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Logica innovates to boost growth
I attended a very enjoyable dinner with Logica's UK management team this week. Sat next to me was Danny Wootton, Logica's UK Innovation Director. It has been long accepted (at least I thought it had)...
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Two new reports from our public sector team
Today, TechMarketView’s Public Sector team launches two new reports for subscribers to our PublicSectorViews service. The first is our regular review of the UK public sector software and IT services...
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Be inspired
Most readers will know of my long term involvement with the Prince’s Trust. Indeed, a disproportionate number of our TechMarketView’s own subscribers are also supporters of the Trust. Rather than...
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SThree thriving on international business
One of the notable observations from SThree’s interim statement for the three months to 28 August 2011 is that growth in international markets makes the duller state of the UK all the more obvious....
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Chris Stone to leave Northgate
It has been announced this afternoon that Chris Stone, CEO of Northgate Information Systems, is to step down as CEO. Northgate also announced its ‘12th successive year of increased profitability”....
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Arcontech falls on investment banking slowdown
Arcontech, the AIM-listed software minnow for the financial markets, fell short of its sales forecast for the year ended 30 June due to the ‘increasingly long sales cycles of the major investment...
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Offshoring news from down under
G’day from Sydney! I have just spent the most wonderful week on hols in Tokyo – where I lived for a couple years at the end of the 80’s – and found that so much has changed yet, under the surface,...
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NetDimensions delivers the expected H1 loss
Investments made to drive growth delivered benefits in terms of increased revenue during H1 2011 (up 31% yoy to $4.4m) for AIM-listed training software and services firm NetDimensions. But the cost of...
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Mobile marketing shows its growth potential
As enterprise solutions increasingly embrace mobile devices, the mobile sector is one of those technology areas worth watching in order to spot up and coming companies and to help assess the overall...
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Crunch time
A year back, AOL bought TechCrunch for c$30m. I had a passing interest as there are some similarities between TechCrunch and TechMarketView and, perhaps, between Michael Arrington and Holway/Miller....
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ACS first half trading 'in line'
Advanced Computer Software, provider of healthcare and business management software and services, reports ‘in line’ trading for the six months to the end of August. For the first half it expects...
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Maxima takes down "for sale" sign
IT business systems and managed services company, Maxima, is off the market. It has announced today that, following discussions with various potential suitors, the Board has concluded: “a sale of the...
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Interquest falls into red on CCL acquisition write-off
AIM-listed IT recruitment company InterQuest Group has tumbled into the red in the first half after writing off £2.9m associated its recent acquisition of Contract Connections Ltd (CCL), after a major...
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HP extends Autonomy bid deadline
Yesterday was the first closing day for acceptances for HP’s bid to acquire Autonomy (See TechMarketView’s class leading coverage of this in the archives eg HP and Autonomy). As the deadline passed...
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Microsoft's uphill struggle with Windows 8
A year back we presented our forecasts on the Mobile Internet Device (MIDs) market. We showed that of the 2b devices connected to the internet in 2010, some 40% were Mobile (MIDs). But by 2020 some 11b...
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Bond reveals improving H1, but cautious on outlook
The first six months of the year have been good to Bond International, which seen a significant improvement on conditions in the same period last year. But the HR software and services provider is...
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Simigon simulates a tiny profit
A couple of major deals significantly boosted Simigon’s revenues in H111. The AIM-listed provider of simulation solutions to military organisations, which is headquartered in the US with R&D...
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IPOs
Looks like Facebook’s IPO will not happen until late 2012. Also looks like Groupon and Zynga are to delay their listings. Same applies to Twitter. The immediate reaction would be to talk of bubbles...
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UK government cloud strategy is too slow
The UK government is way behind on cloud services and needs to get more aggressive – that was the bald statement from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff at its London Cloudforce event yesterday. His view...
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Genpact buys social media researcher
Genpact, the largest pure play business process services (BPS) provider, is continuing its acquisitive spree, following the $550m takeover of Headstrong earlier this year (see Genpact completes...
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