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We live in interesting, mobile, times
So, Apple has set Sept 12th for the launch of the new iPhone. Apple is notoriously secretive ahead of launch but the invite (see right) with its ‘5’ shadow rather gives it away. This is a new...
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Windows Server 2012 embraces the cloud
Microsoft is building its cloud line up with the formal release of Windows Server 2012, which it says has been built from the cloud up and is “a cornerstone of the cloud OS”. With attention focused on...
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SQS managing up margins
Momentum around managed services is still growing at software testing and quality management services supplier SQS and it is not done yet. Revenue from the segment now represents a third of total...
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‘Big Data’ Acunu gets more funding
Cambridge-born ‘big data’ start-up, Acunu, has scored another £3.6m of funding in a round led by Imperial Innovations (IVO), the mainly pharma/biotech-focused, AIM-listed tech incubator arm of...
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‘Mysterious House of Rigby’ severs distribution arm
Gold star to Paul Kunert, ace reporter from The Channel, for picking up the news that Specialist Computer Holdings (SCH), the reseller conglomerate controlled by Sir Peter Rigby and family, is to sell...
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Capgemini and Salesforce go global on cloud and social
Capgemini and Salesforce.com are taking their existing alliance global in a bid to accelerate business around the cloud and social enterprise and have devised a joint fast growth agreement with...
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Kelway's light burns bright
The 43% headline revenue growth at privately held value-added reseller Kelway tells a pretty good story, though a goodly chunk came from the acquisition of ISC Computers at the back end of 2010. But...
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Nasscom changes BPO to BPM
Nasscom, the Indian software and IT services trade association, has decided to get rid of the ‘BPO’ term from its vernacular, and instead will now start using business process management (BPM). We...
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SThree losing grip in UK IT recruitment
The good news for UK-headquartered recruitment firm, SThree, is that its long-held strategy to diversify its business beyond the UK and beyond IT recruitment continues to prove shrewd (see SThree H1...
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Tech on 'Fire'
Whether or not Mario Draghi’s (President ECB) comments yesterday are enough to save the euro is open to debate. What is not in doubt is that the markets loved it. NASDAQ powered up 2.2% to 3135....
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BPaaS in the UK: managing the opportunities and risks
Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) is the fastest growing part of the UK BPS market. From a very low base today, we estimate that revenue for suppliers will more than double every year over the...
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Intel warns of bad times ahead in PCLand
On Friday, Intel issued a fairly big revenue warning – ie it knocked $1b off its revenue forecast for Q3. It had previously forecast Q3 rev of between $13.8-$14.8b. It also said it was abandoning any...
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Autonomy gets a new leader
Hat tip (as they say) to George O’Connor of Panmure Gordon (who in turn picked it up from the Sunday Times!) for news that Robert Youngjohns returns to the UK to run HP's Autonomy. He will report to...
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Infosys buys ‘Swiss Axon’
They missed out on the ‘real’ Axon almost exactly four years ago (see Infosys leaves Axon to HCL), but second-ranked Indian offshore services firm, Infosys, has bought a Swiss one instead! They are...
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Tessella reports 'record year'
Tessella is benefiting from its unusual focus on the area where ‘science and complexity meet IT’, reporting 9% growth in turnover to £18.5m in the year to 31 March 2012. According to its recent Annual...
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Best half-year in a decade for UK tech VC investment
It’s been over ten years since as much VC (venture capital) money has been invested in UK and Irish tech companies in a 6 month period, according to the latest data from corporate finance firm...
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Citrix snaps up supportive Beetil
Citrix has completed a tuck-in acquisition, bringing privately-held New Zealand-based Beetil into the fold. Beetil provides cloud based service desk technology which Citrix will use to expand the...
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Infosys buys ‘Swiss Axon’ (Update)
On the basis that if you don’t beat your own drum, no one else is going to beat it for you, Infosys Consulting head, Steve Pratt, proudly proclaimed during yesterday's announcement concall (see here)...
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IS Solutions back to growth
IS Solutions, the AIM-listed company who provides managed services and web focused software in the analytics and optimisation, and web and enterprise content management areas, was able to deliver a...
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Apple launch iPhone5
As I wrote in Tech on ‘Fire’ earlier in the week, Apple is such a major part of the value of the US (even world) exchanges, that they only had to stumble with the iPhone 5 launch today, and the world...
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