My look at the gaming market in 2023, the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft and the UK regulator's opposition Read more »
The gaming market – a cloudy future?
Brexit uncertainty hits UK IT and comms spending
ITC spending declines due to Brexit uncertainty with forecast scenarios for what might happen when a decision on how to leave or stay is made Read more »
Download the UK ITC market post-Brexit presentation
To download the pdf of the slides I used at IPExpo Manchester to discuss the effects of Brexit on the IT and comms market in the UK please give your name, email address and company name and then click the send button. Once the file name appears right click and ‘Save […] Read more »
10. Automation will create social disorder
My tenth prediction is that rapid automation and resultant unemployment will create social unrest in 2018. Read more »
Catalonia – independence debacle threatens Spanish ITC recovery
Some initial thoughts on the disruption being created by the independence debate in Catalonia Read more »
ITC markets down 2% in Q2 2017 – growth worst in the UK (again), best in India
A précis of ITCandor's quarterly tracking of the ITC market in Q2 2017 and the year to the end of June. Read more »
Russia best, UK among the worst in Q2 currency movements
Tracking the value of currencies is an important and continuous process for market researchers working across international regions. You may want to know more about how values have changed in the last year. Read more »
Order our Q2 2017 EU data center research reports
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2016 UK IT market up 12% – the Brexit phoney war
A sizing and forecast of the UK IT hardware market. Read more »
Openreach put beyond BT’s reach
BT and Virgin Media are the sole suppliers of fibre optic broadband connections to homes and businesses in the UK and, while Virgin Media connects for its own business, other companies such as Talk Talk, Sky and Vodaphone are forced to use Openreach and have been spending years arguing that it […] Read more »
Brexit spreads to the US – new ITC forecasting parameters
Like most market researchers I’m both liberal and international in my outlook and can’t hide my unhappiness about the UK’s decision to leave the EU. It’s too late in Britain to wish the referendum at the end of June had gone the other way, but we need to consider how market […] Read more »
Brexit – selling UK IT assets by the pound
Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »
Could Brexit increase the taxation of the ITC industry’s £35b profits?
The IT and Communications industry is highly profitable for successful companies, with the smallest and largest enjoying the greatest profitability. In the UK we spent £146B on its products which created profits before tax of around £35B in 2015: an extra 10% of that collected by UK government could help out the […] Read more »
Brexit – bad for the UK’s ITC market, says ITCandor survey
The results of ITCandor's Brexit survey Read more »
Brexit – good or bad? ITCandor research survey
Please complete my survey - it should help with looking at the effect of the UK leaving the EU Read more »
Brexit – the consequences for ITC markets
Some ideas on the UK leaving the EU Read more »