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Kelly succeeds Watmore as UK Government COO
It has been announced that Stephen Kelly will succeed Ian Watmore as UK Government Chief Operating Officer (COO). The press announcement states, “The appointment of Stephen Kelly as Chief Operating...
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Knowledge Peers is holding a one day conference on 5th October: the Exchange 2012. They have a range of top speakers who will spend their time with some 300 delegates on the day, discussing how...
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Microsoft: multi device carrot for subs version of Office
Microsoft has revealed pricing details for the up-coming launch of Office 2013 and Office 365 (see Microsoft unveils a more social Office and Microsoft bringing App Store concept to Office 2012). It...
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ReThink rethinks FY outlook
Although headline growth for AIM-listed IT recruitment-cum-consultancy company, ReThink Group (RTG), raced ahead by 28% in the first half of the year to £44.1m, an unexpected hiatus in permanent...
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Skyscape wins first "major" Cloudstore IaaS deal
Yesterday, the Cabinet Office announced the first “major” infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) sale through the Cloudstore. The Government Digital Service (GDS) has selected Skyscape Cloud Services to...
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Adobe suffers for its subscriptions
The move to subscriptions cast a shadow over Adobe last quarter (see here), it got bigger in Q3 and will still be there in Q4, providing a salutary lesson about the impact of the necessary but painful...
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Automotive Incadea delivers shiny maiden results
Austrian Incadea made a couple of unusual decisions when it listed on the AIM earlier this year (see As one departs AIM, another arrives…) - listing in the current environment and choosing AIM even...
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Capita payment by results deal with Borders Agency
Capita has won a potential £40m four-year contract with the UK Borders Agency (UKBA) to assist it find and deport illegal immigrants from the UK (see press reports here and here), of which there are...
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Civica launches OnDemand revs and bens service
Having won its first revenues and benefits BPS deal at Gloucester Council last October (see here), public sector software and services provider Civica has now launched a ‘flexible pay-as-you-go...
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Welcome to Generation IP:2025
On 27th Sept I am giving my 14th and last ‘State of the ICT Nation’ presentation – The Last Time – for The Prince’s Trust. It’s been a sellout for many months and the total raised will then have...
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Modulo, MJV adding Brazilian opportunity to the UK market
I recently met up with two more Brazilian software and IT services firms who are establishing a beachhead in the UK, both based in Rio de Janeiro, but with very different market propositions. Risk...
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Oracle: mixed fortunes in Q1 but clearing on the cloud
Oracle got off to a slow start in its new fiscal year with revenues down but net income up. However, it was the cloud-related information that was one of most notable aspects of its Q1 results...
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Sage places it bets on Brazil
Sage is still the subject in the latest of the regular round of acquisition rumours (including the more innovative one which suggests it could sell off its US business), but rather than making a sale...
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Should UK listing rules be loosened – or tightened?
Rather conflicting reports in the FT of late as to whether or not there is a groundswell of opinion in favour of relaxing listing rules on the London Stock Exchange. Today’s article (see here) about...
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Smartphone woes
Perhaps this was not the best of weeks to be a smartphone owner. Apple fans got their hands on their shiny new iPhone5s on Friday but owners of the black version complained that their screens came...
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Bango goes live with Facebook payments
After announcing a partnership with Facebook in February and seeing its share price shoot up as a result (see here), Bango, the Cambridge-based mobile payments and analytics player, has now finished...
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Escher Group ‘posts’ back to profit with promising contracts
Escher Group, the specialist point-of-sale software provider to the postal industry is gaining the confidence of the sector, which is resulting in significant customer wins and a comforting set of H1...
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Opportunity for rivals as CSC withdraws from GP IT
On Friday CSC confirmed speculation that it is withdrawing its former iSoft products from the UK’s GP IT market. Having reviewed its strategy for the UK primary care market, CSC has decided not to...
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Salesforce.com moving to disrupt new markets
The slew of announcements at Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event were not just marks of its own growing maturity but the initial steps that are taking it into a host of new markets. Having...
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Bond struggling in UK recruitment market
When we looked at Bond International Software’s results for FY11 (see Bond International: moving towards recovery) we noted some positive operational signs hinting that Bond was on the road to...
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