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As businesses turn to the Internet of Things for growth, M2M WAN connections are set to triple by 2018, says a researcher.

A Barclays survey of 100 US and European CIOs says nearly half (46%) expect their company's IT spending to rise in 1H14, with 20% expecting it to drop, and 34% expecting no change.

India-based provider of connected solutions Tech Mahindra has announced it has opened its second centre in Belgium.

"Software made in France" is a concept which seems to be working, says a new study, driven by SaaS and the cloud.

Belgian HR-software provider Prato has announced it has bought a majority stake in Actonomy which optimises human resources management (HRM) processes.

As global PC shipments reached just 73.4 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a decline of -4.4% year on year, says IDC, Europe is looking more stable.

Extrahop's systems for looking wired network traffic in fine detail are in demand; expanding into security and other aspects of monitoring.

The annual report from Audit Analytics shows that the US corporations are continuing to amass large sums which they are unwilling to import to the US for tax reasons.

IHS, specialist in technology solutions for the hotel industry, has announced the acquisition of a US-based provider of reservations solutions InnLink LLC.

French consulting firm Altran Technologies has bought a Dutch Intelligent Systems specialist TASS for an undisclosed amount.