Tuesday 29th January, 2013

The Facebook e-commerce platform, Payvment has announced that its going to be closing its doors next month and transitioning its 200,000 merchants to arch rival, Russian based Ecwid.

Monday 28 January, 2013

A mismatch between expectations and reality in public sector IT projects is to blame for giving enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems a bad name according to a SourceforConsulting report commissioned by Advanced Business Solutions (Public Sector & Enterprise Division). The report involved a survey of 100 IT and finance managers that use ERP systems within the UK public sector and the results were supported by interviews with 13 senior UK management and technology consultants.

Friday 25th January, 2012

The Office for National Statistics has reported that GDP shrank by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of last year - more than had been predicted by industry analystis - prompting fears that the UK is heading for a triple dip recession. The news will be a blow to Chancellor George Osbourne who only recently announced a continuation of his austerity programme, despite the criticism of the International Monetary Fund.

Thursday 24th January, 2013

Late payments continue to be a critical problem for the nation’s small and medium businesses with 85% of SMEs having experienced these over the last two years. Nearly half of these businesses (47%) claim their worst repeat offenders pay late three times a year or more.

Wednesday 23rd January, 2012

Over the last couple of years Tradeshift's growth has been astronomical. In that short space of time, Tradeshift has connected over 150,000 businesses. And from today, that figure will take a substantial leap forward with the annoucement that the company has entered into a new partnership with Intuit, who gain a seat on the Tradeshift board. The parnership will connect the five million businesses who use QuickBooks onto Tradeshift, and in the words of Tradeshift co-founder and CEO Christain Lanng;  "create the largest network of companies on one platform that the world has ever seen." Those in the UK will have the added benefit of being the first to be able to take advantage of the new partnership via a free ap connecting the two companies.