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Mergers & Acquisitions

May 24, 2011

VeriFone Drops Divestiture Plan

A technology company responded to a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit blocking its merger with a California firm by abandoning plans to divest portions of its business to a French company, the department announced Friday.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - A technology company responded to a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit blocking its merger with a California firm by abandoning plans to divest portions of its business to a French company, the department announced Friday.

Hypercom Corp., which San Jose-based VeriFone Systems Inc. is trying to acquire, will not sell its part of the U.S. market in terminals used for credit- and debit-card purchases to Ingenico...

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