Benzinga's Weekend M&A Chatter

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday January 7, 2016:

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

and Affymetrix Inc.

announced Friday, that the boards of directors of both comoanies have unanimously approved Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Affymetrix for $14.00 per share in cash and a total purchase price of approximately $1.3 billion. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of Q2 of 2016, Affymetrix closed at $9.21 on Friday and traded up 50% after-hours.

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Sources say Texas Instruments Inc.

and Analog Devices Inc.

won't be involved in a deal to acquire Maxim Integrated Products Inc.

, according to a report from

on Friday. The sources say that price was the sticking point. Maxim is said to still be working with Goldman Sachs on strategic alternatives. Maxim Integrated Products closed at $32.33 on Friday, down 5.63%.

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Twenty-First Century Fox Inc

has made a new offer for Time Warner of $105 per share, a source familiar with the matter told

on Friday. The source said a deal could be done as early as next week. Analysts had mixed responses on the prospects for a deal at that price level. A spokesperson for Twenty-First Century Fox told

"the report is categorically untrue." Time Warner has yet to respond. Time Warner closed at $71.17 on Friday, up 1.38%.