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• Lenovo, Acer reportedly sizing up Packard Bell

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Acer, Acquisition, Lenovo, Packard Bell, Packardbell

  Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Packard Bell may not have the most illustrious of histories, but that hasn't stopped the company from attracting a number of potential suitors over the years. Now it seems that two more companies are eying the old school brand, although both seem to be far from a done deal. The first, and apparently further along of

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• Blockbuster buys Movielink

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:46 am

  Tags: Acquisition, Blockbuster, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Movielink

  Filed under: Home Entertainment We heard it was going to happen, and it did: Blockbuster bought Movielink for an undisclosed sum, surely to compliment its online offerings to better compete with arch-nemesis Netflix in the internet movie distribution game. And surely if it did sell for the piddly $50 mil figure being tossed around before, the

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• Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Acer, Acquisition, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Emachines, Gateway

  to acquire Gateway. The acquisition has been approved unanimously by both boards and is expected to close by December 2007. You know, following the usual international, anti-trust approvals. Sure seems like a win-win what with Gateway steadily losing market share (but still tied for third largest PC maker in the US) while finally giving

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• A match made in hell: Microsoft eying RIM?

  Published: August 30, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Acquisition, Buyout, Merger, Microsoft, Rim, Rumor

  Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds A completely unsubstantiated rumor floating among day traders has RIM stock up a pretty penny today, suggesting that Microsoft may be looking to acquire Waterloo's finest in response to Google's meddling in the mobile space. At this point, pundits seem to be merely saying that it "makes sense," not that they've

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• Get More Out Of Your Camera [Literally]

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Television, Movies, Technology, Sdi, Tapeless, Icon, Records, Storage, Acquisition, Potential, Recorded, Field, Recorder

  bee’s knees. Tapeless acquisition is the future; I don’t think that, I am assuring you of that. Solid state, faster than real time transfer speeds, and reusable media (thousands of uses on the same recording media, be it a flash drive or something like it) make this the direction that makes the most sense for video.

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• Reading skills acquisition

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:43 am

  Tags: Reading Skills Acquisition

  skills acquisition is a description of the different abilities necessary for learning to read. Reading difficulties have a common source -- problems processing spoken words hinder a student's ability to translate written words into speech. Regardless of age, subtle auditory or phonological (speech sound) processing issues hinder

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• Kyocera gettin' serious about buying Sanyo's mobile biz?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Acquisition, Kyocera, Merger, Sanyo

  Sure, it was all fun and games when folks were just tossing about the idea, but it seems that Kyocera may be taking this whole deal a bit more seriously than we previously assumed. Reportedly, "Kyocera [is aiming] to buy Sanyo's cell phone operations for about ¥50 billion ($435 million)," and just in case you still had doubts, these same

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• Could Microsoft Stop The Google/DoubleClick Buy?

  Published: September 21, 2007, 6:38 pm

  Tags: News, Acquisition, Doublclick, Finance, Ftc, Google, Microsoft, Senate Judiciary Hearing

  on Google Inc.’s acquisition of DoubleClick will include an executive from the Software giant who will testify. A spokeswoman for Microsoft stated that General Counsel Brad Smith will be the representative from Microsoft to testify at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, consumer rights hearing and competition policy this

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• EchoStar announces Sling Media acquisition -- Sling totally "psyched"

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:02 am

  Tags: Acquisition, Disk Network, Disknetwork, Echostar, Merger, Sling Media, Slingbox, Slingmedia, Slingplayer

  SlingPlayer software. The acquisition, expected to be approved before the year is up, gives EchoStar access to more displays and more locations thanks to Sling's streaming solutions in and outside of the home. And Blake Krikorian, co-founder, chairman and boss of Sling Media, reaction to the prospects of the new union? "We are psyched to make

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• Siemens Extends Tender Offer for Acquisition of Dade Behring

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Business, Acquisition, Company Acquisition, Siemens, Tender Offers

  Siemens has extended the expiration date for the cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: DADE) to Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:00 midnight (EDT), as Siemens awaits merger control clearance by the European Commission.

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• Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Latigent

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Business, Cisco, Company Acquisition, Contact Center Solutions

  Cisco to add Web 2.0-based contact center reporting solutions to help create unique customer-centric experiences

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• Optimal Group snaps up WowWee for $65 million

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Acquisition, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Optimal Group, Optimalgroup, Wowwee

  Filed under: Robots It looks like WowWee's growing robot army will soon have a new boss to answer to, as Montreal-based Optimal Group announced today that it's agreed to purchase the robot "toy" maker for $65 million. According to The Canadian Press, Optimal says WowWee's management will remain as it is, and there's no word of any other changes

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• HP Closes Neoware Acquisition

  Published: October 1, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Business, Acquisition, Company Acquisition

  HP today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Neoware Inc., a provider of thin client computing and virtualization solutions, at a fully diluted, enterprise value (net of cash) basis of approximately $214 million.

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• TomTom reacts to Nokia -- formalizes offer for Tele Atlas

  Published: October 2, 2007, 7:40 am

  Tags: Acquisition, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Buyout, Takeover, Tele Atlas, Teleatlas, Tomtom

  Filed under: GPSJust one day after Nokia offered $8 billion for NAVTEQ, TomTom is in the news with a formal offer for Tele Atlas. Of course, TomTom had already announced their intent to offer €21.25 per share (about $2.56 billion) for the map maker back in July -- the same amount tendered today. Back then the offer represented a sweet 32%

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• Cisco Completes the Acquisition of Cognio

  Published: October 8, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Business, Acquisition, Cisco, Company Acquisition, Market Leaders

  Cisco today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cognio, Inc., the market leader in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks.

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