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Mahindra Satyam back in the game
Hyderabad-based Mahindra Satyam (MSat) seems to have got to grips with its post-Raju reincarnation and is looking more and more like a ‘real’ player again (see More than meets the eye at Mahindra...
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Adobe’s mobile Flash fades out
It’s all over for Adobe mobile Flash – Apple, Google and Microsoft prevail. Actually HTML5 prevails but it amounts to much the same thing as Adobe has decided to halt investment in the multi media...
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Highams gifts Nakama a pleasing half-time present
In its last reporting period as a stand-alone company, the erstwhile Highams System Services – now trading as Nakama (see Last waltz for Highams as Nakama reverses in) – painted an improving picture of...
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Alterian nibbles at revised SDL offer
Having baited the hook with a first (non binding, indicative) and rejected offer for troubled Alterian, SDL has rebaited with a revised offer upping the incentive to 110 pence per share (vs the...
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UK Government Deputy CIO resigns
The UK Government’s Deputy CIO, Bill McCluggage, has tendered his resignation. He is set to take up a new post with EMC Systems UK. We have had good relationship with McCluggage since he took up the...
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Cisco getting back on track
The improving picture at Cisco continued in its Q1 results, as released last night. Headline revenue was $11.26bn, up 5% year-on-year. Gross margin for the quarter was 62% and operating margin was...
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European tech deal spend muted
Although the number of acquisitions in the European tech sector in October was broadly in line with the prior month, the dearth of megadeals dragged down the aggregate spend, according to latest data...
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Access benefitting from MBO
The first set of results post the private equity-backed (Lyceum Capital) management buyout earlier this year (see Lyceum gets access to Access) show positive momentum for UK-based mid market business...
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RIM rammed by Google
In yet another blow to RIM’s pride and prestige, Google is to withdraw support for its Gmail app on Blackberry devices from 22nd November. According to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek, Gmail users...
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Blinkx: still soaring
Hot on the heels of its second sizable acquisition of the year (see Growing Blinkx expands again), UK-based video search engine provider Blinkx has released half year results whose upward trajectory...
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BT Q2 results revisited
As promised last week (see BT Q2: work to do on services orders), we have penned some further comments prompted by BT’s Q2 results, following discussions with the company’s Global Services division....
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SAP, NetSuite and the SaaS financials question
The word is that SAP now has 700 customers for its SaaSBusiness ByDesign product as it continues its ultra-conservative rollout of this offering, but it is still only available in 10 countries due to...
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Closing the loop on Groupon
Further to my many posts along the lines of ‘Bubbles revisited’ and Groupon to IPO in particular, I guess I better close the loop. Groupon technically IPOed at $20 a share. Rose to $31 and have since...
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Autonomy joins Dearly Departed
Today’s the day that Autonomy is due to depart from the London Stock Exchange, almost 11 years after its shares were listed. Autonomy had previously IPO’d on the long defunct Easdaq in July 1998....
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Now or never for Clarity Commerce Solutions and Enigmatic?
Shareholders who have been holding out for a better offer from Enigmatic Investments for their Clarity Commerce Solutions shares have been rewarded – the offer has been raised to 25p per share (from...
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Delcam carries strength into H2
Delcam, the UK CAD/CAM provider, is set for a good H2 even though it doesn’t look like it will match its record breaking H1 (see here). When the H1 results were released, chairman Peter Miles cautioned...
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ACS finds its rhythm as cross-selling grows
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) has delivered a solid set of first half results and has good reason to be “increasingly confident” about the outlook for the full year despite tough conditions in the...
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Salesforce.com hires ex-Oracle, ex-SAP exec John Wookey
John Wookey was a big hitter at Oracle, playing a lead part in the development of Fusion applications before he left to join SAP to head up its large enterprise on demand development. His SAP tenure...
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Hexaware scoops $250m UK megadeal
It’s a rare enough occurrence for even an India-based ‘major’ to score a UK megadeal, so it is well worthy of note when one of the mid-tier set just does that. Such is the case with Mumbai-based...
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Capgemini acquires order-to-cash business for platform delivery
Capgemini has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire the order-to- cash (OTC) operations of existing finance and accounting (F&A) business process services (BPS) partner, Vengroff, Williams &...
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