HP is making no comment on Xerox’s new sweeter fresher merger offer until after it has revealed its first quarter results later this month.
Xerox upped its initial offer of $22 per share made in November to $24 per share in the hope of swinging more shareholders on its side.
Normally the maker of very expensive printer ink has rushed to its PR department to respond to Xerox’s continued efforts to take control, but this time it mostly refused to comment.
Fujitsu has inked a deal with Thales to integrate the security firm’s cloud and encryption services into its own portfolio.
Thales’ Cloud Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and Key Management services will be adopted by the Japanese tech firm, with a view to bolstering its public key infrastructure (PKI) based services.
The security company’s Cloud HSM service, Data Protection on Demand, will be used by Fujitsu within its core security infrastructure in order to provide businesses with a more secure key management service.
Global channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions, has named the regular caddy of Women’s British Open Golf Champion as its new brand ambassador.
Harry Tyrrell started off his golfing career as a teaching professional at Hindhead, having attended the LPGA qualifying school, one of the longest-running professional sports associations in the world, along with Georgia.
Wearable technology is an emerging sub-market in the Internet of Things (IoT) theme, but is yet to establish itself in the IoT mainstream due to limited interoperability and underdeveloped self-contained functionalities, according to GlobalData beancounters
GlobalData’s Wearable Tech – Thematic Research predicts that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent between 2018 and 2023, primarily driven by smartwatches, which account for the lion’s share of the market revenue.
Social Print & Copy [SP&C], Scotland’s first social enterprise within the print and copier sector, has partnered with printing manufacturer Epson, largely thanks to its sustainability goals.
SP&C will donate profits back to the charity sector through a community grants program due to be launched later this year.
SP&C will stock and sell Epson printers due to their low-energy consumption, low waste and low costs to the customer. While their core market is print and copier solutions, SP&C will also look at widening its product offering towards large format print and projectors.
Employers across the United Kingdom advertised 170,000 job openings for information technology (IT) workers in the fourth quarter of 2019.
According to an analysis of employment and labour data by CompTIA, The fourth-quarter figure for open core IT occupations represented a one percent increase over the Q3 2019 total and accounted for about 10 percent of the 1.7 million total job openings across the UK.
CompTIA senior director for research and market intelligence Amy Carrado said the quarter-over-quarter increase was modest, but it was counter to the typical trend of a hiring slowdown in the fourth quarter.
The managed service provider (MSP) market is strong and in a position to take advantage of myriad growth opportunities, according to SolarWinds research.
The firm has shared the findings of its 2019 Trends in managed services report, which looks at what is happening in the US and Europe.
The report quoted figures from Mordor Intelligence, which forecast that global managed services spending will climb from $173 billion last year to more than $296 billion by 2023. That translates into an estimated compound annual growth rate of more than over 11 percent, which is higher than pretty much the rest of the IT market.
The British Legal Technology Forum 2020 has revealed the full line up of speakers for the 10th March 2020 at Old Billingsgate, London event.
Focusing on the reinvention of business law, law firm innovation, design thinking, service delivery challenges, machine learning and cybersecurity, the Forum is set to bring together an estimated 1200 sector leaders to discuss how advanced technologies could facilitate a smarter future for legal businesses.
Xerox announced its intention to launch a tender offer on or around March 2, 2020 for the outstanding shares of common stock of HP at a price of $24 per share, which will be comprised of $18.40 in cash and 0.149 Xerox shares for each HP share.
This is a boost of what Xerox has offered in the past and according to the company is because it has been chatting to some of HP’s largest stockholders.
Avaya is pushing its subscription, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud sales model to partners.
Speaking to the gathered throngs at the Avaya Engage conference, Jon Brinton, Avaya’s vice-president of North America channel sales said the vendor had increased partner incentives to encourage more subscription and services business.“We’ve made those changes to focus more on the company’s strategic imperatives for the enterprise customer – the migration to SaaS or subscription”, he said.
Brinton confirmed that Avaya was gearing its partner engagement around customer preference for cloud, and customer service becoming “multi-experience” – “incentivising our channel to work with our customers to help them as they develop their buyers’ journey for the modern consumer”.
Targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Avaya Cloud Office will combine RingCentral’s UCaaS platform with Avaya phones.
The company also said that its enterprise private cloud offering, ReadyNow, which it rolled out last year, was now the fastest-growing part of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Avaya highlighted its investment in a new contact-centre-as-a-service (CcaaS) platform, Avaya IX-CC, which it described as being “built from the ground up as a cloud-based solution developed on a microservices architecture.”
Avaya’s new communications-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) offering is billed to provide customers “to build apps with ease and integrate them into any application, workflow or communications system”.
Amazon competitor OnBuy is on the hunt for more resellers to add to its platform.
CEO Cas Paton said the B2B outfit has received £3 million in private equity (PE) investment and works with distributors who use the platform as a way to engage with B2C audiences.
He wants more distributors to start using the online market and hopes that word of mouth among disties will work its way to resellers selling on the site.
A quarter of UK businesses are overwhelmed by emerging technology, according to research from CompTIA.
A quarter of the 1,500 global business and technology professionals cited budget constraints, risk aversion and feeling “overwhelmed” with options that are causing some organisations to go-slow.
While 46 percent of respondents viewed emerging tech positively and 25 percent expressed equal parts excitement and fear towards it.
OpsRamp has expanded its sales leadership team with the appointment of George Bonser to Vice President of European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) Sales. Bonser has been added to the executive roster to help with the increasing worldwide demand of the OpsRamp platform.
Bonser is a 20-year veteran of technology sales, most recently serving in senior leadership roles at Okta. Prior to that, he served in similar roles for Nimble Storage, Data Domain, Acopia Networks, and others. He will be located in the OpsRamp EMEA headquarters in London, England.
More than half of IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs) admit to investing in cybersecurity products only after being hacked, according to research by ESET.
The research surveyed 400 MSPs to uncover their attitudes and future plans around cybersecurity.
With the frequency of cyber-attacks growing year-on-year, the findings suggest that many MSPs still have their heads in the sand over the gravity of the threat. The study did, however, find that some MSPs are more proactive than others, with 41 percent of respondents saying that they invest in cybersecurity whenever they purchase a new device. Additionally, over a third said they have been prompted to protect themselves by reading stories about hacking in the news.
Research from musicMagpie reveals that old Android devices – in particular, Samsung handsets – can lose up to 35 percent of their value following a new release. So, with the imminent launch of new Samsung gizmos, customers are encouraged to sell now if they want to secure the best deal.
Customers trading in a Samsung Galaxy S10 can expect to earn up to £382 if they sell now, while those with a Samsung Galaxy S10+ could get up to £431. This value is set to decrease once the new Samsung models are on the market, so by trading-in early, customers can ensure they’re getting the most money for their old handsets.
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