Computer services company Logica has bought US call centre specialist Carnegie for £21m with the aim of expanding its business in North America. Carnegie emerged from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 to become a key player in the implementation...
Pink Elephant - a provider of IT management services - claims to have cut its Internet access costs by 83 per cent after opting for a digital wireless service from Tele2. Pink Elephant, owned by the Dutch PinkRoccade Group, said the 384Kbps leased...
Its greatest strength lies in the breadth of the products and services it offers: for example, in 1999 it carried 35 per cent of the worldwide ADSL market - a share that increases to 52 per cent in North America.
Globally last year 20 billion text messages were sent but of that total only 750 million were sourced from North America. This market will generate £2.4bn annually in Europe by 2006, according to Spectrum Strategy Consultants.
The survey questioned 209 banks in 41 countries with 37 per cent in Western Europe, 24 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region, 16 per cent in North America and the rest from Latin America, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.
BT is to acquire International Network Services (INS) - a California-based company of IT consultants - to bolster its expansion into North America. INS, which employs around 900 staff, designs and installs networks for larger businesses.