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Business review leads to profit warning at SDL
SDL issued a warning this morning saying that profits are likely to be £3m-£4m below market expectations for the year ending December 31 2012. The announcement follows a review of the business by Mark...
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CentraStage punches above its weight
We’re always pleased to see our ‘Little British Battlers’ punching above their weight, so we were delighted to hear that CentraStage, one of the dozen LBBs we met at our inaugural TechMarketView LBB...
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Claranet acquires Star in £55m deal
Managed Services firm, Claranet, has announced it is to buy Star in a deal worth £55m. Star’s expertise spans managed services, unified communications and security. Both firms were founded about 17...
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HP, Autonomy - Feedback
Can I thank our many readers for their feedback on the HP/Autonomy story. I was particularly touched by the huge ‘mailbag’ supporting my HP,Autonomy – The day after the day after. Although I am in no...
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iPads win at Barclays
Interesting report from Paul Kunert in The Register that Barclays has bought 8500 Apple iPads (via dealer Insight UK) for use in branches utilising their Mortgage Brain App. This is one of the biggest...
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Little British Battlers: Don't miss the last chance to register your interest!
Today is the last opportunity for 'Little British Battlers' to register their interest in our next event, scheduled for Tuesday 12th February 2013. Candidate companies must be privately held,...
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Mersey Care heads for the clouds
There was new evidence of the NHS’ growing willingness to accept cloud-based solutions last week with news that Mersey Care NHS Trust has signed a five-year contract with SCC. The move will see the...
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More good news on apprecticeships
Delighted to give space to Atos being awarded “Best Business Newcomer” at the 2012 Modern Apprenticeships Awards. I understand that Atos started the scheme in 2011 with 15 apprentices (11 still with...
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More on GB Group's 'exciting times'
We spoke to GB Group’s CEO Richard Law and FD Dave Wilson earlier this morning to add some colour and movement to today’s encouraging interim results. Eligible TechMarketView subscribers can read more...
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Phoenix signs £40m+ deskside support deal
Phoenix IT has signed a five year contract with “one of the major Global IT Services providers” to provide deskside support services for their UK clients and for its own UK operations. Phoenix will...
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Avia keeps battling
Tiny AIM-listed clinical decision support systems supplier Avia Health Informatics is still battling to keep itself afloat. Avia, the home of Plain Healthcare, had a torrid Q1 resulting in a change of...
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Capgemini UK appoints CDO
Interesting to see Capgemini UK appointing a Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Dr Cliff Evans, who we have met in his previous capacity as Transformation Director for the defence and security sector, will...
View ArticleHP, Autonomy - The legal action commences
According to the FT today, HP sued over Autonomy takeover with the first class action filed in San Francisco yesterday. The action claims HP issued ‘false and misleading statements’ between Aug 11...
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Iomart: Acquisitions contribute heavily to growth
Iomart describes itself as “the cloud computing company”, though how much of its business is ‘true’ cloud it’s hard to fathom based on its latest set of results for the six month period to 30th...
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Recoveries
It is interesting that the same edition of the FT today carried an article New software blocks all ads on mobiles alongside reports of a pretty massive surge in Facebook’s share price as ‘Investors...
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Sanderson marks the end of transition period
Its full year results confirm the steady progress Sanderson has been pointing towards through a series of trading updates (see here), and mark the end of a year of transition that saw it sell off the...
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Work Programme highlights ‘payment by results’ challenges
The UK Government’s Welfare-to-Work Programme has come under fire, after revealing that far fewer people had made it into sustained work in the first year since it was launched than expected. DWP...
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ACS: healthy, intelligent and mobile
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) confirmed the good tidings of its H1 prelims (see here) when it released interim results for the half year (to August 31 2012), which once again showed progress across...
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Hains departs CSC
CSC has announced that Guy Hains - who has previously been president of CSC's International and European groups and was leading the global healthcare business until yesterday - is to leave the company...
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ILX loses long-term CEO
ILX Group, AIM-listed provider of e-learning software and business training, has announced that its CEO Ken Stott is to leave the company for business pastures new. He will leave at the end of the year...
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