Apple slumps
The market obviously wasn't too impressed when Apple launched two new iPhones last night. Shares down nearly 6% today so far. If Apple had slashed the entry price for the 5C, I suspect they would have...
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Lockheed Martin acquires Amor Group
It’s a week of big news for Lockheed Martin’s UK IT business on HotViews this week. This morning it was the winning of the Ministry of Justice SIAM contract (see Lockheed preferred SIAM bidder at MoJ)....
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Calling all Little British Battlers!
Are you the CEO of a small, UK-owned software or IT services company punching above its weight? Are you battling to carve out your fair share of local or overseas markets? Once again TechMarketView not...
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IBM exits customer services BPO (update)
IBM is often an innovator in the markets it sets out to dominate. So the news that it is now disposing of its global customer services BPO business to US-based IT distributor and BPO player SYNNEX is a...
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iGate snaps up ex-Infosys exec for CEO job
As had been widely mooted in the Indian media, Ashok Vemuri, who resigned from Infosys a couple of weeks ago as Head of Americas and Global Head of Manufacturing & Engineering, has joined iGate as...
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Lockheed acquires Amor: *UPDATE*
Following yesterday’s announcement that Lockheed Martin has acquired AmorGroup (see Lockheed Martin acquires Amor Group), we have just had chance to catch up with Amor’s COO, Scott Leiper, and Lockheed...
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Where next for CA Technologies?
CA Technologies is one of the stalwarts of the enterprise software sector but demonstrates some of the challenges long-established vendors have when adapting to the cloud environment. It is very much a...
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Huddle pushes boundaries on cloud collaboration
Huddle has stretched enterprise collaboration boundaries with the launch of its Connected Desktop, virtualising the desktop and running it in the cloud. As CEO Alastair Mitchell explained, the release...
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Dell ding dong done and dusted
All it took was 20 minutes for Dell shareholders to ratify the $24.8bn buy-out by its Silver Lake-backed eponymous founder, some 7 months after the bid was formally announced (see here). Michael Dell...
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EMIS buys hospital systems player Ascribe
Having hinted at significant changes ahead when we spoke to him last week (see EMIS considering BPS move), Chris Spencer, EMIS’ CEO of two months, is making a big move with the acquisition of UK...
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Ray Dolby
Listen! Can you here the hiss? You can’t any more! That was thanks to electronics designer Ray Dolby, who died yesterday aged 80. Back in the ‘60s Dolby’s pioneering sound processing technology...
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Speaking opportunities at IP EXPO
We are always happy to give a little airtime on UKHotViews for events that we think might help UK software and IT services start-ups reach a wider audience. Such is the case for IP EXPO, the...
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Steria on track for major Government shared services deal
We heard on Friday that Steria had been selected as preferred bidder for the Government’s second Independent Shared Services Centre (ISSC2), but we chose not to report on it as there hadn’t been any...
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ACS grows as CSH acquisition beds down
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) has seen good growth in the first half and is performing ‘in line with management expectations’. It’s encouraging to see that the integration of Computer Software...
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Bond rebalancing around SaaS
HR and payroll software and services provider Bond International is in the midst of an important strategic shift to delivering its software as a service (Saas), which for now is having a negative...
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Brazil’s island of innovation
My recent trip back to Brazil included a visit to the country’s largest tech hub, Porto Digital, in Recife, the state capital of Pernambuco. No glistening towers of hi-tech ostentation here – Porto...
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Changing of the guard at HP UK
We’ll be very sorry to see him leave our fair shores, but it’s just been announced that HP UK MD Nick Wilson is off to Oz in November to run HP’s operations in South Pacific region. Nick took over as...
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Corero digs deeper
This will be the last time that the results of AIM-listed network security play Corero Network Security will be flattered by its only profitable division, Corero Business Systems (CBS), having sold the...
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K3 looking for investments to pay off
K3 Business Technology Group had already warned over FY13 (see K3 warns on full year profits due to retail slide) and although it met revised expectations it was a hard haul as costs rose while the...
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Lynch backs Darktrace
Invoke Capital, the $1bn early stage tech fund established by Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch OBE, has made its first investment, reported to be worth up to $20m in Cambridge-based cybersecuirty firm,...
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