An offer is by no means certain but the news that AIM listed RPA provider Blue Prism is in talks with PE’s TPG Capital and Vista Equity Partners drove a surge of excitement that at one point sent Blue Prism’s shares up by more than 30%. 

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a meaty $2bn/10-year contract with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPC (High Performance Computing) as-a-service via its GreenLake platform.

The NSA is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defence.

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Waterland Private Equity has sold its stake in ATOS Group to Intermediate Capital Group. During Waterland's holding period, ATOS more than tripled its turnover and developed its network in Germany through its buy-and-build strategy.

When the pandemic freed employees from having to report to the office, some saw an opportunity to double their salary on the sly. Why be good at one job, they thought, when they could be mediocre at two?

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Manufacturing Wales said its members and other businesses were adopting robotics two or three years faster than expected.

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LockBit, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) hacker organization, published on its site a post about their most recent attack, which hit the multi-national consulting company Accenture. According to LockBit, the database of Accenture has been breached by the threat actors, who are now offering selling its contents on their site.

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Google may push through reductions in pay for employees that sidestep a return to the same office and instead choose to work from home permanently post-pandemic.

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Mid-size IT services firm Mphasis said it will pursue a strategy of focusing on four pillars to drive growth in FY22 and beyond.

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"Combining creative people with AI is the next step for the agencies. It's not AI versus the human, it generates creative thought".

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Diversity and inclusion: Globally, only 24% of women and ethnic minorities in tech roles feel like they have a sense of belonging in organisations, despite 75% of leadership executives believing the opposite, according to Capgemini.

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