Ericsson's Q2 saw sales at SEK 54.8 (55.3) down for comparable units, adjusted for currency by -1% yr/yr, up 13% qtr/qtr. Sales recovered compared to the previous quarter, it says, driven by growth in the Middle East, China and India, as well as continued capacity business in North America.
After the European ICT market stagnated in 2013, researcher EITO expects slight growth again this year.
Computacenter Plc first half results show sustainable growth in the UK, continuing issues in Germany, and France recovering.
New research will be showing major changes in the market at the Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2014.
Nordic integrator EVRY says it signed new contracts totalling NOK 5.2bn (€620m) in the second quarter of 2014, and closed the quarter with its order backlog at an all-time high of NOK 18.4bn (€2.2bn)
Emulex, specialist in network connectivity, monitoring and management, has published the results of its study on network and security operations professionals across Europe and the US.
Madrid is to use IBM's Smarter Cities technology, aiming to improve the delivery and efficiency of city services and provide citizens new tools to interact and communicate with the city council. IBM, through its subsidiary INSA, says this is the largest environmental services management project in Spain.
Siemens Convergence Creators (Siemens CVC) now has reseller rights for Oracle’s Service Cloud, formerly also known as Oracle RightNow CX cloud service
Forrester is projecting modest growth of 2.3% in euros in 2014 for European business and government purchases of technology goods and services, with an acceleration to 4.9% in 2015.
3CX, developer of the Windows VoIP PBX 3CX Phone System, is opening in Italy, following new offices in France and Poland last year.