Computers & Electronics 2007 - Company News Summary

Petards, the developer of advanced surveillance systems, has sold its UK government and commercial software business to BAe Systems Integrated System Technologies for £2.5m.
24-Dec-2007

Filtronic has sold its microchip factory in Newton Aycliffe to RF Micro Devices of the US for £12m, securing 200 jobs and creating up to 100 new jobs.
24-Dec-2007

Zen Internet is planning to relocate the headquarters of its Rochdale-based broadband internet business and up to 360 staff to Sandbrook Park.
24-Dec-2007

Reuters is to acquire Gissing Group, the London-based data technology company with gross assets of £1.8m.
24-Dec-2007

ArgentVive is to acquire Solcara, the Middlesex-based search technology firm, for £4.5m.
24-Dec-2007

Winning Pitch has undergone a £2.5m flotation, and now plans to raise up to £3m to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based training business.
24-Dec-2007

Northgate Information Solutions, the Hemel Hempstead-based human resources software company, is to be acquired by US private equity firm KKR for £593m.
24-Dec-2007

Pace Micro Technology is to acquire the set-top box and connectivity solutions business of Royal Philips Electronics for £68m, with the transfer of 335 staff mainly based in France.
20-Dec-2007

Maxima Holdings is to acquire the trade and assets of Eclectic Group, the software and support firm with 60 staff in Glasgow and Reading, from Glen Group for up to £3m.
20-Dec-2007

CSE-Servelec is to invest £1m in the expansion of its Sheffield-based software development business, with the creation of up to 50 jobs.
20-Dec-2007

Twenty4help is looking to expand the workforce at its Gateshead-based technical support call centre business with up to 150 new staff over the next few months.
19-Dec-2007

Logical Resources is planning to expand its recruitment business with new offices in London, Glasgow and Cardiff next year, and about 40 jobs will be created.
19-Dec-2007

K3 Business Technology has acquired Index Computer Systems, the Surrey-based supplier of manufacturing software, for £2.7m.
18-Dec-2007

Datatron is planning to expand the 24-strong workforce at its Tyneside-based document management business by 20% early next year.
18-Dec-2007

Capita is to set up offices totalling 60,000 sq ft at Lee House and Churchgate House in Manchester city centre.
17-Dec-2007

Acorn Group has acquired Concept Staffing, the Barnstaple-based recruitment firm with 16 offices across the South West, for undisclosed terms.
14-Dec-2007

Alba is to sell Roadstar Group, the distributor of consumer electronic products with annual sales of £27m, to management for a nominal sum.
13-Dec-2007

Walsall Regeneration Company has unveiled plans for the development of a £80m data centre and business innovation centre by 2010, as part of the Gigaport technology quarter project.
13-Dec-2007

TBS is to relocate its Belper-based software development business to a new £1.5m 10,000 sq ft office at Brook Park in spring 2008.
12-Dec-2007

Biscom, the recruitment and training firm with 200 staff in Birmingham, Stafford, Walsall and Wolverhampton, has been acquired by ResCare of the US.
11-Dec-2007

Adept Telecom is to acquire Telecom Direct, the fixed line reseller with annual turnover of £13m, for £6.4m.
07-Dec-2007

BT is to acquire Frontline Technologies, the Singapore-based IT services company, for about £68m.
06-Dec-2007

Blue Logic has acquired Premier IT Consultants of Cleckheaton, with the loss of 13 of the 18 jobs.
06-Dec-2007

Network Group Holdings has acquired R&L Executive Network, the Lincoln-based recruitment firm with nine staff, for undisclosed terms.
05-Dec-2007

Ultra Electronics has acquired BCF Designs, the Cirencester-based developer of electronic test solutions for the military and civil aerospace markets with 40 staff, for £12m.
04-Dec-2007

Tekton is to create up to 18 jobs in its Manchester-based construction software business over the next 12 months, with the creation of a new division aimed at architects, quantity surveyors and project managers.
04-Dec-2007

Vodafone is to set up an 80,000 sq ft call centre at the Etruria Valley business park in Stoke-on-Trent in 2009, with the relocation of about 1,200 staff from four existing offices.
04-Dec-2007

Bright Things is to acquire Commonworld, the developer of online social networking systems, for £0.8m.
03-Dec-2007

QCA, the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority, has confirmed plans to relocate about 500 jobs from London to the £110m Butts development in Coventry in 2009.
30-Nov-2007

Vyke Communications is planning to acquire The Target, the retail Voice over Internet Protocol service provider, for £3.5m.
27-Nov-2007

Eurotel, the telecoms service provider with 300 staff at offices in Halifax and Coventry, has been acquired by Inflexion Private Equity for £44m.
22-Nov-2007

Sematek is linking up with Scottish Enterprise to build a £6m cleanroom facility for the micro and optoelectronics sector at Starlaw Park in Livingston by May 2008.
22-Nov-2007

Intellego has acquired Copia, the Redhill-based supplier of e-learning solutions, for less than £0.1m.
20-Nov-2007

Intec Telecom Systems is to sell certain assets to VoluBill of France for an initial £1m, including its Intec DCP rating and charging products in Denmark.
20-Nov-2007

Netstore is to raise £7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its data centres, including equipment for a second data hall in Reading.
19-Nov-2007

Logistics Business Systems, the Preston-based software firm with 40 staff, has been acquired by The Product Development Company of the US.
19-Nov-2007

Ultra Electronics has acquired Atkins & Partners, the Doncaster-based supplier of software solutions for emergency planning, for £4m.
16-Nov-2007

Smartstream Technologies, the supplier of back office software to banks, is to be acquired by DIFC Investments of Dubai for about £210m.
13-Nov-2007

