Waltham, MA-headquartered IT and cloud services firm MindShift Technologies announced today that it has acquired Orbit Systems, a managed services provider based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, for an undisclosed sum. Orbit Systems’ 54 employees will remain as a result of the acquisition, which helps MindShift expand its reach across North America, according to the announcement. This is MindShift’s second acquisition of 2011; last month it bought Alpheon, a provider of IT services to healthcare clients. MindShift’s employee count is up to 492 with the acquisition of both companies.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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