Lord Sugar is bringing back his famous brand Amstrad with a new digital marketing company led by his grandson. The business mogul, who stars in BBC One's The Apprentice, bought back the rights to the ...

The Amstrad CPC has turned 40. If you were ‘there at the time’, we can only apologise for making you feel ancient. Or, you know, spend some time celebrating a British classic – the home micro that ...

If Clive Sinclair’s genius in consumer electronics was in using ingenious hacks to make cheaper parts do greater things, then his Amstrad competitor Alan Sugar’s was in selling decade-old technology ...

If you were a computer-mad teen in the late 1980s, you were probably in the process of graduating from an 8-bit machine to a 16-bit one, maybe an Amiga, or an Atari ST. For the first time though you ...

Broadcaster BSkyB is buying Amstrad, the venerable computing name that once made up to a quarter of the European PC business — but the deal is all about set-top boxes, including the popular Sky+ ...

Anyone out there with an old forgotten Amstrad computer in their attic – you’re about to have an 8-bit of luck. Because the man who sold it to you might be offering to buy it back. Amstrad founder ...

Two great names from the prehistory of video games are set for revival, as ailing consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad seeks to buy the copyright to Sinclair Spectrum games. Amstrad bought ...

Paul Tulip, one suspects, didn't really want to work for gruff old sir Alan Sugar at Amstrad - and who can blame him? The Apprentice contestant, who said of himself, "I think I'm brilliant", had not ...

Essex-based Amstrad Digital has generated a turnover of around £600,000 over its first year (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive) Lord Alan Sugar has said the digital marketing agency run by his grandson and ...

In 1989, UK computing icon Amstrad was poised for world domination and, if not for a product recall, it could be as big as Apple today, according to Nick Hewer, Countdown presenter and formerly Alan ...

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Broadcaster BSkyB has struck a deal to buy television set-top box maker Amstrad for about £125m. Amstrad, which was founded by the star of BBC One's The Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar, supplies about 30% ...