Shares of patent holder InterDigital are soaring about 15% out of the gate after our Deal Journal colleague reported Google has expressed interest in buying the company.
You’ll be forgiven if you’ve never heard of InterDigital, which has a decidedly not-anonymous market value of $2.65 billion. The company announced yesterday that it was pursuing a possible sale, and has hired Evercore and Barclays to field offers.
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/07/20/meet-googles-latest-takeover-target-interdigital/?mod=yahoo_hs

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