TT Games, the Cheshire-based computer games company with 200 staff, is to be acquired by Warner Brothers for undisclosed terms.
12-Nov-2007

Noble Systems has acquired Amcat UK, the supplier of contact centre technology with offices in Manchester and Germany.
09-Nov-2007

O2 is creating up to 1,000 jobs at call centres in Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff and the Dearne Valley, in order to handle sales of the new Apple iPhone.
09-Nov-2007

Imprint, the recruitment consultancy, has recommended a £43m takeover bid from OPD Group.
08-Nov-2007

Sophos is planning to raise £100m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange to fund the expansion of its Oxford-based IT security software business, which currently employs 1,115 staff.
07-Nov-2007

Quative, the Swiss supplier of interactive TV software, is to set up a £1.8m research and development centre in Cwmbran, with the creation of 35 jobs.
01-Nov-2007

BNS Telecom is planning to recruit 30 extra staff at its sales and engineering department in Northumberland by the end of the year, but its network services unit is closing with the loss of 15 jobs in London.
31-Oct-2007

China Netcom is planning to open a European headquarters in London, as part of a strategy to expand its global telecoms network.
31-Oct-2007

Domino Printing Sciences is to acquire Control Information Technology, the German supplier of production line control software, for an initial £2.8m.
30-Oct-2007

Sage Group has acquired KCS Global Holdings, the supplier of personnel and payroll solutions, for £20m.
30-Oct-2007

Dell is planning to expand the workforce at its Glasgow-based computer business from 830 to at least 1,600 over the next four years, with vacancies expected in sales, finance, technical support and human resources.
30-Oct-2007

Sentrum is to set up a data centre at the 191,000 sq ft Massif distribution centre near Woking, having acquired the site for £26m.
29-Oct-2007

Vertex is to create 350 temporary jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby.
26-Oct-2007

Centre for High Performance Development, the management training consultancy with offices in London, Australia and the US, has been acquired by US-based Capital H Group for undisclosed terms.
26-Oct-2007

Autonomy Corporation is to acquire Meridio Holdings, the Belfast-based supplier of enterprise records management software, for £20m.
24-Oct-2007

Spiritel has acquired Tdotcom, the London-based supplier of voice and data systems, for £0.3m.
24-Oct-2007

Prosource.it is planning to create a further 50 jobs at its Aberdeen-based IT outsourcing business over the next 18 months.
22-Oct-2007

Scottish & Southern Energy is to acquire a 1,100km fibre optic network from TeliaSonera International for £12m, including ten operational repeater sites and a duct running between London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.
15-Oct-2007

Xploite has acquired Itheon, the Welwyn Garden City-based provider of business services assurance solutions, for up to £7m.
15-Oct-2007

Gem is looking to recruit 500 additional staff at its customer services call centres in Northern Ireland in the run-up to Christmas.
12-Oct-2007

Cohort is to acquire SEA, the Frome-based systems engineering and software company, for up to £25m.
11-Oct-2007

Vodafone has acquired the Italian and Spanish broadband operations of Tele2 for £537m.
08-Oct-2007

Mformation Technologies of the US is to receive £2.1m from Invest NI to set up a mobile telecoms technical support centre in Belfast, with the creation of 162 jobs.
03-Oct-2007

Protocol Skills, the Ellesmere Port-based skills training company with 800 staff, has undergone a £46m management buy-out backed by Close Brothers.
03-Oct-2007

NCsoft Europe is to relocate its Brighton-based computer games business and up to 112 staff to the CityPoint development in 2009, with the creation of 116 new jobs.
03-Oct-2007

BT has acquired Lynx Technology, the Chesterfield-based IT services firm with more than 500 staff.
02-Oct-2007

Acal is to sell its IT solutions business to Avnet of the US for £41m, in order to focus on its electronics and parts services divisions.
28-Sep-2007

Telecity is planning to raise up to £125m in a flotation in October to fund the expansion of its chain of 18 data centres.
27-Sep-2007

Google is looking to recruit several thousand research and development engineers in Europe over the next few years.
27-Sep-2007

InterQuest Group has acquired e-CRM People, the Aylesbury-based IT recruitment services firm, for up to £5m.
27-Sep-2007

Telent, the Coventry-based telecoms and IT network services firm with about 2,000 staff, is to be acquired by Pension Corporation for £398m.
27-Sep-2007

Xploite is to acquire Red Squared, the Altrincham-based IT services company, for £2.8m.
26-Sep-2007

Evolution Studios, the Runcorn-based computer games developer, has been acquired by Sony for £16m.
26-Sep-2007

Gresham Computing is to raise £2.7m in a share placing to strengthen its balance sheet and fund the expansion of its global financial solutions business.
25-Sep-2007

ARC International has acquired Alarity Corporation, the US multimedia company with 40 software developers in Russia, for an initial £2m.
25-Sep-2007

Towergate is to acquire Open International, the supplier of software to insurance brokers, from Montagu for £276m.
25-Sep-2007

Sword is to set up a new £30m software development centre at the Pavilions site in Cwmbran, with the creation of 200 jobs by 2012.
20-Sep-2007

Intertek has acquired National Software Testing Labs of the US for £12m and Northern Territory Environmental Laboratories of Australia for £1m.
19-Sep-2007

Invest NI is to support plans by US-based 3PAR to set up a £9m software engineering centre in Belfast, with the creation of up to 80 jobs.
19-Sep-2007

Warwick Manufacturing Group is considering plans to start building a second £50m digital laboratory at Warwick University next year, with the first due to open in September 2008.
19-Sep-2007

SciSys has acquired VCS, the German IT services firm with 140 staff, for £12m.
17-Sep-2007

Sanderson Group has acquired Retail Business Solutions, the Milton Keynes-based IT services firm with 74 staff, for up to £14m.
17-Sep-2007

