Sentences with phrase «giant firms acquire»

Not exact matches

And it's not only daredevils and cat lovers taking notice: Chinese electronics giant Foxconn acquired an 8.88 percent stake in GoPro in late 2012 for $ 200 million, and the firm filed for an IPO this February.

For example, giant tech firms often struggle to keep up with the ingenious pace of new tech startups — some find a solution in acquiring the agile business, rather than trying to compete directly.

Schwartz, a partner at 3G who joined as CFO in 2010 when the private equity firm acquired a majority stake in the fast - food giant.

A search and advertising expert for Yahoo for many years, Kumar left the internet giant to join Dapper, an advertising firm that was later acquired by the internet giant.

Accounting giant KPMG has acquired Hong Kong - based fintech Matchi, signaling the growing importance of fintech to professional service firms.

Midtown - based investment firm Gaia Real Estate acquired the 50th floor of the Bernard Spitzer - developed Corinthian condominium tower in Murray Hill from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer,...

«Industry giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are spending tens of billions of dollars a year on acquiring smaller firms for market entrance, strategic intellectual property and talented employees, but face a real challenge identifying companies with the right products or technology in the vast startup universe,» said Gene Moo Lee, UTA assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.

With Playtika being recently acquired by Chinese firm Giant Interactive and other Asian acquisition deals taking place across the games industry, there is no better time to discuss mergers, acquisitions and Asia.

Lawyers from half a dozen large firms are advising on a $ 16bn deal that will see Walmart acquire a majority stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart.

No government is going to force Deloittes, PcW, E&Y or KPMG to sell off their giant law firms after they have spent a ton of money acquiring them.

For example, when state oil giant CNOOC Ltd. acquired Canadian energy company Nexen Inc. in 2012, it used elite New York firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.

According to TechCrunch's unnamed source, the e-commerce giant will use its new R&D center to focus mainly on developing and testing its Prime Air delivery drone, though it will also serve to boost the research team at Evi, the Cambridge - based speech - recognition technology firm that Amazon acquired last year.

The Cupertino giant strategically acquired micro LED firm LuxVue back in 2014 to work on this goal, as per MacRumors.

The firm, tech giant Michael Dell's private investment vehicle, acquired a portion of the Knox District from Sarofim Realty Advisors, walking away with 170,000 square feet of retail space and a 165 - unit apartment building.