"The buyer is has spread"
There is absolutely no grammatical checker today that would let that pass.
No editor worth the name would miss such a thing.
That is the nature of journalism today.
If only it were Friday, dammit. I need a drink.
OUTSOURCING Inc (OSI) – a Japanese player that does what it says on the tin – has acquired UK public sector BPO specialist Liberata for £43m. The buyer is has spread its tentacles via more than 70 subsidiaries into outsourcing across multiple industries including engineering, manufacturing, administrative and recruiting. …