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Keep it short
News today that LinkedIn has acquired Pulse for c$90m had echoes of the recent high profile acquisition of UK-HQed Summly by Yahoo. See Teen dreams of tech. Both take news items and give shorter...
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CentraStage wins Norfolk schools deal
CentraStage, one of TechMarketView’s inaugural ‘Little British Battlers’, is celebrating further success in the UK education market having signed a key deal with Norfolk County Council. CentraStage’s...
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Fidessa warns of flat FY13
Fidessa’s juggling act of 2012 has continued into the first quarter of 2013, causing the company to warn that growth will be “challenging”. Headwinds from market conditions in the equities space, along...
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Logicalis UK: Services growth and evolution
We recently caught up with Mark Starkey – the new CEO of Logicalis UK. Logicalis is the reseller/services arm of publically quoted South African firm, Datatec. Starkey starts his new job at an...
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Exchange 2013
Chris Dines (past CEO at Ovum and now CEO of Knowledge Peers) has put together what looks to be a very interesting one day conference (the Exchange 2013). Chris has made a special offer for...
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France, Germany challenges 'robust' Michael Page
I suppose it depends on how you interpret 'robust', which is the term Steve Ingahm, CEO of UK-headquartered international recruitment firm PageGroup (the still ‘soft-rebranded’ Michael Page...
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Intel misses
Given our many warnings about the ‘slump’ in PC sales (See Windows 8 to blame for PC slump and work back), you really shouldn’t be that surprised that Intel has missed both profit and revenue...
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TCS – There's no place like Knome
What rather piqued my interest at today's TCS analyst event was the session led by Ashosh Krish, head of TCS' Web 2.0 Innovation Labs. Krish is the architect behind TCS' company social media platform,...
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Yahoo slips
Looks like the wonder trip that Yahoo's shares has been on since Marissa Meyer was appointed as CEO last July, might be over. After a 50% rise, Yahoo shares fell 4% in after hours trading as they...
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HCL sharp rise in Q3 profit
Having seen larger rival Infosys miss its Q4 and FY revenue targets last week (see Infosys limbos under the bar), fourth largest Indian HQ’d IT/BP player HCL Technologies beat its Q3 expectations,...
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TCS closes year with first $3bn quarter
There seems to be no stopping Mumbai-headquartered TCS, which finished the FY (to 31st March) with its first $3bn quarter ($3.04bn to be more precise), 15% higher yoy. This took headline FY revenues to...
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UK central government: NAO seeks sustainable savings
Today the National Audit Office published its report on the progress made by the Efficiency & Reform Group. While highlighting the value that ERG has provided to date, it also determines that ERG...
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Bearish Apple
Being a long term Apple supporter has become more testing in the last six months. Indeed, I sold half my shareholding sometime ago as my nerves reached fraying point. From a high of $705 in Sept 12,...
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GB Group 'identifies' positive FY messages
Nothing but positive news from identity management specialist GB Group this morning. Its trading update for the year to 31st March 2013 shows revenues up 24% to 39.4m, adjusted operating profit up 49%...
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Google exceeds expectations
After Google shares had slumped by 2.2% during the day, they immediately rebounded after hours with the release of Q1 results and are currently up 1%. Q1 results exceeded expectations. Revenues rose...
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Nokia…
Today Nokia announced a 20% revenue decline to $5.9b in Q1 – a long way short of the $6.5b expected. This time a really massive 21% slump in sales of their ‘dumbphones’ was blamed; as their Numia...
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NCC Group and its moving parts
There was a mixed trading update from escrow and assurance provider NCC Group this morning as several unrelated factors impacted performance. Although it is still delivering growth, the rate has...
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Quindell takes aim at US market
Quindell Portfolio’s ambitions continue unabated following recent big wins in the UK (see here and here). It is now eying opportunities across the pond with the acquisition of Canadian property and...
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WANdisco still soaring
Bookings are still heading upwards at a robust rate at WANdisco, with a 96% yoy increase for Q1 2013 taking subscription revenue to $3.04m, on top of the 76% lift in Q4 2012 (see here) and 71% for...
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WNS Q4 shows further progress
WNS' recent progress (see WNS Q3 looking better, but challenges remain) has continued in Q4. The offshore BPO pure play grew revenue less repair payments (RLRP) 13% to $112.8m, and its adjusted net...
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