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Article: Computer sciences tallying a big buy: El Segundo giant wants to grow in health care.(CONSULTING)(company overview)(Company overview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- November 19, 2007
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Even as Computer Sciences Corp. continues its recovery from an accounting scandal that will cost it at least $600 million, it is moving ahead with another significant acquisition.
This time the El Segundo-based information technology company has set its sights on First Consulting Inc., a Long Beach information technology and consulting firm that should help boost Computer Sciences' health care practice.
The $365 million deal, announced late last month, is among a series of aggressive moves taken by Computer Sciences to help it compete in the growing but hotly competitive global IT services sector--even as it lost its longtime Chief Executive Van ...