UPDATE 2-Computershare buys US EquiServe, shares surge
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Australia&#39;s Computershare Ltd. (CPU.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy the second-largest US share registrar, EquiServe, for $292 million, quadrupling
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Veritas Software Corp. (VRTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest independent US storage software provider, will buy e-mail backup company KVault Software Ltd.
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US stocks gained after PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to be bought by Oracle Corp. and Honeywell International Inc. made a UK purchase, signaling that companies are optimistic about the economy&#39;s prospects.
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The very private Cox family is about to get more so. Cox Enterprises said yesterday it will buy out the public shares of Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) for about $8.
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Computershare Ltd., the world's  largest share registry, said on Thursday a New York division  subpoenaed by U.S. market regulators investigating stock  surveillance firms had not broken any laws.
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With aftershocks still fresh from the Oracle-PeopleSoft deal, another buyout has rocked the enterprise market - Symantec&#39;s multi-billion dollar buyout of Veritas.
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Comcast&#39;s (CMCSA:Nasdaq - news - research) shares jumped 2% Tuesday on news that Warren Buffett had feasted on its shares.
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Veritas Capital, a private equity firm based in New York, agreed to buy Computer Sciences Corp.&#39;s DynCorp International LLC unit for $850 million.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers, printers and information technology systems for businesses, said Monday that it bought back about $1.3 billion worth of common shares from Merrill Lynch & Co. in an accelerated repurchase program, while its board also approved the repurchase of an added $3 billion in stock.
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Revenues and profits up - except in UK Computacenter shares jumped over five per cent this morning after the reseller posted better than expected interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007.â¦
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Shares of Network Appliance jumped more than 11 percent during Wednesday&#39;s trading after the storage maker reported a robust 38 percent rise in first quarter revenue.
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Dow Jones &amp; Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for approximately $519 million, the companies said today.
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Showing just how hot the virtualization market has become, Intel has taken a minority stake in VMware, now owned by enterprise storage company EMC. Intel is investing $218.5 million for 2.5 percent of all outstanding VMware common stock, and will gain control of one board seat.
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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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Shares of Veritas Software (VRTS) surged 9% Tuesday on reports that computer-security giant Symantec (SYMC) is in talks to buy the maker of data-storage and backup
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Shares of Orbitz, an Internet travel agency, surged 26 percent on reports it may be purchased by Cendant for about $1.2 billion. Shares of Orbitz climbed $5.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition bid for Oslo-based Fast Search and Transfer and a dour report on Amazon marked the new year's first full trading week in the United States, as technology company share prices continued to slide.