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Xerox CEO starts tapping up HP shareholders
Xerox is pursuing a hostile takeover after HP's board rejected a merger bid
Channel Awards 2019 winners Q&A: SCC
SCC Sales director Adam Clark talks through the reseller's 2020 plans
Channel execs raise over £100,000 at World's Big Sleep Out
Homeless charities benefit from annual event
Northamber mourns loss of founder David Phillips
Channel chief dies aged 74
CRN: December 2019
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Cybersecurity provider goes bust owing £3.5m to unsecured creditors - administrator report
Reports of 60 job losses
£60m-sales Stormfront acquired to create UK's largest Apple reseller
Irish giant Compu b bolsters APR business with Stormfront's 23 UK stores
Is that all just smoke and mirrors? Channel execs discuss shift to services as resellers report another strong year
Twelve execs gathering in London to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the channel as we enter a new decade
A-List dinner 2019 in pictures
View photos from last night's A-List dinner, held in London
HP accused of 'rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic' as pressure to negotiate with Xerox intensifies
Carl Icahn pressures HP shareholders to push for a deal
Infinigate CEO on shifting focus to managed services
Klaus Schlichtherle tells CPI that rolling out the VAD's acquired MSP arm has taken longer than expected because of vendor wariness around monthly billings
MSP continues acquisition spree after securing PE investment
Ridgewall makes fourth acquisition of the year
Google in firing line again over data collection
European Commission confirms further investigation into Google's data-gathering conduct
Software giant Smartsheet appoints sole pan-European distie
QBS signed up to grow UK market
Tech Data bid upped to $6bn after rival suitor enters the fray
Rival bid threatened to derail Apollo's takeover
'We've ridden the wave' - Logicalis UK boss on plan to turn the business around
Alex Louth says Logicalis now has a firm vision in place having rushed previous attempts to reinvent itself
HP shows signs of recovery as Xerox circles
HP insists its strategy is working as Xerox confirms hostile takeover bid is imminent
Logicalis' UK losses widen as revenue falls below £100m
Directors say they're confident recent restructuring will steady the ship
HPE triples GreenLake business going through the channel
Overall sales drop nine per cent year on year
Acquisitive MSP sees sales near £10m
SysGroup says it 'continues to seek attractive acquisition opportunities'
HP CEO questions 'sizeable strategic hole in Xerox's portfolio' as war of letters continues
HP boss slams Xerox for 'aggressive words'
'Virtual warehouse support' to drive distribution growth - GTDC
Distribution space expected to see 10 per cent growth by 2025
Xerox fires back at HP with threat of hostile takeover
Vendor said it is 'confused' by HP's rejection of its opening bid last week
Cisco reshuffles divisions to fend off competition
Networking giant brings datacentre and enterprise divisions together, and expands cloud unit
Softcat among seven resellers on £6bn healthcare framework
Framework will facilitate the purchase of hardware, software and services
Optiv confirms 'temporary' UK closure and turns attention to M&A
Security giant says it is still committed to European expansion
MSSP giant Optiv to shutter UK operation - sources
Optiv launched in the UK last year but is rumoured to be pulling out of the market
Security VAD Ignition signs up Google's threat-hunting platform Chronicle
Distribution agreement will cover the UK and the Nordics
Which famous person does the channel most want to slap?
Politicians in the firing line as execs in CRN's A-List 2020 slam parliament for drawn-out Brexit process
Welcome to the CRN A-List 2020
We asked 144 channel execs to answer a range of questions, including their dream career as a child, their favourite and least favourite partner conference destinations, and their most-watched TV programme of the year
Softcat CEO assembles channel A-Team for World's Big Sleep Out
Host of channel execs from the likes of Bechtle, Cisco, Dell, Ultima and Total Computers set to take part
Icahn confirms HP stake and pushes Xerox tie-up
Xerox's bid for HP was confirmed last week
Tech Data launches 'Azure solutions factory' for CSP partners
Distie says solutions can be rolled out instantly by partners
Recently acquired Novosco makes six-figure SOC investment
SOC will help facilitate £107m deal won last year
Adept revenue flies up by a quarter following acquisitions
Acquisitions contribute majority of growth
UK downturn taints Exertis growth
Distributor also announces two European acquisitions
CRN: November 2019
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ASL snaps up print supplier as M&A streak continues
Managed print provider makes fourth acquisition in two years
Softcat CEO on opening overseas offices, winning UK market share and his first-year highlights
Graeme Watt talks CRN through another year of impressive growth at the reseller
All the moving parts of Xerox's proposed HP takeover
Tom Wright considers the factors at play in the possible merger of two tech titans
PCM boosts sales in Insight's Q3
CEO Lamneck says integration of the two businesses is on track
HP confirms approach from Xerox
Rumours of a takeover bid from Xerox emerged earlier this week
MSP merger creates £10m business
Amicus ITS and Aura Technology join forces
Xerox plotting audacious takeover of HP Inc - reports
Xerox has reportedly put funding in place, but a takeover bid is not definite
CSI expands into US with acquisition of £30m-revenue IBM partner
Cloud partners says move will bolster its backup and disaster recovery capabilities
Broadcom completes acquisition of Symantec
Consumer division to stand alone as NortonLifeLock
Microsoft will let Azure services run in AWS and Google Cloud Platform
Azure Arc will help customers address 'cloud sprawl', Microsoft says
CDW reports record Q3 as sales edge towards $5bn
CEO Leahy says the reseller continues to search for acquisition targets