Synopsys (SNPS) this afternoon said it has acquired Pasadena, California-based Optical Research Associates, a privately held provider of optical design software and  optical engineering services. The company said the deal will allow it to enter the markets for displays and LEDs, as well semiconductor lithography equipment and cameras.
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Ancestry.com (ACOM) this morning said it has agreed to acquire iArchives, parent of American history Web site Footnote.com, for $27 million in stock, cash and assumption of liabilities. Footnote.com has digitized more than 65 million original source documents. As part of the deal, ACOM expects to issue about 1 million [...]

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Internet Brands (INET), a company which operates over 100 Web sites in a variety of categories, this morning said it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VI for $13.35 a share in cash, or about $640 million.
Debt financing for the deal will [...]

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L-1 Identity Solutions (ID), which has been publicly shopping for a buyer for months now, said it has agreed to be acquired by France-based Safran for $12 a share in cash, or about $1.6 billion in enterprise value including assumption of outstanding debt. Under terms of the deal, Safran will [...]

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Juniper Networks (JNPR) is close to buying wireless LAN provider Trapeze Networks from Belden (BDC), according to Network World. Citing “several sources from the wireless LAN arena,” the story says Juniper could announce the deal within the next two weeks. The company holds a meeting with analysts on September 23.
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Sony (SNE) said it will sell an LCD TV factory in Spain to Ficosa International and COMSA EMTE for an undisclosed amount. Sony will outsource production of LCD televisions to a new company to be created by Ficosa at the site for two years after completion of the deal, as [...]

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Google (GOOG) this morning announced a five-year renewal and expansion of its deal to provide search services to AOL (AOL). The companies said the deal has been expanded to include mobile search and YouTube.
Google will provider search and advertising services to AOL, including mobile search. Terms of the deal also [...]

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Cisco Systems (CSCO) this morning said it agreed to buy San Francisco-based Arch Rock Corp., “a pioneer” in IP-based wireless network technology for smart grid applications. The company’s technology is designed to connect smart electricity meters and other devices to a multi-way mesh network. Terms of the deal were not [...]

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Comscore (SCOR) this morning said it has acquired Nedstat, an Amsterdam-based web analytics company, for $36.7 million.
The company said the deal will contribute about $4 million in revenue for the rest of 2010. Comscore expects the deal to be dilutive to 2010 GAAP and non-GAAP net income, but accretive in [...]

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Google (GOOG) has reached a new licensing agreement to continue to post content from the Associated Press, according to a story by…the Associated Press.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The story notes that the deal comes after months of negotiations; at one point, Google stopped hosting AP content.
GOOG is [...]

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