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Dell reported another weak quarter as its founder fights to make it a private company

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue yesterday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private. read more

Reducing cost and increasing efficiency key considerations over the coming year, according to IT executives responding to a CIO UK survey

With a focus over the next year on cutting costs and increasing efficiency, CIOs expect the cloud to overtake mobile developments as the second largest driver of transformation at their organisations behind data analytics, according to CIO UK’s CIO Priorities survey. But with clear mobile strategies which are in the deployment and pilot stages, the UK’s business technology leaders are anything but ignoring the current mobility explosion. read more

Cisco says sales of servers and data centre switches are gaining with the company's play for overall IT leadership

Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the US and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. read more

However, there was a five percent dive in sales for the year to £18.25 billion

BT has beat analyst expectations and posted a yearly profit of £2.5 billion, despite modest sales figures for its final quarter and year-end to March 31, 2013. read more

Senior management and sales and marketing were the top spending business functions, according to Forrester

Business executives are increasingly bypassing the IT department and spending their own budgets on technology as "it's too important for their business to leave to IT", according to analysts Forrester. read more

Acer's revenue for the first quarter was down year-over-year by 19 percent

Acer said its net profit for the first quarter grew 55% year-over-year, but its revenue continued to decline amid struggling PC sales. read more

Industry CIO on change management, innovation, compliance, data management, budgeting, the cloud and risk

What are the pressures currently experienced by insurance industry CIOs and CTOs who are required to support business change, differentiation and innovation while maintaining a stable system of records - and all in these times of austerity? read more

Korean electronics behemoth has high hopes for Galaxy S4 smartphone

Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42% from a year ago. read more

Company also gained from the rise in Japanese stocks and the yen's weakness in recent months

Sony has doubled its profit forecast for its latest fiscal year, a widely expected move after it sold off major assets including its US headquarters and an office complex in Tokyo. read more

And 12 top resources to help you out

We understand that whilst most companies would like to adopt best practice procedures it can be hard to a) know what best practice is and b) know how to replicate it or implement it. So here’s a guide that might help. read more