The CPRD, which provides data services to the research and life sciences communities, was established in 2008.
It confirmed that it has just acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish company which provides data compression systems for mobile imaging and video.
Painter is managing director of BSkyB's customer intelligence unit, Sky IQ, which provides data and information to BSkyB as well as other companies such as Centrica and financial services company Zurich.
The fund also made money in the 3Com Corporation, based in Marlborough, Mass., which provides data and networking products, and support and maintenance services to commercial businesses and public sector organizations.
Open Solutions, which provides data processing technology for banks and other financial institutions, agreed yesterday to be acquired by Providence Equity Partners and the Carlyle Group in a deal valued at about $1.3 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Worldwide spending on cancer medicines, which was $24 billion in 2004, is expected to rise to $55 billion in 2009, making oncology treatments the biggest drug category, according to IMS Health, which provides data on drug sales.
The increase in deposit insurance has helped, said John S. Carusone of the Bank Analysis Center in Hartford, Conn., which provides data to small banks in 11 states on the East Coast.
The groom, 33, works in the London office of S&P Capital IQ, which provides data, research and analysis to banks, institutional investors and other money managers.
"We don't think the cloud is enterprise-ready," said Jimmy Tam, general manager of Peer Software, which provides data backup for businesses.
I'm thinking of Recovery.gov, which provides data about government spending on the economic recovery.I've been pushing cloud computing so we can close the technology gap in government.
Research from Simba Information, which provides data and advice to publishers, has shown that 1 in 5 of those who own a Kindle, Amazon's dedicated e-reader, received it as a gift.
