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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NEW YORK Each quarter seems to bring a new, sizable acquisition by an industry holding company scrambling to add to its digital portfolio. In the last year alone, Publicis has added Digitas in a $1.3 billion headline-grabbing deal, and has also spent over $200 million on digital shops in France and China. WPP, in addition to a flurry of investments in emerging media, has purchased 24/7 Real Media for $649 million, Schematic and, sources say, is finalizing a deal to snap up Canadian digital shop Blast Radius. ...
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Data storage firm EMC Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Smarts Inc., a privately held maker of event automation and network systems management software, for about $260 million in cash.
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Reuters has acquired a data company in a Â£97m deal just days after announcing 100 job losses from its news bureaux. The financial information group has paid $100m - Â£55m - in cash for the loss-making market
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TOM ELLIOTT, MM&amp;E CAPITAL: Well, the bid that received the most attention was London-based Xstrata&#39;s offer to buy WMC Resources, the old Western Mining, at $6.
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640GB-per-platter drives now possible Western Digital has claimed to have created the world's highest density hard drive platter, a unit that packs in 520Gb per inch squared - more than double the highest density products on the market today.â¦
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Boston information management giant Iron Mountain Inc. , a leader in the archiving and backup of business records, accelerated its push into the digital market yesterday with an agreement to buy Framingham's Connected Corp. for $117 million in cash.
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InfoWorld - Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it sees as the fastest-growing part of the enterprise content management market. It plans to incorporate Document Sciences into its content management and archiving division.
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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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(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
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Regional US telecommunications group Alltel announced it had agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp. for about six billion dollars in cash and stock.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd   said it planned to buy the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad  Corp for at least $1.48 billion to expand its network and  increase its access to U.S. Midwest markets.
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Groupe Danone, the worldâs largest yogurt products company, said it planned to buy Royal Numico for 12.3 billion euros ($16.8 billion).
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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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Will also handle knicker giant's WEEE issues Computacenter Services has won a Â£19m managed IT contract with UK retail behemoth Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S).â¦
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Storage vendor Network Appliance is buying Onaro to boost its storage management offerings.
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U.S. oil and gas producer Anadarko   Petroleum Corp. APC.N on Friday said it agreed to buy smaller   rivals Kerr-McGee Corp. KMG.N and Western Gas Resources Inc.   WGR.N for more than $21 billion in cash to expand in the U.S.   Gulf of Mexico and Rocky Mountains regions.