Knowledge IT is to open a 50-seat data recovery centre in Wallsend next month, and work will start on a 100-seat centre in Washington early next year.
17-Sep-2007

Morse has acquired Xayce, the Manchester-based consultancy services firm with 25 staff, for an initial £3.6m.
14-Sep-2007

Greatfleet has acquired Qualitas, the recruitment services firm with 32 staff in Edinburgh and Ireland, for an initial £3.4m.
13-Sep-2007

BT is to acquire INS Group, the Belgian network and systems integrator with 225 staff and annual revenue of about £20m.
13-Sep-2007

Sage has acquired a 70% stake in XRT, the French treasury management software company, for £30m.
13-Sep-2007

Converso is planning to create 150 jobs at its call centre outsourcing business in Southend over the next year, following its acquisition by Usha Martin of India.
13-Sep-2007

EDM Group is planning to relocate its document management solutions business and about 300 staff to a new site in Wolverhampton by next April.
12-Sep-2007

Suffolk Coastal District Council is to consider plans from BT for the expansion of its Adastral Park research and development site in Martlesham, including a new business park and space for up to 1,000 jobs.
11-Sep-2007

Borland Software Corporation is planning to expand the workforce at its Belfast-based technical support department from 30 to 80 by 2008.
11-Sep-2007

Telecom Service Centres, the call centre operator with 3,000 staff at nine sites, is to merge with Hero Ites of India in a £40m deal.
11-Sep-2007

Voice Comms Warehouse has merged with West Sussex-based Fresh Egg Network Technologies to create a combined IT security group called VCW Security with 21 staff.
11-Sep-2007

BT is to invest £35m in a new research and development centre in Shanghai, in order to offer IT and telecoms services to Chinese companies.
10-Sep-2007

Xploite has sold Fujin Technology, the provider of storage and security systems to mobile network operators, to management for £1m.
07-Sep-2007

Alternative Networks has acquired Echo Communications, the London-based telecom services firm with 120 staff, for up to £14m.
04-Sep-2007

K3 Business Technology has acquired Landsteinar Nederland, the Dutch retail software solutions firm, for an initial £10m.
04-Sep-2007

TeleTech of the US is looking to recruit about 500 call centre staff to work from home in the UK.
03-Sep-2007

Carter & Carter has acquired Blackwater House, the Northern Ireland-based vocational training firm, from Component Distributors, for £1m.
31-Aug-2007

THB Group has acquired Cardinus, the East Grinstead-based software developer and supplier of online risk assessment and e-learning, for an initial £2.8m.
30-Aug-2007

Causeway Technologies has acquired Elstree Computing, the Watford-based construction industry software firm with 150 staff.
30-Aug-2007

Oakland House, the recruitment firm, is seeking 20 customer service advisers and 50 sales staff to work for two undisclosed companies in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Crewe.
28-Aug-2007

Cybit Holdings has acquired Amatics, the Reading-based telematics company, for £4m.
27-Aug-2007

Berkeley Scott is to acquire Quantica, the West Yorkshire-based recruitment services firm, for £28m.
27-Aug-2007

IBM Global Services is expected to create almost 100 new jobs in Greenock, having won a global IT support outsourcing contract from Xerox.
22-Aug-2007

Intempo has secured £12m to fund the expansion of its Salford-based electronic products business, including £1.8m from the Hotbed private equity network.
22-Aug-2007

Raymarine has acquired HE Eissing, the German distributor of electronic products with 44 staff, for up to £2.4m.
21-Aug-2007

BT has acquired Basilica Computing, the Letchworth-based IT services firm with more than 200 staff, for undisclosed terms.
21-Aug-2007

Harvey Nash has acquired Rescon IT, the Irish IT recruitment and solutions company, for £5.2m.
20-Aug-2007

Texperts has raised £1.3m to fund the expansion of its 82Ask mobile phone-based information service.
20-Aug-2007

Twenty is to acquire Ominor, the London-based e-commerce solutions provider with 20 staff, for up to £7.9m.
10-Aug-2007

Trustmarque Solutions has acquired SAMpartners, the Poole-based software asset management company, for undisclosed terms, and plans to expand the seven-strong workforce to 12 by the end of the year.
09-Aug-2007

Mouchel Parkman has acquired HBS, the business process outsourcing and IT group, from Terra Firma for £46m.
08-Aug-2007

BT is planning to acquire the mission critical infrastructures division of CS Communication & Systemes of France for £40m.
06-Aug-2007

Ericsson is to relocate 60 jobs from Nottingham to a new £60m research and development site that will employ up to 600 staff at Ansty in the West Midlands from 2009.
03-Aug-2007

Scottish & Southern Energy has sold 220 telecom tower sites to The Wireless Infrastructure Company for £79m, in order to focus its SSE Telecommunications business on network-related services.
03-Aug-2007

NCC Group has acquired SecureTest, the Thame-based ethical security testing company with 34 staff, for up to £4m.
02-Aug-2007

Leighton Group has sold 4Projects, the Sunderland-based software developer with 55 staff, to a management buy-out backed by August Equity for undisclosed terms.
01-Aug-2007

Amstrad, the Essex-based electronics manufacturer, is to be acquired by BSkyB for £125m.
01-Aug-2007

Xansa, the IT services and business outsourcing group, is to be acquired by Groupe Steria of France for £472m.
31-Jul-2007

Carphone Warehouse is to relocate its OneStop mobile phone mail order business from Crewe to its e2save division in Loughborough, which could lead to the loss of dozens of jobs from the 200-strong workforce.
27-Jul-2007

Experian has acquired N4 Solutions, the Cirencester-based financial services software provider with annual sales of £9m.
25-Jul-2007

