Industry News
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Capita Acquires Smiths Consulting Limited
Capita plc has acquired Smiths Consulting Ltd for a cash consideration of £10m on a cash free, debt free basis, with a further contingent consideration of up to £2m based on profit performance over the next two years.
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Sony Names as Kazuo Hirai as CEO
The PlayStation boss will replace Howard Stringer at a crucial time for the consumer electronics giant.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
IBM Acquire Worklight Inc
IBM, the world’s biggest computer-services provider, is acquiring Worklight Inc., a closely held maker of software for smartphones and tablets to enhance its mobile-service offerings.
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Hartlepool Borough Council Confirms 7-Year Contract
Plans to outsource core council services and dozens of staff to a private firm have been confirmed after it was called in for scrutiny.
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Swiss Outsourcing Group DKSH Prepares to List on Zurich Stock Exchange
Swiss outsourcing company DKSH is preparing to list on the Zurich stock exchange and the Asia-focussed firm has picked bank UBS as lead manager
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North Lanarkshire Completes Data Cleansing
North Lanarkshire Council has announced the completion of a successful customer data cleansing and matching exercise to transform the quality of its citizen records and improve customer service efficiency for citizens contacting the council.
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BMC to Acquire Numara Software
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) major BMC Software has announced that it is set to acquire Numara Software.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
EU to Establish European Cloud Partnership
The European Commission is to establish the European Cloud Partnership, which aims to bring together public sector organisations and the IT industry to work on commons requirements for cloud procurement.
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Salesforce Announces Desk.com
Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, has unveiled Desk.com, revolutionizing customer service for a social and mobile world.
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Select Committee Publishes Public Sector IT ‘Cartel’ Report
The public administration select committee has commended the government on making progress to tackle the well known problems associated with public sector IT.
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