Apple to buy fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for about $356 million
Apple Inc will buy fingerprint sensor technology developer AuthenTec Inc for about $356 million, in a deal that could put its iPhone at the center of the emerging mobile payments market.
Apple is paying $8 per share, a 58 percent premium, for Melbourne, Florida-based AuthenTec, w hich c ounts Korean mobile de vice maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd among its big customers.
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