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Dissident shareholders of Plus Markets Group have tabled a resolution to oust the chairman and chief executive over their proposals to sell the small cap exchange business to Icap for £1.
07 June 2012
British payday lender Wonga is looking across the pond at a possible £1 billion floatation on a US stock exchange, according to the Telegraph.
06 June 2012
Australia's ANZ has inked a software testing outsourcing contract with Capgemini that will see 360 of the bank's IT staff move to the French vendor.
Anglo-Dutch IT services giant Logica has agreed to be acquired by Canada's CGI Group in a £1.7 billion cash deal.
31 May 2012
Facebook's share price continued to tumble yesterday, dropping so sharply that it triggered Nasdaq's short sale circuit breaker.
30 May 2012
Bloomberg has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake and revealed plans to launch its own enterprise data management (EDM) service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 May 2012
UK exchange operator Plus Markets is to wind down its business after failing to find a suitable takeover partner.
14 May 2012
Financial information vendor Markit has agreed to buy enterprise data management (EDM) specialist Cadis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
09 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX Group has agreed to acquire BWise, an enterprise governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) software vendor. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 May 2012
National Australia Bank is to cut 1400 front-line and back office jobs from its UK subsidiaries Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank as it responds to a "significant downgrade" in growth prospects.
30 April 2012
Online identity verification start-up miiCard has secured £1.6 million in a second seed funding round joined by New Wave Ventures, IQ Capital and Par Equity.
Twitter commerce start-up Chirpify has raised $1.3 million in a series a funding round and launched a platform that lets musicians use the microblogging site to sell digital content.
24 April 2012
UK currency conversion start-up TransferWise, billed as a 'skype for currency exchange", has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from an A-list team of angel investors.
18 April 2012
UK exchange operator Plus Markets says it has had "a number of indicative proposals" since putting itself up for sale in February.
17 April 2012
German banking systems company Wincor Nixdorf is to lay off 500 staff and shift manufacturing to cheaper Asian markets after reporting a 50% drop in profit for the first half of the year.
Beamit, a start-up offering mobile phone-based remittance services for US-based immigrants, has raised $2.4 million in a funding round joined by big tech hitters Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Google's Eric Schmidt.
13 April 2012
Intuit has acquired Boston-based mobile commerce company AisleBuyer in a deal reported to be worth up to $100 million.
11 April 2012
McGraw-Hill unit S&P Capital IQ has acquired market data and trading technology vendor Quanthouse. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 April 2012
Google has acquired payments technology company TxVia for an undisclosed fee as it scrambles to give its Wallet service a much-needed shot in the arm. Meanwhile, the firm has lost Wallet co-founder Rob von Behren to rival Square.
The Tokyo and London stock exchanges are bailing out on their joint venture market for growing companies in Japan, with the TSE agreeing to buy out its former partner.
27 March 2012
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