Mitac to buy Navman handheld business
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Where does that leave Mio? Mio parent Mitac has apparently acquired rival handheld GPS gadget maker Navman, but the deal will not necessarily boost the company's own GPS division.â¦
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON  - Sprint Corp. FON.N said  on Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel  Communications Inc. NXTL.O for about $36 billion, creating a  U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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Cingular, jointly owned by BellSouth and SBC Communications, said the buyers are Singapore Technologies Telemedia and TM International of Malaysia.
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Tiger Telematics acquired Integra SP, a UK company that produces software allowing real-time streaming of data and applications to handheld devices.
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BAE Systems makes its latest move into the US, agreeing to buy military support services provider MTC Technologies.
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Motorola Inc.  on Tuesday said  it will buy Symbol Technologies Inc. , a maker of bar  code and inventory scanning technology, for about $3.9 billion  to boost sales of wireless handheld devices to corporate  customers.
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Norampac Inc., Canada&#39;s largest containerboard maker, bought AIM Corrugated Container Corp. for an undisclosed price to expand its presence in the Northeastern US.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - Sprint Corp. FON.N on  Wednesday said it will buy mobile telephone company Nextel  Communications Inc. NXTL.O for about $36 billion creating a  U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorola plans to acquire wireless mobile device developer Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. Symbol makes a range of devices for businesses, including handheld computers that may include bar code scanners, RFID (radio frequency identification) technologies and WiFi. They are widely used by workers in warehouses and large retail outlets, and by delivery services. The acquisition would fit with Motorola's history as a developer of mobile phones and two-way radios, and advances its push into companies' mobile computing strategies, it said. Motorola has traditionally catered to businesses, notably with is push-to-talk technology used by Nextel in the U.S., and with its Canopy broadband wireless infrastructure business. While Symbolâs products have a broad customer base the company has faced hurdles in the past few years. In 2004, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined Symbol $37 million fine for fraudulent accounting practices. Eleven executives were charged with securities fraud including the former chief executive, who subsequently fled the U.S. Rumors had surfaced over the past few days that Symbol was looking for a buyer. The deal is expected to close later this year or early in 2007, subject to regulatory and other approvals. Symbol will become a Motorola subsidiary and continue to operate from its headquarters in Holtsville, N.Y.
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Williams Scotsman International, a Baltimore-based provider of mobile storage containers for the construction industry, agreed yesterday to be bought by the parent company of Algeco, a privately held French modular construction firm, for about $1.24 billion.
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Motorola Inc. has agreed to buy MeshNetworks Inc., a developer of technology and products for rapidly deployed, self-creating wireless mobile networks.
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp. ROV.N is  close to a deal to acquire privately held United Industries  Corp., a maker of lawn and garden products, for about $500  million in cash and stock in a bid to diversify its product  mix, sources close to the situation said on Monday.
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Sprint Nextel said yesterday it will acquire affiliate Northern PCS in a deal worth $312.5 million, the seventh such purchase for the wireless company in the past two years.
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Dutch chipmaker NXP will buy  U.S.-based semiconductor developer GloNav, which specializes in  global positioning system (GPS) chips, for up to $110 million  in cash, it said in a statement on Friday.
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp. ROV.N is  close to a deal to acquire privately held United Industries  Corp., a maker of lawn and garden products, for about $476  million in cash and stock in a bid to diversify its product  mix, sources close to the situation said on Monday.
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Mobile phone firm Motorola is buying Symbol Technologies, a maker of barcode scanning systems, for $3.9bn.
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BMC Software is buying privately held ProactiveNet as a way to flesh out the analytics portion of its BSM (business service management) software.