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Harvey Nash still springing ahead
It’s only been a month since international recruitment, outsourcing and offshoring firm, Harvey Nash, reported its rather pleasing FY results (see A definite spring in Harvey Nash’s step), so we...
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Serco buys Intelenet for offshore BPO entry
Support services and BPO giant Serco has made its first major foray into offshore BPO. It is acquiring Mumbai, India-based Intelenet Global Services for a total of £385m, which will give it an...
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Capita makes healthcare recruitment buy
Following hot on the heels of its acquisition of Call Centre Technology (see Capita acquires call centre partner), Capita has bought healthcare recruitment firm Team24 Limited for a total potential of...
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Into the iCloud
It’s amazing what hold Apple now has. ‘An announcement of an announcement’ makes the front page of Financial Times and about 600 other news reports within an hour. As we reported a week ago – Another...
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Nokia tumbles
Nokia shares fell by 18% today as (the Financial Times says) Embattled Nokia hit by profits warning. "Even my Nokia's standards, it was a stunner" said Lex. The forecast 6-9% operating margin in their...
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Share indices in May
Sell in May and go away? So far that wouldn’t have been such a bad thing to do with both the NASDAQ and FTSE100 down over 1% in the month. Indeed the FTSE100 has given up most of its gains on the year....
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Iomart sweats more revenue and profit
AIM-listed, acquisitive, multi-brand (eight and counting!) hosting play, Iomart, seems to be pulling the right levers to sweat the assets. Revenues for the year to 31st March soared by 38% to £25.3m,...
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Xchanging exchanges US business for cash
Following the more promising update from Xchanging last month (see Xchanging’s reshaping gets underway), Xchanging has now sold off Cambridge Integrated Services Group (CISG), its troubled US workers’...
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Pilat and the perils of FX
The perils of being a small UK software player serving mostly international markets does rather leave you at the mercy of currency exchange rates. Such was the case for London-based supplier of...
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Digital Barriers builds first FY
In its maiden set of annual results, Digital Barriers, the ‘buy-and-build’ homeland security market specialist run by ex-Detica CEO Tom Black, reported revenue of £6.6m, for the thirteen months ended...
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Event of the Year?
I was very pleased to learn today that the Intellect Regent Conference has been short-listed for the ‘Event of the Year’ by the Trade Association Forum. Now in its 17th year, winning the award would be...
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No froth here
I’ve written many articles and answered many questions from the media, customers and at conferences about whether we are in another ‘Bubble’. After the “Dot.com Bubble” of the late 1990s, many think we...
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Service Birmingham considers offshoring
The BBC’s Today Programme is headlining on news that up to 100 'back office technical' jobs are to be offshored to India from Service Birmingham, Birmingham City Council’s IT and BPO joint venture with...
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Groupon to IPO
So Groupon is to be the latest in the IPO rush centred around social technologies. The IPO would raise $750m and might see a valuation for Groupon of c$20b. Groupon generated revenues of $713m and made...
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Colt to stand and deliver!
At the 2010 Regent Conference a year and more ago, I regaled the audience with a very personal view of how I thought the IT services world would look in 2020 (see 2020 Vision – IT Services: Visioners,...
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SocialGo yet to see the ‘value’ in social media
The stratospheric valuations blessing the major social networking players have yet to rub off on AIM-listed social media SaaS pure-play, SocialGo (see SocialGo – the DIY social network). The company...
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TechMarketView RoundUp
It's been another busy couple of weeks at TechMarketView. We published three UKHotViewsExtra comments exclusively for our Foundation Service subscribers. In HP’s services margins in the clouds, our...
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Calyx acquires (twice)
We didn’t think we’d have to wait long to see M&A activity from Calyx, which you may remember is backed by Jon Moulton’s investment fund Better Capital and led by CEO Fiona Timothy (whose...
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Hexaware comes into radar range
To be honest, I haven’t been paying much attention to India-based Hexaware for quite some time. I had met management in India while I was in equities research, but as the company is a relatively small...
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iCloud sounds the death knell for the PC?
Within 30 minutes of Apple's Steve Jobs leaving the stage of the WWDC Conference, over 1600 news items on iCloud appears on Google News. So I won’t give you a blow-by-blow account of all the new...
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