Blackstone Group 's ( BX - news - people ) acquisition of Alliance Data Systems while selling the stock short.

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In that letter, he inquired about an AGA report called AGA-12 and efforts by the AGA to develop security standards for SCADA systems (supervisory control and data acquisition).

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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.

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NetApp, the third largest vendor of external data storage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.

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Hewlett-Packard launched its biggest acquisition since its 2002 takeover of Compaq, when it agreed to buy Electronic Data Systems .

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By contrast, Dow Jones fits the mold of a traditional news media company, having tried and failed to compete in the financial data business in the 1990s through its troubled acquisition of Telerate, which it eventually unloaded in 1998 to Bridge Information Systems.

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