TechCrunch recently published a post entitled “Dublin, London and Berlin – How Europe’s hubs started to kick ass” . Guess what – Birmingham wasn’t mentioned. Now that’s probably because, as usual, we are not very good at selling our virtues. But it does beg the question, how many tech start ups do you need to have a tech scene?
We do have a scene in Birmingham that is growing fast, but it is still in its early days. We have groups like StartupMill, Tech Wednesday and GamesCentral all contributing to …

Inafishbowl.com, one of the UK’s most exciting business support websites, is looking to find three new fishbowl businesses to be featured one their website. Described as one of the UK’s most exciting new business support websites, inafishbowl.com looks to profile and shadow three new businesses through a six month period, offering them both advice and support from a panel of experts & also exposure that could far outreach your PR and marketing budget.
They will be visiting the West Midlands on 13th September, and in order to be assessed and interviewed …

Applications for the 2010 ICT Excellence awards, now in their 6th year, have now opened. The awards can be entered by any business that has made significant use of ICT in either their product or service. The Awards are have shown to be not only extremely prestigious, but also a highly effective commercial venture with even those companies achieving a Highly Commended award noticing commercial benefits from it.
There are 10 categories available to be entered this year, and further information as well as entry forms can be found here. The …