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Sources: Misco UK boss and sales chief head for exit
Gary Withington and Richard Logan both departing reseller, CRN understands
VAR NBW goes bust after FY13 numbers hit by horsemeat scandal
Sheffield firm makes all staff redundant after appointing administrators
EMEA thin-client market boosted by XP effect in H1
IDC warns of rollbacks in 2015 despite high growth so far this year
Westcon to broaden Intact skills in major services play
Distributor's UK and EMEA leadership talk services, cloud and margin challenges
Toshiba bets big on small business in UK channel push
PC vendor launches new schemes and products and eyes continental partner recruitment
Winners announced for £6bn Technology Products framework
Find out which 33 VARs and vendors made the cut on government's new major IT procurement vehicle
Tablet market set to flatline this year
IDC expects no growth in mature markets as forecast revised downwards
France is très bien for Hammer in stellar FY14
European expansion sees storage distributor enjoy big sales and profit growth
New owner Vinci 'a perfect fit', says Imtech ICT UK boss
Country leader upbeat as €255m sale of pan-European VAR to French construction monolith confirmed
Avaya and HP forge cloud alliance
Vendor giants announce global resale and service-delivery tie-up
Daisy Wholesale launches hosted desktop offering
Telco's channel arm unleashes VDI services
SDN player Tallac launches European push with UK digs
Former HP Networking exec Clive Hallam to lead transatlantic foray
Irish MSP Trilogy on hunt for second UK acquisition
Just months after buying b2Lateral, Dublin-based firm looks to acquire again
Outsourcery bosses give up salaries to raise working cash
London-listed cloud player raises £4.5m and sets sights on reaching break-even rate next year
Cisco to cut up to 6,000 jobs after FY14 declines
Yet more job losses at networking monolith as annual numbers show top- and bottom-line reductions
More unspecified delays for £1bn gov software deal as D-day nears
With just four weeks' margin for error, suppliers get tense as planned 5 August award date recedes into the past
Logicalis UK joins £200m club in blockbuster FY14
Margins, turnover, and staff numbers see a big spike as VAR invests for success
Phoenix claims turnaround is on track despite underwhelming Q1
IT services player lags forecast in various units
UK leads charge for rebounding print market
UK overtakes France to become western Europe's second-biggest hardcopy market
Channel quartet on track with £80m TfL deal
CSC, Computacenter, Insight, and Probrand swipe contract to provide ICT and services to London's transport network
Cash for quadrants? Gartner sued on 'pay-for-play' claims
Analyst dismisses as 'without merit' allegations from NetScout that its research favours those who spend big sums on consultancy
Chess adds mobile to channel grab bag
Telecoms firm launches expanded partner scheme following Avenir Telecom
Has Microsoft abandoned its UK retail plans for good?
Dissolution of UK-registered entity seemingly sounds death knell for previously hotly rumoured store rollout
Avnet closes solid FY14 with growth quarter
Components boom sees distributor increase top and bottom line in Q4
VARs land on inky £50m-plus universities deal
Quintet of firms awarded consumables contract with two major university consortiums
HP lawsuit labels Autonomy execs self-righteous fraudsters
Former brass of UK software player accuse HP of more 'breathless ranting' as ex-CFO Sushovan Hussain sued
No better news for creditors as 2e2 Group laid to rest for good
Companies dissolved with final administrators' report revealing no returns at all for unsecured creditors
EMEA gets its groove back for Insight in Q2
CEO salutes European efforts to bring back profitability after Microsoft reward troubles
The fine print?
The chief executive of the UK's biggest print VAR explains how the firm is putting a difficult year behind it, and why the channel should change its ways
Michael Dell taps personal piggy bank for Eagle Eye investment
Vendor founder ploughs a 'multimillion-dollar' sum into cloud-based video management outfit
B2B boom boosts Systemax in Q2
Sales grow and losses narrow for Misco owner in second quarter
Having a bubble?
With the UK's foremost tech stocks enduring a big decline in recent months, is there any danger of recreating the boom and bust of the turn of the century?
SDN not eating into comms hardware market
Infonetics report finds virtualisation and SDN are not ringing the death knell for PBXs and routers
Westcon's European profit hit by Cisco discount decline
FY14 numbers show reduced margins in European business as UK business grows past $500m
Logicalis ups support game with workspace services push
Integrator assembles crack team to ease clients' tech headaches
Hedge fund to push EMC to spin off VMware - report
WSJ story claims Elliott Management Corp has taken a hefty stake in storage giant and wants it to divest virtualisation arm
US reseller titan Zones eyes UK glory
Three years after landing on this side of the pond, one of the US' biggest VARs wants to accelerate EMEA growth
Phoenix goes for Gold with Huawei after contract blitz
IT services heavyweight posts positive update
Comms-care swipes deal to support all of Kcom's Cisco clients
Third-party services player grabs multi-million pound deal covering 6,000 customer sites
Growing pains for comms VAR Sabio in FY13 losses
Another double-digit sales spike, but profitability takes a big knock
Elite eyes ISP evolution with 'secret datacentre' acquisition
Telecoms firm buys facility serving public sector and enterprise clients
'Nothing off the table' in CEO's quest to streamline Microsoft
Satya Nadella hints at major change ahoy in open letter promising to modernise the vendor
Danwood: Have we changed our spots? We're a new leopard
VAR commits £5m to becoming more customer-friendly in a print industry it claims has overlooked clients' needs for too long
US tech start-ups outstrip Europe in self-promotive arts
Research finds transatlantic outfits better at using PR and SEO
M2 motors after SCC buyout with deal deluge
Print VAR inks quartet of contracts worth more than £10m cumulatively
Damovo divests Latin American businesses
Investor OpenGate Capital buys integrator's Mexican and Brazilian arms
Ex-Insight VP Tony Brooker named Logicalis UK sales boss
Former Insight, SCC, MicroWarehouse, Cancom, and Systemax man takes on new challenge
Solid Probrand rejoins £40m club
Reseller content with another steady year in newly published results