Cytyc sweetens bid for Vision Systems to $517m
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THE REGION Cytyc Corp., a Marlborough maker of medical testing products, increased its offer to buy Australia's Vision Systems Ltd. to $517 million, topping a rival $346 million bid from Tucson-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. Cytyc's new offer, up from its Sept. 17 offering of $377 million, came two days after Ventana said it had paid about $47.4 million to ...
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By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 7--GenCorp Inc. said Tuesday it has received a $29.7 million payment from the company that bought its chemical business in 2005.
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The $3.7 billion deal will form the Nasdaq OMX Group which will list more than 4,000 companies with a combined market value of $5.5 trillion.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  has offered to buy larger eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a rival offer of $3.67 billion from private equity firm Warburg Pincus , sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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Digital cameras with 7-megapixel imaging are priced in the midrange.
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Eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  said on Thursday it received a takeover offer from rival Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  of $75 per share, topping its agreed $65-per-share deal to be acquired by a private equity firm.
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UK biotechnology company Cambridge Antibody Technology has announced a five-year alliance with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. CAT said AstraZeneca will make an upfront equity investment in CAT worth Â£75
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved Genzyme Corp. and Bioenvision Inc.&#39;s treatment for the most common type of childhood leukemia, sending shares of both companies higher Wednesday.
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SBC Communications selected the new Microsoft IPTV Edition software platform for its Project Lightspeed initiative. The deal, which is valued at $400 million over 10 years, is the first of its kind for any US-based telecommunications provider.
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Northern Ireland drug company Warner Chilcott says it has received a takeover approach at a price of 837p per share. This would value the company at more than Â£1.
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InfoWorld - The chairman of the world&#39;s largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from Apple&#160;iPods to Nintendo&#39;s Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan&#39;s most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  said on Thursday it was interested in acquiring Bausch & Lomb Inc.  and was willing to pay more than the $3.67 billion proposal the eye-care company accepted from a private equity firm.
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Royal Philips Electronics NV said Friday it will bid around $5.1 billion for Murrysville, Pa.-based Respironics Inc., a maker of medical devices that assist or monitor breathing.
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In a surprise attempt by a Cambridge biotechnology company to trump a takeover bid by one of its neighbors, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. yesterday said it had reached a $515 million deal to buy a small Canadian drug firm that Genzyme Corp. has been trying to buy since late last month.
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Neven Vision acquisition expected to bolster portal's Picasa photo management software and service.
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Advanced Medical Optics said it is willing to pay more than the $3.67 billion the eye care company accepted from a private equity firm.
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Advanced Neuromodulation Systems  ANSI.O on Friday said it took an equity stake in Cyberonics  Inc. CYBX.O and initiated discussions about combining the two  companies.