Qualcomm acquires small UK software company in cash deal
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Qualcomm, the San Diego cell phone technology developer, said yesterday it has acquired a British software company for $36 million in cash.
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WAYNE, NJ - Qualcomm has inked a licensing agreement with Microsoft, under which Qualcomm will integrate Microsoft&#39;s Windows Media Audio and Video codecs into its Qtv video decoder solution.
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U.K. telecom company offers BT Business Builder, which bundles free management applications for small businesses.
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Western Digital buys rival Komag for $1 billion in latest industry consolidation.
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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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Qualcomm made a clear statement about its vision for future mobile devices on Monday by buying SoftMax, a provider of noise-reduction algorithms.SoftMax&#39;s technology works with multiple microphones to suppress background noise, separate the speaker&#39;s voice from that noise, and cancel echoes, all to make voice calls more intelligible. The battle for better sound was stepped up recently when Motorola delivered a system called CrystalTalk, with a similar aim, in its Razr2 line of phones.The SoftMax Signal Separation technology broadens Qualcomm&#39;s toolset for devices, including mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, VoIP phones, and notebooks, according to a company statement. It consumes less battery life, processing power, and memory than alternatives, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Qualcomm was not immediately able to provide more details of its plans for SoftMax.SoftMax already has deals with mobile operator SK Telecom and with communications chipmaker Broadcom, which is&#160;embroiled in a fierce legal battle with Qualcomm over various patents. Qualcomm may have acquired SoftMax as much for its engineers and intellectual property as for its current products, said analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts.Similarly,&#160;Qualcomm acquired wireless broadband vendor Flarion&#160;last year just for its team and OFDMA (orthogonal frequency-division multiplex access) technology, Strauss said. That company&#39;s intellectual property is expected to be valuable as OFDMA technologies including WiMax and&#160;LTE (Long-Term Evolution)&#160;become widely adopted. In addition, it would have been hard to simply recruit top-notch talent in a field as obscure as noise reduction, Strauss said. Qualcomm is probably looking both to integrate SoftMax&#39;s algorithms in its own single-chip systems for devices and to license them to other hardware vendors, Strauss said.Privately held SoftMax is based in Qualcomm&#39;s hometown of San Diego and was founded in 1998 by scientists from The Salk Institute and from the University of California at San Diego, where Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs is a former professor and endowed the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1997.
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Qualcomm is betting on its Code Division Multiple Access cellular technology.
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Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm on Tuesday said it has purchased United Kingdom-based wireless developer Trigenix, in part to bolster Qualcomm&#39;s stake in the all-important European cell phone market.
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Wireless technology firm Qualcomm Inc.  said on Monday it will buy two micro-chip businesses to boost its expertise in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless technology for mobile Internet access.
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Qualcomm Inc. said Monday it is expanding its wireless semiconductor capabilities with the acquisitions of a company that develops Wi-Fi technology for laptops and hotspots, and a business that specializes in Bluetooth connections between mobile devices such as a cell phone and headset.
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Kidde, the UK fire and safety products company, said yesterday it had accepted a cash offer from United Technology Corporation that values the group at Â£1.442bn.
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Broadcom Corp., one of networking's biggest chip makers, is buying a vendor of production-ready software for network gear.
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EMC Corp. EMC.N  on Tuesday said it  has agreed to acquire Smarts Inc., a privately held maker of  event automation and real-time network systems management  software, for about $260 million in cash.
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BAE Systems acquires a US firm which provides computer and IT systems to the US defence department.
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JAMmy b*stards East Yorkshire telco Kingston Communications has bought IP-based call centre software firm JAM IP for Â£2.56m.â¦
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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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Security software maker announces plans to acquire Hacker Safe transaction certifier in a cash deal worth approximately $51 million.