Chip firm agrees $17.6bn buyout
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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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The $3.7 billion deal will form the Nasdaq OMX Group which will list more than 4,000 companies with a combined market value of $5.5 trillion.
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Food-service and facilities  management company Aramark Corp.  on Tuesday accepted a  higher $6.3 billion offer to be bought out by a group led by  its current chief executive and several investment funds.
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Chartered Semiconductor (CSMF.SI: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s third-largest contract microchip maker, will receive a $653 million loan from US bank JP Morgan (JPM.
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The deal, for $17.50 per share, continues a recent trend of networking and telecommunications firms being bought by private equity firms.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the  largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it  plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly  dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest  technology company to return extra cash to investors.
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ARM Holdings Plc, whose chip designs are used in iPod digital music players, agreed to buy Artisan Components Inc. for about $913 million.
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Storage start-up cashes in its chips Storage guts maker Emulex will buy privately-held chip firm Sierra Logic for $180m in a mixed stock, cash, and debt transfer deal.â¦
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The chip giant has announced plans to buy a developer of digital-media creation software and services.
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The board of the world's largest  casino operator, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , has  accepted a $17.1 billion buyout bid from private equity groups  Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group .
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Hynix of Korea has sold its non-memory semiconductor operations to Citigroup Venture Capital for Won954.3bn ($828m) and it will be renamed MagnaChip Semiconductor.
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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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Arm is to pay $910m (Â£504m) in cash and shares for Artisan, the US-based transistor-level designer for systems-on-a-chip. Arm chairman Sir Robin Saxby said in a conference call: &quot;This will be a combination
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Microprocessor designer Arm Holdings buys US tech firm Artisan for about $913m in a deal which the UK firms says will boost its product range.
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The board of the world's largest casino operator, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., has accepted a $17.1-billion buyout bid from private equity groups Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group.
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it was buying the Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars) in shares, according to a joint statement.
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The Chartered announcement had been signaled when AMD and IBM extended a chip processing deal in September. While the deal centered on jointly developed technology, it also left AMD the option