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Samsung Galaxy Gear disappoints
Can I say that 1) I believe that the wearable computing market will be huge and 2) the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch announced tonight leaves me cold. But, to be fair, Google Glass leaves me cold too....
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Clearswift acting to ‘secure’ the future
Clearswift has been ploughing away since gaining backing from Lyceum Capital towards the end of 2011, when Martin Leuw (ex-Iris CEO) was appointed chairman (see here). Roughly 12 months later there was...
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iomart buys again with Redstation purchase
Hosting company, iomart, has purchased Hampshire-based Redstation– a provider of dedicated servers and bandwidth. iomart has paid £6.6m as an initial consideration, of which £5.1m has been paid in cash...
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Monitise, more substance
Full year results of Monitise, the UK-based Mobile Money specialist, show revenue up 102% to £72.8m, and EBITDA losses, nearly doubled, to £19.3m, but H2 losses represented a significant improvement,...
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SwiftKey moves swiftly with Series B funding
SwiftKey, the company name now adopted by Southwark-headquartered TouchType Ltd in honour of its popular predictive text app, has raised a further $17.5m (£11.3m) of funding in a Series B round led by...
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Tungsten shows its mettle with acquisitions and listing
Tungsten Corporation, the shell company founded by financial services entrepreneurs Edmund Truell and Danny Truell, is to burst onto the world stage (in theory, at least) with the breathless...
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UC criticism falls firmly on the client side
The National Audit Office, widely referred to as the UK Government’s spending watchdog, has published a damning report on the Department for Work & Pensions’ Universal Credits programme. To date,...
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Wipro confirms Singh as global consulting head
Following the untimely death earlier this year of Kirk Strawser, global consulting head at Bangalore-based Wipro (see here), the company has confirmed pro-tem head Roop Singh in the post. Singh, who...
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The wait is over as Yahoo unveils new logo
A month back in Excitement mounts at Yahoo! I told you how we just couldn’t contain our excitement about the forthcoming unveiling of the new Yahoo! logo. Indeed I said ‘if you only read Hotviews for...
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EMIS considering BPS move
An interesting conversation with EMIS's new CEO Chris Spencer points to an ambitious change of direction for the GP systems supplier. Following its recent acquisition of diabetic retinopathy screening...
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Quiet month for European tech M&A
There was the usual seasonal decline in M&A activity in the European tech sector in August, both in deal volumes and value, according to latest data from corporate finance firm Regent Partners....
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SAP ups the ante on HANA bundles
SAP is pushing hard to simplify procurement of its HANA offerings with new types of agreements with long time partners Accenture and HP. SAP and Accenture will be packaging up SAP HANA-based solutions...
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Summit makes a nice turn on Actix
There will be smiles on faces at Boston-headquartered private equity firm Summit Partners today with the news that it has sold its majority stake in Hammersmith-based mobile network performance...
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UK still in the doldrums at SThree
Recent optimistic views on the recovery in the UK economy do not seem to have filtered through to the recruitment sector at least as yet. SThree, the UK-headquartered international recruitment firm,...
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Finance for Growth - feedback
My Finance for Growth article last week produced one of the biggest ‘postbags’ we have ever had. As ever, most of the emails were ‘not for publication’. Although most of the responses were ‘in...
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Minecraft - a force for good?
Last week the makers of Minecraft announced that the game had over 33m users. I am not a great fan of computer games – particularly the ‘shoot ‘em up’ variety. But Minecraft seems to be quite...
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Brady – cloudy picture?
The detailed interim results of Brady Plc, supplier of trading and risk management software for metals, recycling, energy and soft commodities, were a bit of a mixed bag, as to be expected for a...
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FCO confirms Computacenter as preferred desktop bidder
We understand that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has selected Computacenter as preferred bidder for the department’s desktop infrastructure (DI) ‘tower’ contract. This follows the...
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Innovation extends UK subsidence business
Insurance BPS provider The Innovation Group (TIG) has won a contract extension with key UK customer Direct Line Group for newly notified subsidence claims. The deal expands TIG's growing UK subsidence...
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NEW report: Infrastructure Services Market Trends & Forecasts 2013
Today we launch our latest research into the UK Infrastructure Services market - the largest of the UK software and IT services four market segments. Overall, the infrastructure services market is set...
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