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Lawrence Jones in Ernst & Young Awards

14 May 2012

Lawrence Jones, CEO of web hosting and cloud specialist UKFast, has been shortlisted in the regional heats of this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. The awards ceremony is in June.

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Featured In Channel Info

Business bosses shortlisted for Ernst & Young awards

30 April 2012

Some of the region's leading business brains will battle it out to be crowned the north's top entrepreneur. Fred Done, founder of Betfred, Metronet chief executive Elliott Mueller and Tetrosyl Group chairman Peter Schofield are among the finalists for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year awards.

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Featured In Manchester Evening News

Mid-sized Tech Firms Lose Out as Fat Salaries Snare The Talent

17 April 2012

UKFast roundtable paints mid-tier technology companies as beaten to the talent by larger rivals, with exciting start-ups coming a close second

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Featured In CRN

Secret of my Success

6 April 2012

"I'm a survivor who likes to be challenged and have some fun." Lawrence Jones, founder UKFast

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Featured In Business Week

Entrepreneur Takes Sir Richard Branson's Advice and Appoints MD

5 April 2012

Entrepreneur Lawrence Jones has taken the advice of his friend Sir Richard Branson and handed over the day-to-day running of his Manchester-based internet hosting firm UKFast as he focuses on the company's expansion.

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Featured In Manchester Evening News

False Alarm!

3 April 2012

A fake hack attack can be as damaging as a real one and they're becoming increasingly common, says Stuart Coulson.

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Featured In Engineering and Technology

QR Codes: Scanning or Scamming?

28 March 2012

UKFast is claiming QR codes may not be safe after its research revealed the risks behind scanning the seemingly innocuous marketing tool.

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Featured In IT Pro

UKFast Targets 100 New Jobs With Data Centre Expansion

20 March 2012

Manchester-based internet hosting company UKFast is planning to create up to 100 skilled jobs after securing £1.2 million to fund a trio of green data centres.

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Featured In EN Magazine

UKFast to Create 100 Jobs With £8m Expansion

20 March 2012

Internet hosting company UKFast has bought three new buildings as part of an £8m expansion drive set to create 100 jobs. The move to buy the sites, in Trafford Park, has been supported by a £1.2m loan from the Manchester-based corporate banking division of The Co-operative Bank.

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Featured In Manchester Evening News

Power of Ten

7 March 2012

Leading North West business figures reveal their opinions on a hot topic of the moment. This week's question: Can the North West be an international media hub?

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Featured In Business Insider

Appointments: UKFast Promotes

1 March 2012

Manchester internet company UKFast has made a number of key appointments and promotions.

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Featured In The Business Desk

Liz Donevan Promoted to PR Manager at UKFast

29 February 2012

Liz Donevan, a former journalist at the North West business magazine EN, has been promoted to the role of PR manager at internet host UKFast.

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Happy Staff at UKFast

27 February 2012

Manchester hosting firm UKFast has made The Sunday Times' 'Best Small Companies to Work For' list for the fourth year running.

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The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2012

26 February 2012

UKFast is once again officially one of the best places to work in the UK, ranking 45th in the Sunday Times list of the 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. Featuring in the list for the fourth year in a row, and jumping a massive 30 places up the list since last year, UKFast scored highly as a fun and supportive workplace. Here's what the Sunday Times had to say about us:

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Police Make Region E-Crime Hub

16 February 2012

The north west has been chosen to host to one of three new e-crime hubs designed to tackle cyber attacks against business, consumers and government agencies. Each hub - the others are in Yorkshire and the East Midlands - will have three staff.

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Featured In Manchester Evening News

Corporate Hospitality

13 February 2012

In the se straightened times, a few well-placed vol-au-vents could loosen a clients' grip on thier wallets. So how do you put on a do that does business?

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Featured In EN Magazine

Reward in a recession

6 February 2012

As businesses battened down the hatches and pulled the purse strings tight in response to media predictions of a double-dip recession, my wife and business partner and I started 2012 the same way we have started every year since we set up our company in 1999.

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Featured In CRN

UKFast Unveils Five Top Tips to Help SMES Stay Safe Online in 2012

27 January 2012

To celebrate the fact that today is European Privacy and Data Protection Day, Manchester-based hosting company UKFast brought together a panel of cyber security experts to share their expertise and offer their advice to SMEs.

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Featured In The Drum

O2 Style Security Blunders Could Become "More and More Commonplace" This Year

26 January 2012

O2's data blunder is a sign of cyber threats to come in 2012 according to a panel of security specialists.

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Gongs for internet pioneers at Digital Entrepreneur Awards

19 January 2012

Greater Manchester entrepreneurs have won honours in a national awards scheme which recognises and rewards the "pioneers" of the internet.

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Featured In Manchester Evening News

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