PhoneMate Inc., the Torrance-based marketer of telephone...

PhoneMate Inc., the Torrance-based marketer of telephone answering machines, said its majority shareholder had offered to buy the remaining public shares of the company for about $7.3 million in cash, or $6.50 a share. The offer from Asahi Corp. of Tokyo, which together with its Asahi Overseas Corp. owns a little more than half of PhoneMate shares outstanding, is subject to a number of conditions, PhoneMate said.