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Rugby talk with Serco Global Services
We attended a breakfast briefing yesterday held by Serco Global Services, the 62,000 person-strong BPS division of Serco, where we learned a lot more about its growth plans having recently completed...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 taking the 'cool' from Apple
Having written Samsung takes Apple’s crown and been quoted extensively on my views, I guess I better ‘close the loop’.Samsung launched the new Galaxy S4 in Radio City Music Hall in New York last night...
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Defriending Facebook's COO
Sheryl Sandberg is the COO at Facebook. I’ve only met her once in May 11 – See My dinner with Sheryl Sandberg. I was suitably impressed. Well, she is an impressive person. Now, please note I wrote‘an...
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Populo depopulates
While it was great to bring you a ‘good news’ story emanating from the demise of 2e2 (see How 2e2 Isle of Man became Argon Technologies), I fear that these will be in the minority. We have just been...
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Raspberry Pi 'Made in Britain'
I was really pleased to read Raspberry Pi swaps production back to the UK in today’s FT. The Pi is to be built by the UK’s Premier Farnell’s Element 14 in the Sony factory in Wales. There is...
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Slump?
The news from Cyprus was quite alarming. Savers throughout Europe - including the UK - were led to believe their deposits were protected up to Euro100,000/£85,000. Looks like that rule can be discarded...
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Bango and the investor from Mars
I suggested to Ray Anderson, CEO of AIM-listed, Cambridge-based mobile payments and analytics player, Bango, that if the proverbial investor from Mars landed on Earth and read through today’s FY...
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Datatec reduces year-end forecasts again
South Africa-based reselling and services player, Datatec, has updated the market on its expected performance for its financial year to the end of February 2013. Revenues will be in the $5.2bn-$5.3bn...
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dotDigtial: better to wind down dotAgency than sell
SaaS-oriented digital marketing software and IT services specialist dotDigital has confirmed that it is getting out of the marketing services business as previously indicated (see dotDigital dumping...
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K3 taps investors for additional funds
K3 Business Technology Group is raising £2.7m through a placing of new shares to existing and new institutional investors. The money is earmarked to reduce its borrowings and contribute to working...
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Ubisenses a better year ahead
After resetting market expectations a couple of times during last year, Richard Green, CEO of AIM-listed, Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company Ubisense predicted ‘continued growth’...
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Adobe clawing back on revenue, but costs hit profits
Q1 revenue at Adobe squeaked past the $1bn mark to £1.01bn and although it was down on the year ago figure of $1.04bn, it exceeding Adobe’s own estimates of $950m to $1bn. The market rewarded it with a...
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Anthony Miller joins board of Intellect
I’m absolutely delighted to report that Anthony Miller, Managing Partner of TechMarketView LLP, has been elected by popular vote to the Board of Intellect – the main trade association for our sector....
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Budget 2013
The defining feature of the Budget 2013 is the halving of the expected growth rate (to just 0.6%) in 2013 with a tepid 1.8% growth forecast for 2014. It also looks like the debt is continuing to rise....
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Delayed roll outs scupper eg Solutions
Back office optimisation software provider eg Solutions had a sharp shock towards the end of the year when roll outs were delayed pending the outcome of partnership negotiations with Aspect, which...
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East quits ARM
I’ve always thought that the ultimate insult is when your share price goes UP when you announce your resignation. Readers of Hotviews down the years will be able to recall some notable examples....
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Butterfield looking to start another ITSA
Judging from the latest update on his LinkedIn page, IT recruitment ‘veteran’ Jon Butterfield is set to start all over again in the ITSA (IT staff agency) business. In January Butterfield parted...
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Customer acquisition strategy working for Sopheon
Sopheon continues to haul itself back into shape with progress on new customer acquisitions producing a beneficial effect on profitability, but profit levels remain low and the flow of business is...
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EMIS mixed fortunes in full year
Having announced the retirement of long-term CEO Sean Riddell last month following a surprise year-end warning (see EMIS CEO to retire and work back), it was a sad end to an otherwise successful year...
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Oracle blindsided in Q3
Oracle was punished in after hours trading for disappointing Q3 results that failed to meet market expectations and were awash with flat or declining performance across multiple areas. Shares fell 8%....
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