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Mphasis drifts further from HP
The decline in business from its majority shareholder rolls on inexorably as Mphasis, the still separately listed (in India) offshore services firm, reports a further 9% sequential decline in revenues...
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Salesforce.com: losses pile up on expanding revenue
The divergence between Salesforce.com’s top and bottom lines is increasing, again raising the question of how long this pattern of rising losses can continue, despite its still soaring revenue...
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Shares Indices February 13
It’s been another positive month on the stock markets. The FTSE100 managed a 1.3% gain making 7.85% for the year so far. The FTSE Telcom Index was the only one of the indices we track to show a...
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TechMarketView – February review
February was a busy time in the SITS market so the TechMarketView analysts were busy bringing their insight on the latest moves. If you’re interested in who’s buying and investing in whom, then...
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"Make or Break"? How will the smaller IT support services firms fare in 2013?
2013 will be a “Make or Break” year for many firms operating in technology and IT services, including those in the IT support services market. Indeed, consider the devastating start to the year...
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Exl continues to deliver
After delivering an excellent performance last year driven by acquisition and organic growth (see Exl ‘excels’), offshore BPS pure play ExlService has delivered another strong set of results in...
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Instem shares boosted by US contract
Instem, the AIM-listed provider of IT applications to the early development healthcare market, saw its shares tick upwards following the announcement of a new contract in the US. The firm will provide...
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Make or Break: An evening with TechMarketView
If you haven’t already booked your tickets for the most important SITS event of the year, now is the time to do so! Tickets for TechMarketView’s 2013 Presentation and Dinner in June are selling like...
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NetDimensions acquires in healthcare
AIM-listed training systems provider NetDimensions has invested $3.5m to acquire talent management software provider eHealthcareIT, a provider of elearning and compliance software to the US healthcare...
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Sagentia moves forward after major contract suspension
Sagentia, the AIM-listed, Cambridge-headquartered multidiscipline R&D outsourcing firm chaired by Martyn Ratcliffe, seems to have got itself back on track in the second half of the year after a...
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‘2e2 Europe’ finds new home at Datatec’s Logicalis
FTI Consulting, who is managing the administration of 2e2, has found a new home for its subsidiaries in continental Europe (basically ex-Morse bits) at Logicalis, the IT solutions and managed services...
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Access Intelligence: expected losses confirmed
The grievous Cobent acquisition (see here) is still causing Access Intelligence problems although following major restructuring the losses associated with it are reducing. But it was still a...
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Another challenging year ahead for PageGroup
Echoing the words he used in the January trading update (see here), Steve Bingham, CEO of UK-headquartered international recruitment firm PageGroup (the ‘soft-rebranded’ Michael Page International)...
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Cloud UK 2013: going wider and deeper into the enterprise
2013 is shaping up to be a make or break year for cloud computing and the SaaS subsector. The challenge for suppliers is achieving wider and deeper infiltration into the structure of the UK’s public...
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TechMarketView subscription service clients can read our further analysis of Colt’s FY results in UKHotViews Extra here.
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Dow hits all time high - Apple still suffers
So, the Dow has ended tonight at an all-time high. NASDAQ closed at a level not seen since June 2000 – soon after the dot.com bubble burst, I thought (See Holway Share Portfolio – 2012 Annual Update)...
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JellyBook bubble bursts
In May 2011, I wrote FreeJellyBeans.com 2.0. Back in the crazy dot.com bubble days of 1999, I had invented a spoof www.freejellybeans.com (how to turn a silly internet idea into a $1b IPO in six...
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Serco’s BPS revenues grow 12% organically
After reviewing the mixed performance of UK rivals Capita and Xchanging (see Capita and Xchanging challenges on the road to recovery), Serco’s full year 2012 results show a strong performance from...
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InterQuest misses again
After issuing a further profit warning in November (see here), AIM-listed IT recruitment firm InterQuest even then missed its downgraded forecast. Net fee income (NFI – gross profit) fell by 2% to...
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Key client disables Enables contract
Sub-scale AIM-listed IT managed services player, Enables IT is about to become even more sub-scale, having announced the loss of a contract that generated nearly half the revenues of Nexus, the...
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