"Half-billion dollar start-up" is hungry for more

A Thursday morning breakfast meeting with GXS' chairman/CEO Harvey Seegers and marketing director Reid Walker saw both men in a relaxed yet excited mood regarding the company's future following its split from General Electric. Datamonitor's Martin Atherton found out more about the B2B vendor's plans for expansion...

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'Proof-Win' - a means for Gordon Brown to deliver successful public sector IT projects?

The public sector will be one area where incoming UK prime minister Gordon Brown and his team will have their work cut out. The public sector has a culture not conducive to centralized IT project specification and governance, explaining the many projects that have hemorrhaged money and failed to deliver. This must be taken into account if large IT projects' chances of success are to be improved.

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'Universal bank': doubts over government plan

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2007 will be one of the most challenging years in contact center outsourcing's history

Coming hot on the heels of UK bank Lloyds TSB's announcement that it is to move its contact center operations from Mumbai to the UK, a new report has revealed that contact center outsourcing providers are set to face tremendous challenges with the emergence of late-adopting vertical markets. Indeed, vendors are struggling to adapt industry-specific solutions to both new and established clients.

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2009 will see the worst high street growth on record

Pressure on the high street will not ease after Christmas and is set to intensify in 2009. Excluding sales at grocery multiples and over the internet, high street retail spending will shrink by over 4%, the largest drop in over 40 years. Negative growth at a time of increasing costs could potentially wipe GBP3.6 billion off the collective profits of leading retailers in 2009.

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3G handsets: Japan will invade Europe

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3G infrastructure: share and share alike

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3G mCommerce: industry insiders warn of lengthy waits

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3G mobile infrastructure: Orange to share Swedish network costs

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3G mobile phones: 31 million European subscribers in 2005

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