Successfully fighting off BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s hostile takeover bid, Canadian encryption developer Certicom accepts a $73 million offer from VeriSign. Paying a 40 percent premium over RIM’s offer, VeriSign acquires the developer of elliptic curve cryptography technology, which provides the most security per bit of any known public-key scheme.
- Having successfully turned back a hostile $1.50 per share hostile takeover
bid from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, Certicom announced Jan. 23 it has
accepted a $2.10 per share offer from VeriSign. The deal, valued at $73
million, represents a 40 percent premium over RIM’s offer of $53 milli…

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