Daisy Communications of Nelson has acquired Abycom of Essex for £1.2m, creating a combined telecoms group with 120 staff.
25-Jul-2007

Wolfson Microelectronics has acquired Sonaptic, the High Wycombe-based developer of micro-acoustic technologies with 31 staff, for an initial £12m.
24-Jul-2007

Misys is to sell its US-based diagnostic information business to Vista Equity Partners for £186m and its US-based CPR health systems business to QuadraMed for £16m.
24-Jul-2007

Maxima Holdings has acquired Centric Networks, the Stansted-based IT services company with 41 staff, for up to £6.4m.
23-Jul-2007

Indigovision is looking to expand the global salesforce for its Edinburgh-based digital CCTV business from 36 to up to 250 over the next few years, gaining a presence in all major international markets.
20-Jul-2007

Stream International is to create 450 jobs at its call centre in Londonderry over the next few months, in order to provide product support for a broadband operation.
19-Jul-2007

BT is considering plans to set up an ultra-fast broadband network by installing fibre optic cable close to homes and businesses, and some analysts estimate that the project could cost up to £4bn.
19-Jul-2007

Garlands is to set up a new 47,000 sq ft call centre in South Shields by February 2008, with the creation of up to 800 jobs.
18-Jul-2007

O2 has launched a recruitment drive for 500 new staff at its Skypark customer services call centre in Glasgow.
16-Jul-2007

Pipex Communications has sold its broadband and voice operations to Tiscali of Italy for £210m, in order to focus on web hosting and business services.
16-Jul-2007

Skill Training is planning to set up a £2m vocational training centre in Consett next year, in order to double student numbers to 400.
13-Jul-2007

Anite Group has sold Anite Deutschland, its German IT services business with 90 staff, to VEGA Group for £8m.
10-Jul-2007

HM Revenue & Customs is to invest £156m in the modernisation of its IT systems over the next five years, in order to improve accuracy, productivity and performance.
10-Jul-2007

BT has acquired Brightview, the broadband internet provider, for £16m.
09-Jul-2007

InterQuest Group has acquired Intelect Recruitment, the Manchester-based software engineering recruitment firm, for an initial £3.7m.
06-Jul-2007

Huthwaite International, the Yorkshire-based training firm with 65 UK staff and 33 international offices, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
05-Jul-2007

Eircom is to invest £3.5m in the expansion of its telecoms network and service operations in Northern Ireland, including a new centre in Belfast with 15 staff.
04-Jul-2007

Pelikon is to invest £3m in the expansion of its electronics display technology business in Caerphilly, and is considering plans for a flotation in the coming year.
04-Jul-2007

Autonomy is to acquire Zantaz, the US search software and email archiving company, for £186m.
04-Jul-2007

Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired Quest, the supplier of property market software, for £28m.
03-Jul-2007

Innovise is to acquire Data Technology Group, the IT services company, for £4.4m.
02-Jul-2007

IXEurope, the datacentre operator, is to be acquired by Equinox of the US for £241m.
02-Jul-2007

Excel Fortune of Hong Kong is planning to set up a £6m mobile phone recycling operation and call centre at the Selectron electronics plant in Cwmcarn, Gwent, with the creation of up to 250 jobs.
28-Jun-2007

Adventi has acquired Integral Arm, the IT services company with 12 staff in Glasgow and Luton, for undisclosed terms.
28-Jun-2007

Mediasurface is to acquire Immediacy, the Poole-based developer of web content management software, for £5.6m.
27-Jun-2007

Harvey Nash is to acquire SilkRoad Systems, the Vietnamese software development company with 135 staff, for about £1m.
27-Jun-2007

Onyx Group is to set up a £2m disaster recovery centre in Gateshead by July, creating ten jobs and providing managed workspace for up to 200 people.
26-Jun-2007

I4u, the Newcastle-based developer of medical referencing software, is planning to double its staff to 20 over the next 12 months.
26-Jun-2007

PicoChip has raised more than £13m from Highland Capital Partners to fund the expansion of its Bath-based wireless technologies business.
26-Jun-2007

FMS NI is to invest £2m in the expansion of its notebook computer factory in Crumlin, with the creation of ten jobs.
21-Jun-2007

Torex Retail, the retail software company, is to sell its operating businesses out of administration to US private equity firm Cerberus for £205m.
21-Jun-2007

SDL International has acquired PASS Process Automation Software Systems Engineering, the German supplier of software translation products, for £1.4m.
20-Jun-2007

ARC International has acquired Tenison Technology EDA, the Cambridge-based developer of software tools used for system-on-chip designs with 15 staff, for £1m.
18-Jun-2007

Spiral Gateway has secured a £0.3m venture capital investment from Braveheart to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based microchip technology business, and expects to raise a larger sum early next year.
18-Jun-2007

Lagan Technologies is to create 100 new jobs at its Belfast-based software development and support centre.
15-Jun-2007

Codemasters, the Warwickshire-based computer games developer with 400 staff, is preparing for a £200m flotation after Balderton Capital acquired the remaining stakes of the founders.
14-Jun-2007

Ultra Electronics is to acquire Criticom, the US supplier of video conferencing systems with 40 staff, for £16m.
13-Jun-2007

Wasp-IT, the Nantgarw-based communications technology company, has been bought out of administration by a new company called M7 Consulting, securing the future of the remaining ten jobs.
12-Jun-2007

Hellman & Friedman, the private equity firm, is to acquire Computer Services Group and Iris Software from HgCapital for an estimated £500m.
12-Jun-2007

Wombat Financial Software is to invest £2m in the expansion of its software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 77 jobs.
08-Jun-2007

