Medical Device Maker Stryker to Buy Vocera Communications for $2.97 Billion

Headquarters of Stryker Corp., an American multinational medical technologies corporation, in Portage, Mich., in Sept. 2019. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

Medical device maker Stryker Corp. said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire digital care platform Vocera Communications Inc. for about $2.97 billion.

Vocera shares were up nearly 27 percent at $78.63 before the bell, just shy of the offer price of $79.25 per share.