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Facebook confusion
I get the feeling that analysts didn’t quite know what to make of Facebook’s Q4 results. In after hours trading, first the shares dipped by 10% - then recovered all those losses. The headlines show the...
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Goodbye RIM, Hello Blackberry 10
Yesterday Blackberry launched its new Blackberry 10 phones – the touchscreen Z10 (available in the UK today ahead of the rest of the world) and the conventional physical keyboard Q10 (pictured and...
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Latest must-read PublicSectorViews research
The leading suppliers to UK government and the broader public sector are adjusting to a different operating environment. The Government ICT strategy, the implementation of which is being led by the...
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New EMEA head for NTT DATA
There’s been a top management reshuffle in EMEA at NTT DATA, the IT services arm of Japanese telecoms giant, NTT. Current head Thomas Balgheim is handing over to Italian head Patrizio Mapelli, who came...
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Zoo cagey on profits and cash
After returning to profit at half-time (see here), AIM-listed aspiring media production workflow software and services provider Zoo Digital has warned on all financial fronts as orders slipped to the...
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Agilisys wins with Bolton & Wigan Councils
We’ve just got wind of another win for Agilisys in the local government sector. The company has announced a £47m, seven-year contract to deliver ICT services to a four-member partnership comprising...
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Further to my post Goodbye RIM - Hello Blackberry 10 yesterday, I know how many readers are really interested in what the new Blackberries are like. We don't do product reviews - indeed I haven't...
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BT Global Services makes Q3 profit gains
BT Group has announced its Q3 results, which reveal the Global Services (GS) business to have made notable improvements in profits over last year. It outperformed BT Retail, BT Wholesale and Openreach...
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Dell buyout on Monday?
Further to my Dell and SilverLake? post of 15th Jan 13, it really looks as if this might happen. Although we steer clear of rumours, the stories seem well sourced and comments from our own contacts...
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Intercede warns on ‘fiscal cliff’
Yet another AIM-listed tiddler has been hit by orders shifting to the right (see Zoo cagey on profits and cash). Identity management software provider Intercede warned that US contracts have been...
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Mahindra Satyam inching forwards
It’s hard work pulling your business back together again in the best of times, and of course even harder in the worst. But ‘born again’ India-based IT services firm Mahindra Satyam is inching forwards...
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NetSuite profit sours
SaaS ERP pure-play NetSuite finished the year deeper in the red with a FY net loss of $35.2m, about 10% worse than in 2011. But revenues spurted forwards another 31% to $308m, which is what the game is...
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Share Indices in Jan 2013
2013 started in sparkling form on the stock markets. Actually the FTSE100 (up 6.43% in Jan) beat NASDAQ (up ‘just’ 4.1%). I read this was the best start to a year for 25 years. Even 1st Feb 13 has seen...
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Thomsons benefits from ABRY investment
Boston-headquartered private equity firm ABRY has cashed out angel investors Pi Capital and Westminster Growth Capital to take a majority stake in London-based benefits software developer Thomsons...
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Accumuli buries Webscreen in Juniper
Accumuli, the AIM-listed security managed services buy-and-build vehicle, has sold security software firm Webscreen Systems to Juniper Networks for $10m. Accumuli acquired Webscreen as part of the...
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eg sets poor example on profits and gains new Aspect
AIM-listed Staffordshire-based operations management software developer eg solutions warned of a 'significant' miss on the FY numbers as – you guessed – contracts slipped to the right. Elizabeth Gooch...
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EMIS CEO to retire
Healthcare and pharmacy software provider EMIS had another unwelcome surprise for the markets this morning. After 23 years with EMIS, Chief Executive Sean Riddell is to retire from his full-time...
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January research from TechMarketView
Despite January's cold snap, TechMarketView analysts produced another hot set of research. Our research directors followed up on their 2013 Predictions with ‘deeper dive’ analyses into the implications...
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NewVoiceMedia makes contact with another $20m
Basingstoke-based contact centre SaaS software start-up, NewVoiceMedia (NVM), has raised $20m in Seies B funding from new investors Highland Capital Partners Europe and MMC Ventures. Existing...
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Renegade Indian software firms desert Nasscom
Some 30 Indian software firms have reportedly broken ranks with industry association Nasscom to form their own community, tagged iSpirit (Indian Software Product Industry Round Table). The implied...
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