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My date with Arianna Huffington
Yesterday the Prince’s Trust Internet & Media Leadership Group held one of its regular members' lunches. Planned a long time in advance, it was to be addressed by Tim Armstrong – the CEO of AOL....
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Oracle shines through the cloud
It’s hard to pick many weak spots in Oracle’s Q3 results. For the quarter ended 28 February, revenues were up an impressive 37% to $8.76b (up 35% in constant currency), with software revenues up 19% to...
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K3 takes another bite from FD Systems
K3, the highly acquisitive mid-market ERP player, has taken another ‘bite’ out of Sage reseller FD Systems by acquiring its Southampton-based mid-market Microsoft ERP business, Clarita Solutions, which...
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Cognizant set to leapfrog peers in 2011
Cognizant, the fourth largest of the India-based IT/BPO players by worldwide revenues, and fifth largest in the UK, looks set to leapfrog over larger peers in 2011. In the latest edition of...
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TechMarketView research update
TechMarketView’s latest research, published last week, includes Anthony Miller’s regular quarterly update on M&A trends in the UK software and IT services market. The report reveals that for the...
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Lyceum gets access to Access
UK-based mid-market private equity firm, Lyceum Capital, has led a £50m MBO for Essex-based mid-market ERP software firm, Access UK. Lyceum will install industry veteran (though he prefers the term...
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Mouchel rejects reduced Costain and Interserve offers
Well the saga continues. Mouchel has now rejected both bids on the table from Costain and Interserve, after both companies reduced their offers for Mouchel following due diligence on the company....
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Gresham pulse beats stronger
After issuing a very upbeat trading update in November (see Gresham’s ‘near life experience’), veteran financial software (plus) player, Gresham Computing, looks like it’s turned the corner. Although...
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Accenture, Steria and Savvis share MoJ deal
The Ministry of Justice has become one of the first UK government departments to truly embrace the Cloud and shared services. It has awarded contracts for a five-year shared services programme, which...
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SciSys: tough times focus the mind
It’s amazing what can be achieved when one is forced to focus the mind. Following a small decrease in revenues from its Government division in H1 (down 0.3% - see SciSys cites contract, project and...
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iPad disruption
A couple of years ago I bought an Acer Aspire One. Fine light netbook which cost c£250 and was my travel companion of choice. Last year I bought an iPad1 which immediately became my new travel...
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Cloud 2
I note that, in its announcement above of its acquisition of Radian6, “Salesforce.com recognizes that the incredible adoption of social media has brought about a massive shift in the industry, the...
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Salesforce buys Radian6
Salesforce.com was the first enterprise company to ‘get’ the cloud. It was probably also the first enterprise company to ‘get’ social technologies as it proved with its launch of the highly success...
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New UK Government ICT strategy: for real change or to gather dust?
There are no great surprises in the new UK Government ICT Strategy published by the Cabinet Office. As was expected, despite the last Government ICT Strategy being published in January 2010, the new...
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Iomart puts a great year to bed
The clock has yet to hit midnight but the year’s business must already be fast asleep in bed, as hosting minnow, Iomart, has signalled ‘above consensus’ profits for the year ending today. We’ll hear...
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RM takes action on cost base
It’s been less than two months since RM released its last trading update (see RM must pick school funding winners), so there’s very little news to report from the latest installment today. As already...
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Tribal FY10 slumps
Tribal is really up against it. Following its 'subdued' FY trading update in January (see here), for the twelve months to 31 December, the public sector consultancy and services provider reported...
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SocialGo – the DIY social network
Panmure’s ever-vigilant analyst George O’Connor notes the FY results of what appears to be the first social media SaaS pure-play on the London Stock Exchange, AIM-listed SocialGo (“part of the...
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Farewell Computer Weekly (in print anyway)
Computer Weekly and I have much in common. For a start we both started in IT in 1966. It has landed on my doormat every week ever since. On top of that I must have been quoted in it hundreds, if not...
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Fujitsu’s UK Government business: beyond the doom and gloom
Fujitsu has had its fair share of troubles of late, not least the Japan earthquake and Tsunami which has had a massive impact on its home turf. Fujitsu’s President Masami Yamamoto made a statement to...
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