The X Business Group, the force trying to energise the companion the X Industry Association trade organisation, has extended the deadline of next month that it set for seeing if it could get industry backing until January because the solicitation letters only just went out. It reckons it needs commitments totalling $250,000 to make it fly. It’s asking $25,000 from companies with $25m in annual revenues, $15,000 from firms in the $7.5m to $25m bracket and $5,000 from those below $7.5m. A preliminary meeting to see how Europeans feel about it has been called for Utrecht in Holland.