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Intel to sell off security unit to private equity players?

Intel is reportedly looking to unload Intel Security, which includes the McAfee business

Capita acquires Trustmarque for £57m from Liberata

Librata's holding company only bought the York-based company two years ago, but it offers synergy with Capita

UPDATE: Dell is ‘close’ to £1.4bn software division sale – DEAL HAS BEEN DONE

Pre-EMC merger garage sale reportedly includes $2 billion deal with Francisco Partners and Elliot Management

Raspberry maker sold to Swiss firm for £700m

The pioneering device is now facing stiff competition from the BBC Micro:Bit

Outsourcery sold to GCI Network Solutions, in admin

Sale of the firm follows the suspension of the cloud service provider's shares last week

Symantec shifts to security appliances with Blue Coat buy

$4.65bn deal also sees Blue Coat's main man take charge of struggling Symantec as it looks to new markets

Pulsant makes big hybrid cloud move with £65m Onyx buy

Acquisition creates £75 million turnover company with 400 staff and 15 data centres

Fortinet acquires AccelOps to boost Security Fabric

Capture will provide the security analytics to deal with attacks across multi-vendor environments

Apogee acquires first German firm and promises more buys

Expanding print and document management MSP recently bought a Welsh firm

SolarWinds sweeps up LOGICnow for bigger MSP play

Combined force will serve over 18,000 managed service providers worldwide in an improved ITSM footprint

Chess moves on Lanway in latest acquisition, adds 100 staff

Almost £22 million in sales now added to the group's ever-expanding turnover

Epicor buys UK ERP partner Dot Net IT

The two companies have worked on a number of joint customer projects in the UK

Target acquired by Tech Mahindra for £112m

Indian outsourcer to use capture to expand financial services reach globally

Microsoft sells Nokia phones business to Foxconn

Microsoft sells feature phone business to Foxconn subsidiary while Nokia licenses famous brand to HMD global

Ingram Micro buys Comms-care to expand network/DC offering

Comms-care works exclusively through the channel to support end-user networking, wireless and cloud deployments

Pinnacle sells CDT business to Chess for £2.8m

Restructuring company now promises to go on the acquisition path as it disposes of its last loss-making subsidiary

After failed O2-Three merger, what next for the market?

Virgin Media and O2 could merge, Three might buy TalkTalk and businesses might get cheaper prices but worse networks

Falanx Group acquires Advanced Security Consulting

Takes on a very well connected cyber chief into the bargain

Pinnacle sells RMS security firm for just £1

Continues on path to become an 'as a service' company

Bond lets loose Strictly Education for £11.3m

Sold to new private equity-backed Education Services Solutions

Civica acquires IPL to boost digital transformation offering

IPL has a host of existing high profile clients across the public and private sector

Dell EMC: New name and new products unveiled at EMC World

EMC unveils EMC Unity Family, Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC MyService360 Service Dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR Controller 3.0

Oracle builds cloud sales with $532m Opower acquisition

Power: Oracle widens its big data in the cloud offering

Nokia returns to mobile device market with Withings acquisition

£131m acquisition of French digital health specialist sees Nokia back in the devices game

Civica acquires legal IT services firm Norwel Computer Services

Norwel has a 40-year history and over 60 companies across various sectors

Lexmark taken over by the Chinese in £2.5bn deal

Lexmark finds a buyer as it continues to move away from printers and more into software

Mitel acquires Polycom for $2bn to better serve comms market

It's magic: Mitel creates $2.5bn turnover company with almost 8,000 employees as it also reduces debt

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