BT has been selected by international services company, Serco, to be its IT partner on the new Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. The deal represents a first of BT, which has been trying for some time to export its expertise in the sector into the Australian market.
A spot of consolidation in the payments space today. Ingenico, a global payment provider which focuses on secure electronic transactions at point-of-sale, said it has reached an agreement in principle with Summit Partners to acquire Brussels-based, pan-European online merchant payment services provider Ogone for €360 million — paying €120 million in cash and €240 million via bank credit.
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In case those Black Friday and Cyber Monday frenzies weren’t enough, here’s another big reminder of what a massive industry (and opportunity) retail technology is.
Global payment and retail technology giant NCR Corporation announced this afternoon that it will acquire Retalix, a provider of point-of-sale software and services, for $30 per share in cash, a total transaction value of app
RIM could have a little more cash on hand next quarter.
Australian-listed software and IT services company, Sirius, has appointed a new chief to head up its group of companies which include subsidiaries, intelligence software systems provider, Infomaster (IFMA) and its help-desk and operator services provider to government, Sirius Managed Services (SMS).
Web hosting and domain name services provider Melbourne IT has signed a three year deal with Indian IT services corporation HCL Technologies to implement its global Integrated Web Services IT integration project. The $18 million project is expected to take three years to complete.
The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buy Mendeley, a London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics to share research and collaborate with each other via a social network.
A little consolidation in the world of big data and Apache Hadoop development: WANdisco, a UK/U.S.-based provider of collaboration software that focuses on the open-source Apache Subversion revision control system, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Palo-Alto-based AltoStor, which will help it further develop its big data products.
Network engineering provider Visionstream Australia has won a $70 million contract with Victoria's Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA). Under the agreement, Visionstream, part of the Leighton Contractors group, will act as agent for Victoria to continue to operate and maintain the Emergency Alerting System (EAS) network for four years, commencing in November 2012.
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