Sentences with phrase «acquire a company for»

The news follows reports last week that Target had tried to acquire the company for $ 1 billion.

Vistaprint will acquire the company for $ 100 million in cash and $ 17.5 million in restricted shares «subject to continued employment of the founding shareholders,» the company said.

Mircosoft acquired the company for $ 1.2 billion in July 2012.

Then Activision acquired the company for $ 5.9 billion.

Considering the startup has less than 20 employees, according to the news website Silicon Republic, it's likely that Facebook's Oculus unit is acquiring the company for its engineering staff rather than trying to commercialize the startup's existing technology.

The startup has less than 10 employees, according to its LinkedIn page, so it's likely that Cisco is acquiring the company for its workforce rather than purely for its technology.

In early December, software giant SAP had announced it would acquire the company for $ 40 per share, a deal worth about $ 3.4 billion.

It has been disrupting media for over a decade and caught the attention of Verizon and Hearst, who jointly acquired the company for reportedly well over $ 250 million in 2016.

KKR, TPG and other buyout firms acquired the company for about $ 45 billion, including debt.

Investors may also try to acquire a company for a very low valuation.

You can probably acquire the company for $ 5M — $ 15M, depending on how far along it is.

Coca - Cola acquired the company for a price - to - sales ratio of 11.7, more than 10 times the price - to - sales ratio the company paid to acquire Del Valle in the same year.

Cucina Italiana and BRIO Tuscan Grille restaurant concepts, GP Investments, Ltd. («GP»), a leading private equity and alternative investment firm, and its controlled company Spice Private Equity Ltd. («Spice»), a Swiss investment company focused on private equity investments, announced a merger agreement under which an affiliate of Spice will acquire the Company for a total enterprise value of approximately $ 100 million.

The Pix update is just one of several ways Microsoft has integrated with LinkedIn since acquiring the company for $ 26.2 billion in 2016.

With millions of more users, Friendster attempted to acquire the company for $ 10 million in mid-2004.

So in 2010, Bain outbid shops including Apollo Global Management LLC to acquire the company for the hefty sum of $ 1.7 billion.

Not exact matches

• Anju Software Inc, a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners, acquired the assets of Sylogent, a Newtown, Penn. - based provider of software and business services for the pharmaceutical industry.

• MTech Acquisition, an Orlando - based blank check company formed to acquire a cannabis - related firm, filed for a $ 50 million IPO of 5 million units.

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

German media giant Axel Springer is acquiring a controlling stake in media startup Business Insider for $ 343 million, which values the New York - based company at about $ 450 million.

The same restructuring appointed separate executives responsible for each of the Leon's stores and the Brick, which the company acquired in 2013, freeing the family to focus on further growing their empire.

In 2009, Industry Canada sued Pittsburgh - based U.S. Steel as a means for forcing that company to comply with undertakings it made while acquiring Hamilton - based Stelco.

Just a day after announcing that CVS (cvs) will acquire Aetna (aet) for approximately $ 69 billion, the CEOs of the two companies told CNBC's «Squawk Box» that the merger will reduce healthcare costs for consumers «immediately.»

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

WICHITA, Kan., May 2, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire S.R.I.F. N.V., the parent company of Asco Industries, N.V. (Asco), for $ 650 million in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments, including foreign currency adjustments.

• The Clorox Company agreed to acquire Nutranext, a Sunrise, Fla. - based maker of dietary and nutritional supplements, for $ 700 million.

Typically, open opportunities at the acquired company are filled by individuals from the acquiring parent company who need to be «protected» for some odd reason rather than laid off.

While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is not planning for his company to get acquired, he said onstage at Re / code's Code Conference on Tuesday evening.

The ownership of a Perth - founded coffee chain has moved east after Queensland company Zarraffa's Franchising acquired One for the Road.

Two of the companies, Phurnace and eVapt, - recently were acquired, generating venture class returns for their investors, Adams said.

That's the plan for Intrommune, a new New York - based biotechnology company that recently acquired the rights to license the toothpaste technology they intend to apply to food allergies.

UBM bought trade show organizer Advanstar last year for $ 972 million, capping off a five - year spree in which it acquired 53 companies, most of them bolt - ons.

In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

The company acquired a majority stake (93 %) of Riot Games back in February 2011 for a reported $ 400 million.

2013 was a big year for CEO Matt Brezina whose company Sincerely got acquired.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

• Keywords Studios (LSE: KWS) acquired Sperasoft, a Santa Clara, Calif. - based game and IT development company, for $ 27 million.

To understand why, and why allowing T - Mobile to acquire Sprint would be a big problem for consumers, we need to understand what makes it so hard to for even giant, well - funded companies with recognized brand names to break into the wireless market.

BKEG was acquired in 2003 by New Wave Entertainment, a producer of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.

It was an unexpectedly active year for M&A activity, with Canadian companies acquiring abroad and even repatriating brands that had once flown the coop

Having the opportunity to work for companies like Deloitte, working at Pardot when we were acquired by Salesforce, and now launching my own startup with 75 employees and growing, I don't think I could have been this fortunate in any other country.

«The companies that handled card - acquiring services were outsourcing like crazy, there was no personal service for the business owners and the paperwork process to begin the service was tantamount to signing up for a mortgage.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue M&A opportunities along the energy value chain and acquire marginal oilfields to boost its upstream business.

«Given there are only so many targets that are «needle - moving,» we believe that if one of the larger software companies is acquired, it could create a domino - like effect as strategic buyers jockey for position,» Materne wrote.

From there he accepted a lead engineering position at another early - stage tech firm — PayPal co-founder Max Levchin's social media company Slide, acquired by Google in 2010 for $ 228 million.

This network of companies focused on acquiring and developing YouTube talent is, of course, a good thing for Google.

• Allegro Development, a portfolio company of Vector Capital, acquired Financial Engineering Associates, a Dallas - based provider of risk analytics software for traders, risk managers, and quantitative analysts in commodity industries.

The class action, filed in United States District Court, for the District of Illinois, Eastern Division, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Akorn's securities between March 1, 2017 through February 26, 2018, both dates inclusive (the «Class Period»), seeking to recover damages caused by defendants» violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b - 5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.