Danaher will acquire all of the shares of Keithley Instruments at a purchase price of $21.60 per share in cash for an enterprise value of approximately $300 million net of cash to be assumed. Keithley Instruments manufactures electronic instruments and systems geared to the specialized needs of engi...

Lantiq, a supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, announced that Dominik Bilo will join the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO) effective October 1, 2010.

Bilo will be responsible for the company’s supply chain and quality management as well as test and product engine...

Almost 300 experts from 14 countries took part in this year’s MathWorks Automotive Conference on 22./23 June 2010. They visited lectures by Mathworks as well as international motor manufacturers and suppliers such as AVL, Continental, DAF, Daimler, Ricardo, Scania or Valeo.

For the first time Ma...

RS Components has expanded its strategic partnership with HellermannTyton. Accordingly, RS will extend its HellermannTyton product range to include among others the Helaguard cable protection systems. RS also distributes the fully automatic cable tie tool Autotool 2000.

HellermannTyton offers pr...

PLX Technology a provider of connectivity solutions for the data center and the home, has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Teranetics, a privately held fabless provider of mixed-signal semiconductors. Teranetics, delivered fully integr...

Acal Technology has signed a sales franchise agreement with Cavium Networks. Cavium is a provider of integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home. The agreement with Acal is to provide specialist technical and commercial sup...

Arrow Electronics has agreed to acquire Nu Horizons Electronics in an all cash transaction for $7.00 per share (approx. $ 130 million at all). Nu Horizons is a distributor of semiconductor, display, illumination, and power solutions to a variety of commercial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) ...