Analyst Plimsoll measures the financial warning signs at the UK's top IT support organisations
Channel Finance
IT SMEs amass fortunes in business savings accounts
IT and communications firms also have the most held in current accounts shows bank research
Over two-thirds of SMEs have no finance fears over Brexit
Only SMEs in Greater London show concern over finance access says Close Brothers
Skyhigh raises another $40m for cloud security offering
Skyhigh Networks wants to help protect a $141 billion cloud services market
Syscap unveils better online IT financing technology
The finance provider said it would focus exclusively on the channel last year after being acquired
Brexit: We’re all doomed on IT spending claims Canalys
A 15 percent spending decline in 2017 is being forecast by the esteemed channel analyst, we'll see
Midwich offers channel £30m credit for SMART AV offerings
Distie continues to pick up where Steljes left off
UPDATE: Dell is ‘close’ to £1.4bn software division sale – DEAL HAS BEEN DONE
Pre-EMC merger garage sale reportedly includes $2 billion deal with Francisco Partners and Elliot Management
Cisco invests in emerging flash storage firm Elastifile
Previous funding round for the flash SDS company raised $35m, now Cisco has joined the party
Flat sales for Dell ahead of the EMC merger
Dell’s holding company Denali reports revenue down 2 percent year-over-year with sales gloomy for most of Dell’s businesses
Close Brothers expands technology sales and leasing team
New technology division continues to expand with five new relationship directors
Cloud service enabler BitTitan gets $15m in TVC funding
The technology is already used by 7,000 managed service providers, integrators and distributors
Outsourcery shareholders to get nothing from asset sale
More bad news from [probably] the world's most poorly performing cloud company
Target acquired by Tech Mahindra for £112m
Indian outsourcer to use capture to expand financial services reach globally
Steljes administration could leave Nureva distie opening
Loss-making AV company hits the wall as new customer Nureva perhaps weighs up distribution options
Exertis sees big profit slide as UK business struggles
DCC Group subsidiary is the black sheep of the family in 'challenging' market
Pinnacle sells CDT business to Chess for £2.8m
Restructuring company now promises to go on the acquisition path as it disposes of its last loss-making subsidiary
HTC further into the red as sales continue downward
64 percent fall in revenues during first quarter means that HTC will be relying heavily on its new releases for a return to profit in 2016
Bond lets loose Strictly Education for £11.3m
Sold to new private equity-backed Education Services Solutions
Sales and profits down at Ingram Micro as it turns Chinese
Previous quarter's excuses [reasons we mean] were rattled out once again
More bad financial news at Symantec as CEO ‘steps down’
Fourth CEO goes in under five years as the cloud hits the value of Symantec's offering
Insight posts fall in sales but rise in EMEA operating profits
A real mixed bag of first quarter results with different segments letting down the side in different ways
Apple revenues and profits slump, suppliers impacted
16 percent fall in iPhone sales, along with iPad and iMac declines, leads to knock-on effect across component companies
Vodafone steps in to make partner Outsourcery live another day
Skint cloud MSP has begging bowl replenished by communications partner
Datatec warns of stagnant sales and reduced profits
Restructuring costs at Westcon EMEA and Logicalis UK haven't helped
Outsourcery begging again after running out of money
The loss-making cloud service provider posts unaudited annual results which show the kitty will soon be empty
Computacenter main winner in £10.3m Liverpool council contract
Council framework is spread over seven lots and Computacenter is in six of them
Microsoft reports good Azure results, but overall sales are weak
Microsoft says its commercial cloud is now at a $10bn annualised run rate
Lexmark taken over by the Chinese in £2.5bn deal
Lexmark finds a buyer as it continues to move away from printers and more into software
IT services firms make Sunday Times 100 ‘most profitable’ list
Two MSPs are among those highly ranked
