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Putting the business into social software
While social media is a roaring success in the consumer world and has found a worthwhile role in the B2C environment, it is still struggling to find a position within business. Its consumer roots have...
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RCM Technology Trust outperforms
This morning RCM Technology Trust (RTT) issued their interim report for the six months to 31st May 13. As readers will already know, as I have declared it numerous times, I have been a NED at RTT since...
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SocialGO going (finally)
We had basically thrown in the towel with AIM-listed, social media SaaS pure-play, SocialGO a month ago after reporting its disastrous FY results (see Where to start with SocialGo?). Now management has...
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SThree UK looking for ‘normal’
Maybe it’s because Gary Elden, CEO of UK-headquartered international recruitment group SThree, is still finding his feet in the role he took over in January that prompted his comment about the...
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Sword swings to the rescue of Active Risk
Sword Aquila, a subsidiary of IT services and risk management software provider Sword Group and created as an acquisition vehicle, is riding to the rescue of UK-based Active Risk with an £11.7m cash...
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Computacenter as expected in H1
Computacenter has issued a pre-close statement prior to announcing its full first half results at the end of August. Group revenue for the the six months to end June declined 2%, while Group services...
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GB Group: onwards and upwards
Following 7% organic revenue growth in the year to end March 2013 (see GB Group building scale, driving up revenue) trading update, self-styled identity intelligence specialist GB Group has reported a...
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Ideagen: vertical focus pays off
Ideagen, provider of compliance-based information management (CIM) software, has released its maiden full year results since floating on AIM at the beginning of July 2012 (see Ideagen joins AIM). Its...
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Kainos reports record revenue & profit growth
Erstwhile ‘Little British Battler’ Kainos has confirmed its record revenue and profit growth in the year to end of March ‘13. The application development and management specialist reports a 17%...
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We recently caught up with Mark Starkey, UK MD of reseller and services player, Logicalis (see New UK MD at Logicalis named). One of the central pillars of Starkey’s strategy is the growth of a “high...
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Money in them thar Apps
Last week Apple celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Apps Store. 50 billion downloads and £6.6 billion paid to developers. Android is catching up fast – 48 billion downloads to date. The Apps market...
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StatPro performing as expected
At the half year stage StatPro is in line with market expectations for revenue and profit, and customer numbers and subscriptions for the cloud-based Revolution offering are still climbing as it pulls...
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Telligent plus Zimbra: unified social collaboration
There was an interesting snippet from VMware, as it announced the sale of Zimbra, the email and collaboration company it acquired from Yahoo in 2010. Telligent, which provides social software for...
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UK public sector: BYOD adoption
In April 2012, our TechMarketView’s InfrastructureViews stream published a report entitled, “BYOT: opportunities and threats from disruption”. In this latest PublicSectorViews report, we look more...
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Civica wins South Worcestershire shared service
Civica has won a significant new deal for its platform BPS offering in local government revenues and benefits. The deal is with Malvern Hills District Council, Worcester City Council and Wychavon...
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iGate grows as CEO search continues
California-headquartered but India-centric IT services firm iGate got through its recent quarter (to 30th June) with seemingly no adverse impact on growth resulting from the unceremonious exit of CEO...
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Prince's Trust awarded biggest ever corporate donation from HSBC
As so many of our readers are Prince’s Trust supporters, like me, I am delighted finally to be able to announce that the Trust has received its largest ever single corporate donation from HSBC towards...
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Quindell swaps ‘equity swap’ for new investment
Quindell Portfolio has given in to pressure from investors and its tanking share price in May (see here), by getting out of its controversial equity swap arrangement with Accident Advice Helpline...
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Yahoo disappoints but rises on Alibaba stake
I remember when I started Richard Holway Ltd in 1986, it cost an absolute fortune to obtain any real time stock information. I dreamed of owning a Bloomberg or Reuters terminal at c£30,000 pa min. In...
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Yahoo soars
Further to my post last night – Yahoo disappoints but rises on Alibaba stake– Yahoo’s shares surged by 10.5% today. Not on Yahoo’s dismal results but as a way for investors to get a stake in what could...
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