Review of reports and analysis from Q2 2013
Here, at TechMarketView, we publish much more than just your daily dose of UKHotViews. Loyal subscribers will be aware of the invaluable reports and insightful analysis we produce but we want to make...
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Microsoft: major restructuring into its final countdown
Speculation about the most major Microsoft restructuring in five years has been building for quite a while now and even though Microsoft has made no official comment as yet, things do appear to be...
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Tessella delivers third year of solid growth
Tessella continues to benefit from its unusual focus on the area where ‘science and complexity meet IT’. The privately-held provider of analytics, software services and consulting had another ‘record...
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End of the PC Era?
You can’t have missed the news today from Gartner and IDC who both recorded yet another fall in PC shipments in the latest quarter. Another 11% decline and the fifth quarterly decline in a row. Indeed,...
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Frontier Developments announces for AIM
It’s always heartening to see UK software companies develop so the announcement of the Frontier Developments IPO was very welcome. The video games development company, who was founded in 1982 and has...
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Government 'digital services' framework tender published
As pre-empted by a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in December, the UK’s Government Procurement Service (GPS) has published a tender for a nine-month “digital services” framework. Over the nine-month...
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Hays UK delivering 7% net fee growth
The UK business of recruitment firm Hays has bounced back from its recent declines (see Hays UK back to black), with fourth quarter net fee income (NFI) up 7% thanks to double-digit (12%) growth in the...
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InternetQ lives up to expectations
Providers in the mobile space should be performing well given current mobile trends and InternetQ, who provides mobile marketing and digital entertainment solutions for mobile network operators and...
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Serco and G4S reputations on line over tagging contracts
Serco and G4S are facing a real fight for their reputations after being accused by the Ministry of Justice of over-charging on their long-term offender tagging (electronic monitoring) services...
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EMIS in line at the half-way mark
Clinical software provider, EMIS, has updated the market on its performance for the first six months of the year (ending June 2013). For the period, revenue growth was in line with management...
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Experian on right track, despite slowdown
The Q1 report at global information services company Experian showed organic revenue growth at 7% across the Group (at constant exchange rates), down from 9% for the first quarter of last year. The...
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Microsoft reshaped – but is it enough?
In the widely anticipated restructuring plan, CEO Steve Ballmer has slimmed down the number of divisions, wants to unify products and services, and have all divisions work together towards a single...
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Regulatory certainty boosts London Derivatives business
Today’s FT carries good news for London-based Derivatives traders which will also have a significant impact on London as a financial centre and source of business for TechMarketView readers. US and...
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Robert Walters trounces Hays on UK growth
UK-headquartered recruitment firm Robert Walters once again showed much larger peer Hays a clean pair of heels in the UK market, with Q2 (to 30th June) net fee income up 16% compared to Hay’s 7% (see...
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The future starts again for Infosys
There would undoubtedl have been sighs of relief in the hallowed grounds of Electronics City, where stands the Bangalore headquarters of now third-ranked (by trailing 12 month revenues) India-centric...
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Tesla - What a beauty!
Tesla Motors is named after the Serbian-born American electrical engineer/inventor Nikola Tesla. Although some ten years old, Tesla only came into my consciousness a year back when Walter Price @ RCM...
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Change of pace at Access Intelligence?
First half results from Access Intelligence, the provider of SaaS solutions for corporate governance, risk and compliance, showed a positive EBITDA of £203,000 and an absence of exceptional...
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Civica extends education presence with Corero buy
Civica looks set to buy Corero Business Systems for £13m in a move that will extend Civica’s presence in the UK education SITS market and leave Corero focused on network security. The cash deal, which...
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ControlCircle: Growth and investment phase
We’ve just met up with ControlCircle CEO, Carmen Carey. The name might ring a bell as Carey was COO of MessageLabs several years back. ControlCircle is based in Canary Wharf and provides a range of...
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