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Spending outlook brightens slightly
News In a happy sign for technology companies, Forrester Research on Monday said it raised its forecast for US information technology spending growth in 2004 from 4 percent to 5 percent. We now expect US IT spending in 2004 to reach $776bn (£425bn), and...
[March 30, 2004, 12:45]
Spending watchdog attacks Government's record on IT
News His findings were published in July 2004, and based on these results the Government announced an efficiency programme from April 2005 to cut spending by the £21.5bn target. If one lesson stands out from the work of the PAC over the years, it is...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
Corporates slash IT spending plans
News Corporates are downgrading their IT spending plans for 2007, largely driven by cautious forecasts for the global economy. Media, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies are planning to increase their spending on IT next year by an average of 6.9...
[December 15, 2006, 11:16]
Analyst: Slowdown in global IT spending continues
News Global growth in IT spending will slow for the fourth year in a row as the credit crunch compounds the problems of the already stagnant market. A record number of companies — slightly more than 60 percent — will cut their IT budgets or keep...
[September 19, 2008, 9:25]
Gates: We're spending $10bn on R&D
News These are not things that will happen in one or two years," Gates said, noting that the company plans to continue spending heavily on research and development over the current decade. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touted advances in development...
[May 21, 2004, 9:25]
Compliance demands drive security spending
News A poll of corporate executives published on Monday found that companies are increasing spending on security to satisfy legislation -- not necessarily because their chief executive have seen the light.
[September 30, 2003, 11:45]
UK set for Europe's ICT spending top spot
News The key factor, according to Forrester, is that business confidence is expected to remain particularly low in Germany over the next few years, which will have a knock-on effect on spending on ICT products and services.
[February 17, 2003, 17:19]
Forrester Research reduces IT-spending forecast
News Growth in information technology spending next year is expected to reach 1.6 percent in the US, a substantial drop from previous forecasts. Forrester Research's current 2009 estimate, released on Tuesday, is down from its previous forecast of 6.1...
[December 10, 2008, 6:30]
Forrester revises IT spending predictions
News Forrester Research on Wednesday revised its best-case-worst-case scenario for US tech spending. Back in September, Forrester made a base prediction that IT spending would grow 6.1 percent in the US and between seven to eight percent overseas.
[October 16, 2008, 9:51]
Survey: Bleak year ahead for IT spending
News Information technology spending has stabilised to start off 2003, but talk of general improvement for the rest of the year is premature, according to a survey published on Tuesday by investment firm Goldman Sachs.
[March 12, 2003, 14:48]
Hardware spending shows 'sporadic growth'
News A persistent atmosphere of caution had marked IT spending, even though the US economy is looking up, with continuing growth in the gross domestic product, the ratings company said in an outlook released on Wednesday.
[September 25, 2003, 11:40]
Tighter Budget, Canny Spending
White Papers When a company needs to limit its spending, the first area to be examined, and habitually slashed, is its IT budget, often with the security element considered non-essential. While many businesses overwhelmingly recognize that security has the...
[February 12, 2009, 23:00]
Security tops IT spending in Asia
News Despite the vague outlook, IDC expects spending on services and software to grow by 18 percent this year. Security software and services have drawn investments from more than half of the region's IT managers last year, cementing its position at the...
[January 21, 2003, 11:12]
Gartner: chip spending to fall 20 percent
Blog Capital spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment is set to fall by 20 percent this year, according to analysts Gartner. The analysts say that a weakening US economy and a collapsing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market will result in...
[April 16, 2008, 11:53]
Tech spending could crawl back to life
News Tech spending could accelerate toward the middle of next year, according to a poll of chief information officers, a trend that could benefit Microsoft and a few select companies. A number of users pointed to ageing equipment and a backlogue of user...
[October 25, 2002, 9:24]
Oracle's Ellison forges ahead with spending plan
News The severe battering meted out to technology stocks partly reflected investor concern about a spending falloff by financial firms, traditionally big consumers of IT products and services. But echoing Ellison, Boskin said that Oracle was "far better...
[October 13, 2008, 8:32]
SME tech spending to surge this year
News IT spending by SMEs in China and India is expected to hit record levels this year. Adopting technology such as PCs and internet access will be more rapid in China and India compared with other countries, and will set the stage for even greater...
[February 2, 2007, 9:42]
Tech M&A spending plummets in third quarter
News Tech mergers and acquisitions took a dive in the third quarter, with spending falling by a third compared with the same period last year, as Wall Street investment banks and financial institutions were rocked to the core, according to a report...
[October 3, 2008, 11:09]
E-commerce spending hits new high
News World online spending for 2000 reached $56bn (about £38bn) according to a new study, with consumer online spending growing by nearly half. The study, released Tuesday by research firm ActivMedia, noted that online spending for the Christmas season...
[January 4, 2001, 9:20]
UK dot-com ad spending down
News Advertising spending by UK dot-com companies has fallen for the first time in years according to figures to be released by media monitoring firm ACNielsen MMS next week. The drop is part of an overall decline in UK advertising spending, evidence...
[January 11, 2001, 12:13]
