Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Closes Enterprise Business Divestiture

( Street Insider) … investor, providing the means and resources necessary to strengthen its ambition … from both an economical and humanperspective for its partners and customers. … to customers and partners through technology and business innovations.

Crackdown on Apple in Ireland Opens Front on Tax Avoidance War

( Bloomberg) … of Fiat Finance and Trade Ltd, and a Commission review of Starbucks Corp.

UnitedHealth’s Optum buys physician-practice management firm

( Minneapolis Business Journal) MedSynergies’ operations will remain in Texas after the deal closes, said Bill Miller, CEO of OptumInsight, Optum’s tech arm.

Cisco Beefs Up Its Intercloud, Adds Telco Partners

( Light Reading) Its new Intercloud Fabric software is designed to help users move workloads … unit to help finance customers and partners adopting its cloud technologies.