From The Des Moines Register | Telephone and Data Systems Inc., the parent company of TDS Telecommunications Corp., has purchased the Iowa data center company TEAM Technologies, which has centers in Cedar Falls, the Des Moines metro area and Madison, Wis., for $47 million.
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