Cura Technical, one of the UK's leading independent providers of technical support solutions, has announced that Jason Williams has been appointed Managing Director. This is the first announcement to be made since the acquisition of Uniter ...
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Research group IDC has said that following HP’s £5.5 billion writedown of Autonomy, its customers should seek ‘formal assurances’ about the future of Autonomy’s products. HP said on Tuesday that an internal ...
Socius, a leading provider of business management solutions and Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR, has accepted the Pittsburgh-area Microsoft Dynamics partner, Enterprise Data Solutions, into their national Sales Affiliate network. Microsoft ...
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VMware has continued its shopping spree by buying big data analytics tool Log Insight in order to expand its cloud and virtualisation portfolio in its battle against Amazon and Rackspace. The move follows the acquisitions of cloud ...
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Grocers undoubtedly felt the economic pressures in 2012 with discounters enjoying buoyant growth as a result of an increase in value-seeking consumers. Shoppers' focus on value led to rising online sales and further investment in the ...
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Several collision repair groups have announced new acquisitions and shop openings recently. Gerber Collision and Glass, a subsidiary of the Boyd Group, has announced the opening of another Florida repair center. The shop, which Gerber has ...
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Marketing software firm will form part of Customer Experience Cloud. Just days after announcing financial results boosted by the performance of its cloud division,Oracle has further strengthened its portfolio by agreeing to acquire ...
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After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
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Microsoft's purchase of Yammer is probably as much about Yammer's marketing model as it is about social networking prowess. Microsoft's social networking capabilities are perceived as weakA--and the aim of its recent $1.2 billion purchase ...
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Looking beyond PCs and tablets, Lenovo yesterday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group, which deals in servers, storage, networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on ...
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Fruit of the Loom, one of the largest manufacturers and marketers of underwear, intimate apparel, casual wear, athletic apparel, athletic uniforms, and sporting goods, To optimize business processes and integrate multiple acquisitions into ...
JD Sports Fashion Plc, the leading retailer and distributor of branded sportswear, fashionwear and outdoor clothing and equipment, announces it's Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 28 July 2012. Highlights Continued robust ...
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
Dell has tapped a former Hewlett-Packard executive to run its server, networking and storage division, an important area for Dell as it tries to expand its data center business and reduce its dependence on PCs. Marius Haas was head of ...
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IBM, Epicor and other vendors could be eyeing a purchase of supply-chain software vendor JDA, analysts said Tuesday following a published report that the company was looking for suitors. The sale activities are “at an advanced ...