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Adobe to make concession to cloud haters

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Software vendor 'evaluating additional options' after admitting decision to discontinue perpetual licensing has caused concern

19 Jun 2013

Adobe cloud-only model comes under fire

Resellers optimistic about Adobe cloud launch

BT boss quits for front benches

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Carrier's share price falls after it reveals Ian Livingston has accepted call of duty from David Cameron

19 Jun 2013

Chess launches charity single

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Telecoms VAR wrote single in memory of its former operations director who passed away recently

19 Jun 2013

Viglen cheers bulging sales and profits

System builder says rise in sales to academies helped swell top and bottom line last year

19 Jun 2013

Don't bank on Google Apps or Office 365

Cloud player critiques strategy of juicy support bundles to boost low-margin cloud product

19 Jun 2013

NetApp: UK business is thriving on back of downturn

Vendor claims its UK business has grown as customers - particularly in the public sector - look for more efficient technology

19 Jun 2013

Ex-Systemax exec indicted over $7m bribe allegations

Carl Fiorentino steered more than $230m in business to suppliers in return for kickbacks, prosecutors allege

19 Jun 2013

Icahn revamps Dell offer and issues shareholder call to arms

Activist investor still in the mix with $16bn tender offer as letter insinuates Dell has not run a reasonable go-shop process

19 Jun 2013

Scotland loses out in IT company birth and death cycle

Gravitational pull towards London and South East has strengthened in last six years, Experian figures reveal

18 Jun 2013

Europlus flags up new office ahead of global expansion

IBM partner's IT support business aims to go on growing at new site

18 Jun 2013

Some 250 celebrate a fine Nimans birthday

Family frolics for staff as chairman marks 60th birthday

18 Jun 2013

Daisy vows to root out more M&A

Buy-and-build VAR claims banking backers have confidence in its business model, despite sinking to another annual loss

18 Jun 2013

Westcon: We are investing in UC as rivals back off

EMEA boss David Grant discusses his priorities, the convergence of software and comms and why cloud adoption may not match hype

18 Jun 2013

Gartner: Global government IT spend revised down

Mobility, IT modernisation and cloud top of 2013 agenda, with big data and analytics creeping higher

18 Jun 2013

Industry veterans rock up at Annodata

Comms channel stalwarts Mike Mason and Martin St Quinton tasked with helping VAR reach £100m turnover

18 Jun 2013

Imtech begins the healing after €370m write-off

Technical services giant apologises to shareholders, customers, suppliers and staff after probe uncovers irregularities in numerous projects

18 Jun 2013

CSI Group welcomes new chief

Alan Watkins' ever-growing mid-market player appoints Richard Midgley as its new MD

18 Jun 2013

Mitel turns up contact centre heat with prairieFyre buy

Move driven by desire to cater for partners building out datacentre practices

17 Jun 2013

UKFast assembles M&A squad

New team to pore over books of potential acquisition targets

17 Jun 2013

Good times, bad times

Who was the prince - and who the pauper - in the channel last week?

17 Jun 2013

Equanet management decimated by Kelway axe

Seven of nine Equanet's senior executives have left the VAR alongside more than half the total workforce

17 Jun 2013

Fox resigns as VCW managing director

Graham Fox poised to unveil new venture after calling time on six-year stint at VAD

17 Jun 2013

Reports - Icahn may exit Dell race

Billionaire investor has hit a snag over financing of his proposed recapitalisation of hardware giant, according to US reports

17 Jun 2013

Avaya VARs told to go after mid-market to beat margin crunch

EMEA channel boss wants resellers selling across the vendor's portfolio as comms and networking space comes under price pressure

17 Jun 2013

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of last week's most-read stories

17 Jun 2013

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