Acquisitions in Massachusetts in 2010

Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFUS) has acquired all outstanding stock of Cole Hersee Company for $50 million in cash to expand its off-road, truck and bus (OTB) business. The purchase brings Cole Hersee’s power-management and heavy-duty electromechanical and solid-state switch products into Littelfuse’s portfolio, strengthening customer relationships, distribution and product offerings.

EMC Corporation acquired Bus-Tech, Inc., a Bedford, Massachusetts provider of Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solutions, and integrated it into EMC's Backup Recovery Systems division to strengthen EMC's mainframe disk-based backup and deduplication offerings. The acquisition is intended to expand EMC's mainframe backup, recovery and archiving capabilities and was not expected to have a material impact on EMC's 2010 GAAP or non-GAAP EPS.

NitroSecurity secured $6 million in Series B financing and acquired the security business of LogMatrix to expand its customer and technology portfolio. The company will integrate LogMatrix's risk-based assessment and correlation technologies into its NitroView SIEM product family and use the funding to grow its presence in federal, healthcare and critical infrastructure markets.

Cisco Systems has completed its acquisition of ExtendMedia, a privately held provider of software-based video content management systems (CMS) headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts with the majority of its employees in Toronto. The acquisition brings ExtendMedia's CMS and multi-screen IP video capabilities into Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group to strengthen Cisco's next-generation IP video architecture and monetization offerings for pay and ad-supported models.

Zynga has acquired Boston-based social games developer Conduit Labs and will convert the team into a new Zynga Boston studio focused on new product development. Conduit Labs' CEO Nabeel Hyatt will lead the Boston studio; terms were not disclosed.