Credit and Finance
Is this the fastest-growing enterprise software company ever?
Robotics company UiPath claims it is now valued at $3bn after $225m funding round
Meet the hot new cloud storage vendor taking on AWS
Wasabi Technologies to go international in the cloud storage market after raising $68m in latest funding round
Birmingham-based comms provider raises £75m war chest for expansion
Wavenet's new 'firepower' will lead to new acquisitions soon
Cloud storage player Cloudian raises $94m in funding
Vendor will use funding to expand global sales, marketing, and its engineering team
Slack hits $7bn valuation with $427m funding round
The workplace communications app attracted nearly half a billion dollars in latest funding round
OCSL sells up to German reseller Cancom
£85m-revenue VAR will act as UK hub for Cancom as it ramps up international expansion plans
Analyst hints at printer revival in Europe
Context reports sales of hardware devices have flattened during most recent quarter
Revenues down but profits up at Redcentric
MSP admits it 'did not sell enough', as annual revenues fall to £100m
Troubled Maplin shuts up shop for good
Administrators for the failing electronics retailer had been hoping to find a buyer
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook: Playing the long game
Veteran credit management expert Eddie Pacey recalls a case from the 1990s when he helped out a stricken system builder
Leeds reseller LDD Group enters administration
Buyer being sought to secure £8m-revenue IT, comms and managed print supplier's long-term future
Further Maplin redundancies as search for buyer continues
Another 66 roles go as struggles continue for the electricals retailer after it went bust last month
Maplin goes bust, with gadget price spikes partly blamed
PwC will trade the business as normal while it seeks a buyer
Tech Data boosts funding for SME resellers
Distributor trebles credit available to SMB partners to £1m
Avaya CEO rings NYSE bell as vendor floats
Comms vendor goes public a year after slipping into Chapter 11
Is the era of cheap credit insurance over?
The environment for cheap credit insurance premiums appears to be nearing its end, according to Rycroft Associates' Mike Stott
VAR gets £2m funding boost for Northern expansion plans
Reseller snares largest ever single investment from Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
Murray courts tech market with start-up investments
Tennis star and former Wimbledon champion Andy Murray funds UK tech firms in latest portfolio expansion
Welsh public sector supplier Millennium closes doors after 31 years
IT and AV reseller understood to have called in administrators yesterday
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook: Know your customer
Credit veteran Eddie Pacey recalls how his efforts to get under the skin of one small reseller led him to visit a dairy in Leeds
UK business insolvencies on the rise again, thanks partly to Brexit, trade body warns
Post-referendum inflation and weaker pound have hurt businesses' bottom lines, R3 says as data shows prolonged fall in company failures appears to have reversed
Misco UK goes bust
CEO Alan Cantwell tells CRN that entering the firm into administration was the only option after HMRC turned the screw on the firm and a last-ditch attempt to sell key assets to PCM came to nothing
Funding flows for UK tech landscape
Venture capital funding fuelling IT industry development
UK leading fight against uprising of 'zombie firms'
UK's insolvency regime the least hospitable for productivity-sapping 'zombie' firms, OECD report finds
