Fujitsu

Bain makes binding offer for Fuji Soft, outbidding KKR by 7%

BAIN Capital made a binding takeover proposal for Fuji Soft as it seeks to outmaneuver private equity rival KKR, which has offered a lower price for the Japanese software developer. 

Fujitsu has shifted focus away from hardware, and its service solutions segment.

Fujitsu struggles to find workers to expand in IT consultancy

FUJITSU is having trouble winning the tech workers it needs to expand its IT consultancy arm and take on bigger system integrators such as Accenture.

Fujitsu still provides the Post Office with Horizon software, previous versions of which contained glitches leading to shortfalls in local branches’ accounts.

Fujitsu won’t bid for UK public contracts during Post Office inquiry

Fujitsu has promised it won’t bid for more UK government contracts until the outcome of a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, in which hundreds of people were wrongly convicted for theft or f...

Glitches in software led to hundreds of local Post Office managers – known as sub-postmasters – being wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting between 1999 and 2015.

Fujitsu takes US$1 billion knock as Post Office scandal escalates

More than US$1 billion was wiped off the value of Fujitsu on Wednesday (Jan 17) after the company’s European chief said it had a moral responsibility to provide compensation for its role in the UK Pos...

The Fujitsu office building in Bracknell, UK. The firm's position as the only Japanese strategic supplier to the UK government is under threat.

Fujitsu’s silence is making a tech scandal worse

Japanese firms tend to go quiet when faced with bad news such as the UK’s post office scandal. The company should face the music.