Oil States Industries, Inc., subsidiary of Oil States International, Inc., has acquired Quality Connector Systems, LLC, headquartered in Houston, Texas. QCS designs, manufactures and markets a portfolio of proprietary deep and shallow water pipeline connectors for subsea pipeline construction, repair and expansion projects.
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Global PC market expected to stabilize in the long term -report
The International Data Corporation released its forecast for the PC market worldwide, estimating a 10.1% plunge in 2013 sales, a 3.8% contraction in 2014, and a 300-million mark on an annual basis.
Investment banks to reduce pay again amid increase in profits- report
A Financial Times report said investment banks worldwide are set to reduce employee remuneration for the third year even as profits have increased, highlighting the importance placed on shareholder returns than on the pay of employees.
US web app Swarm Mobile bags USD3.5 million to track shoppers in brick and mortar stores
San Francisco-based web app Swarm Mobile raised around USD3.5 million to develop technology that can track in-store shoppers through their smartphones to help physical stores compete with e-commerce retailers.
Cinema chain AMC Entertainment plans to raise up to $368 mln from IPO
U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc plans to raise as much as $368 million from an initial public offering of 18.4 million Class A shares.
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Apple Inc has acquired social media search and analytics startup Topsy, an unusual purchase for a hardware-focused company that has made few forays into social networking.
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. today announced that the Company has signed an asset purchase agreement with Toshiba Corporation to acquire all of OCZ's assets in a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding for $35M.
TELEHOP COMMUNICATIONS INC SAYS THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE BUSINESS WILL BE $4.3 MILLION Telehop Communications Inc. today announced its expansion into Wireless Services by signing a Letter of Intent to acquire G3 Telecom's Business including wireless and United States operations, and a private placement of $3 million of 10% unsecured 5 year debentures.
NCR Corporation announced that it had agreed to purchase Digital Insight Corporation for $1.65 billion, and that it had completed the acquisition of Alaric Systems Limited, for approximately $84 million.
U.S. online sales are expected to hit $2 billion on "Cyber Monday," for the first time since the data firm comScore has been tracking such information.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday called for changes to the U.S. financial risk council that could slow the process by which it designates large financial firms as "systemic," subjecting them to tougher supervision.
A second data center in Amsterdam was launched by software Design Description (SDD)-only web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean as part of its strategy to meet customer demand in cloud services.
Tech news site TechCrunch believes that Yahoo Inc's acquisition of natural language processing technology builder SkyPhrase is to improve its content delivery to its mobile audience.
Forest Laboratories Inc, which is facing patent expirations on several of its biggest drugs, on Monday said it plans to buy rights to a new schizophrenia treatment from Merck & Co and cut annual operating costs by $500 million in fiscal 2016.
