TechMarketView in the press

The team here at TechMarketView have been pretty busy in recent weeks as seen by a number of appearances in the press.

In Charles Arthur’s article Move to mobiles and share rebound leaves Facebook sitting pretty for The Observer, TechMarketView chairman Richard Holway, who has until now called Facebook a “passing fad”, says he is "in awe of what they have achieved in the past six months". In particular, as regular UKHotViews readers will know, he's impressed at how Facebook has converted its growing base of mobile users into a source of advertising revenue.

In the Financial Times article Growth in IT jobs confounds offshore fears by Henry Mance, Richard Holway is quoted as saying “We’ve turned the corner. In the 2000s, if you wanted to get a job, going into computer sciences was not the thing to do. There is now a significant increase in the number of jobs that can be offered to people with A-levels or university degrees.”

Whilst in The Times article Quindell has last word with rising profits, TechMarketView managing partner, Anthony Miller is quoted saying, “I've long since given up making head nor tail of Quindell" as they announced  profits in the first half.

Richard is again quoted heavily on all aspects of Apple in CRN ChanelWeb News article Is Apple losing its Midas touch?. On wearable computing he says, “Let's imagine that they brought out an iWatch in September at £100 a go - it would be an absolute star. The demand is there if the price is right."

Richard also adds valuable insight into UK investment in PCAdvisor article CentralNic lists on LSE to raise funds for next generation domains. While he is ‘delighted’ to see CentralNic choose AIM he points out that it's only a "tiddler", going on to say, "What we need is a flow of $1bn plus IPOs like they get in the US," he said. "Indeed, the $1bn prospects from the UK - like Shazam, Sophos etc - all seem to be eyeing Nasdaq instead. We need big IPOs to get the media, the analysts, the funds and the investors really interested."

Elsewhere in PCAdvisor, BusinessProcessViews research director, John O’Brien, is quoted in Penny drops' and G4S pulls out of electronic tagging contract bid, saying he is surprised it took G4S so long to pull out of the procurement process. John is also quoted in CRN ChannelNews article Civica wins Worcestershire shared services deal when he characterised the Worcestershire win as “a small, but significant new deal for its platform BPS offering”.

In ComputerWorldUK article UK digital payments provider Skrill snapped up by private equity firm research director Peter Roe commented that the deal would benefit all parties. And from PublicSectorViews, research director Georgina O’Toole states in PublicTechnology article Skyscape unveils new G-Cloud 4 partner programme that the new scheme will deliver results for Skyscape. She says, “It looks like another canny move…”.

Finally in BusinessCloud9, ESASViews research director Angela Eager comments on the price ‘hike’ from AppExchange in Developers face 900% hike in AppExchange security review prices.

Thanks once again to our PR agency Brands2Life, who do a fantastic job for us.

With the on-going release of our stream Market Trends & Forecast 2013 and Supplier Landscape reports no doubt you’ll be hearing a lot more from TechMarketView in the press over the forthcoming weeks!

Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:00'