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'Megadeals' may be on the way out

The cancellation of JPMorgan Chase's £3bn contract with IBM is just one of the huge deals that have disappeared recently Read more

17 September, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

AT&T and BT under FBI investigation

A billion-dollar deal between AT&T and BT is under investigation by the... Read more

16 August, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

EDS buys world's biggest airline network

As part of a multi-billion dollar deal, Sabre, the provider of the travel industry's global online... Read more

15 March, 2001 by Kate Hanaghan

CAD - Computer Aided Death

...doctor story that the heads of the NHS who went with the BILLION dollar deal with Microsoft ought to be blamed. 4. Hardware can fail... Read more

19 February, 2010

Software is HP's fastest growing unit

...Coupled with its acquisitions in the services realm, notably the mega multi-billion dollar deal with EDS earlier this year, Hogan said HP offers a... Read more

10 December, 2008 by Eileen Yu

IBM bags billion pound utility deal

IBM has won a billion-dollar deal to provide utility computing services to Nordea, one of Northern... Read more

2 October, 2003 by Matt Hines

Leader: Tea towels and takeovers

...seems incredibly laid-back as a means of instigating a potential multi-billion dollar deal. And this slightly random-factor approach to conducting business was... Read more

22 June, 2004 by silicon.com staff

CSC scoops £600m MoD contract

...CSC's DynCorp unit, acquired a month ago in a close to billion dollar deal, has teamed up with Interservefm Ltd to work on the... Read more

4 April, 2003 by Tony Hallett

HP to offload multi-billion dollar plant

...manufacturing business with plans to offload a French factory in a multi-billion dollar deal. Under the terms of the deal, the PC giant will... Read more

18 January, 2002 by Aled Herbert

HP and Compaq: the gloves come off

...yesterday, amid speculation that Compaq was considering pulling out of the multi-billion dollar deal, Compaq's board responded to Hewlett's letter and made... Read more

14 December, 2001 by Joey Gardiner

HP unmoved by Hewlett boycott

...stake, claimed it would carry out an independent analysis of the multi-billion dollar deal Read more

7 November, 2001 by Suzanna Kerridge

Compaq clinches $1bn postal deal

...many Compaq customers remain uncertain over the proposed merger with HP. The billion-dollar deal should also provide a boost to the company in a... Read more

12 October, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

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