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Accurate Background Buys CareerBuilder's Employment Screening Arm

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Irvine-based Accurate Background , a provider of background screening for employers, has acquired Career Employment Screening (CBES), the background screening arm of CareerBuilder. The deal also includes a strategic partnership, where CareerBuilder will offer up Accurate's employment screening services to its clients.

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Smith Micro Completes ISM Connect Acquisition

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Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software said Wednesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of ISM Connect , a developer of software which provides on-screen, interactive demos for wireless carriers and retailers. Smith Micro said the acquisition would provide it with a "new growing and profitable" revenue stream.

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Ligand Sells Screening Technology

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San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has agreed to sell its combinatorial compound library and screening technology, in a deal worth $1.8M. Ligand said the sale came because the screening technology was no longer required for the firm's research activities.

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iSuppli Acquisition Completes

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The acquisition of El Segundo-based iSuppli , worth $95M, has completed, according to acquiring firm IHS Inc. IHS said late Friday that the deal also included Screen Digest, a digital media and technology research company which was recently acquired by iSuppli. The acquisition had originally been announced on November 2nd.

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Illumina Acquires GRAIL For $8 Billion

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GRAIL is developing a multi-cancer screening test. Illumina and GRAIL said the acquisition is split between $3.5 Illumina said the buy will help it add a multi-disciplinary team and capabilities for next generation sequencing (NGS), population scale clinical studies, and machine learning. billion in cash and $4.5 READ MORE>>.

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TutorMe Acquired By Zovio

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. TutorMe's online tutoring service i offered up to academic institutions, to help them improve student retention; the company says it uses a matching system powered by artificial intelligence, and ha such features as video chat, screen sharing, virtual whiteboards, and more.

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OSI Systems Buys American Science and Engineering For $269M

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Hawthorne-based OSI Systems , the developer of X-ray and other screening equipment for the homeland security, defense, aerospace, and healthcare industries, has acquired American Science and Engineering, Inc. , OSI said it gains additional, X-ray backscatter based inspection systems through the acquisition, which had been announced earlier.

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