Rackspace bought by investment firm for $4.3bn

Hannah Breeze
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Speculation that the firm was up for sale has been rife since March

Rackspace has been bought for $4.3bn (£3.2bn) by investment firm Apollo in a deal which ends months of speculation about the firm's future. The cloud firm announced this afternoon that it has en...

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