Supantha Mukherjee and Himank Sharma for Reuters:

Apple Inc has agreed to buy AuthenTec Inc for $8.00 per share, the maker of fingerprint sensor chips used in personal computers said, in a deal valued at about $356 million.

AuthenTec makes systems used by Lenovo and Dell. in addition to fingerprint sensor chips, AuthenTec makes Near Field Communication (NFC) chips and security software for mobile devices.