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Microgen assesses its future
Following the struggles of the last financial year, which included a 17% slump in revenue (see here), Microgen is to undertake a strategic review over the coming months. Although it says the current...
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MXC Capital to help take Little British Battlers to the next level
We are delighted to announce that UK-based corporate finance firm MXC Capital is to become the first official partner for the TechMarketView Little British Battler (LBB) programme. MXC Capital is a...
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Quindell responds to ‘misinformed speculation and shorting’
Quindell Portfolio has had to issue its second response to the market since Friday (see here) following questions raised by investors and the press about its accounting techniques and underlying...
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Thomsons’ strong performance post ABRY investment
Pensions and benefts software consultancy Thomsons OnlineBenefits has released an impressive set of maiden results following its January buyout by private equity firm ABRY in (see Thomsons benefits...
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'Facebook for the Dead'
The number of storylines suggested by our readers would probably fill a second HotViews each day. But I was really interested to learn that iAnnounce had been bought by US Legacy.com. The UK site had...
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Capita ‘positive start’ to 2013
UK business process services market leader Capita said it has made a ‘positive start’ to 2013 securing four major contracts worth £660m in the first 19 weeks of the year. Although slower than this...
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Central government BPS experiencing major growth
UK central government looks set to be one of the stand out sectors for growth for the UK business process services (BPS) market over the next couple of years. This is thanks to a number of recent big...
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Industry-specific solutions emerging around 'big data'
The announcement of a co-innovation agreement between SAP and Capgemini around retail solutions built on SAP’s HANA platform was an interesting precursor to the SAP Sapphire conference. The agreement...
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Lombard Risk Management: surging in spite of regulatory delays
Lombard Risk Management has just delivered an impressive set of results for the year to March 31 2013, taking it back at the high growth levels it achieved back in the year to March 2011 (and a marked...
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TechMarketView Review
Over the last month the TechMarketView team of analysts has again been busy keeping you up-to-date with the latest market trends and developments starting with PublicSectorViews (PSV) research director...
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UK moves to growth
For the last six months I have had an increasingly uneasy feeling that what economists are telling me about the UK economy doesn’t fit with my own experiences. TechMarketView has just finished a year...
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CSC moves into profit as turnaround plan takes effect
CSC has made a welcome return to profitability in the year to end of March, as the turnaround plan instigated by President and CEO Mike Lawrie begins to bear fruit. Diluted EPS from continuing...
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Gresham Computing betting on CTC
Gresham Computing, the long established finance sector software and services provider talks of a “solid” start to its financial year, for the January to May 2013 period, on the back of its new Client...
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Logicalis growth supports Datatec
South Africa-based reseller and services player Datatec has had a mixed year. Results for the year to the end of February reveal 4% growth in revenue to $5.25bn and a 2.5% decline in EBITDA to $185.5m...
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Next iteration of Windows 8 previews in June
Microsoft has set the date - and the name - for the next iteration of Windows 8. Previously known as Windows Blue (see here), the update will be officially known as Windows 8.1 and previews will be...
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Serco delivering ‘excellent organic growth’ from BPO
Both the Global Services (BPO) business, and AMEAA market are apparently delivering 'excellent organic growth' for Serco so far in 2013. We assume this means BPO is at least meeting last year's 12%...
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UK data centres for the G-Cloud
Salesforce.com and Oracle have both announced plans to open UK data centres, decisions that are designed to increase their appeal to UK government and boost their G-Cloud profiles. At the start of the...
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Xchanging exits Deutsche Bank JV
Xchanging is selling one of its flagship enterprise partnership (EP) joint ventures Xchanging Transaction Bank GmbH (XTB) back to partner Deutsche Bank for €40.5m in cash. Deutsche Bank apparently...
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Amazon, Google and 'Doing good'
Back in Feb 13 I wrote a series of articles along the theme – Doing Good is Good for Business. I received a large and wholly supportive postbag as a result. Today we have seen two examples of companies...
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Invu – first profit in five years
Document management provider Invu is nibbling it way back to strength and although the rate is slow progress is apparent. The most welcome aspect of its full year results (to January 31 3012) was the...
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