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Former 2e2 director Marke rocks up at Daisy Group

Acquisitive telco creates CTO role

Therapy for 2e2 survivors: Online confab on 12 April at 2pm BST

Live Chat Relive the pain and learn with The Channel ed Paul Kunert

Dell tried gobbling doomed Brit IT giant 2e2 for £350m, say insiders

Exclusive Its backers 'wanted £400m', then the biz imploded

Capita slurps crashed 2e2's ex-flack-in-chief to bolster sales

Ex-BA Ian Thomas starts today

2e2 investors pull in bigshot beancounters to pore over books

2e2's financial backers have brought several seasoned beancounters into the debt-laden business, The Channel can reveal. Sources told us that Lynn Mawdsley has gone in as CFO to replace the previous group FD Simon Burt. She describes herself on LinkedIn as a "turnaround director". It is also believed that Simon Poulton, who is …

2e2 rescue deal: Daisy swoops in, grabs data centre ops

Acquisitive telco player Daisy Group is taking control of defunct 2e2's data centre operations. Under the terms of the deal, Peter Dubens, owner of Oakley Capital and chairman at Daisy Group has created a special purpose vehicle Daisy Data Centre Solutions to buy the business and assets which include server farms in Gateshead …

Rugby club doomed by 2e2 disaster rescued by Manx reseller

Balls still taken in hand after integrator disintegrates

Logicalis coughs up €24m for 2e2's Euro ops

Rescue deal for the bit that didn't go titsup

O2 gobbles up O2 Unify staff from dying UK IT giant 2e2

Mobile operator O2 has grabbed staff from O2 Unify, a joint-venture it ran with the UK's crashed tech giant 2e2. The team was put together by the pair of companies nearly two years ago. This is the first element of 2e2 that its administrator FTI Consulting has been able to sell. It comes a day after the fallen tech integrator …

IT contractors lose thousands as 2e2 collapse hits recruiter

Tech-sector freelancers are thousands of pounds out of pocket after the collapse of IT integrator 2e2 wiped out recruitment agency Populo Resourcing, The Channel can reveal. The contractors, recruited by Populo to work on various IT projects for 2e2, had their work cancelled days after the integrator crashed. Some say they are …

Administrator: 2e2 owed £412m to creditors when it went titsup

Well-known channel firms owed MEELLIONS

Logicalis CEO reveals blueprint for gobbled 2e2 Euro biz

Foothold in mainland Europe and consulting gigs

Integrator-reseller 2e2 'broke banking covenant', hits credit buffers

Crushing debt repayments drive firm to its knees

Lawyer: 2e2 customers should act quickly as liquidation looms

'Critical' alternatives must be sought - legal eagle

UK's 2e2 goes titsup

Debt-laden Berkshire big boy calls in administrators

Brit SAP house G3 Global slurps 2e2's SAP house

Diagonal moves from Morse to 2e2... to an SME in Weybridge

NHS IT bods 'walk out' in pay row with crashed UK tech giant 2e2

Outsourcer's collapse hits hospital tech dept, claim insiders

Integrator 2e2 axes 319 UK staff, halts pay cheques - insiders

Tough times revealed at troubled IT channel biz
Administration

Vultures circle crash-landed UK giant 2e2 after top brass axed

The vultures are circling fallen channel giant 2e2 with an asset sale expected for the UK biz in light of the hefty redundancies made yesterday. As reported yesterday, debt-saddled 2e2 Group laid off 22 per cent, or 319, of its 1,442 workers in Blighty, and placed ten UK subsidiaries into administration. The Channel can today …

Opinion

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

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