Quiet man back in spotlight as NewsCorp eyes Blinkx
By Mattthew Rock
As NewsCorp and even Google are rumoured to be be considering bids for UK video search engine Blinkx, a reminder of the brains behind the venture.

Free web accelerator for small businesses
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
For the uninitiated, a web accelerator affects how your audience views your website. It makes the videos stream faster; the music play uninterrupted; and the games run smoothly.

Meet the MoneyExpert
By Matthew Rock
Moneyexpert chairman, the entrepreneur Nigel Warr, is making big moves with his financial comparison business.

Technology rules when tightening the belt
By Catherine Woods
Technology entrepreneur Sam Ferguson has saved his company £1.5m in costs after streamlining processes at EDM, a document management specialist.

Truphone: the next mobile giant?
By Peter Kneller
Mobile technology firm Truphone has just secured £16.5m venture funding. Not bad for an entrepreneurial business that started in a Kent barn.

Transforming the typing trade with digital technology
By Melissa Hancock
Vanessa Phillips has built a very successful business using an extremely simple piece of technology – digital sound files. Today she employs 250 typists who transcribe dictaphone recordings for 350 clients.

Xero looks to take frustration out of accounting
By Catherine Woods
Hamish Edwards’s company Xero wants to take the frustration out of accounting software and give entrepreneurs real-time access to financial information in a format they can understand.

Videoconferencing is on the ascendancy
By Catherine Woods
Videoconferencing specialist ICU Global is cashing in on the public’s ever-growing awareness of environmental issues as well as the desire of many business people to spend less time in airports.

Online trend for accounting software
By Catherine Woods
Business technology entrepreneur Duane Jackson says this year is shaping up to be particularly interesting for accounting software providers as more vendors realise the future is online.

Roaming high on success
By Melissa Hancock
Launched in 2005 to provide international services denied by the major telecoms operators, AwayPhone founder Sherry Madera says today her company is reaping the rewards from “rocking the boat.”