(Premarket story updated with Dell, Compellent news and share price changes)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Dell( CML) says it has a deal for Compellent( CML) after it bumped up its bid by 25 cents per share for the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based data storage outfit.

Dell stock has inched down 0.9% to $13.77 in premarket trading, while

Compellent

( CML) has slipped 2.4% to $28.01.

>>Dell Ups Bid, Signs Deal for Compellent

Thermo Fisher Scientific

(TMO) - Get Report

offered to buy

Dionex

( DNEX) for $118.50 a share in cash, or about $2.1 billion.

The offer represents a 21% premium to Dionex's closing stock price on Dec. 10, the last trading day prior to the offer announcement and a 32% premium to Dionex's average closing stock price over the last 60 trading days.

Shares of Thermo Fisher Scientific rose 2.8% to $54.50 in early trading while Dionex surged 19.9% to $117.75.

Shares of Israeli software and programming services provider

Ness Technologies

(NSTC)

soared by 19.6% to $5.50 in premarket trading as

Bloomberg

reports that four investment funds are bidding to buy the company for around $300 million.

General Electric (GE) - Get Report

offered to buy the U.K.'s Wellstream Holdings, a maker of pipeline products for oil and gas transportation, for 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion).

Shares of GE rose 0.7% to $17.84 in premarket trading Monday.

>>GE to Buy Wellstream for $1.3 Billion

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea

( GAP), the grocery chain better known as A&P, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday.

There were no premarket quotes Monday for A&P. Shares of the company plunged 67.1% to 93 cents at Friday's closing bell.

>>Grocery Chain A&P Files for Bankruptcy

JDS Uniphase

(JDSU)

rose 4.9% to $14.08 after being upgraded to overweight from neutral by Piper Jaffray.

Huntington Bancshares

(HBAN) - Get Report

was down 4.1% to $6.56 as it announces a $920 million public offering of its common stock, plans for a $300 million subordinated debt offering, and plans to repurchase $1.4 billion of Troubled Asset Relief Program capital.

BroadSoft

(BSFT)

shares were lower by 3.7% to $24.05 in premarket trading as

Bloomberg

reports that Broadsoft holders are increasing share sales to 4.8 million shares from 4.5 million shares.

>> Thermo Fisher Buying Dionex for $2.1B

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