Sentences with word «acquihire»

«This trend could be due to several factors (or a combination of them): more startups being targeted for acquihires as their growth slows, capital availability leading to more ready cash on - hand, and a general consolidation of certain industries (e.g., food delivery companies acquiring each other),» CB Insights wrote in a blog post.

Gurgaon - based on - demand hyperlocal delivery ShadowFax Technologies Pvt Ltd has acquihired Pickingo for an undisclosed amount,...

Obox has also beefed up their team by acquihiring Calyx, a two man Cape Town -LSB-...]

If you look at the deal primarily as an «acquihire,» Twitter is reportedly paying $ 13 million per machine - learning PhD.

We swapped out the «Chief Strategist» category for «Entrepreneur in Residence,» a title that doesn't exist at most corporations but nonetheless captures the rising trend of «acquihires,» whereby a company will buy an upstart to acquire its hard - to - find talent and inject some entrepreneurial thinking into an organization.

And of course, if the company is very, very early, but with a talented product team with significant insights, but struggling to finance itself, then an acquihire is eminently possible.

According to Owen, as well as other commentators, Google had made an «acquihire» of Oyster in order to build a mobile reading business.

«That's generally what an acquihire is, and that's all done with everyone's consent.»

In the acquihire scenario, «they don't care about what A123 is doing — they want the team,» Goldenberg told the E-Commerce Times.

Exact figures weren't provided, but the New York Times reports that HTC CFO Peter Shen stated that the company would still have more than 2,000 research and design staffers after Google's acquihire, compared to the roughly 4,000 people currently employed.

That makes today's announcement more of an acquihire of talent than a traditional acquisition of resources.

According to Bloomberg columnist Tim Culpan, the acquihire (which will be completed by early 2018) is costing Google roughly half a million dollars per employee.