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• May 06, 2016 06 May'16

  Midwich shares climb on AIM debut

  Shares in AV distributor Midwich climbed in the first few hours after the firm debuted on AIM

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  CSC seals the deal on Xchanging

  Shareholder approval - check, regulatory approval - check, unconditional offer - check; acquisition, you are clear for lift off!

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  EMC and Dell begin to paint a picture of post-merger world

  A raft of new solutions unveiled at EMC World this week are eclipsed by a rather large, Dell-shaped, elephant in the room

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Earnings roundup: Who's made what?

  MicroScope gives you an at-a-glance breakdown of financial results from in and around the channel. Up this week, AWS, Juniper, Netsuite, Symantec and Datatec

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Bank of Vodafone rescues Outsourcery from liquidity crisis

  Please sir, may I have another: Outsourcery goes cap in hand to its partner Vodafone for a much needed cash injection

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Troubled Outsourcery looks to raise emergency cash

  Piers Linney's cloud services firm is quickly running out of cash, despite increasing revenues and narrowing losses

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  UK slow to get going for Computacenter

  It is going to be a year characterised by struggle for the UK as Computacenter delivers an update on the progress in Q1

• April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16

  123-reg accidentally deletes unspecified number of websites

  A maintenance error has led to the deletion of an undisclosed number of customer websites, leaving many small business owners furious

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  Mitel to acquire Polycom for $1.8bn

  Spurred on by activist investor Elliott Management, Mitel Networks has agreed to acquire Polycom in a $1.8bn cash-and-stock deal

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  IT skills firmly on the government agenda

  Keynote speech at Cloud Expo used by government minister to stress it is working to improve the skills crisis

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  Exertis to acquire wireless distie Siracom

  Exertis snaps up Devon-based wireless specialist Siracom for an undisclosed sum as it looks to bolster enterprise offerings

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Santander steps up SME credit options

  The traditional banks have not been seen in recent years as sources of SME credit but that might be starting to change

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Getronics closes acquisition of Colt's cloud business

  Getronics completes acquisition of Colt's managed services business, as it looks to intensify European operations

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  Syscap to focus exclusively on the channel

  Following a strategic shift by its parent the finance specialist Syscap will make its focus 100% channel

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  Microsoft in talks with private equity firms to buy Yahoo

  Beleaguered internet giant gives potential buyers two weeks to submit preliminary bids for core business assets