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Facebook IPO reveals 'hacker' culture

 02 February 2012

CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlights iterative, 'meritocratic' software development ethos in inaugural SEC filing – and lists it among risk factors

HP wins a battle in legal war with Oracle

 01 February 2012

California Supreme court rejects Oracle's fraud claim against HP, and orders both companies to unseal documents relating to their Itanium dispute

Samsung denies interest in acquiring RIM

 18 January 2012

Smartphone and TV maker says RIM tie-up is not part of its £26.9 billion investment plan for 2012

Ford to open Silicon Valley R&D centre

 06 January 2012

Car maker opens new lab in innovation heartland to "harness the power of seamless connectivity, cloud computing and clean technology"

Google's Motorola purchase delayed in Europe

 13 December 2011

European Competition Commission suspends investigation into acquisition, waiting for Google to supply "essential documents"

Adobe offers Flex to Apache

 17 November 2011

A week after terminating Flash for mobile, Adobe offers control of its open source web development platform to the Apache Software Foundation

Elsevier plugs centuries of data into oil & gas map

 20 October 2011

Corporations given easy access to scientific data through Elsevier’s map interface

MoJ's £300m IT contract to aid 'service tower' transition

 06 October 2011

The Ministry of Justice is planning to converge its various IT procurement programmes before splitting them up into 'service towers'

Govt releases self-built requirements management tool

 20 September 2011

Cabinet Office unit publishes source code for the 'Needotron', an application for managing gov.uk end-user requirements 

CSC buys Indian testing services provider AppLabs

 14 September 2011

The world’s largest independent software testing services provider sells up to IT giant CSC

Tibco acquires UK BPM provider Nimbus

 31 August 2011

Business process management consolidation continues as US middleware vendor acquires British company

Google buys IBM patents to defend against litigation

 01 August 2011

Web giant has bought 1,029 technology patents, ranging from chip fabrication to search, giving it potential protection against future law suits

HSBC to cut 25,000 jobs in next two years

 01 August 2011

With 5,000 jobs already axed this year, banking giant reveals another 25,000 roles will go in £2bn cost reduction drive

HMRC to save £235m on IT services

 20 July 2011

As part of its Change Program, HMRC will cut £235m in IT spending over the next four years, using private sector benchmarks to better understand costs 

OpenText acquires yet another BPM vendor

 14 July 2011

Canada's largest software company announces acquisition of business process management vendor Global 360

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