Freescale sells itself for $17.6bn cash â or more
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Who knows, maybe something better will come along Freescale Semi has accepted a $17.6bn offer from private-equity investors to buy the company. But there is a peculiar twist: the chip maker has reserved the right to seek a higher offer from other suitors over the next 50 days.â¦
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Untangle -- the open-source company formerly known as Metavize -- has expanded its offer of free-for-the-downloading security software to companies of all sizes.
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Public money paid to private firm iSoft Plc, the beleaguered NHS software provider, has been given two large chunks of cash totalling close to Â£82m over the last two years, the government has admitted.â¦
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has won a long-term contract worth more than 200 million euros ($246 million) to supply car components to Siemens, the companies said on Monday.
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An industry giant is inspired to spend billions on its own shares.
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The owner of the world&#39;s second most used internet search engine posted net income of $253.3m (Â£141m) or 17 cents a share, including a gain related to the sale of a portion of its stake in Google.
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VNU, the Dutch market research and information group, yesterday sold its directories business for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.4bn) to venture capital groups Apax Partners and Cinven.
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Spends Â£20m to increase SME market share Acquisition-happy accounts software firm Sage has gobbled up UK-based finance and HR software supplier KCS Global Holdings for Â£20m.â¦
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Frees up thousands of pink slips Texas semiconductor manufacturer Freescale is cutting jobs across the company as part of a strategy to reduce costs during a sluggish year.â¦
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InfoSpace makes a small acquisition that seems to cut against the global herd.
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. FSL.N   said on Monday in a statement that it was in talks regarding a   "possible business transaction" after the New York Times   reported that it was nearing a $16 billion buyout with private   equity firms.
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A consortium of investment firms was   near a deal late Sunday to acquire Freescale Semiconductor Inc.   FSL.N for more than $16 billion, the New York Times reported   on Monday.
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has won a long-term contract worth more than 200 million euros (&#36;246 million) to supply car components to Siemens, the companies said on Monday.
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In a rare buyout battle, a Blackstone-led alliance said it won the bidding for chip maker Freescale Semiconductor.
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The sale of National Australia Bank&#39;s Irish businesses reached a surprise conclusion yesterday when Denmark&#39;s Danske Bank clinched a Â£967m takeover.
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EBay, the online marketplace, yesterday continued its push across the globe with a $530m (Â£296m) offer to take full control of its South Korean affiliate, Internet Auction Co.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion â helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more