COLUMNISTS An old hoofers’ ditty poses the question: “How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm now that they’ve seen Paree?” The US exercises an analogous gravitational pull for British technology entrepreneurs. It must be very vexing for the UK government, which would like more homegrown techies to locate in such deserving places as Hull.
An example of the footloose trend is Neil Jones, founder of Interead, whose Cool-er e-reader is denting the market shares of Amazon and Sony. His company is headquartered in Reading. But when Notebook caught up with him this week, he was in Miami, where he now bases himself.
