I am delighted to share the news that UKFast has been named a finalist in the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards, for our employee engagement strategy. As a company with customer service at its heart, receiving recognition for the passion, focus and effort of our team is a fantastic honour for us. The final result will [...]

As we announced this week, UKFast is to embark on a massive recruitment drive and double our staff numbers over the next 18 months. What better time is there to give everyone a little insight into what working at UKFast is like? For starters it is like no other place I have known. The office, [...]

It’s awards season once again and we’re thrilled to have made the shortlist in a handful of competitions this year. Being included in the finals of any event is always a great honour and the news has brought even more energy to the UKFast team. We’ve been named as a finalist in two categories at [...]

I am putting the finishing touches to a new process we are hoping to launch in the coming weeks. The working title is the ‘Pre-Launch Questionnaire’. Once fully discussed and reviewed by the wider team who knows how we shall chose to brand it. After all ‘Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi’ was called [...]

At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in LA this week, Microsoft revealed that its strategy for the next year is focused around cloud computing. The announcement will come as little surprise to many as Microsoft has been moving further into cloud technologies more and more over the past five years and few could forget last [...]

No one can buy more time. To quote William Shakespeare “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends”. We spend years of our life in ‘training’ as we pass through various schools and colleges. Finally, we land ourselves a job and in many cases the training stops dead. You may find half-baked training plans or a [...]

Last week, UKFast hosted a round table titled Video Nations. As part of this, we asked each member of the round table to write a guest blog for us – the first one published yesterday by Brian Barnes of Activideo. Hosting the round tables and hearing the experts express their opinions always gets us looking [...]

Interviews with the world’s richest and most industrious entrepreneurs are few and far between. And those that really get under the skin of successful business leaders are particularly rare. So we’re excited to bring you the news of Lawrence Jones’s interview with Richard Branson – being published by EN the Magazine for Entrepreneurs on Friday. [...]

In a week where even the London Stock Exchange has fallen victim to hackers who are placing malicious ads on its site, UKFast asks, is hacking becoming mainstream? Once upon a time, malicious attacks in the online marketplace were few and far between, however many online news sources are predicting that 2011 is set to [...]

The news announced last week that banks are earning additional revenues by enabling customers to use mobile devices for their banking needs, is more evidence to support the idea that m-commerce is a fast-growing industry and businesses should consider how they will harness its power sooner rather than later. According to a TowerGroup study commissioned [...]