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Decade of social media marketing dawns
Marketing software developer Alterian has proclaimed the2010s the decade of digital marketing, after releasing the results of a majornew survey. The poll of 1,068 marketing professionals found that 66%planned to invest in social media marketing duri... News | 21 Jan 2010
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Fines of up to £500,000 for lost data
Potential fines of up to £500,000 for breaking the Data Protection Act by failing to adequately protect information could be a boon for the security industry. Despite the numerous high-profile cases of data loss in recent years, many organisa... News | 13 Jan 2010
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Services and cost cutting bolsters Computacenter profits
Computacenter has warned hardware kit remains vulnerable to the fragile economic recovery but the pipeline for contractual services looks healthy. The firm today updated the City on 2009 results, stating that profit before tax and exceptional items ... News | 12 Jan 2010
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Five minute interview: Simon Shorthose, Readsoft UK
MicroScope puts its questions to Simon Shorthose, managing director at ReadSoft UK What is the best/worst advice you have received and from whom? Someone once told me, "Everybody has to sell themselves." I don't remember who it was, but ... News | 08 Jan 2010
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Five minute interview: John Cruickshank, Hughes Europe
MicroScope puts its questions to John Cruickshank, sales director, Hughes Europe What is the best/worst advice you have received and from whom? Best: From my earliest mentor in sales - whatever the situation, never give up. Easy to say, hard to do... News | 01 Jan 2010
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Firms control costs to weather the storm
When the world around you is collapsing in terms of orders and pipeline business the most obvious reaction is to turn the focus internally to wrestle with the costs that you can at least control. So it was no surprise to hear numerous channel player... News | 01 Jan 2010
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Five minute interview: Robert Furnivall, SAP UK
MicroScope puts its questions to Robert Furnivall, head of channel, SAP UK What is the worst advice you have received and from whom? "You can carry on playing the rest of the match, your fingers are not broken as you can bend them." That wa... News | 01 Jan 2010
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Five minute interview: David Akka, Magic Software Enterprises (UK)
What is the best/worst advice you have received and from whom? Best advice: "If you treat your subordinates as privates (rank) they will perform as privates; if you treat your subordinates as generals they will perform as generals." It was ... News | 01 Jan 2010
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SAP's ecosystem
When you say the words "ecosystem" and "partnerships" to resellers you often get glazed eyes and a shrug of the shoulders. That reaction is often the result of the approach taken by most vendors, which seems to adhere to a philos... News | 01 Jan 2010
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Xploite CEO to invest own cash in Net Services
Xploite CEO Ian Smith is to plough up to £2.1m of new equity into Cisco managed network services provider NetServices to help finance a roll up of companies in the sector. He already owns 2.4% of the AIM-listed firm but is proposing to subscri... News | 17 Dec 2009