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Twitter campaign
You can’t have missed the phone hacking stories relating to News International and News of the World today. Unless you are a Sun reader which 'strangely' did not feature it on its front page... I, like...
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UK still ‘difficult’ at Robert Walters
Though international recruitment firm, Robert Walters, managed to push UK net fee income (gross profit) up by 5% yoy in Q2 (to 30th June) to £12.1m, its eponymous CEO alluded to “a difficult economic...
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DigiPoS joins Moulton's stable
It looks like Jon ‘Happy Jak’ Moulton has made yet another canny addition to his Better Capital private equity stable, with the (in effect) acquisition of UK-based but internationally spread ePOS...
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Changes afoot in police ICT
Finally, it appears we may see some changes in the way ICT products and services are purchased by the UK’s 43 police forces. In a speech to the ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) summer...
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Big deal for Autonomy
News of a large deal – expected to be worth $20m over the next few years - will no doubt help the already high flying Autonomy fly that bit higher. A global insurance company will license Autonomy’s...
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Google v Facebook + Skype + Microsoft?
‘Old’ Hotviews readers will remember both MyTop and my open letter to Mark Zuckerberg some four years ago in Sept 07. See Dear Mr Zuckerberg – MyTop – it could be you! 11th Sept 2007 Sadly, as not all...
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Phoenix courts Courtley
Dashing man-about-the-industry, David Courtley, has stepped back up a gear to take over as CEO of infrastructure support services group, Phoenix IT Group in August. The news comes just a month after...
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AVEVA remains steady thanks once again to oil and gas
While the theme in AVEVA Group’s interim update (covering the period 1 April to date) is mostly one of ‘no change’, it is changing the way it operates in China in order to “better position ourselves...
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Hays – further UK cuts on private sector dip
An update on the fourth quarter (ended 30 June) from multinational, multi-discipline recruitment firm Hays points to a more uncertain UK private sector outlook. Net fee income (essentially gross...
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GB Group boosts ID tracing business
Identity management specialist, GB Group, is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Data Discoveries for a total consideration of £0.61 million. According to GB Group, Data Discoveries is “a...
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Microgen grows its BPM business and its cash
Microgen’s trading update for the six months to 30 June 2011 hints that its legacy financial systems software division is holding up given its statement that the division “continued to show resilience...
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SDLC still testing NCC
It’s a shame, really, that what should have been such a sweet acquisition would turn out to be such a margin burden. I’m talking about assurance and escrow services firm, NCC, and its acquisition last...
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Early days for Tikit's cloud solution
Tikit Group, the provider of software and services to accountancy and law firms, has revealed that revenues in the six months to 30th June 2011 have remained at a similar level to the same period in...
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Innovise joins ‘Dearly Departed’
Black armbands on today as this is the day that Vin Murria’s ‘other’ buy and build business, Innovise, leaves AIM (see Innovise to join ‘Dearly Departed’). There will not be a wake (at least, I haven’t...
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Ultima de-networks
Rebranding remains the rage, now with Ultima Networks becoming plain Ultima plc in line with its attempted shift from software and IT services to ‘green’ products (see Ultima’s profits in Cognito). It...
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Scandals
The last few years has seen more scandals than ever before. From global meltdown at Lehman Brothers and AIG to the current phone hacking scandal in the UK which brought down the News of the World today...
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It's Twitter wot done it for NOTW
The demise of the News of the World is, of course the #1 story this morning. You do sense a real game-change here. For most of my life, both Governments and Oppositions sucked up to the Murdoch...
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Oh what a night!
Eat your hearts out, folks! I was there last night at the biggest event in town, mingling with the literati and glitterati, fighting my way through the crowds, and trying to avoid the bevy of...
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Smart Meter smartness?
My post last week on the continuing saga of the rollout of smart meters in the UK (see Smart Meter Madness (5)) generated a huge amount of comment from within our industry as well as interest from the...
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Tide turning for offshore call centres
Momentum seems to be building for a return to ‘UK call centres for UK Plcs’. The BBC has learnt that high street bank Santander is now bringing back its call centres to the UK, because, according to CE...
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