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Australian online service will be relaunched as findmypast.com.au supported by Gould Genealogy & History

The National Genealogical Society Conference in Salt Lake City provided the backdrop for a joint announcement by three leading players in the world genealogy market. FamilyLink.com, Inc.’s WorldVitalRecords Australasian operation is to be taken over by leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk and run in partnership with Gould Genealogy & History of Australia.

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Industry high flier recruited to grow Online Technology for brightsolid

Fast-growing brightsolid has hired Richard Higgs to grow its online technology business, following a successful year across the range of its activities.

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brightsolid and Versko launch partnership

brightsolid online technology has signed a partnership agreement with Versko, Scotland's leading expert in IBM software and services, to offer hosted Lotus Notes email to its customers.

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British Library and brightsolid partnership to digitise up to 40 million pages of historic newspapers

Mass digitisation to make millions of newspaper pages available online and in the Library’s reading rooms. Innovative deal will help safeguard the future of the world’s greatest newspaper archive.

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brightsolid completes acquisition of Friends Reunited from ITV plc

brightsolid has announced the completion of the acquisition of Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million, following clearance by the Competition Commission.

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brightsolid receive Competition Commission clearance for the acquisition of Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc

brightsolid today announced it will imminently complete its acquisition of Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million.

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brightsolid acquisition of Friends Reunited Group

Competition Commission summary of provisional findings released.

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brightsolid moves into profit on back of expansion

Growth strategy pays off for online publishing and technology group.

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Friends Reunited Group acquisition referred to Competition Commission

brightsolid and ITV plc will work with the Competition Commission following the OFT’s decision to refer the acquisition.

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brightsolid hails addition of Catholic records to ScotlandsPeople website

brightsolid adds Catholic records to ScotlandsPeople website. Records include details of French Royal post revolution refugees and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family tree.

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brightsolid delivers seamless migration for CLYDEUNION Pumps

Leading independent Scottish engineering business CLYDEUNION Pumps has chosen brightsolid to consolidate its email systems for its worldwide workforce.

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Diversified energy services company selects brightsolid

Senergy has awarded brightsolid a 3 year, six figure, contract for a managed multi-site MPLS network providing a high performance and secure infrastructure.

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brightsolid wins new deal to manage ScotlandsPeople

brightsolid has won a three-year deal to manage the hugely-successful family history site, ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk.

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brightsolid attended Offshore Europe

brightsolid attended Offshore Europe 2009, with more than 40,000 delegates in Aberdeen for the most important oil&gas event to be held in the UK for the past two years.

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Taking up the Disaster Response Challenge

Graham McKay faced the challenge of a lifetime participating in the Disaster Response Challenge organised by the British Red Cross.

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brightsolid acquires Friends Reunited

brightsolid announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.

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brightsolid hosts Westminster dinner to mark 1911 census launch

brightsolid hosted the first of its influencers’ dinners at One Great George Street in London's Westminster to mark 1911 Census launch.

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IP Expo

brightsolid are delighted to announce that we will be at IPExpo on 7th-8th October 2009 at Earls Court, London.

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BCM World Conference and Exhibition

brightsolid are delighted to announce that Graham McKay, Senior Consultant, will be presenting at BCM World Conference 11th - 12th November 2009, London.

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brightsolid launches 1911 census online

A major new family history resource is now available for the very first time online. 1911census.co.uk is powered by findmypast.com, part of the online publishing division of brightsolid.

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