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How the mighty are fallen
So News Corp have managed to offload MySpace at last. Reports reckon ad-agency Specific Media have paid c$35m in stock and cash. Basically looks like News Corp wanted shot at any price. Back in 2005...
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Parseq warns on weak BPO business
Following Parseq's mixed messages to the market in April (see Parseq sends mixed messages), another warning seemed inevitable. And so it came to pass. The AIM-listed software and BPO provider for the...
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Invu heading in the right direction
The pain hasn’t stopped for UK document management software provider Invu, but it is lessening according to full year preliminary results for the period ending 31st January 2011. Losses are down and...
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Smart Meter Madness (5)
The article in today’s FT on the recent National Audit Office report on Smart Metering only goes to strengthen my views on this subject (see Smart Meter Madness (4) and work backwards). According to...
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British jobs for British workers...
There is one subject that is guaranteed to get a ‘full postbag’ here at TechMarketView. That’s all aspects of offshoring and, in particular, the use of the visa system to bring relatively...
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Capita gains 8,000 with Ventura deal
Capita is upping the M&A stakes significantly with its takeover of customer management BPO rival Ventura - with 8,000 employees, Ventura is Capita's biggest acquisition of people to date. The deal,...
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Keep taking the tablets
Competition for the Apple iPad and the tablet ecosystem market is getting really interesting. A miscellany of news items that caught my eye this week: - JK Rowling, who had been very anti ebook,...
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Apple service update
My post earlier this week - Apple service - produced a significant response. Looks like I was not alone is raving about Apple's service levels. So many tales of smashed or out-of-warranty devices being...
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Atos consummates marriage with ‘The Asset’
Deep joy. Today (1st July) is the day that Atos Origin finally got its hands on Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS). We wish the happy couple much success for the future. (Cue music.)
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Further to my post on Zynga – Money for Nothing but the Chicks aren’t free – The IPO - the IPO papers have now been lodged. The estimate of $850m revenues in 2010 were wide of the mark. They were...
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Share indices in June
It was a very quiet month on the stock market, with the FTSE 100 ending June about 1% lower than at the end of May. Our main tech indices pretty much followed suit, with SCS (Software & Computer...
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Corero’s ‘orphan’ leads H1 sales
Despite being left all but orphaned, order intake at the legacy education and ‘other’ activities of the newly rebranded Corero Network Security (see Corero to do what it says on the tin) outpaced those...
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K3 feeds once again
Mid market UK ERP vendor K3 Business Technology Group’s appetite for acquisitions shows no sign of abating, as indicated by the announcement that it has paid £1.0m for the retail merchandising division...
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Workplace Systems: a year of sprints and hurdles
The transition from a license-based business model to a SaaS one is never easy as Workplace Systems International continues to demonstrate but it is making progress in terms of increased SaaS revenue...
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Star launches 'The UK Cloud Alliance'
This week managed services provider, Star, is launching ‘The UK Cloud Alliance’. Essentially, Star’s aim is to act as a cloud broker for UK-based medium-sized business looking for local cloud computing...
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Platform defines Cognizant's BPS strategy
I had chance to meet up with Cognizant’s business process executives recently to learn more about its strategy as it moves away from lift and shift BPO contracts to deliver business...
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Regent wins awards
Just to set the scene, readers will know 1) that I’ve had a very long association with Regent and serve as a non executive director on their board and 2) that their Chairman and my friend Peter Rowell...
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Highams waltzes on
A couple of years ago I was musing whether veteran AIM-listed ITSA (IT staff agency) Highams Systems Services would get to see its Pearl anniversary (see Highams’ anniversary waltz) having successfully...
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K3 heading the right way
The latest trading update from acquisitive K3 Business Technology Group indicates that its growth strategy is paying off, with sales and operating profit “showing a significant increase year on year”....
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Allocate Software expands Australian healthcare business
Having bet much of its business on the healthcare market, workforce management software company, Allocate Software, is continuing its push into the financially troubled sector with the £2.0m (A$3.0m)...
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