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Hays reports strong growth despite tough UK public sector
Multinational, multi-discipline recruitment firm Hays’ interim results confirm the picture painted in its January trading statement: strong growth from its international business and the UK private...
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HP powers $400m cloud deal with Centrica
It looks like we called it right last year (see here) - E.ON’s outsourcing of its IT to HP was indeed a sign of more things to come from the energy sector. Centrica (British Gas) has now also signed up...
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Logica’s margin challenge
There’s no doubt that CEO Andy Green’s ambition to move Logica’s ‘adjusted’ operating margin into double digits in the medium term is a fine and noble cause (see Logica UK yet to claw back share)....
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Robert Walters profits in Asia/Pacific
I guess if there’s one lesson UK-headquartered recruitment firms have learned in recent years, it is to get out of the UK! Today’s results from Robert Walters reinforce the point made by Hays yesterday...
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Will Ordina finally see the light?
Holy moly! Can it really be true? Has Ordina CEO, Ronald Kasteel, finally seen a glimmer of light? Here we are, at the start of the twelfth year of the millennium, and Ordina has only just investigated...
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Serco shows resilience in 2010
Support services and BPO giant Serco has had a strong FY10 despite the challenging conditions in the UK public sector market. It’s benefited both from a string of contracts signed in 2009 and a growing...
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Martin Leuw resigns as CEO at Iris
Martin Leuw has announced his resignation as CEO of IRIS after 10 years in the post. Nick Discombe steps up from being an NED to the role of Chairman. I understand no Group CEO will be appointed....
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Ascribe buys into BI
There is yet more evidence of consolidation in the UK health and social care IT space today with news that Ascribe, which was taken private in an ECI-backed MBO in 2009, is buying 21C. 21C is a small...
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International iPad iPlayer by end of the year
As we wait in anticipation for the details from the iPad2 launch later tonight, there is news that the BBC will launch an international edition of the wondrous iPlayer for the iPad App. See my Thumbs...
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iPad2
Perhaps the best bit of the iPad2 launch tonight was seeing Steve Jobs on stage. He said it was something he just couldn’t miss. And I (and the US stock market which marked Apple up just on his...
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Capgemini UK generates £100m deal at EDF Energy
It’s very clear that the Energy & Utilities sector is hot, hot, hot just now. Barely had HP inked a $400m deal with Centrica (see HP powers $400m cloud deal with Centrica), than Capgemini signed a...
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Micro Focus bid?
We don't deal in rumours but the papers today are full of talks of a bid for Micro Focus as an explanation (or the cause of?) the near 10% 'recovery' in their share price yesterday. SAP and IBM are...
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Is Parity’s business of three halves two too many?
Short of actually calling prior management complete and utter rubbish, Parity ‘encore’ top team, Philip Swinstead and Paul Davies, yet again laid bare all the sins of the past and listed all the...
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Joanna Shields, who heads Facebook EMEA, has disclosed that they now have 30m UK users. That's an amazing three quarters of all the UK population with an internet account. Over half of all Facebook's...
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McKesson revealed as System C suitor
Following yesterday’s announcement that System C Healthcare was in talks with a potential suitor (see System C shares soar on bid talks), shareholders didn’t have to “sit tight” long for an update....
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Micro Focus update
To follow up our comment Micro Focus bid? earlier today, it has just been announced by the LSE that Mike Phillips' wife has bought 29,139 shares. I am absolutely certain that this would not have...
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Institute for Government wants more "agile" approach to Government IT
This week the Institute of Government, “an independent charity with cross-party and Whitehall governance working to increase government effectiveness”, published a report entitled ‘System Error: Fixing...
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Capita books out Talis Information Ltd
(Updated) Capita has acquired Talis Information Ltd, the library management system division of Birmingham Based Talis. Capita is paying up to £21m for TIL, which turned over £7m last year at a 50% (!)...
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SThree on the up and up and over!
Overseas, that is! It’s only been a few weeks since ITSA (IT staff agency)-cum-international recruitment firm, SThree, reported it’s FY results (see SThree still seeking the new normal). But the...
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Instem finds bio wisdom in BioWisdom
Now back in public life on AIM (see here), Instem Life Science Systems has made its maiden acquisition, that of Cambridge-based healthcare R&D business intelligence firm, BioWisdom. Instem will pay...
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