Hardware & Systems

BearCom Group, Inc. acquired Independence Communications, Inc., a company which provides Motorola communication solutions for various companies.

ElectroCraft, Inc. acquired Hansen Corporation, a company which designs, manufactures, and sells direct-current motors, synchronous motors, AC clock movements, and stepper motors.

Telamon Corporation acquired Westbrook Mfg. Inc., a company which provides contract manufacturing solutions and services to automotive and consumer electronics sectors.

Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) acquired Zeta Associates Incorporated, a company that provides software-based communications signals collection and processing systems to intelligence and defense communities worldwide.

EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NasdaqGS:EZCH) acquired Tilera Corporation, a company which designs and develops multicore processors for network intelligence, video, and cloud computing applications.

LEMO USA, Inc. acquired Northwire, Inc., a company which designs, manufactures, and markets technical and retractile cables and assemblies for energy, life sciences, medical, government, industrial, machine vision, architectural lighting, and underwater applications.

EMF Corporation acquired DichroTec Thin Films, LLC, a company which designs and manufactures optical thin films. It offers anti-reflective coatings and filters, beam splitters, cold mirrors, color temperature correction filters, color filters, hot mirrors, optical metal coatings, Optivex ultraviolet blocking filters, and solar simulation filters.

Egan Company, Inc. acquired Sterling Automation, Inc., a company which manufactures electrical control systems and panels.

DTE Energy Company (NYSE:DTE) acquired Tollgrade Communications Inc., LightHouse MV Smart Grid Sensors And Predictive Grid Analytics, a company which comprises the electricity distribution line sensors and predictive grid analytics software system.

Avago Technologies Wireless (U.S.A.) Manufacturing Inc. acquired PLX Technology Inc. (NasdaqGM:PLXT), a company which designs, develops, manufactures, and sells integrated circuits worldwide.