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November 14, 2006
Agilent Acquires Swiss Acqiris
Agilent Technologies is to acquire Acqiris SA, a privately held Swiss company that develops and sells digitizers and analyzer hardware used in a wide range of applications from medical imaging (positron elecro tomography) to radars used by defence and aerospace manufacturers. Financial details were not disclosed.
Founded in 1998, Acqiris is based in Geneva. All 60 Acqiris employees are expected to join Agilent. The company is not venture-backed.
This is about the sixth acquisition of a Swiss computing firm by a big name US player in the past year or so - only some of them were VC-backed.
- HP bought Silverwire, a Zug-based VC-backed photo processing startup
- IBM acquired Geneva-based remote access software firm Rembo
- Microsoft bought VC-backed VOIP software developer media-streams in Zurich
- Synopsys acquired ISE a chip design tool developer
- Semtech acquired VC-backed wireless semiconductor manufacturer Xemics in Neuchatel
Read - Agilent Acquires Acqiris SA (press rel)
Read - US Giants Buying Swiss Startups Like Watches (swissventures)
Posted on November 14, 2006 01:35 PM | Posted to News And Updates | Permalink
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