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Government promises business broadband review

Business secretary Sajid Javid promises manufacturers he will launch inquiry into the availability and affordability of business broadband

North East enjoys tech startup boom

Only London is ahead of the region when it comes to new technology firm growth

Northern Powerhouse councils ignore SMEs for IT services

Freedom of Information requests show how SMEs are losing out on the council outsourcing pot of gold

Claranet bolsters public cloud offering with Bashton acquisition

Bashton is an AWS cloud specialist and counts Liverpool Football Club amongst its customers

Ingram Micro to be acquired by Chinese conglomerate for $6bn

All cash deal leads to suspended share dividend and no questions on financial results

Exclusive Group generates over €1bn in sales for 2015

UK growth at the value added distributor comes in at over 55 percent said the global company

Castle Street acquires hosting and cloud provider C4L for £20.2m

The company announced that it was buying IT solutions firm Selection Services for £30m last month

Verizon customers have two months to evacuate public cloud

Verizon Communications will be shutting down its public cloud service on 12 April

Vodafone pays less tax in the UK than last year

Will there be more protests about Vodafone's low UK tax bill?

Interxion spending £22m on third Irish data centre

Dutch colocation firm also expands data centre operations in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Copenhagen

BT wins £9m desktop and server contract at Bromley Council

The deal follows other contracts won through a London council framework

Local government outsourcing market jumps by a quarter

Contract values and time periods are going up shows new arvato/analyst research

Exclusive Capital financing and leasing arrives in UK

Until now, the service was only operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg

Symantec gets $500m investment as sales and profits tumble

$5.5bn capital return programme started, including a special share dividend, after Veritas sale completed

BT Openreach makes offer to connect every new home in UK

Openreach says it will offer to connect new homes for free or as part of a joint-funding agreement with developers following criticisms about connectivity

Western Digital’s acquisition of SanDisk approved

Flash meets flash in £13bn storage deal as European Commission rules that buyout won’t harm competition

Cisco buys IoT specialist Jasper for £960m

Cisco sharpens its focus on the Internet of Things with purchase of Jasper Technologies

Comtek offers new network kit decommissioning service

Those supplying unwanted network hardware will get a cut of the resales to others

Hutchison: Merged Three-O2 would freeze prices and invest £5bn

CK Hutchison defends proposed takeover, saying its promises to retail and wholesale customers will maintain competition and allow it to compete with BT and Vodafone