On Tuesday, it was announced that Cisco Systems would buy Starent Networks for $2.9 billion. Starent makes equipment that helps wireless carriers tranfers large volumes of data to phones and other computing devices. Can anyone spell "iPhone?"

Xerox had agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $6.4 billion the biggest acquisition in Xerox' history. It's a good move on the part of Xerox, further diversifying its printing and copying focused brand into computer services.

You've likely never heard of Omniture, because it's a web analytics firm, meaning it doesn't produce anything that most consumers care about. However, those metrics that Omniture does produce are of key interest to many companies, such as, apparently, Adobe.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the completion of its approximately $340 million USD (EUR 215 million) tender offer for the shares of ILOG (NASDAQ: ILOG) (PARIS: ILO) (ISIN: FR0004042364). The tender offer, announced July 28, 2008, was finalized after IBM acquired all outstanding stock in ILOG and satisfied the other conditions of the offer.

Nokia announced that it has completed its acquisition of Plazes , a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. The deal was initially announced on June 23, 2008.

On June 5th, 2008 European Commission announced that it had unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA (OSE: Troll).

Cisco announced it has completed the purchase of San Jose-based Nuova Systems, a startup focused on the development of next-generation products for the data center market.

Nokia and Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) today announced that Informatica, the leading independent provider of data integration software, has completed the acquisition of Identity Systems, which was initially announced on April 17, 2008.

Dell today announced the completion of its $155 million acquisition of MessageOne, Inc., an industry leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enabled enterprise-class e-mail business continuity, compliance, archiving and disaster recovery services.

Nokia announced today that the European Commission has initiated a Phase II review of the pending acquisition of NAVTEQ. This is part of the Commission's review process, and does not in any way signal the ultimate outcome.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) a global leader in mobile entertainment, has successfully completed its acquisition of Soundbuzz Pte., Ltd., a leading pan-Asian music provider. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions. Arsenal is a privately held company based in Cary, North Carolina, with a comprehensive suite of on-demand data protection solutions.