Accenture to Buy E-Commerce Firm for $316M; Brian Whipple Comments
Accenture has agreed to purchase electronic commerce company Acquity Group for $316 million cash as Accenture aims to expand its digital marketing services portfolio. The deal is subject to Acquity Group shareholder approval and other customary closing conditions and intends to have Acquity’s 600 employees join Accenture’s interactive business group, Accenture said Friday. Brian Whipple, [...]
Lockheed Martin‘s F35 fighter jet recently completed a series of high-angle-of-attack tests to evaluate the plane’s ability to fly beyond the positive and negative limits of control. The conventional takeoff-and-landing F-35A variant initially flew in a clean-wing configuration and then with external pylons, missiles and open weapon bay doors, Lockheed said Thursday. In Fall 2012, [...]
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A Lockheed Martin prototype of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s extended medium-range ballistic missile target has been successfully tested at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the company said Monday. The eMRBM target was released from an Air Force C-17 aircraft at great than 25,000 feet of altitude during the air launch, Lockheed said. According to [...]
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NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association have acquired a quantum computer from science company D-Wave with the goal of advancing machine learning and solving computer science problems. USRA intends for D-Wave Two to be available to the wider U.S. academic community, D-Wave said Thursday. Lockheed Martin acquired an earlier version of a D-Wave quantum [...]
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Northrop Grumman has chosen Park Electrochemical’s patented composite strut to use for the James Webb Space Telescope, intended to support missions for three space agencies including NASA. JWST is an infrared space telescope developed for NASA, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency to collaborate for projects, Park Electrochemical said Wednesday. Northrop is the prime [...]
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Accenture to Acquire Service Design Consultancy Fjord; Brian Whipple Comments
May 8, 2013 No Comment
Accenture will buy service design consulting firm Fjord for an undisclosed amount in a move to expand its offerings to digital and marketing clients. The deal complements operations in Accenture’s interactive business and gives customers access to Fjord services across multiple digital platforms, according to an Accenture statement. “In order to capitalize on the disruptions being [...]
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Cisco has granted ActionPacked Networks a application visibility and control compatibility certification through a developer network Cisco started to certify third-party software vendors, Network World reported Thursday. Zeus Kerravala writes ActionPacked was the first company to complete the interoperability verification testing program created by Cisco earlier this year Cisco’s program tests the response time of [...]
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VMware has sold certain assets of software platform WaveMaker to software engineering firm Pramati for an undisclosed amount nearly two years after VMware first acquired the platform. WaveMaker aims to help developers build enterprise Java applications for cloud computing environments and different devices, Pramati said Thursday. Pramati says WaveMaker has doubled over the last two [...]
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Intel has acquired Ireland-based telecommunications firm Aepona for an undisclosed amount in a move aimed at expanding Intel’s future network and cloud services portfolio, the Irish Times reports. Ciara O’Brien writes Aepona has more than 300 employees in Belfast, Dublin Sri Lanka and the U.S. Aepona’s products included OneAPI technology, intended to help mobile carriers [...]
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