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Xerox to Google, Yahoo: If You Need Additional Copies of the Lawsuit, You Know Whom to Ask

in News on February 23, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Xerox is not a name that springs to mind when one thinks of search. It is, after all, a 100-year-old global document-management company best known for its office and production equipment. Odd, then, to hear that Xerox has accused Google and Yahoo of pilfering its intellectual property.

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Whoa! A Tech Acquisition!

in News on January 23, 2009 at 4:44 am PT

The first high-profile tech acquisition in months took place Thursday, but don’t take that as a harbinger of more deals. Autonomy, a U.K. company that makes software that businesses use to track corporate information, acquired Interwoven, a San Jose, Calif., document-management company, for $775 million in cash. Autonomy will sell some stock and tap a new line of credit in order to finance the deal.