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Alternative Networks buys Control Circle
AlternativeNetworks, a provider of mobile, networks, IT and billing solutions, has made its second acquisition in the IT services space in just two weeks with the purchase of Control Circle....
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Cloud and consumers help Microsoft perform in Q2
With revenue up 14% yoy to $24.5bn, Q2 was a good quarter for Microsoft but the numbers are just the sum of the operation not the movement, and the results presentation did not address the many...
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Highest UK SITS M&A activity for 7 years
There was a strong increase in UK software and IT services (SITS) merger and acquisition activity in 2013 to the highest level for seven years. According to data from corporate finance firm, Regent...
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Scisys' mixed performance continues
Scisys, the defence, space and media focused SITS provider, has posted an in line update for FY13, following a ‘mixed’ performance in H1 (see here). The enterprise solutions & defence (ESD) and...
View ArticleTechMarketView website upgrade
Please note that the TechMarketView website will be closed for maintenance from 8pm Friday 24th until noon Saturday 25th January to add new usability features for TechMarketView subscription service...
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Jobs
Youth employment – at every level – is a major passion of mine as many readers know. Youth unemployment, at c940,000, is still far too high and, in my opinion, is one of the biggest threats to all of...
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Prince's Trust and EMC Leadership Dinner
So many of TechMarketView’s readers and research clients are also Prince’s Trust supporters (can’t think how that happened..) So it was just so pleasing to see so many of you at the Leadership Dinner...
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Another day, another banking IT problem
Over the weekend Lloyds (along with Halifax, TSB and Bank of Scotland) lost part of its debit card and half its ATM services for three hours due to problems with some of its servers. This follows on...
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Apple feels the pain
As an Apple shareholder, it pains me to report that Apple shares have crashed c8% in after-hours trading as it missed expectations for iPhone sales in the all-important Christmas quarter and warned of...
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Callcredit calls in ‘Battler’ Coactiva
Privately-held UK-based consumer data services company Callcredit Information Group has acquired London-based information management consultancy Coactiva. Terms were not disclosed. Callcredit turned...
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Daily Internet in Race for Scale
Abby Hardoon, the MD of Daily Internet, the Nottingham based web hosting provider targeting SMEs is making faster progress as he tries to repeat the success in building Host Europe Plc (sold to Pipex...
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Deep thoughts on DeepMind
Google’s $500m purchase of UK-based DeepMind this morning – see Google goes deep into machine learning– has raised a number of issues. Today I have been asked “Is DeepMind yet another UK company...
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Google goes deep into machine learning
Google has added another software company to its portfolio. This time the subject is DeepMind, a UK-based start-up focussed on developing machine learning for use in commercial applications. Terms were...
View ArticleIndustryViews Quoted Sector 2013 Review
Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can download the latest edition of IndustryViews Quoted Sector to see our concise analysis and review of the stock performance of UK-listed...
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Makeham makes off at K3
No one can say he didn’t have a good – if eventful – innings, but even so I was a little surprised to see that Andy Makeham, CEO at Microsoft platform mid-market ERP VAR K3 Business Technology Group...
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Unit4: preparing to make its presence known
Unit4 got well and truly on board with what it describes as the “mega trends” (social, mobile, analytics and cloud - SMAC) at its strategy kick-off event a few days ago in Amsterdam, underlining its...
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Xerox Services goes into reverse
Xerox’s Q4 was yet another disappointment for the copier and IT/BP giant. We predicted that things would get worse for services last quarter (see Xerox tumbles on Q3 miss), and so it proved to be....
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Baby-step expansion for Clearswift
UK cyber security software provider Clearswift took the first step in its 2014 plan to grow the business and product line (see here) with a partnership with fellow security provider Blue Coat to...
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Did you miss something?
The tail end of 2013 saw a flurry of activity from the TechMarketView research team with the publication of a number of must-read reports. Here’s a reminder of some of the highlights in case you were...
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Logicalis CEO makes swift departure
We were pretty surprised to read in The Channel Register (see the story here) that Gary Bullard is leaving his role as CEO of Logicalis. Bullard was appointed CEO Designate in December, with the...
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