Fujitsu is to set up a £18m IT services centre in Londonderry with the creation 328 jobs, and a further 74 jobs will be created at its Belfast operation.
07-Jun-2007

Glen Group has acquired Pinnacle Group, the Falkirk-based telecoms services company, for £0.7m.
07-Jun-2007

Aepona, the Belfast-based telecoms software company, is to merge with Appium of Sweden, and will use the Swedish facility as a development centre and regional sales office.
07-Jun-2007

FFastFill is to acquire Exchange Systems Technology, the London-based supplier of a back office system for exchange traded derivatives markets with 39 staff, for up to £4.8m.
06-Jun-2007

BT is to expand the 140-strong workforce at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent with 33 new jobs over the next few months.
05-Jun-2007

Vitec Group has acquired Nucomm and RF Central, the US suppliers of wireless links for broadcast applications, for an initial £19m.
31-May-2007

RDF Group is planning to expand the workforce at its Brighton-based IT services business from 130 to 160.
30-May-2007

Tech Mahindra of India is considering plans to set up a £6m software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of up to 200 jobs.
30-May-2007

UK Digital Storage is planning to relocate its Tyneside-based electronic data storage business to a larger 100,000 sq ft office, where it will create 30 new jobs over the next five years.
29-May-2007

Microgen is planning to acquire Trace, the London-based developer of financial and HR software with 190 staff, for £22m.
29-May-2007

Affinion, the supplier of ID protection systems, is planning to create 100 new jobs at its call centre in Portsmouth by the end of the year.
29-May-2007

Liberty Information Technology is to invest £6.6m in the expansion of its software development operations in Belfast, with the creation of up to 175 jobs.
28-May-2007

Canford Group has acquired Ash Distribution, the North Tyneside-based computer accessories company with annual turnover of £3m and 22 staff.
24-May-2007

RM has acquired DACTA, the Wrexham-based supplier of branded learning products to educational establishments with 14 staff, for up to £4m.
22-May-2007

O2 is to create 50 new jobs at its customer contact centre in Bury, having decided to transfer its eService department from India.
16-May-2007

Global Telecoms & Technology is to relocate its Bury headquarters and 130 staff to a new £5m site in Hornby Street, and 125 new jobs will be created over the next 18 months.
16-May-2007

Friends Provident is to acquire Sesame, the IT support business for independent financial advisers, from Misys for £90m, as well as Pantheon Financial, the Leeds-based independent financial adviser with 82 staff, for £17m.
16-May-2007

Isoft, the Banbury-based healthcare software company, has accepted a £140m takeover offer from IBA Health of Australia, which is expected to lead to job cuts and the transfer of some head office functions to Sydney.
16-May-2007

Mitsumi UK has sold its Jarrow-based contract electronics manufacturing business to management for undisclosed terms, creating a new company called Summit 1 Technology with 54 staff.
15-May-2007

Experian has acquired Tallyman, the collections management software business with annual sales of £9m, from Talgentra.
14-May-2007

Autonomy is planning to raise £70m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Cambridge-based software business.
14-May-2007

IDOX is to acquire CAPS Solutions, the Newbury-based provider of software solutions to local authorities, for £21m.
11-May-2007

DEM Solutions, the Edinburgh-based developer of particle mechanics simulation software, has raised £2m of venture capital to expand its sales and marketing activities.
10-May-2007

Computer Software Group is to acquire FAST, the Maidenhead-based software training company, for £10m.
09-May-2007

Gooch & Housego has acquired SIFAM Fibre Optics, the Torquay-based fibre optic components manufacturer with 93 staff, for £5m.
09-May-2007

NetServices has sold its volume consumer broadband wholesale business to 186k of Leeds for £1m, with the transfer of 174 contracts and five staff.
09-May-2007

Sage Group has acquired Snowdrop Systems, the Oxfordshire-based supplier of HR and payroll management software, for £17m.
09-May-2007

SSP Holdings is to acquire Sirius Financial Solutions, the Birmingham-based developer of software for the insurance sector with offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Kenya and the US, for £43m.
09-May-2007

Optichrome has sold OCSL, the Woking-based supplier of management information systems, to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
07-May-2007

Vertex is to create 100 new jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby, having won an outsourcing contract from an unnamed firm.
04-May-2007

Real Time Systems of Belfast is to merge with 4sol to create one of Ireland's largest suppliers of access infrastructure solutions, and the 40-strong workforce will increase to 60 over the next 12 months.
03-May-2007

Telent, the telecoms company, is to relocate from Coventry to an 83,000 sq ft building on the Opus 40 Business Park in Warwick next year, securing the future of 450 jobs.
03-May-2007

Northgate Information Solutions is to acquire Arinso, the Belgian developer of human resources software, for £257m.
03-May-2007

Maxima Holdings is to acquire 3net, the IT services company with offices in Chertsey and Bristol, for £18m.
02-May-2007

Colt Telecom is planning to set up a 210,000 sq ft data centre at a former Somerfield site in Welwyn Garden City.
01-May-2007

OyezStraker, the Croydon-based office supplies company with 1,150 staff, is expected to be acquired by ABN Amro Capital for about £165m.
30-Apr-2007

SurfControl, the internet security firm with offices in Congleton, Reading and throughout the world, is to be acquired by Websense of the US for £201m.
30-Apr-2007

SDL International is to acquire Tridion, the provider of web content management solutions with offices in Bracknell, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Sweden and the US, for £47m.
25-Apr-2007

Serco Group is to acquire Cornwell Management Consultants, the Surrey-based IT consultancy, for about £7m.
25-Apr-2007

Comtec Business Communications, the Gateshead-based communications technology company with 20 staff, has been acquired by Ogilvie Communications of Stirling for undisclosed terms.
25-Apr-2007

