Category: Spotlight
31 Oct 2013
PwC to Acquire Booz & Company To Expand Consulting Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced yesterday that it will buy Booz & Company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PwC, based in New York, currently...
28 Oct 2013
NTT Communications Acquires Two Cloud Computing Firms for $880 Million
NTT Communications Corporation announced today that it will acquire two U.S.-based cloud computing firms in separate transactions totaling approximately $880 million (85.5 billion yen)..
03 Oct 2013
Accenture Buys Procurian for $375 Million
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) announced today it will acquire Procurian, a leading provider of procurement outsourcing services, for $375 million in cash. Although additional financial...
24 Sep 2013
Sverica International Announces Sale of Pivot Data Centres to Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) announced yesterday that it is acquiring Pivot Data Centres from private equity investment firm Sverica for CAD 155 Million. Pivot operates...
23 Sep 2013
BlackBerry Agrees to Tenative Go-Private Deal
BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with a consortium of investors led by Fairfax Financial (FFH: CN)...
11 Sep 2013
SYNNEX Acquires IBM’s Customer Care BPO Services Business
SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX) announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire IBM's (NYSE:IBM) $1.2 billion+ worldwide customer care business process...
03 Sep 2013
Microsoft Acquires Nokia’s Smartphone and Cellular Handset Division
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement to acquire the smartphone and cellular handset business of Nokia Corporation (NASDAQ:NOK)...
29 Aug 2013
Baring Private Equity Partners Asia to Purchase Controlling Stake in Hexaware Technologies
Baring Private Equity Asia announced on August 23 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 41.9% stake in Hexaware Technologies Limited (BSE:532129)...
02 Aug 2013
FusionStorm and Synoptek Form Alliance to Deliver Managed Services
San Francisco-based FusionStorm, an award-winning IT solution provider with national U.S. coverage and global distribution capabilities, has entered into a strategic alliance with Synoptek, a...