Freescale in $17.6 billion sale pact
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell $536 million, in return for Novell withdrawing from the European Union&#39;s antitrust case against the maker of the Windows family of operating systems.
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The transaction, between the company and a group of private investors, would be one of the biggest deals to take a company private
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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) today is providing architectural details of its most powerful processor to date: the MPC8641D Dual Core processor.
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The developing biopharmaceutical company announces a share offering.
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The sale, for 1.76 billion in cash, is the final step in American Standardâs plan to split into three companies.
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Syniverse Technologies in Tampa signed a purchase agreement to acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America for approximately $57 million payable in cash.
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It&#39;s finally over. Business-software maker PeopleSoft (PSFT) agreed to be acquired by rival Oracle (ORCL) for $10.3 billion Monday, ending 18
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Companies pay $172,000 over unlicensed software claims Two US firms have agreed to hand over significant piles of cash to the Business Software Alliance (BSA) to settle claims they had run unlicensed software on their computers.â¦
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A group of private equity investors   including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. said on Monday it had   ended talks to acquire Freescale Semiconductor Inc. FSL.N   after the chip company agreed to be bought by a Blackstone   Group-led consortium.
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Ritchie Capital Management is said to be close to an agreement to sell the assets in its flagship multi-strategy fund for about $1 billion.
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Resolution and Friends Provident may look to combine and create a company with a market value of about Â£8.3 billion, or $17.1 billion.
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Responding to the need among businesses to monitor employee activity for signs of potential cybercrime and fraud, behavior analysis specialist Actimize is being acquired by Nice Systems for roughly $280 million.
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The Swedish government said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its 6.6-percent share in the Nordic and Baltic stock exchange operator OMX to Emirates-based Borse Dubai, and subsequently to Nasdaq.
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Two groups of private equity firms are   bidding to buy chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. FSL.N   for about $16 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on   Monday.
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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels   Stores Inc. MIK.N on Friday agreed to sell itself to two   private equity groups for more than $6 billion in a deal that   attracted many of the world's biggest buyout firms.
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The enterprise software company strikes a sizeable deal to get back on track.