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Playtech Ltd

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:31:40 +0100

Online gaming firm - Acquiring assets from founder - Total value of 90m
The founder and largest shareholder of the online gaming technology company Playtech is selling a series of businesses and a property to the group in deals totalling almost 90m.

Hewlett-Packard Holdings Limited

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:35:10 +0100

IT company restructure - 30000 jobs at risk
Information technology company HP, based in Bracknell in Berkshire, is to undergo a restructure and 30,000 jobs are at risk as a direct result. The company currently employs some 320,000 people worldwide. 10 to 15,000 of the job cuts will come from HPs enterprise services group, and the company will be offering early retirement packages to approximately 5000 employees. Meg Whitman is CEO of HP.

2 Ergo Group Plc

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:08:19 +0100

New product launched - Six new contracts secured
Mobile phone technology firm 2ergo Group, based in Salford in Manchester, has secured agreements six with manufacturers and distributors of electronic till equipment for their new product, Podifi, which enables consumers to complete contactless transactions in shops using smart phones. Casio Electronics, ICR Touch, Geller, Uniwell, Sharp Electronics and YCR will use the product. Neale Graham is Chief Executive.

Smoothwall Limited

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:54:03 +0100

Business expansion - Marketing Managers appointed
As part of the companys ongoing expansion programme, Leeds based web security and filtering specialist Smoothwall has appointed Ian Parrett as Marketing Manager and Danielle Ward as Marketing Communications Manager.

WEBGAINS LIMITED

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:37:26 +0100

Partnership with MymCart - mcommerce services
London-based Webgains has appointed MymCart as its mobile commerce technology partner. MymCart technology, which allows small companies to build their own branded transactional mobile stores, will be available to Webgains clients.

MymCart

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:37:26 +0100

Webgains contract secured - mcommerce technology partnership
MymCart has been appointed as Webgains new mobile commerce technology partner. MymCart technology will allow 600 merchants and 70,000 publisher sites on the Webgains affiliate network to construct mobile websites in order to benefit from the rapidly expanding m-commerce market in the UK.

Daisy Group

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:37:38 +0100

80 jobs created - contact centre expansion - business growth
Communications firm Daisy has created 80 new jobs at its call centre in Nelson, Lancashire. The centre is to become an all day operation following a period of business growth. Approximately 700 people are already employed at the Nelson call centre as part of a nationwide team of 1,500. 2011 turnover £266.3m.

Six Degrees Managed Data Ltd

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:25:01 +0100

Acquires Firstserv and Serverstream - cloud computing expansion - jobs safeguarded
Six Degrees has acquired managed hosting and cloud providers Firstserv and Serverstream. The London-based companies will add £3m of hosting revenues to Six Degrees managed data division and are part of a strategy to expand cloud hosting services. Seventeen employees will join Six Degrees Group as a result of the acquisitions.

Pearson Plc

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:02 +0100

Acquires Certiport - expansion of professional testing business
Person Plc is acquiring US-based Certiport Inc. from Spire Capital Partners for 140m dollars. The acquisition will strengthen Pearsons professional testing business. Rapidly-expanding Certiport, which develops certification exams and practice tests of IT and digital literacy skills, recorded revenues of 48m dollars in 2011.

DRS Data & Research Services Plc

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:02 +0100

Revenue up 10% - international sales development
DRS Data & Research Services recorded a 10% year-on-year increase in revenue in the period from January to May 2012. The company is promoting its e-Marker product internationally and interest from overseas customers is increasing. Although trading remains competitive the company continues to make progress.