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Microsoft unveils a more social Office
Microsoft has released details and previews of the next iteration of its hugely profitable Office software suite. There are few surprises. Office 2013 will be more mobile and more cloudy (with...
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Access Group acquires Delta Software
Acquisitive mid-market business software firm The Access Group has bought Yorkshire-based warehouse management provider Delta Software for £5.4m. This is Access’ fifth purchase since its £50m...
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Brady successfully scaling up
Acquisitive Brady plc, supplier of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the energy, metals and soft commodities sectors issued an upbeat H1 update this morning that shows its plans to...
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Datatec flags better UK performance at Logicalis
South-Africa based Datatec has updated the market on trading in the first four months of its FY13 (i.e. March-June). The company says that, despite what it sees as a “weakening economic environment”,...
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Access Intelligence sacrifices profits for the year
SaaS-oriented governance, risk and compliance solutions provider Access Intelligence’s 2012 first half has been little better than the last financial year which ended on a down note (see here). With...
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EMC shuffles management and signals healthy Q2
EMC has confirmed a series of top-level changes, and also pre-announced another strong quarter of growth. The company’s stock is up 7% in after hours trading on NYSE. Q2 looks to have been positive...
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CSR sells parts of business to Samsung
Two interesting announcements from mobile technology firm CSR caught our eye earlier this week. Firstly, the Cambridge-based company did a $310m deal with Samsung for part of its business. For that...
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Sage regroups for growth
Sage was refreshingly open at its analyst day in (sunny) Newcastle yesterday on what it has to do to shift its average growth rate from the dawdling 3% of the past 10 years to a still modest but...
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Agilisys does it again (again!) in local government
For fear of sounding repetitive – Agilisys has done it again in local government. Yes, we said that a couple of months ago when it won at Tower Hamlets – see Agilisys does it again in local government...
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WNS CFO resigns
Having presided over a slump in profitability in the last quarter and full year (see WNS margins take a dive), Alok Misra, CFO at offshore BPO pure play WNS is to step down in August following four...
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State of the UK Communications Market
My favourite ‘free’ report every year is the Ofcom Communications Market Report 2012 (download the 400+ pages from the link) I say ‘free’ but actually we, as taxpayers, pay for it as it is produced by...
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More on Computacenter's H1 update
As promised, we have posted further comment on Computacenter's first half trading update, following a call with the company's management. HotViewsExtra subscribers can access the piece here.
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Slow period for IFS
After a respectable first quarter, Swedish ERP provider IFS had a slow Q2 (to June 30). Although revenue showed some growth, with a 2% rise to 652SKr, licence revenue fell 3% to 92m SKr as deals...
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Top table change at Blinkx
Having cut a blazing trail, video search software provider Blinkx has dimmed a little over the last six months (but still delivered 72% revenue growth in its last full year – see the HotViews archive...
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IBM: profits up despite headwinds
IBM released another set of results last night that underlined its ability to carve out improved profits, despite significant headwinds to growth. The tech bellwether’s performance also underlines,...
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And Brazilian Company of the Year is … Totvs!
I’m writing this post on my way back from one of my increasingly frequent trips to a country I now consider to be my second home – Brazil. And as you asked, yes, it’s BA, the first airline – and...
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Tablets for oldies
As I said in my State of the UK Communications Market post yesterday –the Ofcom Communications Market Report 2012 is full of so much fascinating information that it could fill any number of HotViews...
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Write-off pushes Microsoft to a loss; Windows still a concern
Microsoft got the bad news of a Q4 loss out of the door a few weeks ago when it revealed it was writing off $6.2bn, virtually all of its aQuantive acquisition costs (see here), so the formal...
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Motorola-enhanced Google posts solid Q2
Last night Google announced its first quarterly numbers since the addition of Motorola Mobility to its ever-growing business spread. The numbers were solid, and investors have pushed Google’s stock up...
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Xerox lowers guidance on profit slide
Shares in Xerox took a c3% slide after the document technology and business process services (BPS) giant lowered FY12 profit guidance again (see Xerox drops ACS brand, lowers guidance) following a...
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