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All change in the NHS
The biggest changes to the shape of the NHS in England in more than twenty years formally came into effect April 1. The changes, which were first outlined in the Government’s ‘Liberating the NHS’ white...
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Digital Barriers: strong sales momentum
Provider of advanced surveillance technologies, Digital Barriers, has released a trading update for the financial year ended 31st March 2013. We spoke to Managing Director, Colin Evans, this morning,...
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First Derivatives and its “significant” H2
Despite signing a “significant” new contract in December 2012, H2 performance at First Derivatives, the provider of software and services to the capital markets, is expected to be broadly in line with...
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NEW RESEARCH: Telcos in the UK infrastructure services market
Telecoms providers serving the UK market have for some time attempted to identify ways to offset their traditional, declining voice revenue streams. However, as they have discovered, the transition...
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TechMarketView – March review
Following our second annual Little British Battlers event in February, TechMarketView’s team of analysts ‘put pen to paper’ to synthesise their views on those companies that took part. Just 12 were...
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Univeral Credits: in the spotlight again
Just before the Bank Holiday weekend, the Department for Work & Pensions published a press release updating on the Universal Credits Programme’s ‘pathfinder’ (or pilot) schedule. The result, over...
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Arvato takes on East Cheshire HR shared service
Hot on the heels of its recent landmark win at the Department for Transport (see arvato confirmed as DfT shared service partner), Germany-based BPS giant arvato has now signed a deal with East Cheshire...
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Bond International inches forward
The prelim full year results statement from HR and payroll software and services provider Bond International was notable for the most curious comment. Referring to 5% yoy growth in recurring revenue...
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Quindell wins RAC, buys again and updates
It seems hardly a day goes past without us mentioning Quindell Portfolio (see here and work back). However this time Quindell appears to have hit the jackpot with the announcement of the long-awaited...
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Six Degrees hopes 13 is a lucky number
Voraciously acquisitive mid-market managed data and network services group Six Degrees (6DG) has chalked up its 13th acquisition since its founding in 2011 (see here and work back), buying London based...
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Angels believe in Flexiant
I caught up last week with John Pocock, chairman of Edinburgh-based 'cloud orchestration' software firm Flexiant. Mature readers may also recall that Pocock was CEO of consultancy Druid which was...
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Cisco buys Ubiquisys
Although it’s a bit out of our area, I was interested to read that Cisco had bought Wiltshire-based Ubiquisys for $310m. Ubiquisys provides“small cell telecoms technology which uses local hubs to...
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Mobile advertising
Since 2007 I have been a non-exec director of RCM Technology Trust (RTT.L). Yesterday we held our AGM. AGM’s are ‘interesting’ as they are attended by retail investors. The institutional investors...
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Facebook Home is no MyTop
I said yesterday in Mobile Advertising that I would update you today on the Facebook mobile announcement. I also warned that, as the FT said, you were likely to be “under whelmed”. Actually I think...
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Intercede updates, no more surprises
Having warned in February on full year revenue and profits (see Intercede warns on fiscal cliff), identity management software provider Intercede doesn’t have any more nasty surprises to spring the...
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Lincolnshire plans second generation BPS
Lincolnshire County Council’s plans to retender its long-standing BPO contract with Mouchel could prove yet another blow to the now bank-owned company (see Mouchel shareholders lose their penny)....
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More change at the top of HP
Last night HP’s Chairman (ex-Oracle Ray Lane) and two of HP’s longest serving non exec directors (John Hammergren and Ken Thompson) resigned from the board. The US ISS had advised shareholders to vote...
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Feeling a bit poorer
If you check the value of your investments or pension today, you’ll probably find you are somewhat poorer than you were a week ago. The FTSE100 fell 2.5% last week and our FTSE SCS index was down...
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Fujitsu buys into the process integration cloud
Fujitsu has just finalised an interesting acquisition in the cloud space with the purchase of France-based RunMyProcess (RMP), for an undisclosed sum. Although it will be a small acquisition in...
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Margaret Thatcher
It is with great sadness that I learned of the death of Margaret Thatcher. There are probably relatively few readers of HotViews who were working in the 1960s and 1970s as I was. I well remember trying...
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