Thomson Buys Test Provider Capstar
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Electronic publisher Thomson Corp.   said on Monday it will buy test provider Capstar from  Educational Testing Service, the latest in a string of  acquisitions designed to flesh out its product offerings.
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Results for 2006 lower than anticipated Irish ICT group Calyx warned its results for 2006 would be lower than anticipated, and announced it was to buy British firm Mentec.â¦
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. RHAT.O  said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape's computer user  identification and management technology from America Online  Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc. TWX.N
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Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell  has agreed to buy Novar Plc, a British industrial holding  company, for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion), a source  familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Nuance Communications has agreed to buy the developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones from current owner AOL.
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Canadian electronic publisher  Thomson Corp  won conditional permission from antitrust  regulators at the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to buy  Reuters Group Plc , a deal that will create the world's  leading provider of news and data for professional markets.
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Email archiving specialist KVS, which counts Air New Zealand among its customers, has been bought by Veritas. Veritas announced last week it had bought KVS (which stands for Knowledge Vault Software) for $US225
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Flextronics International will buy Solectron for about $3.6 billion, the two companies said Monday, in a move by Flextronics to catch up with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world's biggest manufacturer of electronics for other companies.
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TORONTO (CP) - Thomson Corp. will slow the pace of acquisitions in 2005, after racking up roughly $1.5 billion in acquisitions this year and completing its evolution from newspaper publisher to electronic information provider, its CEO said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK/LONDON Oct 1  - U.S. computer giant  Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Friday it had acquired Synstar Plc,  a UK based technology services firm, for 163 million pounds  ($293 million).
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French technology group Thomson (TMS.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it had purchased 750,000 of its own shares, or 4.8 percent of a stake in it being sold by British commercial broadcaster ITV (ITV.
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LONDON - New Jersey-based Honeywell International Inc., the aerospace and high-tech manufacturer, has agreed to buy the British industrial holding company Novar PLC for about $1.7 billion, the companies said Monday.
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InfoWorld - Nuance Communications has agreed to buy the developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones from current owner AOL.
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Thomson Financial, part of Canadian publisher Thomson Corp., has bought seven Asia-Pacific news bureaus from Xinhua Finance Ltd., the Chinese supplier of financial information said on Friday.
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IBM , the world's largest  technology services company, said on Wednesday it will buy  privately held security and compliance testing software company  Watchfire Corp. for an undisclosed amount.
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Novar, the UK building supplies group, is today expected to announce that it has agreed to be acquired by the US industrial giant Honeywell in a cash deal worth more than Â£800m.
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Reuters Group Plc  and Thomson Corp  are "increasingly optimistic" that regulatory reviews into Thomson's proposed acquisition of the British group will be completed in the first quarter of 2008.