Valuation multiples up in TMT sector: trade buyers are back for 2011
I get a regular selection of recent corporate finance deal activity summaries in my email. Last week, I got one from Regent. Their view was …
UK seeks views on principles of economic regulation
On 7 January the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a ‘call for evidence’ relating to principles of economic regulation. As those who …
Do more tablets mean more ‘lean-back’ consumer browsing?
Sadly I’ve not been in Las Vegas at CES, but remained at my desk in London reading the various updates. As the dust starts to …
Uncertainty for UK spectrum auctions as refarming permitted
Ofcom permits 2G spectrum refarming Ofcom yesterday varied the spectrum licences of the UK’s three 2G spectrum licensees (EverythingEverywhere (JV between Orange and T-Mobile), Vodafone and O2) to permit them to use …
Is BT’s wholesale content connect the end of the world?
There has been a lot of discussion this week of BT’s wholesale content connect product, so I thought it would be helpful to unpack the …
Happy (slightly belated) 101st birthday to the father of outsourcing
You might think that outsourcing is relatively recent – dreamt up in the 1980s as a way for hardware manufacturers to move out of one-off …
And the killer application for 2011 is …
I’m very excited to have had my first re-tweet, so today’s post develops the thought further. The retweet was of an economist article which, in …
Why network effects require ongoing interconnection rules (and other regulatory interventions)
I write today’s blog from sunny Switzerland. The news seems rather slow and I can’t bear to write a top ten lists of things that …
Creative commons – open source for blogs
It’s Christmas eve and I have spent the morning digging out paths from snow. As a lawyer you might think that I would have had …
Broadband aid (do they know it’s Christmas)
Re-reading yesterday’s post, I hope it wasn’t too close to a law firm client update – that is not being the point of this blog. …