Benzinga's M&A Chatter for Thursday January 8, 2015

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Thursday January 8, 2015

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Shares of MobileIron, Inc. (NASDAQ:

) spiked higher Thursday, on a report from

that Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:

) could be considering the mobile technology company as a potential takeover target. MobileIron declined comment on the rumor. Intel did not respond to a request for comment. MobileIron shares closed Thursday at $9.96, a gain of $0.09.

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Publicis Groupe (OTC:

) announced Thursday, that it has extended its previously announced tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ:

) for $25.00 per share in cash, until January 22, 2015, unless it further extended. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Sapient shares closed Thursday at $24.88, unchanged.

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Facebook, Inc. (NYSE:

) has acquired Quckfire.tv,

. QuickFire.tv provides tools that enable users to encode and upload videos fast. Facebook shares closed Thursday at $78.18, a gain of 2.5%.