Airbus seeks to be key investor in Atos’ spun-off entity

By Mathieu Rosemain and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus, the World’s largest planemaker, is seeking to become the No. 1 investor in Atos’ soon-to-be spun-off division Evidian, France’s beleaguered IT consulting firm said amid scrutiny on an asset deemed strategic by the government. If successful, the deal would make Airbus the key industrial partner of Evidian and give it a say over the new entity, which regroups Atos’ most coveted assets such as cybersecurity division BDS and supercomputers. Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said aerospace was increasingly driven by big data, conn…

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