Garlands has announced plans to create a further 320 jobs at its call centres in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Stockton, taking the total Teesside workforce to about 3,500.
24-Apr-2007

OGL Computer Services is to open a new office in Kidderminster with the creation of 30 jobs, and a further ten sales and support jobs could be created later in the year.
24-Apr-2007

Recyclite has acquired Recycle IT, the Thetford-based processor of decommissioned computer equipment.
24-Apr-2007

BT is to acquire Comsat International, the US-based company with 700 staff that provides voice and data services in Latin America, for about £50m.
23-Apr-2007

IPWireless, the Chippenham-based mobile broadband company with 100 staff, is to be acquired by NextWave Wireless of the US for up to £470m.
20-Apr-2007

O2 has sold its Airwave national police communications network to Macquarie of Australia for £2bn.
19-Apr-2007

Royalblue has acquired LatentZero, the developer of financial trading software with offices in London, Germany, France and the US, for up to £63m.
17-Apr-2007

Telephone Maintenance Group has sold Westcom Communications to a management team for under £0.2m.
16-Apr-2007

Sage has acquired Pro-Concept, the Swiss supplier of enterprise resource planning software, for £7.5m.
16-Apr-2007

Mando Group is to relocate its Liverpool-based web development business and up to 30 staff from the Wavertree Technology Park to the Liverpool Science Park.
13-Apr-2007

Version One, the Cheshire-based supplier of document storage software with 60 staff, has been acquired by CedarOpenAccounts of Cobham for about £5m.
12-Apr-2007

Datatec has acquired Crane Telecommunications, the West Sussex-based software and data services group, for £21m.
12-Apr-2007

O2, the mobile phone operator, has agreed a pre-let with Slough Estates to set up a 110,000 sq ft office on the Slough Trading Estate.
12-Apr-2007

IT Installations is planning to increase the turnover of its Sheffield-based communications business from £1.5m to £3m this year and to £5m by 2009, with the workforce rising from 20 to 40.
11-Apr-2007

Xploite has acquired Anix Group, the Bristol-based reseller of storage hardware and software solutions, for £10m.
05-Apr-2007

National Grid is to sell its UK Wireless business, which provides network infrastructure to mobile operators, to Macquarie UK Broadcast Ventures for £2.5bn.
04-Apr-2007

Computacenter has acquired Cable & Wireless Allnet, the cabling services company with 160 staff in London and Reading, from Cable & Wireless.
04-Apr-2007

CNA International of Castle Donington has sold its consultancy division to MA Consulting International for undisclosed terms, in order to focus on executive search and recruitment.
04-Apr-2007

Gem is to create 150 new jobs at its customer service outsourcing call centres in Belfast and Londonderry, having won a number of new contracts in telecoms and gaming.
03-Apr-2007

Wombat Financial Software of the US has acquired Harco Technology, the Belfast-based data analysis company, for undisclosed terms.
03-Apr-2007

BNS Telecom Group has acquired 3g Comms and 3g Landline, the Birmingham-based business telecoms companies, for £4.8m.
03-Apr-2007

Harris Systems, the developer of communications systems, is to set up a 72,500 sq ft office at a new building planned by Slough Estates at Winnersh Triangle near Reading.
03-Apr-2007

Synchronica has raised £3.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its business developing mobile synchronisation and device management solutions.
30-Mar-2007

Proactis is to acquire Alito UK, the Bridgend-based e-procurement software solutions company, for an initial £1.5m.
30-Mar-2007

K3 Business Technology is to acquire McGuffie Brunton, the provider of manufacturing software solutions with offices in Manchester, Bagshot, Dereham and Market Bosworth, for £12m.
29-Mar-2007

Linden Lab is seeking a suitable site to set up an online games development office in Brighton, with the creation of up to 15 jobs.
29-Mar-2007

Mavinwood is to acquire DCS, the Peterborough-based provider of scanning and indexing services, for an initial £1.3m.
28-Mar-2007

Valtech is planning to set up a new software development office in Caerphilly in May, with the creation of up to 40 jobs in the first year and 170 jobs over the next three years.
28-Mar-2007

Quantix, the Nottingham-based IT services company with 31 staff, is planning to relocate to the Chetwynd Business Park at Bulwell in May, and is also looking to create new jobs and make acquisitions following a £10m buy-out from Lynx.
28-Mar-2007

Xchanging is planning to raise £150m in a flotation to fund its expansion in the business process outsourcing market.
27-Mar-2007

Velti is to acquire M-Telecom, the Bulgarian mobile services provider, for up to £1.7m.
26-Mar-2007

RB Solutions is planning to create up to 75 jobs at its business process outsourcing division in Middlesbrough over the next two years.
26-Mar-2007

Touchstone Group has acquired ETC Global Solutions, the Amersham-based business solutions consultancy with 26 staff, for up to £3m.
23-Mar-2007

Plexus is currently relocating its electronics design centre to a larger site on the Alba Campus in Livingston, and a further 19 jobs will be created over the next two years.
22-Mar-2007

Laird is to sell its security systems division to Lupus Capital for £242m, in order to focus on the manufacture of electromagnetic shields for mobile phones.
20-Mar-2007

Staffline has acquired Onsite Partnership, the Market Harborough-based recruitment company with 28 staff, for an initial £2m.
20-Mar-2007

ICM Computer Group, the operator of 11 business continuity centres, has agreed terms for a £86m management buy-out.
20-Mar-2007

Mission Marketing Group has acquired April-Six, the Harefield-based IT marketing agency with 54 staff, for an initial £10m.
19-Mar-2007

COE Group has raised £1.2m in a share placing to fund the recruitment of sales employees for its video surveillance systems business.
19-Mar-2007

