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Qualcomm once again extended the offering period of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of NXP Semiconductors N.V.
With the extension, the tender offer is now scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 13, 2018, unless extended or earlier terminated, in either case pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement.
The original purchase agreement was announced on October 27, 2016.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Qualcomm. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) built Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, audio and location semiconductors. What became of it?
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) brought Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, audio and location semiconductors to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Qualcomm for US$2.5B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Qualcomm today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
