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Google to Buy Video Compression Firm

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On2 helps shrink video files so they can be sent more easily across the Web

Google says it plans to acquire On2 Technologies, a provider of digital video compression technology, in an all-stock deal valued at $106.5 million.

On2 helps shrink video files so they can be sent more easily across the Web, an increasingly important technology as the volume of online video grows rapidly.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, which owns the popular video sharing site YouTube, says On2 shareholders will receive 60 cents worth of Google class A common shares for each outstanding share of On2 they hold. That represents a 57 percent premium to the Clifton Park, N.Y., company's closing price Tuesday.

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