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IT outsourcing

  • January 20, 2011 20 Jan'11

    Carlsberg agrees probably its best outsourcing deal

    Carlsberg has signed a five-year contract with Accenture for application services for its European brewery operations.

  • January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

    iGate acquires outsourcer Patni in deal worth $1.22bn

    American IT services firm iGate has acquired Indian outsource company Patni in a deal worth $1.22 billion.

    iGate said it would pay $921m to buy a 63%...

  • January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

    $21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud

    Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet.

  • January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

    TPI and Compass come together

    The US owner of sourcing consultancy TPI has acquired Compass Management Consulting, to increase the transformational services it can offer.

  • January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

    BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

    David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

  • December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

    Government shelves FiReControl

    The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m.