Western Digital buys platter maker Komag
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HD supplier in $1bn bid to match Seagate and Hitachi Western Digital has bought hard disk media manufacturer Komag, in a $1bn cash deal that sets it on course to go vertically-integrated, like Seagate and Hitachi GST.â¦
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd  has agreed to buy the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp for at least $1.5 billion cash to expand its network and increase access to U.S. Midwest markets.
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Email archiving specialist KVS, which counts Air New Zealand among its customers, has been bought by Veritas. Veritas announced last week it had bought KVS (which stands for Knowledge Vault Software) for $US225
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Storage vendor Network Appliance is buying Onaro to boost its storage management offerings.
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French food group Danone  said on Monday it plans to pay 12.3 billion euros ($16.77 billion) for Dutch rival Numico , in a widely expected move after Danone agreed to sell its biscuits unit last week.
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CDW Corp. on Tuesday announced that the distributor of hardware, software and technology accessories has agreed to be acquired by a private equity company in a $7.3 billion deal.
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Microsoft offers to buy the Norwegian search software company Fast Search & Transfer for $1.2bn (Â£607m).
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Storage start-up cashes in its chips Storage guts maker Emulex will buy privately-held chip firm Sierra Logic for $180m in a mixed stock, cash, and debt transfer deal.â¦
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On the day data storage giant EMC Corp. completed its purchase of data security company RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, it also purchased another local security company, Network Intelligence Corp. of Westwood, for $175 million.
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ROCHESTER, NYâEastman Kodak will acquire the imaging business of National Semiconductor Corp., which develops and manufactures metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.
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(InfoWorld) - Online delivery service company Akamai Technologies Inc. is buying Nine Systems Corp., a multimedia management service provider, expanding its toolset for online content. To buy Nine Systems, Akamai will issue 3.1 million shares and pay about US$7 million in cash. The buyout will cost an estimated $160 million, depending in part on Akamai's share price on the closing date, which is expected to come by year's end, said Akamai spokesman Jeff Young. Akamai helps enterprises and service providers get content and applications out to customers through its software and servers located in ISP (Internet service provider) data centers worldwide. Nine Systems sells a service for setting up live and canned content, controlling how customers can use it and analyzing how it is consumed. Being able to deliver rich media well is a growing business as more video and audio offerings go up on the Internet and Web users learn to expect instant gratification through sites such as YouTube. The problem has also become more complicated with multimedia appearing on mobile devices such as cell phones. Nine Systems has a set of services controlled through a software suite called Stream OS. With it, providers can take a piece of content, set up how it will be delivered, protect it with Microsoft Corp. Windows Media DRM (digital rights management), create a page where it can be sold and control how users can access it. Reporting tools include a worldwide map of where the content is being consumed and a voice-activated system for retrieving statistics from a cell phone on the road. Other Nine Systems capabilities include setting up channels of related content and tagging media so the right advertising can be associated with it, Young said. Akamai will integrate the services with its delivery capabilities to create a one-stop shop for online media providers, he said. Akamai, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will retain Nine Systems' facilities in Denver and its hometown of San Diego and will keep a majority of the company's 57 employees, Young said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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OCTOBER 22, 2004  - Tape storage vendor Quantum Corp. announced this week that it has acquired Certance LLC, a maker of a competing tape drive technology for $60 million in cash.
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FISHER &amp; Paykel Appliance Holdings will further expand in the United States, after today announcing the acquisition of US stove and BBQ maker Dynamic Cooking Systems Inc (DCS) for a total of $NZ83.
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Alltel Corp. , the leading rural telephone company, on Monday said it would buy rural mobile operator Western Wireless Corp.  for about &#36;4.15 billion in cash and stock to boost its competitive position in the rapidly consolidating U.S. wireless industry.
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It's rich, it's sophisticated EMC is buying a document management software firm for $85m.â¦
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Digital storage company Western Digital boosted its first-quarter outlook on Monday, citing higher selling prices and increased demand.
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(InfoWorld) - Mediasurface, a maker of content management software (CMS), will buy Immediacy, also a content management vendor, for Â£5.6 million ($11.1 million) the companies announced on Tuesday. Mediasurface said the acquisition will give it a content management software offering for midsize businesses, rounding out its portfolio of CMS systems. Immediacy's CMS is geared for nontechnical users, according to Mediasurface's Web site. It can be used to administer Web sites or content within intranets and extranets. Mediasurface's main product is Morello, which is Web content management software that uses an interface that looks similar to Windows. It also makes Pepperio, a software package for small businesses to build Web sites. Mediasurface said it will issue shares to raise money for the acquisition as well as use cash. Â