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Adobe action highlights post-subscription file access
Adobe took a bold step recently when it announced that future releases of its creative applications (beyond Creative Cloud 6.0) would only be available via the Creative Cloud, its online subscription...
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Andy Parker, Capita’s CEO in-waiting?
Andy Parker, Capita’s joint COO, is being promoted to take on the additional role of deputy CE from 1 June. This is a new role reporting directly to CE Paul Pindar, which Pindar said would give him...
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Coronation Day 2nd June 1953
This weekend I guess we will all be subjected to a large dose of nostalgia as we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation on 2nd June 1953. I was six. My earliest recallable memory is of that...
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EDP clings to growth in H1
Industry stalwart EDP who supplies software and services to the UK wholesale distribution market and sales intelligence software on a wider basis, ended the half year (to March 31 2013) with revenue up...
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Mary Meeker's Internet Trends
I know many of you have been to one of my ‘State of the ICT Nation’ speeches over the last several millennia. I have to admit that I doubt if there has been one where I haven’t ‘nicked’ an idea,...
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Now Netsuite is raising cash
Netsuite is tapping investors for cash and plans to offer $270m worth of unsecured convertible senior notes due in 2018 to institutional buyers. The plan is to use the proceeds for working capital and...
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BPaaS/SaaS HR – through the NorthgateArinso lens
Market intersections are valuable spaces to occupy and HR and payroll specialist NorthgateArinso (NGA) has positioned itself so that it is situated across several points of change and intersection....
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BT Global Services: More profit in the pipeline?
Further to the release of BT’s FY12/13 results on May 10th (see BT GS finally creeps over the FY profit line), we have been given a little more information on how BT Global Services has performed and...
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DoH issues new GPSoC framework
The Department of Health has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the eagerly awaited new GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) framework (see OJEU here), which it expects to be worth between £325m and...
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Harvey Nash 'on track' despite profit slug
Headline numbers for UK-based international recruitment, outsourcing and offshoring firm, Harvey Nash looked pretty reasonable for Q1 (to 30th May), with revenues 12% up and gross profit 7% higher yoy....
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Investors put faith and funds into blur
blur Group, who listed on AIM in October 2012 with a £4m placing (see here), is raising £7.6m from a placing of new shares. The money will be used for new customer acquisition and to develop the...
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MJV sets off on European journey
I caught up the other day with Jason Tavaria, recently appointed as CEO, Europe for Brazil-headquartered 'design thinking' consultancy MJV (see MJV gets creative with ‘Design Thinking’). Tavaria has a...
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More SaaS and a new market for Access Group
True to its promises business software provider Access Group is continuing to bulk up its SaaS assets, accelerating the pace through a series of acquisitions (see here). It has just added PeoplePlanner...
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Facebook 'passing fad'?
I was quoted in Murad Ahmed’s Facebook may be a ‘passing fad’ as growth in users flattens out article in The Times today as follows: According to the (comScore) figures, the number of people visiting...
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Share Indices May 2013
At one stage I thought the old adage “Sell in May and Go Away” was going to be true this year. But, apart for a few days of high drama when the indices “went up and down like a…”, it all ended ‘in...
View ArticleDell board looks back for its future
The headline says it all (see Infosys goes back for its future). On Friday the Dell board filed its intent to recommend the offer from Michael Dell and Silver Lake to take the company private at...
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Infosys goes back for its future
There's been something akin to a palace coup at Bangalore-headquartered offshore services major, Infosys. The board has (re)installed revered founding leader and current Chairman Emeritus NR Narayana...
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GB Group building scale, driving up revenue
Identity management specialist GB Group delivered on the positive messages it has been pumping out over the last 12 months, despite operating in a competitive landscape. It ended the year to March 31...
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Phoenix aims to rise again
As expected, FY results from infrastructure services firm, Phoenix, were not a pretty sight. Even allowing for the (hopefully) exceptional £68m charge for accounting regularities at mid-market arm...
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Convergence
The line between what constitutes an ICT and retail and media company gets more blurred as time passes. Where do you fit Amazon, Google, eBay etc.? Last week we saw Ocado do a deal with Morrisons to...
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