Qualcomm buys British firm
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Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm said on Tuesday it has purchased United Kingdom-based wireless developer Trigenix, in part to bolster Qualcomm&#39;s stake in the European cell phone market.
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Qualcomm announced yesterday that Siemens Communications, the world&#39;s fourth largest maker of cell phones, has agreed to use its chips in some of its handsets.
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Qualcomm Inc  posted a  higher quarterly profit on Wednesday due to demand for its  mobile phone chips, and its shares rose 6.5 percent.
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Telecoms operator BT Group said it had agreed to buy Californian voice and data network service provider Infonet Services Corp for 965 million dollars (520 million pounds).
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British defense contractor BAE Systems PLC said Monday it is buying DigitalNet Holdings Inc., a U.S. maker of secure computer networks and a leading information-technology supplier to the Pentagon.
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Chipmaker Freescale agrees to be bought by a private equity group in one of the biggest-ever technology deals.
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A Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group-led consortium bought NTL Inc.&#39;s antenna towers business in the UK for 1.27 billion pounds ($2.47 billion).
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Defense technology developer Foster-Miller Inc. of Waltham says it will be acquired for $163 million by Britain's QinetiQ Group PLC, a public-private partnership with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
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Motorola Inc , the world&#039;s  second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it had  agreed to buy Britain&#039;s TTP Communications , which  develops software for 3G applications, for 103 million pounds  (&#36;193.5 million).
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(InfoWorld) - Qualcomm is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones. The company will buy Airgo Networks, which develops WLAN technologies used in access points and laptop computers, and it will buy most of the Bluetooth technology assets of RF Micro Devices. The acquisitions, announced Sunday, will allow Qualcomm to integrate the wireless technologies more tightly with chip sets that it sells to mobile phone makers. This should make it easier for phone makers to develop compact products with built-in Bluetooth and WLAN capabilities. Bluetooth allows phones to send data over short distances, connecting to a wireless headset or laptop computer, for example. Adding a WLAN connection to a phone allows it to connect to a LAN to use VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and other services. The acquisitions will put Qualcomm in closer competition with other makers of wireless networking chips, including Intel and Broadcom. It could also bring Qualcomm new technology patents that would strengthen its hand in legal disputes. The company is in the midst of several patent disputes, including one with Broadcom that concerns Bluetooth technologies. Airgo, of Palo Alto, California, develops WLAN technologies based on IEEE 802.11a, b and g, as well as the proposed 802.11n standard. Qualcomm plans to integrate the technologies into its Mobile Station Modem and Snapdragon chip sets. It will also keep supporting Airgo's current WLAN business, it said. In the case of RF Micro, Qualcomm is buying its Bluetooth division in San Diego, which develops technologies for handsets and headsets. RF Micro is retaining other Bluetooth products, including its SiW3000 and SiW3500 system-on-chip families. It said the sale will allow it to focus on its higher-growth areas, including cellular transceivers and GPS components. RF Micro, which has headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, said Qualcomm is paying $39 million for its technologies. Qualcomm didn't disclose the value of the Airgo deal, but it said the acquisitions combined would reduce its earnings for the current fiscal year by about $0.04 per share. It expects to close both deals by the end of December.
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LONDON - Qualcomm Inc. has bought Trigenix, a British startup specializing in software that lets mobile network operators adjust the menus on handsets, for $36 million in cash.
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Qualcomm Inc  posted a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday due to demand for its mobile phone chips, and its shares rose 6.5 percent.
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US phone company SBC  Communications agrees to buy its former parent AT&T for about $16bn (Â£8.5bn).
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Qualcomm said yesterday that it would pay $170 million to acquire Iridigm Display Corp., a small company that has patented technology used in screens on wireless devices.
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IT services company Synstar plc, of Bracknell, England, has been acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, for about $293.3 million.
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Qualcomm is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones.
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BT Group, the privatised former British telecoms monopoly, has sold its entire holding in the French satellite operator Eutelsat for Â£363m.