Cognotec, the technology innovator that delivered the first automated foreign exchange dealing system, as well as the first hosted e-commerce enabled trading platform is being acquired by First Derivatives plc (AIM: FDP.L, IEX:GYQ.I), a global technology and service provider to the capital markets industry.

Raising investment can often seem confusing and frustrating; however this does not have to be the case. Raising capital is a lot like selling a product; before you even meet prospective clients, you need to decide who to approach, understand their needs and speak their language.

Most UK companies raise their first few rounds of investment from Business Angels and Small Funds within UK and Europe.

Northern Ireland's £5m Invest Growth Fund (IGF) has completed its third investment, taking a stake in Replify as part of a financing round from the IGF and other sources of financial support.

Replify virtualised products accelerate applications over wide area and mobile connections without the need for proprietary hardware. After listening to the market, Replify has focused over half a century’s development experience on development of easy to use, and easy to deploy application acceleration products.

Local Digital Marketing Company joins Ten Alps PLC to launch a new Ten Alps Vision operation in Northern Ireland

As part of Ten Alps PLC’s emergence as a powerful force in marketing and digital communications in the UK, leading Belfast digital marketing agency, iGeneration has joined with Ten Alps Vision, the successful marketing communications and digital agency based in Edinburgh and Newcastle.

Ten Alps Vision is the business created following the recent merger of Ten Alps MTD a successful ‘top ten’ Scottish communications Agency and the award winning Newcastle based digital communications company Twenty First Century Media.

Ten Alps Vision will provide an integrated approach to marketing and digital communications with leading skills in the following areas:

Advertising, Brand & Web Interface Design, Corporate Video, Design, Digital and Web TV, Digital PR, Direct Marketing, Media Planning and Buying, Mobile Marketing Applications, Online Communications Platforms and Web Applications, Online Marketing, Online Video/TV Platforms, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Planning,  

Founder of iGeneration, and new Director of Ten Alps Vision (NI) Matthew Scott commented:

“To bring our skills and experience in both technology and marketing into such a high growth enterprise such as Ten Alps Vision is a very exciting prospect indeed and we are privileged and delighted to be part of it.

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in Scientific Imaging, Spectroscopy Solutions and Microscopy Systems, is pleased to announce that on 23 December 2009 it has acquired Bitplane AG based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Nortel Networks employs approximately 350 people in Monkstown and since entering administration earlier this year, core elements of the business have been actively marketed to potential investors.

The Minister said: "The announcement that a global telecoms corporation has acquired Nortel’s Enterprise Division is extremely positive news for Nortel and the workers at Monkstown.

It would be hard to find a major university in the UK today that does not have a business arm designed to take advantage of its intellectual property.

Creating a powerful, independent vendor of “Network as a Service” solutions

Belfast, 7th July 2009 - Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, today announced its acquisition of Valista, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of payment, settlement and service lifecycle management solutions to mobile and broadband operators worldwide. The acquisition, which comes into effect immediately, creates a powerful, independent vendor, operating under the Aepona brand, with a complete solution for the “Network as a Service” (NaaS) business model now being embraced by Telcos globally.

With the NaaS model, mobile and broadband operators treat their network and informational assets as marketable resources that can be made available to third party application developers, upstream service providers and Enterprises.

As reported on the EmployeeBenefits.co.uk website, Equiniti has acquired Belfast-based software and services provider ICS Computing

David Mawhinney, managing director of ICS, said: "A real success story for Northern Ireland, the will enable ICS to take that success to the next level offering our skills and services further afield and delivering expansion for our business for the benefits of our employees and the Northern Ireland economy.

‘Deal grows our presence in Asia Pacific region and accelerates global expansion’ says CEO Brian Conlon

First Derivatives plc (AIM: FDP.L, IEX: GYQ.I), the Newry based provider of software and consulting services to the world’s financial markets, this morning announced the acquisition of Hologram, an Australian technology company specialising in risk management and data management systems, in a deal worth approximately 2.

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Good news as the VOIP application provider with its EMEA HQ in Belfast continues to grow...

BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications to the telecommunications industry, today announced it has acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California.

Lisburn IT company Xperience has acquired Belfast-based accounting software reseller Accounting and Business Technology to consolidates its market position.

Xperience, which provides hardware, network support and accounting software to businesses, said the acquisition gives the firms a joint clientele of more than 400.

The decision to buy ABT, which focuses solely on accounting software, was made to offer clients a wider range of services, the company said.