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Microchip Undercuts Apple Supplier Dialog For Atmel

Microchip Technology (MCHP) has won an eight-year battle to buy chipmaker Atmel (ATML), ousting British Apple (AAPL) supplier Dialog Semiconductor with a $3.5 billion “superior proposal.” Dialog said Thursday that it wouldn’t up its $4.6 billion offer for San Jose, Calif.-based Atmel. In September, Dialog bid $10.42 per share — equating to $4.65 in cash and 0.112 of a Dialog American depositary receipt for each share of Atmel owned. Under

Appy Salesforce.com Isn’t Partying Over Apple’s Store

Years before there was an Apple (AAPL) App Store, there was the App Store name, a natural for a cloud software company like Salesforce.com (CRM), but even better for a company named Apple. So Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave the name to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and instead opened Salesforce’s “AppExchange” in 2006, 10 years ago this week. In 2007, Jobs launched the iPhone and Benioff’s Salesforce Labs launched its 100th free business application, but