Computer Software Group is planning a £100m management buy-out backed by HgCapital.
19-Mar-2007

ICM Recovery Services is considering plans to set up a 96,000 sq ft office and data centre at Discovery Place in Farnborough.
19-Mar-2007

Mobestar Holdings has acquired the trade and assets of Mobile Life, the Bristol-based developer of software for mobiles, for £0.3m.
16-Mar-2007

Kewill Systems has acquired Innovate IT, the Dutch logistics software company with more than 30 staff, for an initial £5.6m.
15-Mar-2007

Infinity Group is planning to expand the workforce at its Leicester-based telephony products business from 33 to 70 by the end of the year, and is currently seeking a larger site.
15-Mar-2007

Iomart is to acquire a 51% stake in data centre company Ezee DSL for £4.8m, creating a group of Easyspace Datacentres with sites in London, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham and Leicester.
08-Mar-2007

Maxima Holdings has acquired SevenThree, the Coventry-based supplier of customer relationship management software, for £1.1m.
08-Mar-2007

Compel, the IT services company with 400 staff in London, Stevenage, Guildford, Aldershot, Bracknell, Livingston, Birmingham, Hungerford and Warrington, is to be acquired by 2e2 for £52m.
07-Mar-2007

Spiritel has acquired Ashland Group, the Wigan-based provider of IP-based telecoms solutions, for £3.7m.
06-Mar-2007

The Serious Games Institute is to set up a £3.3m computer games development centre at Coventry University Technology Park by this autumn, with funding from Advantage West Midlands.
01-Mar-2007

Datatec is to acquire NOXS Europe, the distributor of IT security products and services with offices in Thatcham, France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands, for £35m.
28-Feb-2007

SCi Entertainment is to acquire Rockpool Games, the Manchester-based computer games developer with 36 staff, for up to £7.7m.
27-Feb-2007

NCS Group has acquired Turning Point Technologies, the London-based IT company with 26 staff, for undisclosed terms.
27-Feb-2007

The University of Edinburgh is to set up a £113m super-computer at an undisclosed site in Midlothian, in order to "revolutionise academic research across Britain".
23-Feb-2007

Alchemy Plus is planning to set up a new computer data centre on a 2.4-acre site at Dingwall Business Park next year, and the 12-strong workforce will rise to 30.
23-Feb-2007

MRC International, the recruitment firm, is to create up to 35 jobs at a new office due to open in Shrewsbury on March 1, with vacancies for accounts and administration staff.
23-Feb-2007

Ikon Science has acquired Anitec, the Edinburgh-based seismic data software company, for undisclosed terms.
21-Feb-2007

LogicaCMG is to sell its telecoms messaging business to a private equity consortium led by Atlantic Bridge Ventures for £265m.
21-Feb-2007

O2 is to create 120 jobs at its broadband customer service call centre in Glasgow this year, and a further 50 jobs will be created in Leeds.
20-Feb-2007

Cybit has acquired Thales Telematics, the vehicle telematics and wireless asset management business, from Thales Group for £1m.
19-Feb-2007

Danwood Group is to set up a new 100,000 sq ft office equipment distribution centre and call centre at Swinderby in Lincolnshire by October, with the creation of more than 100 jobs.
19-Feb-2007

Sifam Fibre Optics is creating 20 new jobs at its telecoms components factory in Torquay, having won a number of new contracts.
19-Feb-2007

Kewill Systems is to acquire IPACS e-Solutions, the Singapore-based IT solutions provider with 60 staff, for an initial £1.9m.
15-Feb-2007

Rafiki Protection has acquired Santana Solutions, the South Wales-based developer of software for alarm systems, and is now seeking global expansion in the fire alarm and detection industry.
15-Feb-2007

Junction Solutions, the US-based software company, is to create about 30 jobs at its new European headquarters in Sheffield by the end of the year.
15-Feb-2007

Pipex, the broadband and telephone service provider, is looking to recruit 20 credit control staff at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent.
15-Feb-2007

Data Collection has acquired March Group, the Leicester-based developer of highway maintenance software with ten staff, for undisclosed terms.
15-Feb-2007

Pure Wafer has acquired Exsil, the 36,000 sq ft silicon wafer reclaim facility with 75 staff in Arizona, USA, from Rockwood Specialties Group for £6m.
14-Feb-2007

Static Burst, the Plymouth-based IT services firm, has acquired LSI of Bristol, as part of a strategy to establish an office in every major South West town.
14-Feb-2007

VT Group has acquired MILCOM Systems Corporation, the US developer of electronics and communications systems, for £22m.
13-Feb-2007

Sanderson Group is to acquire Elucid, the supplier of software for use in multi-channel markets, from K3 Business Technology Group for £1.4m.
13-Feb-2007

Fujin Technology has acquired Posetiv, the London-based computer storage company, for £4.6m.
13-Feb-2007

Fusion Contact Centre Services is to open a new call centre in Peterlee in March, which will create up to 600 jobs over the next three years.
13-Feb-2007

Martin Luck of Plymouth has merged with Brewers Business Solutions to create a combined office supplies business with 140 staff.
12-Feb-2007

Vodafone is to acquire a 67% stake in Hutchison Essar, the Indian mobile operator, for £5.7bn.
12-Feb-2007

Redstone is to acquire Comunica, the Middlesex-based network and communications infrastructure company with more than 300 staff, for £22m.
09-Feb-2007

BT is to acquire i2i Enterprise, the Indian network services company with about 200 staff.
07-Feb-2007

IX Europe is to raise £5.1m in a share placing to fund the development of data centres in London, France and Germany.
06-Feb-2007

O2 is said to be looking to set up a new mobile phone call centre in South Yorkshire, and is seeking a suitable site of between 80,000 and 120,000 sq ft.
05-Feb-2007

