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Quindell spins multiple plates
A frenetic flurry of announcements from Quindell Portfolio show how many plates the buy and build insurance BPS provider is spinning as it gears up for legislative changes in 2013. Quindell made its...
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UK defence SITS market trends & forecasts
TechMarketView's PublicSectorViews team has today published the next in its series of reports looking at trends in the UK public sector SITS market. The lastest report contains our forecasts for the UK...
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Vodafone speeds up CWW integration with new unit
On Friday afternoon Vodafone announced it is creating a new Group Enterprise unit, which will help accelerate the merger of Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), acquired earlier this year (see...
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CSC sells credit services business to Equifax for $1bn
CSC has entered into a cash deal to sell its credit services business to Equifax for $1bn. Equifax, which grew 10% in FY11 to $1.9bn and generated an operating income of $471m, provides credit...
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Desktop 21 win at Insolvency Service for Atos
Though it is not a massive deal in value terms, Atos’ latest UK contract is interesting on a number of fronts. The company has announced a five year infrastructure services contract worth £16m with the...
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Monitise 'ton' – one-third down, two-thirds to go!
AIM-listed, UK-headquartered mobile banking player, Monitise, has confirmed a £100m dash for cash (see Monitise to monetise more investor interest) with the news that just over a third of that sum...
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More reassuring results from Anite
A notable feature of today’s H1 results was cautious Anite’s growing level of confidence that it will be able to meet FY13 expectations and deliver sustainable growth over the coming years. Despite the...
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Wipro: Is differentiation the key to growth?
We’ve just been updated by the management team at Wipro on the company’s business strategy, and heard from some of its customers - including Philips and Lloyds Banking Group. The general theme to...
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Cautious K3 manages expectations
The caveats in today’s pre-AGM statement suggests K3 Business Technology Group has got off to a cautious start in fiscal 2013. It set the scene in September when it reported full year results for the...
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Innovation Group more than delivers the goods
After a pleasingly positive trading update a few months back (see Innovation Group second half on track) insurance software and business process services firm The Innovation Group (TIG) ended its year...
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Chancellor delivers business friendly Autumn Statement
The Chancellor has just sat down after delivering his Autumn Statement. I will leave others to report on the detail but to me it was a fair and very business-friendly budget. The headlines will...
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Civica secures further outsourcing contracts
Further to our comment on Civica’s results on Monday (see Civica outperforms the market in 2012), we can now confirm that it has secured an outsourced revenue and benefits contract with Forest of Dean...
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Infor moves in Marketing Resource Management
It has been a quiet time on the acquisition front for buy and build business application provider Infor but it is getting back on board with the acquisition of Orbis Global. Financial details were not...
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More indicators of Indian offshore services slowdown?
We haven’t covered US-headquartered (but very much India-centric) offshore services player, Syntel, before mainly because it does very little business on our side of the pond (Europe accounts for...
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Solid Sage: early days in strategic change execution
It is still early days in the execution of the strategic change plan Sage revealed in July (see Is Sage still relevant?), so the full year results don’t show significant impact. They will be important...
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Citrix adopts mobile management and security with Zenprise
Citrix has stepped into the mobile device management (MDM) environment with the acquisition of one of the better-known MDM specialists Zenprise, for an undisclosed sum. Citrix was an early advocate of...
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Digital Barriers: Proposed placing to fund 13th acquisition
Not a company to let the grass grow under its feet, Digital Barriers has today announced the proposed share placing at 145p per share to raise approximately £10m (after expenses). The funds will be...
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Diversity of Performance
We’ve had Diversity of Performance as a theme since 2005. Every year, it seems to get more pronounced. The very best just get better and the worst, worse. On the stock markets, there was a time – not...
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Infosys apprentices – 3 months on
I had the chance to meet four of the apprentices that Bangalore-based IT services firm Infosys took on board in their UK operations back in September (see here) and was hugely impressed with the...
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Memset breaks into local government
When we recently met with Kate Craig-Wood, MD, and Ken Smith, Finance Director, of SME managed hosting company Memset, one of the topics of conversation was its penetration into the UK public sector...
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