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Concirrus connecting the ‘internet of things’
We strayed somewhat from our traditional software and IT services brief to invite the top team at London-headquartered Concirrus to our Little British Battler day (see here) – especially given that the...
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As you must be aware the UK lost its AAA rating over the weekend. The media were all forecasting armageddon when the markets opened today. The actuality was a 1.3% rise in the FTSE100 to 6375 - a...
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Here come more Little British Battlers!
This week we publish short pieces on six more Little British Battler (LBB) software and IT services companies whose CEOs came to talk to us about their companies, products and services, aspirations and...
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How not to launch an iPad App
For the last year or so I have enjoyed The Times and Sunday Times apps on my iPad 1. I download them before getting on the early morning train. Last week, The Times launched a new app which...
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Microgen ends 2012 on a services low
Today’s full year results from Microgen (12 months ending December 31 2012) show the extent of the struggles that were apparent as the end of the year approached (see Microgen struggles towards end of...
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SAP acquires SmartOps, looking to real time SCM
SAP has another tuck-in acquisition underway in the form of supply chain management planning provider and existing partner SmartOps. Terms were not disclosed. SmartOps specialises in inventory and...
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Valueworks – social housing procurement
Private equity-backed Valueworks is a SaaS provider of e-procurement and B2B marketplaces, specifically focused on the UK social housing and private construction sectors. The ten-year old company has...
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Working from home
As you might have read, Marissa Mayer, the relatively new CEO at Yahoo, has banned working from home from 1st June 13.“To be one Yahoo!, and that starts being physically together…To become the absolute...
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Internet-enabled cars
Maybe someone can remind me when I first introduced the internet-enabled car to my annual speeches. I think it must have been 7 or 8 years ago. I wanted to use iPlayer in my car to listen to last...
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Autodesk punished for weak Q1 outlook
There was no opportunity for Autodesk to bask in its “stronger than expected” Q4 results as a weak Q1 outlook turned the market against the company, causing the share price to drop nearly 4% in...
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Automated Intelligence – tackling unstructured data costs
Bristol and Belfast-based Automated Intelligence has been in business for less than three years but has a client list and product portfolio many larger and longer established vendors would envy - and a...
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Craneware back on track
Breathing must be getting easier at UK-based but US-centric Craneware these days, with more evidence that the shift in spending priorities that hit its growth over the past year has washed through and...
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dotDigital dumping dotAgency
Half-time results for AIM-listed digital marketing software and IT services firm dotDigital were presaged last month (see dotDigital reveals a mixed H1), so the only real surprise (actually not) was...
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Markets react to Italian Election result
Yesterday I wrote Downgrade. What downgrade? As I questioned whether the UK losing its AAA rating would have much effect on either stock markets or exchange rates. It didn’t. In fact, trading in the...
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NeutrinoBI: big ambitions in data discovery
Start-up NeutrinoBI only launched its software in the market around 18 months ago but it’s already proving to be aptly named. It’s growing rapidly in the UK and internationally - although we concede...
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Profits halve at Robert Walters
The decline in global financial services permanent recruitment hit UK-headquartered but Asia-Pacific-led recruitment firm Robert Walters hard in 2012, with pre-tax profits almost halving to £7.7m on...
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Defence contractors: SITS progress
We are in the process of compiling an update to our Top 10 SITS providers to the UK defence & intelligence sector. It is, and will continue to be, one of the more difficult sectors for us to...
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Lessons from the music industry
Attentive and long term readers will know that I have used the music industry many times as an example of Diversity of Performance. Actually the music industry as a whole has done reasonably well over...
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Access goes social with Sazneo
Acquisitive Access Group is building up its SaaS assets following the launch of its aCloud platform last November (see Access Group takes to the cloud), with the acquisition of UK start-up Sazneo....
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Amor signs airport deal with Avinor
Scotland's AmorGroup is celebrating today having signed a strategically important deal for its airport management tool with Norwegian airport operator Avinor. The eight-year ‘multi-million’ pound...
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