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SciSys bags £2.5m sub contract from Lockheed Martin
SciSys has been awarded a £2.5m contract to work on the UK Ministry of Defence’s Future Deployable GEOINT (FDG) System. The announcement is a neat little ‘leaving present' for Mike Love, who will step...
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UK Ideagen acquires Proquis – and a hefty US contract
Ideagen, the UK-based and recently AIM-listed provider of on-demand information management and compliance software, is expanding the compliance side of its business with the proposed acquisition of...
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Happy Christmas from TechMarketView!
TechMarketView is taking a break over the Christmas period. We’ll be back with the next edition of HotViews on 3th January, 2012. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers from the whole...
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Akamai boosts cloud and mobile (and stock) with acquisition
Content delivery player Akamai is buying Contendo, a US-based firm that describes itself as "a fast growing innovator of cloud-based acceleration technologies". Akamai is paying $268m for three year...
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Capita spreads into translation market with ALS buy
Capita’s latest acquisition is an intriguing one that takes it into a new market area and has overtones of international expansion. The company is purchasing translation and interpreting provider...
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New Year's Honours
There were only two significant awards in the New Years Honours list involving people that we write about here at TechMarketView. Jonathan Ive, the designer of the Apple iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad,...
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2012 - The Winners and Losers
If ‘Volatility’ best describes the Shares indices in 2011, then ‘Diversity of Performance’ is the phrase to describe the huge range of share price performance by individual companies in 2011. Lombard...
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The roller-coaster ride of 2011
If you were Rip Van Winkle waking from 12 months of slumbers to look at how UK stock markets had performed in 2011 your first reaction would be ‘So nothing much happened then?”. Although the FTSE 100...
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Wipro top team – another one hits the dust
It seems the purge on Wipro’s top team is not yet over (see Yet another top-level reshuffle at Wipro) with media reports that the only non-Indian (indeed, the only female) on Wipro’ executive council,...
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Capita joins the dots with translation services buy
Capita’s entry into the translation services market through the takeover of Applied Language Solutions (ALS) late last year (see Capita spreads into translation services with ALS buy), is another smart...
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The highs and lows of the Brazilian market
I have just got back from one of my regular trips to Sao Paulo where I met up as usual with some of the movers and shakers in the Brazilian IT industry. I will be writing much more about this for...
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CSC prepares to write-off c£1bn spent on NPfIT
CSC revealed yet another twist in the drama that is its NHS IT business in the closing stages of 2011. The company revealed last week that it had failed to reach agreement with the Department of Health...
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Scottish Waterways deal: that’s Amor
Glasgow-based IT services player Amor Group has announced a new contact with British Waterways Scotland. The deal covers a range of infrastructure services, including data centres, storage, disaster...
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RM bids farewell to coloured bricks
RM’s Executive Chairman, Martyn Ratcliffe, continues to come through on his promises. In September (see RM clears out old furniture and rearranges the rest), we were told to expect numerous disposals...
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Vangent beats Accenture to NHS deal
The Department of Health has chosen US-headquartered business process services firm Vangent, now part of General Dynamics IT, as its preferred supplier to deliver the new calculating and reporting...
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Infor’s strategy and management revamp paying off
Consolidators have a reputation for buying market share and limited investment in development and this was the case with Infor for several years but over the last couple of years it has transcended its...
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Diversity of Performance
When the economy is motoring, even the mediocre do reasonably well. “A rising tide lifts all ships”. When the going gets tough, the ‘Diversity of Performance’ between the best performers and the...
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UK's Unruly raises $25m
News today in the FT that Viral marketer Unruly has raised $25m is really quite heartening for the UK. Unruly is the online marketing firm that managed to turn the T-Mobile spoof Royal wedding video...
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Miracles continue at Gresham
Veteran finance sector software and IT services firm, Gresham Computing, looks like it closed the year with an even greater flourish than expected (see Growth accelerates at Gresham), with the news...
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WorkPlace next to join ‘Dearly Departed’
With the news a couple of days ago that Wasp Management Software, the Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) MBO vehicle, has secured over 90% of its shares, WorkPlace Software will be the third...
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