Next up: Cisco, which is close to a deal to market Net2Phone software with its Internet routers.
Raytheon is also reported to be close to a deal to ally with Racal, a small British defence-electronics firm.
Earlier this month, EMI was also reportedly close to a deal with Spotify to bring the service across the Atlantic.
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Should the world-trade talks ever get close to a deal, the government would be unlikely to resist pressure to reduce its dairy protection.
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Shortly before the elder Kim died of a heart attack, the U.S. and impoverished North Korea appeared close to a deal on food aid.
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Reports this week suggested that the company was close to a deal to acquire a majority stake in NBC Universal, a television and film outfit.
Sources have told BBC Sport that Weber and Toyota are very close to a deal for Schumacher to drive for the Japanese team in 2005.
Talks between Greece and its creditors stalled early last week, but by Friday they were reportedly close to a deal on writing down their debt.
It is rumored that Davis has put up a piece of his team for sale but that every time he gets close to a deal, he balks.
First, Syria's price has been clear since the 1990s, when the two countries got close to a deal: Israel must return the Golan heights, occupied since 1967.
Meanwhile, Mr Jones said the Welsh government was close to a deal with the owners of Cardiff Airport that would bring the troubled business under the control of his ministers.
Multiple reports from the negotiating table say that after three weeks of public and media scrutiny of the performance of its replacement officials, the NFL is close to a deal to bring the regulars back.
TechCrunch reported on Saturday that Facebook is close to a deal to move to the former Sun site from its current 150, 000 square foot home on California Avenue in Palo Alto, close to the Stanford University campus.
In the halls of the US Senate, a bipartisan group of senators is close to a deal on legislation that would require tough border security measures to be in place before undocumented immigrants could gain legal status.
One question on the budget, pivoting off of some comments the President just had in Landover, sounding somewhat optimistic about being close to a deal, at least on the number to be cut, but the details to be worked out.
NextWave is reportedly close to a deal with Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ), to license 20% of the wireless spectrum space in controls in 93 of the top 100 U.S. markets.
Verizon will probably have to improve its offer a bit to close a deal, he says, but at the end of the day, it's going to get MCI.
Still, administration officials see the trip as a chance not to close a deal, but to improve communication.
The White House has concluded that now isn't the time to lay out a new initiative or to close a deal in part because a new Israeli government is still taking shape, officials said.
Colchester are also close to completing a deal to sign Icelandic international forward Mathias Vilhjalmsson.
In August, the group was tantalisingly close to a rescue deal via a recapitalisation.
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However, Giroud has revealed he is close to securing a deal with a top-level club - but not Celtic.
However, China Mobile and Apple appear very close to reaching a deal on its plans to carry the phone.
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U.S. stock futures jumped as soon as it was apparent that lawmakers were close to securing a deal on Sunday evening.
On the recruitment front, Johnson said the club is close to agreeing a deal to keep Wolves loanee Mark Little at London Road.
Petrobras says it is close to such a deal, potentially worth several billion dollars, to develop the Campos Basin, up the coast from Rio.
Is it in fact close to a final deal, or is the sense that this might come down to the deadline of April 8?
Russia appears close to agreeing a deal to revise the anti-ballistic missile treaty - lifting its objections to an American system of missile defence.
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