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Friday, March 20, 2009

Cisco buying maker of Flip camcorder; Tweeted out of a job: The "Cisco Fatty" story

Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies
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Cisco buying maker of Flip camcorder
As expected, Cisco Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies, creator of the Flip video camcorder for consumers, for $590 million in stock. Pure Digital is a "pioneer" in developing consumer-friendly video with mass-market appeal, Cisco says. The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking, Cisco said in a statement.
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03/20/09

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