Today’s UKHotViews email
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The $100b Facebook Question
Note - Due to an email glitch, some readers may have also received this post yesterday. If the most popular question to Holway in 2011 was “Are we in another tech bubble?” then, if the last few days...
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IndustryViews Quoted Sector - 2011 Review
2011 was truly a year of disruption and diversity for UK software and IT services companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Their number declines inexorably year by year, and it won’t be long,...
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Genpact seeks double-digit growth in 2012
With 2011 numbers coming in pretty much on guidance, ‘Tiger’ Tyagarajan, CEO of US-headquartered but India-centric BPO purish-play, Genpact, signalled a headline growth target of around 16% in 2012,...
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Infosys swaps Europe head’s day job
Second-ranked India-based offshore services player, Infosys, is doing a bit more top management grooming. BG Srinivas (pictured), who doubles up as Infosys’ head of Europe, is swapping his day job as...
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UK public sector 2012: Grasping the potential for change
Late last year we published our top predictions for the UK public sector SITS market in 2012 (see TechMarketView Predictions 2012 –UK Public Sector). We have now taken a deeper dive to examine the...
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The Times on Martyn Ratcliffe
We don’t usually reproduce articles from other organs but Ian King’s (the Business Editor of The Times) comments today on Martyn Ratcliffe are worth wider readership. Tight-lipped speaks volumes What a...
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Brady boosts energy levels with two more acquisitions
Brady, the trading, risk management and settlement solutions provider to the energy, metals and soft commodities sector, who is becoming quite a consolidator in its space, has announced two more...
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Intellect Regent Conference
Last opportunity to book one of the few remaining places at the Intellect Annual Regent Conference on 9th February -“Technology – Into a new era?” Speaker line up includes: Dr Gerard Lyons Chief...
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iPads for MPs?
Always eagled-eyed for iPad infiltration into ‘the enterprise’. So news today that the House of Commons Administration Committee has advised that all 650 MPs be equipped with iPads is of considerable...
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Sage Pay ups its payment processing presence
Sage Group subsidiary Sage Pay Europe has paid £16.7m/20m Euros to acquire Dublin-based Integral Computers. This is a strategic acquisition that expands Sage Pay’s burgeoning payment processing...
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Lawrie to do a ‘Misys job’ on CSC?
Wow – that one came out of left field! Hardly has Mike Lawrie walked out the door at Misys, than we hear he’s about to do it all over again at CSC. This is absolutely the best news we could have hoped...
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Misys + Temenos – a game of five halves
Some may say there was a certain sense of urgency in getting this deal away given that we now know Mike Lawrie had a somewhat more challenging job offer on the table (see Lawrie to do a ‘Misys job’ on...
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Penny stock SocialGo keeps stiff upper lip
There are some companies that really do not belong on a public market, and we rather see AIM-listed, social media SaaS pure-play, SocialGo as one of them. A switch in core business from interactive...
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Escher scoops deal bigger than itself!
Dublin-based, postal industry software firm, Escher Group, the most recent software and IT services company to list on AIM (see here), has scored a deal whose total value is worth over three times its...
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Cerner celebrates 'a record year'
US-headquartered healthcare application provider, Cerner has had a ‘record year’ reporting 19% growth in revenue to $2.2b in FY11, 37% growth in bookings to $2.7b and a 29% increase in net earnings to...
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IFS: pros and cons of geograhic spread
For Swedish ERP vendor, IFS Group, H2 carried on in much the same vein as H1 (see IFS: Higher valuations could scupper M&A). Revenue growth remained solid with net revenue for the full year...
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Cognizant makes it by a whisker as Europe wobbles
Third-ranked, US headquartered but India-centric offshore services player, Cognizant, scraped in with its Q4 numbers by a whisker, ending the year pretty much bang on guidance, with revenues 33% higher...
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CSC losses top $4b
And there’s still a quarter to go. To be honest, CSC’s Q3 results (to 30th Dec.) were overshadowed by the announcement that Misys CEO, Mike Lawrie will be taking over the reins in March (see Lawrie to...
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Virgin Media Business gains momentum
Virgin Media Business’ ambitions - particularly where the Public Services Network (PSN) and Cloud are concerned (see Virgin Media means Business in UK public sector and Virgin flies into the cloud) –...
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