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Earthquakes revisited
Exactly a year ago I announced the title for my annual “State of the ICT Nation” speech for the Prince’s Trust Technology Leadership Group delivered in Sept 10. I settled on Earthquake. I said at the...
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Digital Barriers acquisition is Essential Viewing
Digital Barriers, the ‘buy-and-build’ homeland security market specialist, has made another small national security-focused acquisition. Tom Black’s team is acquiring Essential Viewing, for a maximum...
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TechMarketView research update
Last week saw the publication of our report on the UK Cloud Software Market, which includes forecasts for the market; analysis of the way the market is developing and a discussion of the implications...
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Parseq emerges with Lloyds/HBOS deal
Parseq, the AIM-listed software and BPO provider for the financial services sector, has won a three-year “multi-million pound” outsourcing contract with existing customer Lloyds Banking Group to...
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IS Solutions reports double digit FY
IS Solutions (ISS), the AIM-listed web-focused SITS provider, reported full year revenue growth of 12.3% to £11m, and operating profit up 9.2% to £678k (6.2% margin vs. 6.3% in FY09). Pre-tax profits...
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KBC slips on Middle East oil turmoil
The oil industry is volatile enough (so to speak) at the best of times – and this is not the best of times. New EU sanctions imposed upon Iran, and the ‘troubles’ in Libya, forced oil and petrochemical...
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Serco acquires UK contact centre provider
BPO and support services giant Serco has acquired UK-based contact centre provider, The Listening Company (TLC) for a potential £55.9m, including the repayment of £16.4m of debt. TLC employs 4,300...
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Leo lays out his dream for HP
So the answer lies in the cloud. I think we probably knew that already, but it behoved ‘new’ HP CEO, Leo Apotheker, to make the point at his maiden strategy speech, in which he committed HP “to build a...
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Capita’s European ambitions!
UK BPO market leader Capita just keeps on surprising. First it warned on full year revenues late last year (Pipeline constipation forces Capita warning), and following its FY announcement (see Capita...
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OLM: Evolving with the social care IT market
I’ve known Peter O’Hara, CEO of OLM Group, for a number of years and it’s hard to find anyone more passionate about what their company does. Privately-held OLM has provided software and services to the...
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Fujitsu’s DWP desktop contract terminated
Fujitsu has today confirmed that the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has notified the supplier of its intention to bring the multi-million pound desktop support contract, awarded in...
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2e2 applies MindTree minds to SAP services
Following the signing of a £20m, 5-year deal with India-based Patni (see Patni paves the parterning path), ‘Morse-enhanced’ 2e2 has now signed up with the somewhat smaller India-based MindTree to...
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Social networks lead UK internet use
If there are any HotViews readers who are surprised at the news today that social networking sites have now become the most popular online destination in the UK, you clearly haven’t been paying...
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Does it add up?
Last night I was sent the latest in the annual Olswang Convergence Survey reports entitled ‘Does it add up?’. They surveyed 30 senior executives and 2000 adult consumers. The problem with reports like...
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Will LEPs leap to the rescue?
Earlier this year we voiced concern as to whether the winding down of the Regional Development Agency (RDA) network might exacerbate the venture capital funding gap. In its place, the government is...
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Logicalis inks Inca buy from Avisen
It just gets more and more bizarre. AIM-listed buy-and-build merchant (sorry, I should have said “performance management specialist”), Avisen, has just disposed of its Inca Software unit, which...
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ACS to deliver 4% organic growth
An ‘in-line’ FY update from Advanced Computer Software (ACS), shows the acquisitions of Adastra, COA Solutions and Business Systems Group (see here), will help it to £95m+ revenue for its full year...
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Paywalls revisited
The New York Times has (See FT 17th March 11) announced details of the charging regime for its online content. I believe that the media sector is facing the same upheavals as those that faced the...
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EMIS appoints non-exec chair, exits Canada
EMIS Group’s first full year results since going public (see here), show the UK-based GP software supplier grew revenue 8% to £62.4m in the twelve months to 31 December, and pre-tax profits by 11% to...
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Corero – new year, new favoured child – and an orphan
Corero, the financial markets software firm born again as a ‘network security solutions business’, seems for now to be operating sans CEO or CFO. It was COO Andrew Miller (no relation) who fronted...
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