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InternetQ still upwardly mobile
Much as presaged in its July trading update (see InternetQ soars on mobile growth), mobile marketing and entertainment solutions provider InternetQ stormed ahead in the first half of the year, with...
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KBC blushes red on warning and cash call
How many times have we heard management exude ‘confidence’ on hitting the FY numbers and then shortly afterwards warn of miss? Such is the case for energy sector software and services supplier KBC...
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Netcall on acquisition trail, snares Serengeti
Netcall, the call centre and business process automation software provider, is back on the acquisition trail, and expanding into the UK public sector via the acquisition of document management player...
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Netcall on acquisition trail, snares Serengeti (update)
We have now spoken with Netcall’s CEO Henrik Bang and CFO James Ormondroyd following its full year results and acquisition of lesser-known public sector document management player Serengeti Systems...
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RM 'stable but cautious'
The stabilisation and recovery of UK education specialists RM looks to be on track with the group reporting ‘progress in line with the Board’s expectations’ for adjusted operating profit in Q3. But...
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Dillistone’s voyage for growth continues
It’s been almost exactly a year since AIM-listed recruitment software company Dillistone Group acquired Woodcote Software, the holding company for UK-based privately held recruitment software firm,...
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IBM catches a British butterfly
IBM has acquired Maidenhead-based data migration software firm, Butterfly Software for an undisclosed consideration. Butterfly, founded in 2009, is led by a ‘gang of four’ in the C-suite, none of whom...
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Rometty claims third IBM crown
IBM has completed the final phase of its ‘Act of Succession’, appointing CEO Virginia (‘Ginny’) Rometty as chairman of the board effective 1st October. Rometty now holds the ‘triple-crown’ posts of...
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Scisys edges closer to operating margin target
In H112, Scisys has edged a step closer to its goal of consistently achieving an operating margin north of 7% (see Scisys: Turned around by Love). In the six months to 30th June 2012, the adjusted...
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Asia-Pac lets down Robert Walters
In a rather unusual ‘reversal of fortunes’, it was the Asia-Pacific region that let down UK-headquartered but Asia-Pacific-led recruitment firm, Robert Walters, as regional gross profit in Q3 (to 30th...
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Capita loses Criminal Records Bureau contract
We said that the contract renewal would not be a shoe-in (see here) and so it wasn’t! UK business process services leader Capita, has lost its contract to support the new Disclosure and Barring...
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Courtley (and Deloitte) exit Phoenix
The lingering question as to whether services industry veteran David Courtley was the right person to lead the turnaround of troubled mid-cap infrastructure services player, Phoenix, has now been...
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Facebook hits 1b at last
So Facebook has finally hit 1billion users (that’s active users per month) From 1 to 1b in 8 years. Although it is, of course, impressive, anyone attending my presentation two years ago will know that...
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Intercede: looking for H2 improvement
It looks like Intercede Group will report unchanged revenues year-on-year in H1. It states that revenues in the first half will be £3.5m (see Intercede: Rest of the world a saving grace for H111...
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Monitise picks up an ‘Indian’ partner
We don’t often comment on industry ‘partnerships’, which so often turn out to be worth little more than the paper they are sometimes written on. But from time to time one comes along that piques our...
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Promethean: revenues dive again
You’d need nerves of steel to stick it out as an investor in Promethean World. The provider of interactive learning technology continues to battle on. In Q1 we headed our analysis ‘Promethean: from...
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Yesterday's UKHotViews email
We just wanted to apologise to any readers who didn't receive their UKHotViews email yesterday. While most of the mailings were delivered successfully, it appears that a technical glitch meant that a...
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CSC bumps up big data
One of the goals of CSC’s still relatively new CEO Mike Lawrie is to move into more profitable areas like industry specific business process services and technology growth areas such as cloud...
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HP secures new 5 year deal with Rolls-Royce
It does not make up for the loss of its 12-year contract with Rolls-Royce (see here), but HP has secured a new five-year deal which it won against what it describes as the ‘usual suspects’ -...
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Imperial still Innovating
To study the FY profit & loss account (to 31st July) of Imperial Innovations (IVO), the AIM-listed tech ‘incubator’ arm of London’s Imperial College, is rather to miss the point. Indeed, you could...
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