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A week after a Tigard tech giant announced that it has a new CEO and promised to expand, the company has purchased a competing company in California.

InFocus Corp., a well-known tech company based on Southwest 68th Parkway in Tigard, announced on Monday that it had purchased a California company that makes wall-mounted touch-screen technology.

Jupiter Systems, based in the Bay-area makes touch-screen video walls. The company’s technology allows information to be shared from the wall-mounted displays to tablets, laptops and phones simultaneously.

According to InFocus, the purchase will allow the company “a 360-degree view of operations to any control room, conference room, and mobile device.”

“We know our customers need collaboration technology on their smartphones and tablets, at their desks, in their conference rooms and in their control rooms,” said Mark Housley, InFocus’ new CEO, who took over the company last week. “With one provider offering simple, enterprise-ready solutions that work together seamlessly, we can serve the full set of our customers’ requirements with powerful, integrated solutions.”

Housley has been on the board since 2009. Housley replacecd Raymond Yu, who has run the company since June 2011. Yu remains with the company as president, according to InFocus’ website.

InFocus was a pioneer in the early days of digital technology, developing and selling the first digital projectors, but has struggled in recent years, after competition of foreign-made products undercut its sales.

The company went private in 2009, moving from .

Since then, the company has turned its attention to large touch-screen computers. It’s “Mondopad” product is about to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft, which makes a similar system at its facility in Wilsonville. That product .

Acquiring Jupiter, which has been designing these “display walls” for the past 30 years, will give InFocus the ability to be a one-stop-source for customers, Housley said.

“It makes a lot of sense to combine our talents and expand our products because it provides a comprehensive set of powerful ways for people to connect and share with other people — whether that’s one other person or thousands of others,” Housley said.

Neither InFocus nor Jupiter disclosed how much the company was purchased for.

It’s the second Tigard-area tech company to expand into California in recent months. Last month VideoSurveillance.com, a Durham security camera provider, announced it was expanding into the California market .