Be There or BSQUARE

  
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Amount:        
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
cash and stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Content/Communities

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  SAN FRANCISCO, May 11–ZDNet, which operates
  the Web’s leading destination for people who want to buy, use and learn
  about technology, announced it has acquired 3DFiles.com. Rochester,
  NY-based 3DFiles.com is a top source
  for free, downloadable 3D demo files, including games, movies, screensavers
  and utilities. The acquisition was made with a combination of cash and
  stock. Other terms were not disclosed.
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Amount:   &n

bsp;     $21
million

  
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Terms:           
460,000 shares/$10.8 million in cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Performance
Software

  
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Scorecard:      B-

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  BELLEVUE, May 11–BSQUAREwill add a
  range of new product technologies and capabilities to address new and
  existing market segments through the acquisition of Mainbrace, in a
  cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $21 million.
  
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  Mainbrace is a leading IP-licensing
  and enabling software firm delivering product solutions to high volume
  market segments including set-top boxes, Web-enabled phones, wireless thin
  clients, and electronic book readers. Consideration will include the
  exchange of approximately 460,000 shares of BSQUARE common stock and
  approximately $10.8 million in cash for all of the issued and outstanding
  common shares of Mainbrace.
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Amount:         $120
million

  
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Terms:           
100% cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Speed/Bandwidth

  
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Scorecard:      B+

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  PALO ALTO, May 11–Agilent Technologiesagreed
  to acquire SAFCO Technologies, a subsidiary of Salient 3
  Communications, a supplier of wireless planning,
  measurement, analysis and predictive software systems and data collection
  products and services. The acquisition of SAFCO, headquartered in Chicago, will
  extend Agilent’s current
  wireless solutions portfolio to help service providers deliver wireless
  voice and data/Internet services, such as wireless e-mail, stock quotes and
  trades, and other mobile commerce applications. Financial terms of the
  agreement were not disclosed.
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Amount:        
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      C

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  SCOTTSDALE, May 11–Ableauctions.com
  announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Auctions West
  Sales Corporation. Auctions West, located in British Columbia, is a
  certified appraiser of assets of bankru
• pt persons or businesses with annual
  revenues of approximately US$500,000. Ableauctions.com will acquire the
  business assets that include material contracts, office equipment,
  furniture and fixtures, goodwill and other intangible assets to add to its
  online auction liquidations of computers, electronics, office equipment,
  furniture and industrial equipment that it acquires through bankruptcies,
  insolvencies and defaults.
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Amount:        
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Financial
Services

  
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Scorecard:      D

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  NEW YORK, May 11–The Financial Commerce Networkannounces that it has acquired Stockchicken.com through
  a stock transaction. The Financial Commerce
  Network will add Stockchicken.com’s financial Web site
  to their growing list of EcoNet clients. Financial terms were not
  disclosed.
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