Website makes business research easier
By Catherine Woods
Internet entrepreneur Brad Liebmann has launched BView, an online business directory, after becoming frustrated by the difficulty in sourcing good suppliers and getting reviews from customers about a company’s credentials.

Online retailer turns eyewear into fashionwear
By Kate Pritchard
High street opticians were cross-eyed with fury when James Murray Wells launched Glasses Direct, selling specs online at a fraction of the price. As the industry moves from function to fashion, Murray Wells is using the web to revolutionise buying habits.

Does it eat you or feed you?
By Guy Levine
Let’s be honest, most websites underperform. When I was a young grass hopper looking to spend my hard-earned lucre on the latest gadgets, my uncle always used to ask, ”will it eat you or feed you?” Which does your website do?

Internet entrepreneur with big plans afoot
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Glenys Berd started her online shop LoveThoseShoes.com in 2003. Five years’ on her range of shoes that “Look Good & Do You Good” are literally sprinting off the shelves.

Need funding fast? Enter the Angels' Den
By Melissa Hancock
Launched nearly a year ago to connect budding entrepreneurs with angel investors, Angelsden.co.uk already has 1,100 angels and 5,000 entrepreneurs registered on the site.

The Listening Company to focus on web-based development
By Catherine Woods
The internet will play a big part in The Listening Company’s development this year, according to CEO Neville Upton who says plans for his gold-standard call centre services company centre around “enhancing the use of the web”.

Matchmaking the Muslim way
By Melissa Hancock
Online dating is no longer a taboo. Today everyone’s doing it and that includes British Muslims. As Adeem Younis, founder of SingleMuslim.com explains: “Our website provides an Islamically-correct alternative to the traditional methods of family introductions and arranged marriages.”

18-24 year-olds go crazy for online “speed-dating” phenomenon
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
George Berkowski and Steve Stokols had a brainwave last year. What if they created an online version of speed dating, but took away the sad, lonely heart, dating bit? Now, Woome.com is the latest social craze to sweep the internet.

Embracing e-commerce
By Melissa Hancock
Kerry Scott, founder of SlimmingSolutions.co.uk, has grown the company’s turnover from £40,000 in 2000 to more than £1m in 2007 by embracing the latest e-commerce technology.

Online chemist proves a bitter pill for Boots
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
When you’re under-cutting high street by up to 90 per cent, you’re bound to ruffle a few feathers.