The company is steadily growing its cloud services business, while expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities
via acquisitions such as DeepMind.
He previously held the position of Managing Director in the San Francisco office of Blackrock, which he joined
via its acquisition of Barclays Global Investors.
While some deliberately targeted, researched and made inroads into particular markets, firms more often did so
via acquisitions or serendipitous routes ranging from a meeting at a trade show to an employee's personal contacts and language skills, or a chance sale over the Internet.
Telus may be the smallest of Canada's Big Three telcos, but CEO Darren Entwistle has been the collective's biggest voice, leading the charge in a PR blitz against Verizon's proposed move north
via acquisitions of Wind and Mobilicity.
Prior to Georgian Partners, Simon was Global Director of Sales, Information Solutions within the IBM Software Group,
via the acquisition of DWL Inc., where he ran multiple acquired and organic global software businesses.
Didi dominates the Chinese market — thanks in no small amount to its acquisition of second - placed Uber China — but this year it has expanded to Brazil
via an acquisition and Taiwan via a franchise model, and also moved into bike - sharing and vehicle rentals.
We expect ASSA to use cash to keep the innovation cycle turning, either through technology innovation or
via acquisitions.
For example, when Edward Don & Co. (3) sold a stake of the company to private investment firm Vestar Capital Partners last spring, the company announced its intention to grow
via acquisition.
Milkmakers and Anchor Bar Two (two brands that are still in their youth, and coincidentally catering largely to the mommy market) recently announced that they've moved on to the next phase of their development
via acquisition.
Those create value, but it is hard to manage a complex company — so growing
via acquisition is tough without overpaying by buying scale, or creating a company that is even more complex, and unmanageable.
This may naturally limit expansion via existing clients, so the focus will be on: i) geographic expansion — for example, by opening facilities in China & S Korea, which have some of the most rabid online & MMO gamers, and ii) lateral expansion, most likely
via acquisitions — into upstream (like art outsourcing, original audio & motion capture) and downstream services (like multi-lingual customer support, (micro)- payment services & analytics).
Frankly, there's a binary outcome here: a) if they can't deliver 10 % margins again soon, it's impossible to argue it's still a core asset — it's better sold off (and should have the rarity value to achieve a decent price), with the proceeds ploughed into share buybacks, or b) they finally get back on track & approach / exceed 10 % margins (notably, this year seems to be shaping up well)-- then, I think they could certainly justify / sustain / support margins by expanding the business
via acquisition.
This debt would have minimal cost & would immediately enhance earnings
via acquisitions (or share buybacks, if appropriate).
If you're not motivated by the concept of slowly upgrading your character
via the acquisition of seemingly endless amounts of loot then you may as well stop reading now, because Diablo III is all about the shiny, shiny goodies.
Further customisation can be done
via the acquisition of glorious loot, from the most basic bronze swords to legendary weapons which come with their own unique abilities that can be activated mid-battle.
Take - Two has a bunch of cash on its balance sheet that it can weaponize at any point to supercharge growth
via acquisitions.
Over the past few weeks, however, Microsoft has seen two key games development partners - Bizarre and BioWare - snatched away from from
it via acquisition, while also allowing in - house studio Bungie to divest towards independence.
Stewart joined BlackBerry
via the acquisition of Chalk Media where he served as CEO.
«The plan is to expand Building and Facility's already strong platform by organic growth as well as
via acquisitions and to grow stronger than the market in Europe.
«They don't necessarily come in
via acquisition, they come in by just setting up shops here with branches,» she says.
Throughout the years, the insurer further expanded to new markets around the globe, including Germany and Japan, and eventually in the 1950s, it continued its move to the United States
via the acquisition of a general insurer.
Already it has expanded into smartphones, audio equipment, and payments
via acquisitions.
The company also continues to invest in its ability to improve its personalization and recommendation features, including
via the acquisitions of companies like The Echo Nest, Sonalytic, MightyTV, and Niland, for example.
Unlike the cryptocurrency, however, reports of bitcoin startups» deaths are rarely an exaggeration, and even if they are resurrected, it is almost invariably
via acquisition and change of ownership.
Siegel says that the funding will also help them expand from the company's core business, both by building new products and also
via acquisition, and for potentially expanding outside of the U.S..
The company recently hinted at a wider expansion in the smart home market
via the acquisition of Ring, but Google is quickly becoming a strong threat with the launch of Google Assistant and its Google Home products.
Career Summary Vice President, Neace Lukens, 2007 to 2015 - Facilitated the insurance brokerage firm's expansion into PA with a focus on generating new business both organically and
via acquisition.
Adding another six assets
via this acquisition stretches the company a bit thin.»
One path is
via acquisition, while the other is growing it organically through their existing branch networks.
«These acquisitions continue our strategy of deriving additional value from both within our existing portfolio as well as externally
via the acquisition and development of assets leased to industry leading tenants,» said Joey Agree, president and chief operating officer.
Not exact matches
In addition to such operating improvements, another source of value improvement could be consolidation of the junior gold miners
via mergers or
acquisitions, particularly by senior producers seeking to replenish their reserves.
Among those that succeed, most exit
via merger and
acquisition, says Chiu.
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Acquisitions can sometimes come about
via loose or tangential connections.
Launched in October 2008 under Bush - era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson during the panic that followed the implosion of Lehman Bros., TARP was initially designed to prop up bank balance sheets
via the government purchase of equity stakes or the
acquisition of illiquid assets.
But one big downside is that as Salesforce has grown
via (many)
acquisitions, Force.com's proprietary nature makes it hard to bring those new technologies in - house and integrate them.
He says they were able to do it so quickly because most of the applications and the cloud's web hosting feature already existed, touch applications for tablets were already being worked on, and value - adds such as cloud - based access to fonts were ready
via the October 2011
acquisition of Typekit.
The only viable solutions, in many cases, is to pool resources
via a merger or
acquisition, or stop offering certain banking service that have become too complex to deal with.
It was McGuire who transformed UnitedHealth from a manager of HMOs into a sizable insurer
via a string of spectacularly successful
acquisitions, notably the purchase of the MetLife health business.
Comcast's Brian Roberts wants to plunk down $ 31 billion to acquire Sky, a European pay TV company previously promised to Disney
via its pending
acquisition of parts of Fox.
Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer
acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds
via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?
Finally, Concho Resources (NYSE: CXO) has quietly built up an extensive position in the Permian
via a series of acreage
acquisitions and is currently the largest pure - play on the Permian.
massive chipmaker Qualcomm, at present centered with the aid of aggressive
acquisition makes an attempt
via Broadcom,...
In addition to using Kraken for leveraged margin trading and exchange between 11 digital assets and 5 national currencies worldwide, the
acquisition means that clients will soon be able to experience direct one - click buying and selling of bitcoin and other digital assets
via convenient payments like ACH transfers.
Sometimes critical mass must be achieved in non-scalable ways before a business becomes scalable
via organic customer
acquisition.
Amazon has officially entered the retail space
via the Whole Foods
acquisition.
Adecco has also grown
via mergers and
acquisitions.
Cash on balance sheets remains three - to - five times higher than other developed market peers, and corporate governance reforms are encouraging delivery of excess capital to shareholders
via share buybacks, dividends and
acquisitions.
This new CVS will combine its existing pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) and retail pharmacies with the second largest diversified healthcare company
via the proposed Aetna
acquisition.
♦ Developed
acquisition & demand generation strategies
via content marketing programs & marketing funnel optimization.
The study also found that the average customer lifetime value (CLV) of users acquired
via email is considerably higher than social media
acquisition for eCommerce websites.