Stratays compra a su competidor

Stratasys just acquired MakerBot, the one 3D printing firm that could have disrupted it By Christopher Mims @mims Turns out that giving people the ability to 3D print random tchotchkes is worth about $600 million. You can’t 3D print money, but Stratasys just did the next best thing in buying MakerBot, the one company with the potential to disrupt Stratasys’s 3D-printing business. The deal will be transacted entirely in Stratasys stock, and the initial acquisition price is 4.76 million shares (worth $403 million today). Depending on MakerBot’s performance, an additional 2.38 million shares could be exchanged as part of the acquisition, yielding a total acquisition value of $604 million. Stratasys is up 3.3% in after-hours...

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