Article: Three L.A. tech firms buy out-of-state companies. (Bell Industries Inc.; Plasma & Materials Technologies Inc.; INTEK Diversified Corp.)

Recent announcements by three Los Angeles-based electronics businesses that they are each acquiring their respective out-of-state competitors could signal a resurgence of the area's technology sector, analysts and local economists said last week.

The acquisitions, two of which are complete and one of which is slated to close in early 1997, involve an electronics distributor, a semiconductor equipment maker, and a wireless communications company.

The aggregate value of the deals is in excess of $400 million and suggests renewed vigor in L.A.'s technology sector, said Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Economic Development Corp. of L.A. County.

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