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Huddle recruits top talent from Salesforce.com
Simon O’Kane, former Managing Director, UK & Ireland, at Salesforce.com, has joined Huddle as VP Enterprise, and described Huddle as “undoubtedly Europe’s leading cloud computing company”. This...
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CSC and NPfIT: the saga continues
There’s more bad news from CSC this morning. Despite assertions in August (see Margins slide at CSC as iSoft comes on board) that the company thought it would complete its NHS IT contract negotiations...
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Precarious profitability road for Ffastfill
Derivatives software provider Ffastfill had a great year last year (see Ffastfill fast filling profit gap) but looking at today’s trading update for the first half of the year (to September 20) its...
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DWP extends relationship with HP
Further to our HotViewsExtra post last week (DWP awards to IBM and Capgemini), we were interested to get an update from DWP today. According to the department, it has extended its relationship with HP...
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For once Apple 'underwhelms'
I’ve been listening in to Apple launch events for many years. I knew that the first in a long while that didn’t feature Mr Jobs would be difficult. In the event Tim Cook performed well and I was...
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Ubisenses the Realworld
Recently IPO’d, Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company, Ubisense, did not need to use its whizzy software to locate its second acquisition as a listed company – it was in the same...
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Cortexica eyes next phase under Imperial’s wing
My main reason for checking out the financial results of Imperial Innovations (IVO), the mainly pharma/biotech-focused, AIM-listed tech ‘incubator’ arm of London’s Imperial College, is to see how...
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Objective Corporation: Finding a way into Whitehall
In UK Government ICT Strategy: Progress and direction, we commented on the Cabinet Office’s launch of the Innovation Launchpad (see here). Through the Innovation Launchpad, Stephen Allott, Crown...
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Goodbye Steve
The news today is dominated by the death of Steve Jobs. Of course, we have all had a long, long time to get prepared for this news. It was, unfortunately inevitable. But it has still hit me hard. Since...
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Gary Bullard’s challenge at Logica
There will be some out there who feel that the appointment of Gary Bullard as Logica UK CEO (see Logica gets new UK CEO) is a just another case of a top job for one of ‘Andy’s mates’. True enough,...
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Mouchel CEO resigns on profit warning
Richard Cuthbert, CEO of embattled BPO and support services provider Mouchel, has resigned with immediate effect, after the company warned that full year profits will be £4.3m lower than expected due...
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Civica delivers platform-based BPS at Gloucester Council
Public sector-focused software and services provider Civica has made its intentions clear following its award of a significant revenues and benefits (R&B) outsourcing deal at Gloucester City...
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Amor moves into health with Invisys buy
Scotland’s Amor Group has been acquiring again as it continues on its mission to achieve £100m in revenues by 2013. The latest acquisition – Invisys – is a small, London-based healthcare IT firm....
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Watmore becomes a 'Sir Humphrey'
In December last year, Tony Collins headed an article in his blog: Government IT reforms – can Ian Watmore force change on Sir Humphrey? Less than a year later, Ian Watmore finds himself becoming the...
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Blackberry still down
It's been another frustrating day for the many Blackberry users amongst our HotViews readers. One day without service on Monday was bad enough. But to then get it going again only for it to fall over...
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Infosys adjusts growth outlook as Europe struggles
Infosys, the second largest of the India-based IT/BP services brigade, has adjusted its sights for FY headline revenue growth as its European business slows. Infosys ‘made the numbers’ in its Q2 (to...
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Enigmatic brushes off Clarity's offer objections
Clarity Commerce’s board may have dismissed the bid from Jon Moulton’s Enigmatic Investments acquisition vehicle (see here) but any hopes of that being the end of the pursuit have been thoroughly...
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Emerging markets drive 20% organic growth at Logicalis
South African network integrator Datatec delivered an impressive performance in H1 (see Datatec expecting double-digit H1 growth), sending its shares up almost 7%. Group revenue for the six months to...
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Endava’s endeavours boost headline growth
London-HQ’d, privately-held 'nearshore' IT services firm, Endava, has had another cracking year, with headline growth for the 12 months ended 30th June 2011 up 27% to £29.2m, all organic. This was over...
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Growth accelerates at Gresham
It’s really quite amazing. Just a couple of years ago we had virtually written off veteran financial services software and IT services firm, Gresham (see Gresham – still loss-making) and did not expect...
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