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Google Acquires Quickoffice

June 5, 2012
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Google just announced that they’ve acquired Quickoffice, one of the more popular options for office productivity solutions. “Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device. Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we’ll be...
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Fujitsu Buys Toshiba’s Stake in Short-lived Mobile Partnership

April 2, 2012
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Fujitsu sent out a press release today announcing that they’ve bought out Toshiba’s stake in the short-lived Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications partnership. The company has been renamed to Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited, as it’s now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. Fujitsu already had 80.1% ownership stake, so the acquisition of Toshiba’s remaining 19.9%...
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Google agrees to acquire Motorola Mobility

August 15, 2011
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Here’s a shocker to start off the work week: Google has agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility! Google and Motorola Mobility today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63%...
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Microsoft set to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion

May 10, 2011
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Microsoft has been quite busy lately. First, they partnered up with Nokia; now, they have entered into an agreement to acquire Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion in cash. As you know, Skype gives users the ability to connect with each other via voice calls over the Internet, a feature more and more customers...
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