group, the U.K’s Royal Bank of Scotland, Italy’s SANPAOLO IMI, and SG, the corporate and […]