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The Steve Ballmer countdown begins
After a 33 year stint at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer (57) will leave the company within 12 months. Many in the industry have been saying his time has passed (including us) but the announcement is still a...
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VISA Europe – holding the best cards?
With the payments industry undergoing dramatic change, Nicolas Huss, the new Chief Executive of Visa Europe, will find the company in a strong position when he takes over from Peter Ayliffe at the end...
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Welcome increase in GCSE ICT entries
I was delighted today to read that the number of youngsters taking GCSE ICT increased by 38% this year to 73,500. Interestingly, although the number of girls taking ICT dropped from 46% to 44%, 30.9%...
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EE - The life-saver
When we returned from a week’s holiday on Saturday, the BT business line line which carries our broadband line was down. BT fixed this first thing on Bank Holiday Monday - good service. The line was...
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GCSE Computing = more coders
Several readers have emailed me as a result of my Welcome increase in GCSE ICT entries post last week to point out the vast difference between GCSE ICT and GCSE Computing. Roger Graham’s grand...
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Thoughts on the future of Microsoft post Ballmer
So Steve Ballmer is to step down as CEO at Microsoft. All the media seemed to express ‘surprise’. I’m only surprised that it hadn’t happened years before. I was quoted by Nic Fildes in The Times on...
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Baring Asia set to take control of Hexaware
Baring Private Equity Asia is set to take control of Mumbai-headquartered IT and BPO services firm Hexaware, in a deal that sees founding chairman Atul Nishar and leading investor General Atlantic sell...
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Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can download the latest edition of OffshoreViews,our concise review of the major India-centric IT services firms here.
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DRS: revenues down but strategy on track
SITS provider to the education, election and census sectors, DRS Data and Research Services, reported a revenue decline in H113 of 26.7% to £6.6 million. However, there was an increase of 7% for its...
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The Challenge of Mobile Banking Regulation
Pity the Regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority has published its interim report into the regulation of Mobile Banking, with the aim of protecting consumers, banks and other market participants...
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Workday Q2 follows form
Workday’s Q2 results followed form for a SaaS pure play with revenue ahead of expectations and losses climbing alongside. The HR specialist (who is now moving into financials) ended Q2 with revenue up...
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Prince's Trust ICT Leaders' Forum
Last year I gave my last ‘State of the ICT Nation’ (see The Last Time) speech for the Prince’s Trust after raising some £1m since the first in 2002. But the annual get together of everybody who is...
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Banking sector still holding back Hays UK
Confirming its FY results preview last month (see here), UK-headquartered, international recruitment firm Hays saw its UK business return to profit. However, CEO Alistair Cox advised that Banking and...
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Few GCSE Computing entrants
A final follow-up to my Welcome increase in GCSE ICT entries and GCSE Computing = More Coders posts last week. As I reported there was a 38% increase in the number of entries for GCSE IT related GCSEs...
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New research: ESAS Market Trends & Forecast 2013
When two mature markets come together the dynamics change and assumptions about the role of each type of supplier come under harsh scrutiny. This is exactly what we are seeing in the ESAS market as...
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Pilat Media: costs rise on back of new contracts
Pilat Media, the provider of software to the media industry, had a comfortable H1 with revenue moving upwards on the back of new contracts, but as indicated in the last management update (see here) it...
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Serco CE 'saddened and appalled' by latest allegations
Serco’s first half 2013 results were pretty well overshadowed by news that it is now under police investigation for alleged fraud on its Prisoner Escorting and Custodial Services (PECS) contract with...
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Vodafone soars on possible Verizon stake sale
Vodafone shares have soared in early trading – up over 8% (now 33% YTD) as I write – on an announcement that they are in negotiation about a sale of their stake in Verizon. The 45% stake could be worth...
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Yorkshire relish HP source
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS), the UK’s second largest building society, and HP Enterprise Services yesterday announced the establishment of a Shared Service alliance to provide other financial...
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TCS to replace BT at SIA
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged itself what looks like a good fit for it in the UK public sector. An OJEU notice confirms TCS as the winner of £13 million, five-year, IT managed services...
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