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Softcat breaks through £200m revenue mark
Softcat is planning to hand outcake and beer to staff after breaking through the £200m revenue mark in its financial year, beating its own forecasts. Although the reseller hasn't broken down any other figures it has revealed that revenue has al... News | 15 Jul 2011
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Zycko managing director spearheads MBO
Networking and comms distributor Zycko has been sold off to a management buyout spearheaded by the group's managing director as the founder of the company Rory Sweet moves on. The deal, which was struck for an undisclosed sum, not only involves the g... News | 12 Jul 2011
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Fear over bank rejection leaving SMEs without funds
SMEs appear to be losing confidence with the banks with a significant number not even bothering to apply for loans despite the fact they need the funds. There are even more waiting to add to the disappointed figures with many that require loans to f... News | 11 Jul 2011
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Caan expresses fears over SME security
Symantec has been offering small business partners and customers the chance to quiz former Dragons Den star and entrepreneur James Caan to get advice from the multi-millionaire. The security vendor hosted a Twitter debate this lunchtime providing ac... News | 08 Jul 2011
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Investment doubled for Tech City
The Tech City Launchpad competition for East London hunting for innovative and creative digital businesses is now looking for 20 firms to receive a £100,000 grant instead of the original 10, writes Linda Endersby. The Technology Strategy Board... News | 07 Jul 2011
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Results on Target for component distributor
Yorkshire based distributor Target Components has announced record results for year ending 31st March 2011, with pretax profits of £700K, writes Linda Endersby. Turnover for the year was £19.8m, up 13%, and the pre tax profits showed a s... News | 07 Jul 2011
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Caution remains as tech sector failure rates remain stable
The IT sector continues to show stability in the number of firms hitting the wall showing its resilience and well placed position compared to some other areas of the economy. According to the latest insolvency figures from Experian the number of IT ... News | 04 Jul 2011
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Worldwide IT spend on track for 7% growth in 2011
Global IT spending remains on course to grow 7.1 per cent this year, say Gartner analysts in their latest quarterly spending forecast, with cloud computing spend growing fastest of all. Gartner's number crunchers have revised the overall forecast up ... News | 30 Jun 2011
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Resellers told to name and shame late payers
Resellers are being urged to anonymously name and shame late paying companies to tryto pile the pressure on those trying to stretch out clearing invoices. Late payment has been a bugbear of the channel throughout the recession but is continuing to ca... News | 29 Jun 2011
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Data is the new oil? That's just too much
Judging by Google, there seem to be a lot of people around at the moment who are opening their presentations with the bold statement that "data is the new oil". It's a pretty exciting and thought-provoking way to get people's attention.... News | 24 Jun 2011