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Channel backing government moves to tackle skills gap
The channel has thrown its support behind the government's plans to address the IT skills gap following plans announced in the Budget to boost the technical knowledge of future generations. In the Budget earlier this week the Chancellor George Osbor... News | 25 Mar 2011
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Budget in-depth: Government looks to entrepreneurs for growth
In his second Budget Report, the Chancellor of the Exchequer focused on business growth, and provided a package of incentives to entrepreneurs and businesses to help them to deliver that growth, writes Jeff Webber. More help for businesses We were... News | 25 Mar 2011
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Budget 2011: Skills gap seen as threat to future growth
The potential for a lack of skills in the British workforce has been highlighted as a real danger to future prosperity by the Chancellor George Osborne. In the Budget he said that the UK was lagging behind other developed countries in terms of havin... News | 23 Mar 2011
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Tech M&A slows but recovery remains on track
The move by Lumison to spend £22m for BlueSquare Data Services at the end of last month was the highlight in terms of M&A activity as the number of deals overall slowed from the start of the year. According to the latest monthly report fro... News | 10 Mar 2011
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MicroScope ACEs nominations open
Nominations for the MicroScope Awards for Channel Excellence have opened. The emphasis of the MicroScope channel awards is to recognise those suppliers that have really delivered excellence rather than fall into the trap of giving a pat on the back t... News | 03 Mar 2011
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SMEs could boost efficiency with IT investment
Small businesses could boost their efficiency by over 50% through IT investment, according to independent research, writes Bill Goodwin. Studies by E-skills UK, the public private sector partnership for IT skills and training, show that many small bu... News | 25 Feb 2011
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Cyber crime costing UK firms £21bn a year
The cost of cybercrime to UK businesses is £21bn with British firms being the target of IP theft, industrial espionage and theft of customer data. According to the first attempt by the government to cost-up the impact of crime on UK plc is &pou... News | 17 Feb 2011
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Micro-P confirms Brown as commerical director
Channel veteran Phil Brown has returned to distribution as Micro-P's commercial director following a relatively short spell running sales at netbook pioneer ASUS. As revealed last year, Brown appeared to be on his way to Computer 2000 to run its PC ... News | 17 Feb 2011
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Avnet CEO Vallee steps down to drive acquisition strategy
Avnet CEO Roy Vallee has announced he is to step down from his post at the distributor at the end of the firm's financial year in order to concentrate on the firm's acquisition strategy, with current COO Rick Hamada to take up the torch from 4 July t... News | 14 Feb 2011
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Employers looking for IT staff to build up in-house expertise
The private sector should pick up the slack on the jobs front when it comes to employing IT specialists as spending starts to pick up this year. According to Executive Headhunters there are 93,000 new IT sales and marketing roles expected to be crea... News | 09 Feb 2011