Industry news

Sopra Steria has boosted its capabilities in the transport space with the acquisition of Graffica, a Worcestershire-based provider of simulation products and services to the transport industry. No deal financials have been released.

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New York-listed Robotic Process Automation (RPA) player UiPath has acquired London-based natural language processing (NLP) start up Re:infer for an undisclosed sum.

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Biotech startup iLoF (intelligent Lab on Fiber), has secured c.$5m (£4.1m) to help develop its intelligent drug development platform. The funding includes $4m in equity investment led by Faber, with additional participation from M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Quiet Capital, Lunar Ventures, Alter Venture Partners, re.Mind Capital, Fluxunit, and angel investors. The company also secured an €880k grant from the European Regional Development Fund. The latest investment takes total funding to date to over $8m.

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DXC Technology has revealed a major new partnership with one of the biggest global brands in football. As a result of the multi-year deal, which commences July 2022, DXC has become Manchester United’s official Digital Transformation Partner as well as the club’s Principal Shirt Sleeve Partner and Presenting Partner of Manchester United Foundation.

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Digital services and platforms provider, Kainos is opening the doors its annual CodeCamp to 14-18 year-olds around the world. The three, free, week-long, virtual training sessions will be run in August. They are designed for students of STEM subjects wishing to kickstart their experience in tech.

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Analysis by TechMarketView of the Software and IT Services (SITS) competitive landscape shows that TCS has retained its position as the largest provider to the UK market. The Mumbai-headquartered firm displaced Capita from its long-held top spot last year and has since managed to hold off the wave of fast-growing competitors.

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NTT DATA has been working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), the Ministry of Justice, Police ICT, and Microsoft to develop the Intelligent Safeguarding platform. The company is a Strategic Innovation Partner of Police ICT, enabling it to collaborate on non-commercial projects to develop and promote innovation.

The platform was developed in response to a problem that was hampering efforts to protect victims of Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is working with Virgin Media O2 to switch on the UK’s first 5G-connected hospital. The switch-on is part of Maudsley Digital Lab's series of digital health and innovation trials funded by NHS Digital. 

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IBM has won the Digital Integration and ServiceOps contract at NS&I, worth £34m. The deal is part of NS&I’s Rainbow programme, which aims to significantly transform its outsourced business process services.

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Vodafone and Google Cloud have gone public with details of a jointly created artificial intelligence platform that is already live in more than 18 countries.

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