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Mar 10 | News
Bruker Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian Inc., which Agilent has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval for Agilent's previously announced acquisition of Varian.
Mar 4 | Featured Articles
J. Dan Bates, President, Southwest Research Institute answers questions related to R&D Magazine's 2010 Independent R&D Organizations Report.
Mar 1 | News
Merck KGaA and Millipore Corporation announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore, for US$ 107 per share in cash, or a total transaction value, including net debt, of approximately € 5.3 billion (US$ 7.2 billion).
Feb 18 | Featured Articles
One truly benign way of cutting costs is reducing the tax burden. In industries from chemicals to software, from agriculture to fashion, and at every level, taking full advantage of a tax credit provided by the federal and many state governments to encourage innovation and competitiveness—the R&D tax credit—enables companies to achieve remarkable tax savings.
Feb 8 | Application Notes
Patent valuation is one of the trickiest tasks a company can face, according to patent law expert David Wanetick with The Business Development Academy, who has written a primer on how valuation—and vulnerability—can affected by many factors.
Jan 12 | News
Lead paint and melamine-tainted milk—infamously hazardous products from China—have grabbed the headlines in recent years. But another metal, cadmium, has caught the eye of regulators as the easy-to-work but cancer-causing metal has begun appearing in metallic toys and jewelry.
12/22/2009 | News
A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft's Office package in the U.S. won't have to go...
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
Sustained R&D investment is key to economic growth. Those are strong words that are easy to follow in good economic times, but more difficult to follow in bad economic times. The global recession that officially began in the U.S. in late-2007, and is expected to ‘officially’ end (for the U.S.) in late-2009, has been described as the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
Battelle recognized the potential for linking its U.S. operations to global research and development years ago and decided in 2005 to open operations in Asia to develop capabilities and laboratories to serve the region’s global markets.
11/9/2009 | News
Companies that commit fraud can find innovative ways to fudge the numbers, making it hard to tell something is wrong by looking at their financial statements. But a new warning system sees through accounting tricks by evaluating things that are easily...