Biotechnology company BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday a flu drug candidate failed a midstage clinical trial, and suggested that the trial design may have been flawed. Shares plummeted in after-hours trading nearly 40 percent.
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Cisco Systems(Quote) on Friday announced plans to buy a $150 million stake in VMware as the network technology giant looks for ways to integrate virtualization software into its hardware products.
Cisco may also get a seat on the board of VMware, which is planning an initial public offering this summer. After the transaction, Cisco will hold about 1.6% of VMware, a subsidiary of data storage device maker EMC
R.H. Donnelley (Quote) yesterday agreed to acquire Search and advertising directory Business.com for $345 million dollars.
Business.com was formed by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton in 1999 when they purchased the domain for a, at that time, staggering amount of 7.5 million. Not a bad return over a few years.
R.H. Donnelley Chairman and CEO David C. Swanson said Business.com Inc.’s performance-based, pay-per-click ad platform will boost its Triple Play business-to-consumer marketing offerings, which help local business attract customers through print Yellow Pages, Internet Yellow Pages and search engine marketing/search engine optimization (SEM/SEO) tools.
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America Online(AOL) the one time high flyer and primary jumping point for the Internet has gotten smaller today with the selling of it’s UK division to Carphone Warehouse for 370 Million pounds, about $690 million USD.
The deal will give Carphone around two million broadband customers and make it the third largest provider of high-speed Internet in the UK.
It came as the mobile phone retailer revealed losses from offering “free” broadband to 625,000 of its Talk Talk customers will hit £70 million this year.
Carphone was one of the first operators in the UK telecoms market to offer customers combined Internet and telephone services.
The deal with Time Warner, the parent of AOL, will see Carphone acquire 2.1 million Internet users, including 1.5 million on broadband to add to its own Talk Talk customers.
The completion of the deal is subject to EU competition authority clearance and is expected to take place by 31 December 2006. Time Warner anticipates the acquisition would increase current year pre-tax profits by about GBP 10 million and next year’s pre-tax profits by GBP 30-40 million. Time Warner Stock is up slightly as of the time of this report.