2 May, 2005Oversubscribed round reflects investors’ bullish outlook on Mindjet’s growth potential, market for visualization software. Mindjet Corporation,…

3 June, 2005Visual cues, project overview and flexibility enable fast actionMindjet, the leading provider of software for visualising and managing information,…

Business cycles are a fact of economic life and they can have a significant impact on new technology sectors where the risks are high and product development takes time. But research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows that not all sectors respond in the same way.

The project, conducted by Michael Kitson of the Judge Institute of Management (Cambridge’s Business School) and Dr David Primost of the ESRC Centre for Business Research, revealed a range of c

The latest value of the EuroCOIN™ indicator released by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) shows: CEPR’s EuroCOIN reading for May 2005 points to a slowdown of economic activity for the 12 countries that make up the euro area. The upturn signal of March and April is not confirmed, indicating that we are still in a period of uncertainty. In the euro area, the cyclical component of quarterly GDP growth decreased from 0.418 in April to 0.351 in May. The April fig

Karolinska Institutet’s solution for the financing of early discoveries will be presented at the biotech fair in Philadelphia on 21 June.

A portfolio of start-ups is created and an investment base is sought for the entire package. The system used at Karolinska Institutet is unique in the world, and creates better chances of success as well as healthy earnings for the investors.

The university is forever generating new science of considerable market potential. Howev

Integrating business and information system know-how is essential

Päivi Tossavainen, M.Sc. (Econ), will defend her PhD dissertation at the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) on Thursday, June 16th 2005. The dissertation is entitled “Transformation of organizational structures in a multinational enterprise. The case of enterprise resource planning utilization” and is in the field of International Business. The public defense will start at 12:00 in the auditorium of the main build

Researchers in Bradford have found that video and web conferencing can save millions of pounds for companies, improve employees’ working lives and reduce impact on the environment.

Telecoms giant BT has saved £128 million a year by replacing face-to-face interaction with video and web-based conferencing.

Research carried out for BT by Dr. Peter Hopkinson and Professor Peter James of the University of Bradford’s Department of Environmental Science has found that, on aver

Record Trading in Euro-Bund Futures (FGBL) Current record (June 7, 2005): 2.87 million contracts Previous record (March 7, 2005): 2.52 million contracts Since the launch of Phase 1 of the Global Clearing Link in November last year, average monthly turnover in the Euro-Bund Future increased 31.7 percent (average monthly trading volume Jan-May 2004: 19.59 million compared to 25.8 million contracts for the period Jan-May 2005).

Clearstream’s core business areas saw further growth during May 2005 with the number of international transactions processed by Clearstream rising to 1.52 million for the month representing a rise of 14.4 percent compared to the same month last year (May 2004: 1.33 million). Of these transactions, 14 percent are registered as stock exchange transactions, 86 percent are Over the Counter (OTC) transactions.

Additionally, the value of assets held in custody on behalf of customers rose to EUR

University of Queensland researchers have teamed up with Tibetan Buddhist monks to uncover clues to how meditation can affect perception.

Olivia Carter and Professor Jack Pettigrew from UQ’s Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, as well as colleagues from the University of California Berkeley, found evidence that skills developed by the monks during meditation can strongly influence attention and consciousness.

With the support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 76 mon

A specialist of the State Nature Conservation Area “Wrangel Island”, N.G. Ovsyanikov, has been observing polar bears closely for many years, when the bears arrived at the island coast in autumn, once pack-ice recedes. In the researcher’s opinion, perception of a polar bear as a solitary predator, which is not practically tied with its congeners, is not true. Polar bears do not lose sight of each other and build up rather complicated social relations.

When pack-ice starts thawing

The value of property is linked more closely to income and ability to pay tax than many people think, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC.

With council tax still a hot issue, a study led by Dr Michael Orton, of the University of Warwick, found that the problem of people on low incomes living in high value properties may also be less common than often assumed.

Dr. Orton said: “We found that for owner-occupiers there is overall a clear and positive relationsh

Clearstream’s core business areas experienced further growth during April 2005 with the value of assets held in custody on behalf of customers rising to EUR 7.9 trillion, a rise of 2.6 percent from the end of the same month last year (April 2004 EUR 7.7 trillion). The number of international transactions processed by Clearstream also rose to 1.60 million for the month representing a rise of 10.3 percent compared with the same month last year (April 2004: 1.45 million). Of these transactions, 15 per

A new fashion company making clothes that release complimentary medicines into the skin when worn and a new broadband youth TV channel tailored to the young Asian market, are among the latest creative businesses to win start up grants of up to £35,000 from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts), the organisation that invests in UK creativity and innovation.

The awards were made through NESTA’s Creative Pioneer Programme, which aims to invest over £3 mil

Europe’s growth slowed in the 1990s, reinforcing the overall impression of a need to catch up with the US regarding standards of living. In reaction, EU leaders adopted the famous Lisbon Agenda in 2000. The Agenda is now under review, the aim being to determine why progress on its pro-growth goals has been unsatisfactory and what can be done about it. The first crucial step in this process is to understand the true sources of the European growth slowdown. Sources-of-growth calculations have al

Do you need to contact your bank to find out whether a payment has been made or would you like to make a purchase? How about using your mobile phone or PDA to access these services wherever you are? This is now possible, thanks to a secure mobile, universal real-time payment service.

The SEMOPS IST programme-funded project is a pioneer in mobile payment methods. This open, secure mobile payment service is based on a cooperative model between banks and mobile network operators.