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KashFlow's charasmatic leader
Can I commend you to read KashFlow moves from start-up to bid target in the FT. Duane Jackson’s story, which owes much to the help given by the Prince’s Trust, really does show how a start up can...
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LinkedIn surges
I have written many times before about how LinkedIn has about the best social media business model I know. Rather than advertising or search, it is based on corporate subscriptions paid by...
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2e2 – The aftermath
Customers of mid-market hosting services firms should be digging out their dusty business continuity plans in light of the news (as yet again revealed by The Channel’s Paul Kunert) that 2e2...
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Bango raises another wad
AIM-listed, loss-making Cambridge-based mobile payments and analytics player, Bango, has provisionally raised £6.5m gross through a lightly discounted share placing at 200p resulting in a c. 8% share...
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Corero’s ‘FloD’ may be dammed
'Born-again’ network security and education software firm, Corero Network Security, has warned that unless it can raise £4m through a heavily discounted share placing, it may not be able to continue...
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European tech M&A focuses on top line growth
Price-to-Sales ratios (PSR) of European tech M&A deals continued their upwards trend last month while Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratios continued to ease, according to latest data from corporate...
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Genpact sets the BPS pace
Genpact is setting the pace as the first tier one India-HQ’d BPS player to report its FY12 results. With growth of 14.7% in Q4 ($507.7m) and 18.8% in the full year ($1.9bn) things are moving along very...
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SmartSpace fuels LMG growth
We recently caught up with Nigel Rowe, Executive Chairman of Line Management Group (LMG). The UK firm was founded in 1986 and its roots are in cabling services. Today cabling still accounts for 40% of...
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AOL returns to growth
In March 11, the Prince’s Trust Internet & Media Leadership Group’s quarterly lunch featured Tim Armstrong– the CEO at AOL. He brought along Arianna Huffington whose Huffington Post he had just...
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Cash
Interesting how two of the biggest tech stories of the week were about a very old fashioned commodity – CASH. As you might glean from the reader comments to my Dell deal announced post, there is a...
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FTSE techMARK - Back 'in-the-money'
Page one of the October 1999 edition of SystemHouse was devoted to the launch of the new FTSE techMARK Index. Tech stocks were blazing in the white heat of the dot.com boom. NASDAQ was getting all the...
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Blinkx blasting ahead
There was another positive blast from blinkx this morning with the news that the exceptional performance of H1 (see here) continued into Q3 so it now expects to be ahead of targets and is forecasting...
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Dell and its cloud hurdles
Earlier in February, Dell finally announced the deal that will enable it to slip out of the limelight and become a private company (see Dell deal announced). Just days before, we were briefed by Tom...
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Hexaware grows with the giants
Management at Mumbai-headquartered IT services firm Hexaware can feel justifiably proud of the company’s performance in 2012, a year in which growth – and in some cases margins – outstripped many of...
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Kofax slump gathers pace in Q2
Kofax missed its software sales targets in Q2, worsening the slump begun in Q1 (see Kofax Q1 goes into reverse). Unsurprisingly, the document capture vendor isn’t going to meet its previous FY13...
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Pakistan business process services firm DGS lists on AIM
To be strictly correct, ‘customer acquisition services’ firm Digital Globe Services (DGS) is headquartered in Colorado, but as 400 of its 430 employees are based in Pakistan I hope you forgive the...
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Rumours of Apple iWatch gather pace
In my post on 8th Jan 13 I reported on the increasing rumours of an up-coming iWatch from Apple. These rumours are gathering pace. Over the weekend similar reports have appeared in both the Wall...
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Still no sign of profit date at Monitise
I know I must be sounding more and more like The Grinch when it comes to what many perceive as a great British success story, and perhaps I am. But I am also a ‘back to basics’ sort of person who...
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Stolid Fidessa still working hard
Fidessa paid the price for another year of falling equities market trading, ending FY12 with flat YoY revenue. Considered against a 20% fall in equities trading and a c7% churn rate as a result of...
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News round-up
As the entire TechMarketView team is on its way to London for our Little British Battler Day we have to limit today’s UKHotViews to a round-up of the headlines as at 7:00am. Normal service will be...
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