EDB Business Partner ASA,

trading as Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market (economics), market. An early form of trade, barter, s ...

EDB ( no, Elektronisk Databehandling) was a

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information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

company that supplied many services relating to computing, including operation,

outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

and

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. The company was headquartered in

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and listed on the

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Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

owned 51.3% of EDB. EDB BP has wholly owned subsidiaries in

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and

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, and more recently acquired the majority of Miratech and Infopulse, which are

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IT companies. EDB Business Partner was a full owner in the companies Fellesdata AS (acquired 2001), Avenir AS, EDB Telecom AS, Spring Consulting AS, PDS AS and TAG Systems AS. On 8 January 2008, an agreement was entered into with

StatoilHydro Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger. It is primarily a petroleum company, operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy. ...

that the company would purchase IS Partner, which was previously under Hydro under the name Hydro IS Partner. In June 2010, EDB announced a merger with

ErgoGroup ErgoGroup was a Nordic countries, Nordic information technology corporation, systems integrator and consulting company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company provided services for IT operations, business solutions, IT outsourcing, outsourcin ...

, another big IT company in Norway. As of October 2010, the newly merged company was called EDB ErgoGroup, which in March 2012, took the name

Evry EVRY A/S was a Norwegian information technology company that supplies services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing, and online banking. The company is headquartered in Oslo. It was established through a merger between EDB Bus ...

. The company made headlines in several major newspapers in Sweden in March 2009, when a consultant hired through a recruitment company was fired because he, outside work, had expressed political views belonging to the

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in a public chat interview organized by the newspaper

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