RDF Group is to acquire Aqua Resources Group, the Brighton-based IT recruitment company with 15 staff, for £0.2m.
02-Feb-2007

Kingston Communications has acquired Mistral Internet, the business internet service provider with offices in Romsey, Southampton, Brighton and London, for £20m.
02-Feb-2007

Detica Group is to acquire DFI International, the US provider of services to the security community with 208 staff, for £20m.
02-Feb-2007

BT is to acquire International Network Services, the US-based provider of IT consulting and software solutions with 900 staff.
02-Feb-2007

Paver Downes Origin has raised £1m to fund the expansion of its Liverpool-based interactive voice messaging business, and its name will change to Qire.
01-Feb-2007

Anite Group has acquired Invenova Corp, the US provider of software for WiMAX device testing, for an initial £3.1m.
31-Jan-2007

Atos Origin is to relocate its Nottingham office to a 40,000 sq ft site on Beeston Business Park after a two-year design-and-build phase.
31-Jan-2007

SPI Lasers has raised £10m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Southampton-based optical fibre lasers business.
30-Jan-2007

Filtronic is planning to vacate its 100,000 sq ft Saltaire headquarters and relocate all staff to its electronic components site in Shipley.
30-Jan-2007

Thermastrate of Northumberland has secured £0.6m to fund the development of new technology for the production of electronic components, and will create up to 25 jobs for technical managers and sales people.
29-Jan-2007

BT is creating 40 jobs at a new £6m call centre in Londonderry, in order to handle calls from both business and domestic customers.
26-Jan-2007

NCC Group has acquired Site Confidence, the Dorking-based web assurance performance and monitoring company, for up to £9.1m.
24-Jan-2007

Instalec, the Aberdeenshire-based IT services company with 50 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
24-Jan-2007

Goldblatt McGuigan has acquired Leaf Consultancy, the Belfast-based IT services company with eight staff, for undisclosed terms.
23-Jan-2007

Tekton Group has acquired SiteStream, the construction software company with sites in Farnham and the US, for £3m, and is now looking to spend a further £40m on acquisitions.
23-Jan-2007

EMag Solutions of the US is to set up a European headquarters for its computer forensics business in Cardiff, with the creation of 23 jobs.
18-Jan-2007

Group NBT has acquired Ascio Technologies, the Danish provider of domain name services, for £18m.
18-Jan-2007

Aerial Facilities, the Chesham-based wireless telecoms equipment manufacturer, has undergone a £56m management buy-out backed by ECI Partners.
18-Jan-2007

The Office for National Statistics is drawing up plans to close its London headquarters by 2010, in order to relocate most of the 600 staff to Newport, South Wales.
17-Jan-2007

United Utilities is to sell its Vertex Data Science business outsourcing division to a private equity consortium led by Oak Hill Capital Partners for £217m.
16-Jan-2007

CSR is to acquire Cambridge Positioning Systems of Cambridge for £18m and NordNav of Sweden for an initial £20m, in order to expand in the market for mobile phone global positioning systems.
16-Jan-2007

Wolfson Microelectronics has acquired Oligon, the Edinburgh-based semiconductors company, for up to £2.9m.
15-Jan-2007

Carphone Warehouse is to set up an £8.5m call centre and engineering headquarters for its Opal Telecom business in Irlam, Manchester, by February 2008, with the creation of up to 300 jobs.
15-Jan-2007

Frontier Silicon has secured a £16m equity investment to fund the expansion of its Watford-based silicon chip business.
15-Jan-2007

InTechnology is to acquire EEscape Holdings, the parent company of telecoms solutions provider Evoxus, for £3m.
12-Jan-2007

Teleperformance is to set up a new £6.5m call centre in Newry, with the creation of about 450 jobs over the next three years.
12-Jan-2007

CSE-Servelec is to acquire Scomagg, the provider of system integration services with about 100 staff in Aberdeen, Motherwell and Rotherham.
12-Jan-2007

Delcam has acquired Crispin Systems, the Leicester-based supplier of CADCAM systems to the footwear industry, for an initial £0.5m.
11-Jan-2007

Civica has acquired VT Software Solutions, the Birmingham-based specialist in asset management systems and related services, from VT Group for £3m.
10-Jan-2007

Traveller's Tales has acquired Embryonic Studios, the Bollington-based video games developer with 20 staff, for undisclosed terms.
10-Jan-2007

Geko Direct is to expand the 80-strong workforce at its Telford-based mobile phones business with 50 new staff this year.
10-Jan-2007

Hamsard is to acquire CSF Managed Services, the network applications company with offices in London and Bracknell, for £3.3m.
08-Jan-2007

Computacenter has acquired Digica Group, the IT services company with sites in Nottingham, Leeds, Warrington and South Africa, for £16m.
05-Jan-2007

Sandwell Council and BT are seeking a suitable site in the Black Country to set up a new £50m call centre to handle inquiries from the public, with the creation of about 450 jobs.
05-Jan-2007

IQE has acquired MBE Technology, the Singapore-based semiconductor manufacturer, for £7.5m.
03-Jan-2007

Wyre Forest District Council is to consider plans from Severntech for the development of a computer recycling centre in Stourport, with the creation of up to 100 jobs.
03-Jan-2007

Carphone Warehouse is considering plans to expand the workforce at its mobile phone call centre in Preston from 800 to up to 2,000.
03-Jan-2007

Monstermob, the mobile phone content supplier, is to sell a 52% stake in the business to La Netro Zed of Spain for £34m.
02-Jan-2007

Apax Partners is expected to sell Damovo, the Glasgow-based telecoms services provider, to an unidentified group of creditors.
02-Jan-2007