1.   The companies signed a contract for the venture last month, subject to regulatory approvals.

2.   Also, the companies signed an agreement in which Dana will continue to sell clutch products.

3.   America Online spokeswoman Pam McGraw said the company has signed a deal with Book Link Technologies to offer software that will allow increased Internet access.

4.   Among the biggest hurdles for Boeing is European opposition to the exclusive aircraft-sales contracts that the Seattle-based company signed with three U.S. airlines recently.

5.   And in the California case, Sun had argued that by altering the Java programming language, Microsoft had violated a contract the two companies had signed.

6.   And the company signed a royalty agreement with Qualcomm in February.

7.   And today, the company signed an agreement to begin selling high-volume office copiers in the U.S. and Cathrough Danka Business Systems.

8.   As of Wednesday night, neither company had signed a confidentiality agreement that would allow an exchange of financial information, people close to the talks said.

9.   As part of the deal, the two companies also signed a co-marketing agreement in which each will be the preferred provider of services to the other.

10.   Bandai yesterday said the two companies would sign a merger agreement tomorrow.