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Though Google and Imtech dominate the IT news this week there is another story worth mentioning: the acquisition of Qelp by Sykes. Qelp, who featured in our recently published Fab 50, was founded in 2005 and has been able to show significant growth as a SaaS provider of customer self service software for mobile operators […] Read more »
Rankings and scores always capture the imagination of people. They give you a bird’s eye view on a specific topic, a summary of the key results on a particular theme and therefore your best conversation guide at parties. For people that are directly involved in the specific topic there is a more important reason to […] Read more »
Privatization did beautiful things for a few people. Overnight some became CEO of a large incumbent giving them much prestige and ample salary. For consumers the benefits of privatization, a much more market driven and henceforth efficient company, never emerged. A parliamentary investigation committee into the privatization of telephone and postal services, railways, coaching of […] Read more »
Dutch managed hosting and application provider Sentia continues on its acquisition path and acquires Dutch hybrid managed hoster Nines. For the moment Nines will continue operating under the Nines brand. The Nines team (20 specialists) will relocate to the Sentia HQ in Utrecht. Sentia Groep is one of the largest independent Dutch cloud and hosting […] Read more »
Another one bites the dust. Yesterday KPN acquired managed hosting and cloud provider IS Group. IS Group is an independent cloud and hosting provider headquartered in Purmerend with approximately 130 employees and annual revenues of € 25 million. KPN is strengthening its position on the Dutch cloud and hosting market. For this purpose it acquired […] Read more »
Clearly we were wrong about why robots are so hot today. We thought that since robots are so superior in terms of speed and precision when it comes to executing routine tasks they are regarded by businesses as excellent replacements for an increasing number of factory and desk jobs. As of late they can also […] Read more »