FTSE 250 entrant Workspace seeks up to £75m with bonds September 19, 2012 LONDON property firm Workspace Group yesterday announced plans to tap the retail bond market for between £50m and £75m with the launch of a seven-year sterling bond for retail investors. The firm, promoted to the FTSE 250 last week, said it would offer the bonds in a bid to help diversify its funding streams. The [...]
FTSE 100 jumps on German court ruling September 12, 2012 The leading share index was up in early trading, as investors reacted positively to news that German judges ruled in favour of the Eurozone’s rescue fund. Meanwhile, holding company Chesnara led the fallers on the FTSE All-Share, down 6.87 per cent. Embattled platinum miner Lonmin shed 5.56 per cent, as strikes continued at its Marikana [...]
A workspace is not a workplace: A mobility strategy is crucial June 27, 2012 DIRECTOR UK ENTERPRISE, CISCO Q What are the key drivers behind a mobility strategy? A The workspace is no longer a workplace. Successful businesses are reducing their dependence on expensive office property and enabling a mobile workforce to be productive wherever they are most effective. A business is only as good as its people. Retaining [...]
Workspace cheers London boom June 12, 2012 Workspace Group, the London-based firm that provides office space to start ups, reported better-than-expected results as its focus on the capital paid off. Net asset value per share, a key industry measure, rose eight per cent to £3.08. Workspace’s trading profit rose 13 per cent to £16m.
Everyone is building an app – but it’s not that easy to be like Facebook May 3, 2012 YOU know there’s a stock market bubble when the shoeshine boy starts giving you stock tips. In the same way, I can’t help but think there’s plenty of froth in digital right now, because everyone I know is building an app. As Facebook heads for its IPO on 18 May, which could value the company [...]
Boris Johnson wants to take over Tech City April 12, 2012 BORIS Johnson will this morning launch a bid to take direct control of Tech City Investment Organisation, the development body responsible for promoting high-tech investment in East London, City A.M. can reveal. The mayor will also seek the construction of a new science institute in the Olympic Park and seek to include a proposed cell [...]
CASE STUDY REGUS – ANTHONY BROWN, GLOBAL DIRECTOR March 28, 2012 One of the biggest challenges of video conferencing is that, because of so many early launches, people can have a misconception of video conferencing as being crackly and poor quality. But video communication has now come of age, not just with the HD picture but also the sound. With stereo audio and HD video it [...]
Cameron’s anger as unions mull mass strike action during London Olympics February 29, 2012 DAVID Cameron has condemned calls from the leader of the UK’s biggest trade union for strike action during the Olympics as “completely unacceptable and unpatriotic”. Len McCluskey, head of Unite, had said workers should consider disrupting the Games as a protest against the government’s planned slowdown of public spending. McCluskey said people coming to Britain [...]
A SELECTION OF LONDON’S START-UP HUBS February 20, 2012 TECH HUB Contact: info@techhub.com / @TechHub Locations: Old Street, London and Riga (Prague is due to open in May). Membership costs: £275 (monthly) for resident membership, or £375 (annual). Both include member-only events and up-to-date member network news (and more). Description: TechHub is “not just an office space.” Instead, “it’s a community hub for the [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF December 11, 2011 THE EAST END GETS AN UPGRADE San Francisco based start-up Eventbrite is coming to the east end of London – the online ticket-seller’s first international office. Eventbrite also serves as a platform on which organisers can plan events and promote them using social media. Co-founder of the company Renaud Visage says: “London will be our [...]