Sentences with phrase «what's an acquisitions»

Revenue from Berkshire's retailing and services businesses, which includes NetJets and Dairy Queen, rose 76 %, in part because of acquisitions.

Its most recent acquisition, Locationary, is basically a local data broker — a nice complement to the company's new iOs map (which it's surely trying to improve).

Other investments have included Sports Illustrated Play, a venture devoted to youth sports, and the acquisition of inVNT, which manages live events for companies.

You don't want the legacy assets or issues that might come with an acquisition.»

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

East coast engineering and contracting group Seymour Whyte Constructions is to enter the Western Australian market through the $ 41.2 million acquisition of privately owned business Rob Carr.

GLOBAL resources - focused technology company Outotec is looking to cash in on a Curtin University invention following its acquisition of Perth - based Scanalyse.

In all likelihood, Dell will focus the company's future acquisitions towards enterprise software companies, which, he says will create «long - term value and growth for our company and for our stockholders.»

Since 1985, the U.S. has been the largest acquirer in Canada (accounting for 60 % of all acquisitions) while Britain, France, Japan and a handful of other developed countries accounted for most of the rest.

At the heart of both of those acquisitions?

The talks with Walmart for what could be its largest acquisition to date are still ongoing, and a deal is expected to be clinched soon, two people told Reuters on Wednesday.

Muilenburg says the aerospace giant is trying to «find strategic acquisitions that complement our organic investment in services.»

Bolt - on acquisitions have been a concerted effort on his part after the implosion of what would have been a historic $ 160 billion mega-merger between Allergan and Pfizer.

KPMG has acquired West Perth accounting and advisory practice Hayes Knight (WA), saying this will be the first of a series of acquisitions to bolster its private client practice nationally.

Amid oil's current decline, he expects company owners to turn to mergers and acquisitions, like he did.

The platform has focused on user acquisition rather than on making improvements to their ad platform.

«Investors will have to wait a little longer to see Yahoo execs grilled over the Verizon acquisition drama,» CNN Money said.

McKay needs to do something with all of that money, and analysts say acquisitions are a strong possibility.

The CEO is open to a big acquisition to expand the apparel maker of North Face, Timberland and Lee jeans brands.

T - Mobile does have some 28 GHz rights from its 2013 acquisition of MetroPCS, while Sprint leases millimeter band rights.

There have been roughly 140 acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups since 2011, including 40 this past year alone, the venture capital research firm says.

So they're looking for acquisitions.

According to her LinkedIn account, Gaylor «has advised clients on over 150 transactions representing over $ 100 billion in transaction value,» including acquisitions at tech companies such as Facebook, Zynga, Netflix and Linkedin.

Baidu is aggressively pushing its AI agenda through partnerships and acquisitions, including one with Nvidia to bring AI to cloud computing, self - driving vehicles, and home voice assistants.

The company is steadily growing its cloud services business, while expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities via acquisitions such as DeepMind.

Both are equally unlikely, but considering the company's raised north of $ 100 million, Crowley may not find any acquisition offer under $ 1 billion palatable for himself or investors.

The sales growth got a boost by its 2015 purchase of Interline Brands the company's biggest acquisition in nearly a decade.

Cyran, the Reuters columnist, pointed to quarterly mergers and acquisition (M&A) statistics from PricewaterhouseCoopers, showing that Canadian M&A volumes retreated 21 % compared to the same quarter last year.

These firms use debt to fund acquisitions, and if borrowing becomes more costly that could disrupt their business models.

AT&T faces the added danger that the trial (and subsequent appeals, including all the way to the Supreme Court) will take much longer than the late April deadline for the finalization of the acquisition.

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.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

With these defined objectives, including their timing, the company may focus on acquisition until it reaches its first milestone and then, focus on customer growth exclusively or in parallel.

Completed the acquisition of an additional 36 % equity interest in an unconsolidated affiliate that operates KFC stores in Wuxi, China («Wuxi KFC»), for cash consideration of approximately $ 98 million, bringing Yum China's equity interest in Wuxi KFC to 83 %.

According to the Washington Post, this year has already seen $ 409 billion worth of deals announced — the fastest start ever for mergers and acquisitions in a single year.

Reports on Friday indicated the San Francisco company could soon receive formal acquisition bids from the likes of Google and Salesforce.

CEO Dennis Muilenburg told CNBC's Phill LeBeau that growing the services unit is «a top priority» as the aerospace giant tries to «find strategic acquisitions that complement our organic investment in services.»

«It's a combination of excellent execution, as well as taking advantage of some new opportunities, new investments we have made such as our MSC acquisition and it's also about gaining some market share.»

While there's an argument to be made that AI is over-hyped as a technology, there's data to back up Sanwal's tongue - in - cheek advice: Mergers and acquisitions of AI startups increased by a factor of seven between 2011 and 2015, from five to more than 35 deals, according to the research firm.

After the acquisition, co-founder and CEO Sophia Rivka Rossi is planning to remain in her role.

TD under Clark and BMO under Downe focused on expanding aggressively across the border, spending billions on acquisitions to take advantage of the U.S. recovery.

• Align Capital Partners completed the majority acquisition of Barrow - Agee Laboratories, a Memphis, Tenn. - based company in the food safety and testing industry.

The company, which has been looking to sell the business since April, said it would return 245 million pounds ($ 371.6 million) of proceeds to shareholders through a special dividend, and use the rest for bolt - on acquisitions.

(An executive at Blind told the publication anecdotally that he knows of other startups who are promoting positive stories on Facebook, calling the tactic «probably the best form of awareness building, community building, and user acquisition there is.»)

SPECIAL REPORT: The mergers and acquisitions market was eventful in the March quarter, with Chinese and private equity investors to the fore, multiple WA businesses on the block, and a surprise advisory switch on a key takeover.

IBT Education Limited today announced the acquisition of the Australian College of Applied Psychology Pty Ltd for $ 13.1 million, subject to working capital and other adjustments.

Then the Whole Foods acquisition happened, and everyone kinda forgot about Amazon's little AI grocery store experiment.

Among those that succeed, most exit via merger and acquisition, says Chiu.

Net cash flow from portfolio management operations was a negative $ 165 million following the acquisition of XL Brands in early January.

Here's a breakdown of some of the facts behind German media giant Axel Springer's $ 343 - million acquisition of Business Insider