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• Update: HP acquires enthusiast PC maker VoodooPC
  Friday 29 September 2006 – 12:47
  Hewlett-Packard is buying its way into the high-end PC market: Rather than establishing its own brand, the company decided to swallow VoodooPC, one of the larger enthusiast PC brands in the U.S. The deal comes about half a year after Dell's acquisition of Alienware.
• Electronic Arts acquires developer of Warhammer
  Wednesday 21 June 2006 – 12:10
  Electronic Arts (EA) today announced that it will acquire Mythic Entertainment, game developer known Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as Dark Age of Camelot and the upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
• EA acquires Battlefield developer
  Monday 2 October 2006 – 05:00
  Electronic Arts today announced a deal to acquire game developer Digital Illusions CE. Effective immediately, the acuisition brings the creators of the Battlefield series under full ownership of EA.
• ECS acquires ultra-portable whitebook manufacturer
  Tuesday 1 August 2006 – 04:49
  Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), mainly knows as a motherboard manufacturer in the U.S., today said that it will acquire Uniwill Computer, Taiwan's leading manufacturer of ultra-portable notebook (whitebook) solutions.
• Microsoft acquires mobile search technology
  Monday 13 February 2006 – 06:42
  Microsoft today announced that it has acquired, MotionBridge, a Paris-based provider of a search technology aimed at mobile operators and the mobile Internet.

• UPDATE: By acquiring Maxtor, Seagate gains a low-cost foothold in China*
  Wednesday 21 December 2005 – 07:14
  In an unanticipated move, Seagate Technology is acquiring its rival, Maxtor, in a stock swap valued at $1.9 billion. Maxtor shareholders may get a little Christmas bonus next year, but besides that, it doesn't appear much of Maxtor will remain, besides maybe one director and a certain factory in China.