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Sophos responds to investor demand
Sophos is in demand. According to media reports, the UK-based security specialist is to carve out part of a $400m loan (£243m/€296m at current exchange rates) for syndication in euro’s, opening up...
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Startup success is a ‘moot’ point for DrawQuest
Rather than me trying to extract the essence from the excellent TechCrunch article, I suggest you read it for yourselves as it presents yet another object lesson for entrepreneurs – and investors –...
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Ubisense set to hit FY expectations
Ubisense, the AIM-listed provider of real time location intelligence technology, has issued a trading update for the year to the end of December 2013. The second half of the year was a period of...
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All going to plan at Escher
Escher Group is expected to report in line results for the year to December 31 2013 according to the latest trading update, which translates to revenue growth of 8%, taking it to $24.7m, but adjusted...
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Blur blurs the numbers
If I didn’t know better I would say that today’s year-end trading update from online business services exchange blur Group was a veiled profit warning – though perhaps that’s a bit of an oxymoron for a...
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CA Technologies: working its plan
CA Technologies saw a 3% decline in revenue to $1.16bn in Q314, while net income fell 8% to $232m but it was still a ‘solid’ quarter according to CEO Mike Gregoire because the company outperformed on...
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EMIS connects for health
It was at the beginning of 2011 that we spoke to EMIS about the foundations it was putting in place to serve the needs of a joined up healthcare sector (see EMIS laying foundations in cross...
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IBM in its own Race for Change
Q4 figures announced yesterday continued the theme of the consistent ebb in IBM’s fortunes, at least in revenue terms. Total revenue fell by 5% to $27.7bn for the quarter. Hardware sales again fell...
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Sage – IMS shows continued progress
Another Race for Change is happening in the transformation of Sage as it also wrestles with the impact of Cloud-based competition and searches out growth areas of a business where it has historically...
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"We all drink out the same soupbowl"
Back in 2000, I sold Richard Holway Ltd to Ovum and received a ‘substantial’ amount of cash in return. My financial adviser said that although I could get 7% interest on this at the time I should...
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80 per cent to desert Facebook by 2017?
Yesterday Facebook hit an all time high at $58. It IPOed at $38 but sank to $16 soon afterwards. So you’d think that everyone thought the longterm future of Facebook was Hunky-Dory? Every conversation...
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Arria – one for true believers
You really do have to have faith in the ‘big data’ movement to be an investor in oil and gas industry ‘natural language generation’ software firm Arria. The company listed on AIM at the end of last...
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Brady trading update
Two weeks ago we commented on Brady’s progress in signing new contracts and positive view of 2014 (see More fuel for Brady’s slow burn). Today they presented a formal trading update which underlines...
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IBM confirms sale of x86 server business to Lenovo
After much speculation in the press (and following the announcement of IBM’s FY13 results yesterday), it has been confirmed that Lenovo is to acquire IBM's x86 server business. The agreement covers...
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Is Just Eat a tech company?
The FT today headlines Just Eats whets investor appetites as it looks to deliver £900m IPO. Just Eat is ‘the largest online takeaway group in the UK…Its mobile-optimised service allows users to...
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Mastek holds steady
It’s been a bit of a struggle for Mumbai-headquartered offshore services firm Mastek as its IT services business comes under increasing pressure from demand slowdown. Nonetheless revenues crept up by...
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Nakama rethinks meaning of life
Troubled digital media and IT recruitment minnow, Nakama (see Nakama still battling profit woes), is looking to sell itself either to AIM IT staffing firm ReThink Group or to privately held IT &...
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StatPro – Progress, but still a way to go
2014 will be the year when the commercials of cloud services come under increasing scrutiny (see our Predictions piece) and StatPro will be tested as it shifts its business entirely to Cloud. The...
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Thoughtonomy gets Blue Prism thinking
We had a very interesting conversation with Thoughtonomy this week – a new automation software player launched in June 2013 by former IPsoft UK MD CEO Terry Walby. Thoughtonomy is making a play to...
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TCS looks to the verticals
In our recently published Supplier Landscape (for more information, see here) we highlight the need for Financial Services companies to reduce costs and accelerate the pace of change by using standard...
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