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IBM agrees to pay $1.7b for Marlborough’s Netezza

Deal for analytics firm continues Big Blue’s Mass. shopping spree

By Hiawatha Bray
Globe Staff / September 21, 2010

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Computing giant IBM Corp. continued its local shopping spree yesterday, agreeing to pay $1.7 billion for Netezza Corp , a Marlborough firm that makes systems for analyzing massive amounts of corporate data. The deal is the second-largest acquisition of a Massachusetts technology company this year, and the fourth by IBM. Counting Netezza, IBM has purchased 18 of the state’s tech ... (Full article: 628 words)

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