The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench - The Associated Press

By admin | April 5, 2009

The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench
The Associated Press
Among the biggest forays, the company acquired Linksys, a maker of home Wi-Fi routers and other networking products, for $480 million in stock in 2003, and Scientific-Atlanta, which makes TV set-top boxes, for $7.1 billion in 2006. …