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IndustryViews - Advent International
Advent International is one of the top players in the global private equity industry. We met up with London-based director, John Woyton, to hear about Advent’s views on the local PE scene. Eligible...
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Facebook’s $96b IPO valuation
Facebook has set the pricing details for its IPO, valuing itself at c$96b, just short of the $100b figure that has been the topic of discussion for several months now. Our views are completely...
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Me and my Lumia
I had always thought I would be permanently wedded to my Blackberry, as I am very much a keyboard man rather than a touchy-feely man, so to speak. But I got so frustrated by the 15 minute email delays...
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Sage will go with Microsoft to the cloud
Sage has confirmed that it has closed a deal with Microsoft that will see Sage software delivered over Windows Azure and thankfully it won’t just be pure accounting software - the plan is to develop...
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CityFibre and Fujitsu in high-speed fibre rollout
There was a noteworthy UK contract announcement this week from Fujitsu.Its deal with CityFibre Holdings to plan, build and operate fibre network is a good chunk of business for the Japan-based firm's...
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Cognizant backtracks on 2012 outlook
When Cognizant, the fastest growing India-centric IT services player, has second thoughts about its growth rate, perhaps it’s time to start worrying about the marketplace! After just scraping in with...
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Bye bye, Patni
Having taken over a year to agree a buy-out price with the minority shareholders in Mumbai-based IT/BP services firm, Patni (see here), its California-headquartered but very much India-centric parent,...
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Q1 in line for Telecity
Telecity has released a positive trading update covering the Jan-to-March quarter. The UK-based co-location player says that it “delivered a good performance in the first quarter in terms of growth in...
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Equiniti’s ‘mutual’ attraction
Following the announcement that BPS provider Equiniti Group has been selected to administer the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme as part of myCSP (see Equiniti secures first central government...
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Adecco UK sees IT recruitment jump
The UK was the second fastest growing market for international recruitment giant, Adecco, last quarter. UK revenues grew by 9% to €459m, entirely due to contractor placements; permanent placement...
View ArticleThe vital role of infrastructure services
A newly-published InfrastructureViews note looks at one of the more unusual suspects in infrastructure services. Better known by most clients in the UK at least for business process and application...
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Increasingly bearish about Facebook
As the Facebook IPO edges closer, I am getting more aware of the growing number of negative comments surrounding the float. Indeed, this week so far I can’t find any article suggesting that Facebook...
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Rackspace misses earnings but hits strategy
Rackspace shares were down 9% in trading in New York yesterday, as investors responded to earnings that were just below expectations. But strip away that miss and you have a company that continues to...
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Sage remains positive
Sage is promising to reveal its multi year growth strategy in July, something that cannot come soon enough. Although its H1 2012 results show it is still in positive territory in terms of growth and...
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Quindell wins £120m insurance BPS contract
Insurance-focused business process services (BPS) provider Quindell Portfolio has won a major £120m three-year deal with an insurance ‘intermediary’, which CEO Robert Terry told us provides white...
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Microsoft increases SPLA licences
Microsoft is not rethinking its decision to increase the cost of its volume Service Provider License Agreements (SPLA) across Europe from July (as part of its strategy to align prices to the Euro),...
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Serco wins retail BPO mega-deal
Having lost out to rival Capita recently on the £500m Army recruitment deal (see Capita trumps Serco to Army recruitment deal), support services and BPO giant Serco has bounced back with its own...
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Capgemini records UK recovery
Capgemini’s revenues in the UK (& Ireland) grew at their fastest pace for the past four quarters, recording 3.9% yoy like-for-like growth in Q1 ‘12, to reach €510m. This was a better result than...
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Cisco sees caution and uncertainty ahead
Cisco delivered a steady set of Q3 results last night. But the networking bellwether’s comments around the possibility of a slowdown to come have sent its share price crashing and raised the spectre...
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Sigh of relief: API's are not copyrightable
When the jury was only able to come up with a partial verdict this week in the copyright infringement case Oracle brought against Google, Oracle asked US district judge William Alsup to make a ruling...
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