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Misys starts a new life, keeps its old name
Events are progressing quickly at Misys following its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners (see here for the background). Following the delisting of the UK banking software provider from the London...
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Capgemini trades stake in CPM Braxis for bank deal
Taking the concept of 'client partnership' to rather a different level, Capgemini is to sell off a 22% stake in its Brazilian majority-controlled subsidiary, CPM Braxis, in exchange for a 10-year...
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Salesforce.com formalises Buddy Media offer
Salesforce.com has confirmed the Buddy Media speculation, revealing it will pay $689m in cash and shares for the cloud-based social media marketing company (founded in 2007). That will make it...
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Oracle becomes more socially aware with Collective Intellect
Oracle is definitely off the fence when it comes to the cloud as its string of cloud acquisitions shows and it is currently scooping up social media marketing providers. Last week it was Vitrue (see...
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UK SITS Rankings 2012
HP once again tops the charts of the leading suppliers of software and IT services (SITS) to the UK market, even though revenues slipped back a tad last year. The Top 20 suppliers grew their aggregate...
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Barney Gibbens OBE
Sad to report the death of Barney Gibbens OBE – one of the most significant founding fathers of the UK IT Services industry. Barney co-founded CAP in 1962 – one of the very first IT services companies...
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Facebook bursts the Bubble
NASDAQ is to offer some $40m compensation to brokers and investors caught up in the bungled early buying frenzy. Maybe it should be the other way around with investors thanking NASDAQ for stopping...
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Meg paints gloomy picture of HP recovery
According to media reports (e.g. see FT), HP CEO, Meg Whitman, painted a gloomy picture of the company’s recovery prospects, indicating that a turnaround could take up to five years. Speaking at HP’s...
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Oracle makes cloudy swirls
Oracle was expected to make a major cloud announcement last night. In the event, the core of the announcement was that it now has 100-odd cloud applications on the Oracle Public Cloud (see Oracle...
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SThree has ‘satisfactory’ H1
Under the cloud of the ‘deteriorating macroeconomic situation’, Russell Clements, CEO of UK-based but now very international recruitment firm, SThree, described performance in H1 (to 27 May) as...
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Linkedin hack
As I wrote in Facebook bursts the bubble earlier this week, all the social media/gaming stocks have been hammered by the Facebook debacle. Zynga and Groupon hit particularly badly losing 50% or more...
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An update on Colt the "deliverer"
HotViews readers may recall our comments on Colt around this time last year, when we flagged up the company as a "deliverer" in infrastructure services (see Colt to stand and deliver). Well the...
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Nobody expects...the Comfy Chair
Back in May 2009, our Anthony Miller wrote a HotView post entitled RM – Oh no, not the comfy chair. It was pretty critical (to say the least…) about RM’s decision to purchase Isis – a school furniture...
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TechMarketView Research Round-up
Once again TechMarketView has been in high demand for comment in the broadsheets. This time the big story was Logica’s surprise takeover by Canadian IT services firm CGI Group (see CGI/Logica – Can We...
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Capita wins £154m BPS deal at West Sussex
Capita has been chosen as the preferred partner at West Sussex County Council for a ten year £154m business process services (BPS) contract covering HR and payroll, finance, office services, online...
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Serco pays £55m for Vertex Public Sector
Support services and BPO giant Serco has taken over Vertex Public Sector for £55.5m in cash. As UKHotViews readers will know, Vertex sold Vertex Private Sector to Capita last September for £40.5m in...
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Mouchel investors dump stock
Investors in Mouchel dumped their stock on the company's latest warning that all options being considered to turn it around ‘will result in there being only limited value for existing shareholders’....
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Intercede grows by a whisker
Well, they did indeed make it, but only by a whisker. Despite a disastrous drop off of sales in the UK (down 43%) and a poor showing in the rest of Europe (down 12%), digital identity software...
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Serco's acquisition of Vertex Public Sector - Update
Serco's announced acquisition of Vertex's UK public sector business (see Serco pays £55m for Vertex Public Sector), is even more interesting in the context of Capita's acqusition of Vertex's UK...
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‘Little British Battler’ Featurespace wins more funding
Cambridge-based data analytics developer, Featurespace, has won £1.5m of additional funding in a round led by Imperial Innovations and supported, et al, by Autonomy founder and ex-CEO (and prior...
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