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Plastic compound and resin maker A. Schulman will pay $191.4 million in cash and stock to acquire specialty resin and concentrates maker ICO (Nasdaq: ICOC).
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Wisconsin temporarily waived minimum capital requirements for MGIC (NYSE: MTG) until December 31, 2011.
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) teamed with SiSoftware to jointly develop SiSoftware's OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite.