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  • Brand Protection top priority when protecting payment data

    Protecting brand and revenues are the drivers pushing retailers towards embracing the credit card data compliance requirements, writes Linda Endersby. According to the Payment Security Practices and Trends Survey commissioned by CyberSource and Trus...  News | 13 Sep 2011

  • HP's Autonomy deal keeps M&A activity going

    Mergers and acquisitions watcher Regent has reported a significant number of deals last month with the HP billion dollar move for Autonomy taking the lion's share of the headlines, writes Linda Endersby. As well as HP's $10bn purchase of software co...  News | 12 Sep 2011

  • IT sector failure rates rise but large customers hold firm

    The number of IT firms hitting the wall rose slightly last month year-on-year as the number of insolvencies across the economy as a whole increased only slightly with large companies holding firm in the face of uncertainty. The figures from Experian...  News | 24 Aug 2011

  • Tech Data shrugs off European market malaise

    Tech Data's European operation has shrugged off an increasing sense of malaise in the IT market to grow its second quarter sales 30% - 14% on a Euro basis - to $3.75bn (£2.28bn), well over half of the distributor's global revenues. CEO Robert D...  News | 18 Aug 2011

  • SME green interest undermined by red tape

    Going green might be the answer to help combat rising utility bills and presenting resellers in a positive environmentally friendly light but . According to research from the Forum of Private Business, which has a membership that maps the average pr...  News | 09 Aug 2011

  • SME owners turn to personal cash to stay afloat

    Close to half of UK small business owners have injected personal cash into their firm to stay afloat as the cost of doing business in Britain remains high and banks continue to keep their wallets shut. A new study by business energy comparison site M...  News | 08 Aug 2011

  • Tech M&A activity holding up

    The world economy might be on the brink but the mergers and activity in the technology space continued apace with a decent number of deals struck in the last month. For the third successive month the number of purchases went past the 250 mark with a...  News | 08 Aug 2011

  • Banks under pressure to meet SME loan commitments

    Bank lending commitments to small businesses under the Project Merlin initiative are likely to come under renewed scrutiny when they report their half year results next week. Referring to the recent Bank of England Trends in Lending Report which ...  News | 29 Jul 2011

  • Ingram Micro mulls EMEA redundancies

    Ingram Micro CEO Greg Spierkel has told analysts the distributor may look to take "actions" on costs and people in EMEA during the coming months as the firm keeps a keen eye on its costs in the region. "We are being very vigilant with ...  News | 29 Jul 2011

  • Siemens Financial Services launches VAR finance programme

    Siemens Financial Services (SFS)is rolling out a new reseller-focused financing programme pitched at all partners of its parent's various brands. Like many others in thefinancial services sector, SFS says it is now seeing a post-recession increase in...  News | 18 Jul 2011

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