The regional authority would guarantee the payment of expenses related to the acquisition of services, organisation of meetings and production of publications.
The acquisition of services of general interest must be a process that is as transparent as possible, and one that is in line with the regulations on public procurement.
Both firms have already made big acquisitions of service providers, with HP buying EDS in 2008 and, the next year, Dell buying Perot Systems (which, like EDS, was founded by Ross Perot, a former American presidential candidate).
Earlier this year, it also announced the acquisition of reservation service Zurvu and check-splitting service HAIL.
The bottom line is if HP wanted to be more like IBM, it should have sought acquisitions of services companies, perhaps make another go at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
TestFlight had still been usable by devs between Apple's acquisition of the service and now, but this marks the completion of Apple's transition of the service to a built-in part of its developer tools.
Yahoo has closed its acquisition of blogging service Tumblr, paying $1.1bn£711.12m2m) for the company and promising that it will retain its independence.
The European commission (EC) has filed charges against Facebook for providing "misleading" information in the run-up to the social network's acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp after its data-sharing change in August.
Gazprom-Media completed the acquisition of video service RuTube.
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Before that, similar fears held up Nippon Telephone and Telegraph 's acquisition of Internet service provider Verio for three months.
