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- ESCOM AG sells Amiga Technologies GmbH to Viscorp
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- Bochum/Heppenheim/Chicago, June 21, 1996.
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- ESCOM AG and Visual Information Service Corp. (VIScorp), have
- now signed the final agreement about the acquisition of Amiga
- Technologies GmbH by VIScorp, subject to approval by their boards.
- According to the agreement, the entire staff and property of ESCOM
- subsidiary Amiga Technologies GmbH will pass into the possession
- of VIScorp. This includes all existing components and finished
- goods in inventory of Amiga and the intellectual properties of the
- former Commodore group, except Commodore trademarks. The purchase
- price is approximately US $40 million in stock and cash.
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- VIScorp's products, the Universal Internet Television Interface
- (UITI), the Electronic Device (ED), the UITI-TV and the ED-TV (smart
- television systems), are powered by Amiga custom chip-sets and the
- Amiga operating system and offer a means by which TV viewers can
- bridge the separate worlds of the television, computing and tele-
- communications.
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- Amiga Technologies GmbH will continue to coordinate the production
- and distribution of Amiga computers at its headquaters in Bensheim,
- Germany.
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- Additional information on VIScorp and its technologies are available
- through its Web site at http://www.vistv.com.
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- For further information:
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- ESCOM AG, Dr. Bernd Wirsing, Tel.: +49-6252-709-193
- AMIGA Technologies GmbH, Petro Tyschtschenko, Tel.: +49-6251-802-110
- VISCorp, Florine Radulovic, Tel.: +1-312655-0903
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- AMIGA Copyright 1995-1996 by AMIGA Technologies GmbH - Editor: RME
- Send comments to <webmaster@amiga.de> - Date: 25.06.96
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