BuyAGift.co.uk, a north London online retailing and voucher-fulfilment company that began trading just seven years ago, has been recognised as one of the UK's fastest growing companies in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Fast Track 100’ ranks Britain's hundred private companies with the fastest growing sales over the last three years. The Enfield-based company made its debut at 55 in the Fast Track list, published by the Sunday Times on 3rd December 2006. The company's growth reflects the increasing importance of Internet shopping and electronic commerce in the UK.
Mashable have scooped an exclusive, announcing that social networking site Bebo have launched Bebo Widgets, with over 100,000 being created in the first 12 hours: "For now, they’re supporting RockYou, Photobucket and Slide.com, with RockYou offering the most advanced options. Users have a special section in their profiles where these widgets are embedded, and multiple widgets can be added"
Reevoo, the UK-based online customer review aggregator, has secured funding of £2.5m and will see it expanding itsReevoomark service. [Link]
EMI have partnered with Last.fm to create an online music mapping tool to help fans discover new music, both from EMI and non-EMI artists. [Link]
The Daily Telegraph is the first national UK newspaper to put its births, marriages and deaths announcements online, in the form of a social networking site. [Link]