Emerson today announced it has acquired Decision Management International, Inc. (DMI) of Bradenton, FL. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of aQuantive Inc. The acquisition will help Microsoft deliver on its previously outlined goal to provide the advertising industry with a world-class advertising platform across devices and media that will create the best experiences for users, advertisers and publishers.

Sybase iAnywhere announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Coboplan, a market-leading Japanese provider of Geographic Information System (GIS) software solutions.

Science Applications International Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of Benham Investment Holdings, LLC (Benham) and its subsidiaries. Benham is an engineering and life-cycle technology implementation firm that serves Fortune 500(R) commercial and federal government customers.

Dow Jones Newswires reported on Monday that Virgin Media has received a preliminary offer from private equity firm the Carlyle Group, which values the company as $11.1 billion.

General Motors Corporation announced on Thursday that it will sell its Allison Transmission commercial and military business for about $5.6 billion to the private equity firm The Carlyle Group and Canada's Onex Corp.

The Transaction expands CommScope’s global leadership in infrastructure solutions for communications networks and is expected to be accretive to CommScope’s cash earnings per share, in first full year after closing.

CommScope Inc. has an intention to acquire communications equipment maker Andrew Corp.

General Electric Co. announced this Thursday that it has abandoned talks with Financial Times publisher Pearson PLC about a possible bid for Dow Jones & Co., removing a potential rival to a $5 billion offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Merrill Lynch & Co. is selling roughly $850 million of assets from two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds that have been battered by turmoil in the subprime mortgage market, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

The Times newspaper reported overnight that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has discussed swapping social networking site MySpace with internet giant Yahoo in return for a 25 per cent stake in the group.

Wendy's International Inc.'s representatives said on Monday that it is exploring a possible sale of the company, the nation's third-largest hamburger chain, as it warned that profits for the year would fall short of Wall Street expectations.