Apple to buy fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356 million

Bangalore : India | Jul 27, 2012 at 8:33 AM PDT

Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press

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Apple Inc has agreed to buy AuthenTec Inc for $8.00 per share, the maker of fingerprint sensor chips used in personal computers said, in a deal valued at about $356 million. AuthenTec makes security software and chips for mobile phones that it licenses to companies such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd... FULL ARTICLE AT Turks and Caicos Free Press

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