Dow Chemical to Acquire Rohm & Haas for $18.8 Billion (Bloomberg)

Buffet, Kuwait fund Dow's $15B/$78-share bid for Rohm & Haas (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Dow buys Rohm and Haas for $15.3 billion (EE Times)
A little more about the deal, specifically in the advanced materials area and why it actually might be good for Philadelphia.

Ness Technologies Sells SAP Sales and Distribution Division in Israel to SAP
(MarketWatch)

Bloomberg Restructures Amidst Merrill Stake Sale Talks; Text Separates From Multimedia Division (paidContent)
A substantial portion of Bloomberg's operations are in Princeton.

Sales set to start on new iPhone (Metro Philadelphia)

Getting an Early Look at the App Store (Business Week: Tech Beat)

Navteq Acquisition completed by Nokia
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Navteq owns Traffic.com of Wayne.

Japan firms,govt to team up on OLED panels -Nikkei (Reuters)


InterDigital - Thoughts on the ITC staff report (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Kenexa Hires Human Resources Thought Leader to Direct Product Strategy (Marketwire via CNN Money)

VoiceVerified Inc. Wins Patent Approval for Voice Authentication System (PR.com)

Low Power RF Developer - CenTrak-Video (Texas Instruments E2E Community)

A Primer on Smart Cards (New York Times: Personal Tech-free subscription)

FeedRoom Adds Another $12 Million In Funding (Silicon Alley Insider)
FeedRoom is based in New York. The funding round was led by NewSpring Capital, which has been very busy lately.


Health Plan Signs Tech Software Deal (The Bulletin)

Drexel School of Public Health Uses NetReach's cmScribe Advanced Content Management System (CMS) Software for First National Diversity Preparedness Clearinghouse
(PRNewswire)

WorldGate Introduces the Ojo Pro Video Phone for the Business Market (BusinessWire)
Not quite the buzz of the iPhone introduction.



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