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• Cisco acquires tiny collaboration company

  Cisco last week acquired Assemblage, a maker of browser-to-browser collaboration tools that do not require downloads, plugins or installations.

• Box just bought real-world equivalent of Pied Piper

  Cloud storage provider Box announced today that it has acquired Streem, a small startup with some impressive technology in that area, for an undisclosed fee.

• Bannerman shares jump on takeover bid

  Uranium explorer Bannerman (ASX:BMN) criticized a $144m takeover offer from a Chinese miner as an attempt to take advantage of its low trading price in the aftermath of Fukushima

• 3PAR finds HP's offer superior

  Storage technology firm 3PAR confirmed late Friday that its board has accepted Hewlett-Packard's acqusition offer of $US30 per share, ending more than a week of competitive bidding with Dell.

• SAP, Sybase lay out tech road maps

  SAP and Sybase officials gathered in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to bring together their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics and enterprise information management.

• Intel to buy McAfee for $US7.68 billion

  Intel said Thursday it plans to acquire security vendor McAfee in a cash deal valued at about $US7.68 billion and aimed at enhancing the chip maker's mobile strategy.

• M2 (ASX:MTU) closes $4m Bell Voice and Data purchase

  Telecommunications company M2 (ASX:MTU) has completed the $4m acquisition of Bell Networks' SMB businesses

• SAP Sapphire 2010: Observations, News and Tweets

  SAP's annual Sapphire conference is over, and here's a round-up of some of the important news, announcements and high-tech happenings that came out of the show.

• Cisco closes Tandberg video acquisition

  Cisco Systems closed its acquisition of Tandberg on Monday, formally ending a tense struggle over the fair value of the Norwegian videoconferencing vendor.

• Nokia acquires location services vendor MetaCarta

  Nokia on Friday said it will acquire MetaCarta, a privately-held company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that specializes in finding content for location-aware services.

• Juniper acquires media content company

  Juniper this week said it is acquiring partner Ankeena Networks, a privately held maker of software for optimizing media content delivery, for no more than $100 million.

• Microsoft buys health-care software company

  Microsoft plans to buy health-care software maker Sentillion for an undisclosed sum in order to expand its own health-care offerings and capitalize on an upcoming opportunity for new sales.

• Malaysian company acquires Friendster, bets on micropayments

  Social networking site Friendster accepted a buyout offer from Malaysia's MOL Global, which hopes to generate revenue from the site using micropayments.

• Fear of Microsoft subsides in mergers and acquisitions arena

  Among Microsoft's trials and tribulations in the mergers and acquisitions space, a Microsoft official on Tuesday evening cited fear of dealing with the company as an obstacle Microsoft has had to overcome.

• Apple confirms Lala music service acquisition

  Apple has acquired online music streaming company Lala, the company said Monday, adding to the ways it could offer music to users.