Johnson & Johnson’s Centocor Ortho Biotech unit said Tuesday it bought RespiVert Ltd., a company developing treatments for asthma and other lung diseases. Respivert is testing anti-inflammatory drugs that are intended ... Read More
In June, the banking software supplier expects to close on a $300 million purchase of Elizabethtown, Ky.-based electronic bill provider iPay Technologies LLC. The acquisition should broaden Jack Henry’s customer base ... Read More
Iron Mountain said Monday that it is picking up Mimosa Systems in a deal worth $112 million. Mimosa specializes in enterprise content archiving systems. Iron Mountain focuses on data archiving, e-discovery ... Read More
Best known for its Quicken software, Intuit is moving further into the health care market through a new acquisition. Intuit announced Tuesday that it will pay $91 million in cash to ... Read More
Intersil Corp. agreed to acquire Techwell Inc. for about $418 million, as the semiconductor company looks to boost its industrial business, which will become its largest market. The company will pay ... Read More
IBM and the University of Missouri plan to cast a “cloud” over Kansas, Missouri and the Midwest in an effort to bolster the Kansas City region’s life sciences industry. The two ... Read More
Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when it’s recycled that it can’t be used again for ... Read More
Thin-film solar cells hold the promise of a cheap, renewable energy source that could make fossil fuels obsolete, but thus far the cells’ reliance on rare elements and expensive vacuum deposition ... Read More
Big Blue announced Monday that it will team up with partners and customers to venture into the next phase of its Smarter Planet initiative: Smarter Buildings. The goal is to help ... Read More
IBM said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Initiate Systems, a privately held company that makes software designed to help health care companies manage and share information. Initiate’s software is ... Read More