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Firstsource grows as attrition treadmill spins faster
You have to admire a company that keeps growing despite turning over almost 100% of its domestic employees every year! Such is the case for Mumbai-based offshore BPO player, Firstsource, where...
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Genpact grows as GA, Oak Hill dilute
Leading offshore BPO purish-play, Genpact, reported a pretty good quarter, which also saw them announce that key investors, General Atlantic and Oak Hill Capital, are to sell a goodly chunk of their...
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Microsoft’s Outlook.com: social appeal and business hopes
Microsoft plans to overhaul Hotmail and launch the web-based email platform Outlook.com (currently in indefinite beta) in its place. With a look that is consistent with Office 8 and Windows Phone, a...
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NCC Group acting on US growth ambitions with Matasano
NCC Group’s latest acquisition, of US security testing services provider Matasano Security, is designed to expand its US footprint and provide clients with testing services capable of spanning Europe...
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Oracle loses to HP on Itanium ruling
Oracle is not having a good run in the courts this summer. It lost to Google when a federal judge ruled that Google Android software did not infringe Java patents, and again when the European Court of...
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Sopra suffers ill winds in UK waters
Scale really is so important in the current economic climate. You just have to have enough bulk – and have it well spread – to be better able to withstand the buffeting of stormy seas. Even the extra...
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UK ‘respectable’ for Robert Walters
Having previously signalled worsening market conditions – notably in banking – last month (see Deteriorating market conditions hit Robert Walters), the eponymous CEO of UK-headquartered but...
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Mahindra Satyam back to growth
After slipping backwards in its final FY quarter, ‘born again’ Indian offshore services firm, Mahindra Satyam, returned to growth in Q1 (to 30th June), with headline revenues up 31% yoy to Rs18.8b,...
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Oracle and SAP move to close-out copyright fight
Oracle and SAP have proposed an out of court agreement over damages relating to the SAP/TomorrowNow copyright infringement case, under which SAP will pay $306m in damages. The proposed deal also makes...
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Cognizant struggles for UK growth as tops Infosys
Although management at India-centric Cognizant held firm to its 20% headline revenue growth target for 2012, it’s clear that, short of a miracle, the UK business is going to miss that by a mile....
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Oases of opportunity in arid Apps Services market
With growth of 0.7% during 2011, the UK application services market just scraped into positive territory. Yet as our just-published Application Services Market Trends & Forecasts - 2012 report...
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Telecity powers onwards and upwards
It’s rather hard to find anything new to say about European data centre stars, Telecity, other than ‘shine on’! The half-time picture (to 30th June) was again one of superlatives, with headline...
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Tickets in Wonderland
OK, we can’t not mention the fabulous weekend for Team GB at the Olympics. But joy is surely mingled with frustration over the ticketing system. I don’t doubt my experience is shared by so many others...
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Gresham’s pace slows
Revitalised Gresham Computing is still on a roll of improving performance (see Gresham sprints faster) but the pace has slowed, with EMEA acting as a drag on the overall business. Revenue for the six...
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InterQuest still being knocked from pillar to post
IT recruitment group, InterQuest, is still reeling under the effects of the ‘double whammy’ of tough trading conditions and a dodgy acquisition (see InterQuest weighed down by ‘Trojan Horse’ M&A),...
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MDNX gets a Griffin and its sister!
Bracknell-based network integrator, MDNX, has acquired Derby-based ‘white label’ peer, Griffin along with its London-based managed hosting sister company, Iconnyx. Terms were not disclosed, but the...
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Nakama – time to turn theory into practice
After what we tagged a ‘best in class’ profit warning in February (see Nakama – how to make a profit warning sound like good news), the ‘Highams enhanced’ digital media and IT staffing firm, Nakama...
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Leo’s services man leaves HP
John Visentin, the man that HP ex-CEO Leo Apotheker anointed to run the company’s global Enterprise Services (ES) operations almost a year ago to the day (see here), has left the business. He will be...
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Microsoft bringing App Store concept to Office 2013
Microsoft is getting the hang of the apps store concept. Following the announcement of the Windows Store last year, it has now released a beta version of Office Store, based around the forthcoming...
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Rackspace back on track
After its Q1 ‘miss’ (see Rackspace misses earnings but hits strategy) US-based hosting giant Rackspace had a much better Q2. As a result, headline revenues for the 6 months to 30th June leapt by 30%...
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