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Board switches recommendation from Viavi as Keysight Technologies makes a rival offer

The original bidder for Spirent Communications is sticking with its £1 billion offer for the British telecoms-testing group because it thinks that competition regulators could step in and thwart its

U.S.-based Keysight Technologies is gearing up to make a formal offer for UK-based Spirent Communications, Sky News reported.

U.S.-based Keysight Technologies will buy Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal, valuing the British telecommunications testing firm at 1.16 billion pounds , both companies said in a joint...

-UKs FTSE 100 was set for a positive end to the March quarter and touched fresh highs on Thursday after a rally last week, bolstered broadly by miner and bank stocks on the last trading day of the...

:Keysight Technologies outbid rival Viavi Solutions to buy Spirent Communications for about 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion) on Thursday, winning a battle over the UK telecoms testing firm's expertise in automation.Shares in London-listed Spirent were up 10.6 per cent to 198.0 pence as of 0957 GMT. Electro

UKs FTSE 100 edged higher at open on Thursday, bolstered broadly by commodity-linked stocks in the last trading day of the week, while telecommunications testing firm Spirent Communications jumped on...

Electronic equipment maker Keysight outbid US peer Viavi Solutions, which had already agreed to take over the UK telecoms firm earlier this month.

London stocks were still firmer by midday on Thursday as investors shrugged off data confirming the UK fell into recession in the second half of last year.

Spirent Communications ditched a proposed sale to peer Viavi Solutions in favour of a higher offer from Keysight Technologies.