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Another opportunity to join the TechMarketView team!
We are once again looking to recruit an analyst to join the ever-expanding TechMarketView research team. The ideal candidate will have at least three years’ experience researching the UK IT industry;...
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Autumn statement 2013
Three and a half years ago the Chancellor George Osborne set out his long-term economic plan in the Emergency Budget. One of the three strands of the plan focused on addressing the problem of...
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Autumn Statement 2013 - What a difference a year makes
For exactly 90 minutes today, the Chancellor could boast UK would be enjoying the fastest growth in the G7. Unfortunately the US then revised its growth forecasts putting them back at #1. Despite that,...
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Cloud ‘price war’ – who is it good for?
An interesting article in today’s FT (see here) highlighted the pressures that cloud-based infrastructure providers such as Amazon and Google are putting on traditional ‘earthbound’ IT suppliers. The...
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European tech M&A valuations stable
After two very active months for European TMT M&A, the number of deals dropped back by just over 7% to 283 in November, according to latest date from corporate finance firm, Regent Partners....
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More procurements supporting Cabinet Office aims
We’ve spotted a couple of UK public sector SITS procurement notices worthy of mention this morning.The first is the next in the increasingly long line of SIAM (Service Integration & Management)...
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Parity heads for more profitable year (may be)
After reasserting full control on the running of the business at half-time (see Swinstead takes tighter grip on Parity reins), Philip Swinstead, executive chairman of AIM-listed IT...
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Vodafone customer disservice
Apologies to all of you who have been trying to phone me on my mobile only to find the line is dead. In a masterful stroke of operational excellence, Vodadone disconnected my number and cancelled my...
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Vodafone customer service
I am delighted to say that normal service has been restored on my mobile (see Vodafone customer disservice). A charming lady from the “Vodafone Directors' Office” called me this afternoon to say they...
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John O’Connell departs eg Solutions
In a tersely worded statement issued this morning, it was announced that John O’Connell has resigned from the board of back office optimisation software provider eg solutions with immediate effect....
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Lynch backs Neurence
In my report US court rules HP shareholders can’t sue Mike Lynch on 28th Nov, Mike Lynch had told me to expect news from his Invoke fund soon. Today Lynch has announced an investment rumoured to be...
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Muted profits at Mphasis
Despite a much weaker Rupee, Mphasis, the ‘renegade’ offshore services business 60% owned by HP, saw EBITDA margins shrink by nearly two points to 17.8% in the FY closing 31st Oct. Headline revenues...
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SThree closes a muted year
All but preannouncing its FY results, Gary Elden, CEO of UK-headquartered international recruitment firm SThree, said it was “still too early to call a broadly-based recovery” in the economy. The...
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Anite feels market pressure in H1
Anite had signalled that its market was becoming tougher towards the end of H1, resulting in a profit warning for the period (see here). With the results for the six months to October 31 now released,...
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DataSift aggregates another $42m
Reading-based social media aggregator DataSift has picked up the pace with a further $42m of funding led by new investor Insight Venture Partners, along with others (all US-based). This is the third...
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HP and Norfolk County Council: Big data ambitions
Late last week Norfolk County Council (NCC) announced that it had awarded HP a £26m, five-year, contract (Digital Norfolk Ambition) to provide desktop, data centre and collaboration infrastructure...
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IBM to run Dexia’s IT
IBM announced that it will take a controlling stake in the IT services delivery arm of Dexia, the European banking group majority owned by the Belgian and French states, to build and manage the IT...
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IN DEPTH: HP and Norfolk County Council: Big data ambitions
As we highlighted in UKHotviews this morning - see HP and Norfolk County Council: big data ambitions - HP has won a £26m, five-year, contact with Norfolk County Council to support its Digital Norfolk...
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Where angels dare to tread!
We look towards the heavens in the latest edition of IndustryViews Venture Capital - our quarterly review of the start-up and venture capital side of the UK software and IT services market - with a...
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iomart marches on in H1
Hosting provider, iomart, has had a strong six months (period ending September 2013), with topline growth of 23% to £24.6m. The cloud hosting business, which saw revenues leap 31% to £19.1m, drove this...
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