** Shares of 3D measurement software maker FARO Technologies FARO.O jump 36% to $42.80 in premarket trading
** FARO jumps on agreement with industrial tools maker AMETEK AME.N; AME to buy FARO for $44 per share in cash
** Offer price represents a 40% premium to FARO's last closing level
** Offer values FARO at $920 million on an enterprise basis
** AME shares trading marginally higher before the bell
** FARO up 24% so far this year, as of last close
(Reporting by Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru)
((Sameer.Manekar@thomsonreuters.com;))
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