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Apple agrees to buy AuthenTec for about $350m

Apple Inc. agreed to acquire Florida’s AuthenTec for about $350 million, deploying some of its $117.2 billion cash hoard to gain fingerprint-authentication and encryption security technology for the iPad and iPhone. AuthenTec makes fingerprint sensors that corporations use to secure access to computer networks. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.