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Tower Bancorp (Nasdaq: TOBC) 34% HIGHER; Tower and Susquehanna Bancshares have reached an agreement whereby Susquehanna will buy the company for about $28/share in a cash or stock deal (holders have option to receive either cash or 3.4696 shares of SUSQ).

Invesco Mortage Capital (NYSE: IVR) 3.6% LOWER; to sell 15 million shares of common stock in a public offering.

Prospect Capital Corporation (Nasdaq: PSEC) 3.1% LOWER; announces a 10 million common stock offering.

Insurance conglomerate Aon Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy human resources specialist Hewitt Associates for $4.9 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that would nearly triple the size of its consulting business.

Clothing maker Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy Tommy Hilfiger in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $3 billion that will put the designer name under the same ownership as Calvin Klein.

Money manager Invesco said Monday it will acquire Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.5 billion.

Xerox says it will buy Affiliated Computer Services in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.75 billion.

Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said it will buy BJ Services Co. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.5 billion.

The oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Monday that it would buy a rival, BJ Services Company , in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.5 billion that the company said would allow it to expand internationally and compete for projects with companies engaged in all phases of the oil business.

Baker Hughes will buy BJ Services in a cash-and-stock deal that the company said will allow it to drive international growth.

The stock deal, a bid to expand Sprint’s prepaid cellphone offerings, represents a 31 percent premium to Virgin Mobile’s Monday closing share price of $4.21.

Tonight, it's almost certain that bars around Facebook's new headquarters in Stanford Research Park will be busy.  Tomorrow, the offices of Facebook's employees may be full of new toys and gadgets.  It seems that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies wants to buy $100 million of common stock from employees.