Sentences with phrase «acquired a company started»

Once the acquiring company starts to purchase shares in the open market, it is restricted to buying 5 % of the total outstanding shares before it must file with the SEC.

Not exact matches

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.

Next to him, grinning widely, was the man who had assembled the acquired company: Stefano Pessina, an Italian billionaire who had started with one local pharmaceutical distributor in 1977 and, through shrewd and voluminous dealmaking, built it into the $ 40 billion, 4,600 - store Alliance Boots.

Instead of growing by acquiring other companies in the same business, companies have started to move into new lines of business, with no two combinations looking exactly the same.

Yahoo has acquired several small mobile and Web start - up companies since Mayer became chief executive last year.

Jackman's wealth started with a substantial fortune he acquired from his father, Harry Jackman, who built the Empire Life group of financial services companies.

Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options go, and miss out on the future windfall when that start - up goes public or is acquired at a good price.

RIM has also started to acquire more startups, and co-founded the BlackBerry Partners Fund in 2008 to invest in mobile computing companies globally.

Pure was eventually acquired and is now part of IBM, and Hastings went off to start Netflix, which started as an internet company specializing in mailing out DVDs.

The two companies are sparring over Google's allegation that Levandowski stole gigabytes worth of intellectual property when he quit to start self - driving truck company Otto in 2016, which was soon after acquired by Uber.

Before starting his company, he oversaw manufacturing and supply chain strategy at Apple and was an early member of the operations team of Nest, which was acquired by Google.

Or which companies to acquire, and when AI starts creating its own companies, creating holding companies, generating new versions of itself to run these companies,» he said at the event.

Women are starting more companies that might go public or be acquired, whereas before there were more women in retail or service businesses.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

Bain Capital has so far acquired seven companies and started nine.

Jenny Fielding, Managing Director at Techstars and a successful entrepreneur, shared insight into her journey while starting Switch - Mobile, a mobile VOIP company that was acquired in 2009.

GTCR acquires GreatCall — In June, GreatCall, the San Diego company that started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products for aging in place individuals, was acquired by Chicago - based private equity firm GTCR.

I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.

September to December 2015: Those talks progressed «and escalated from Uber being a customer for after - market car kits to it acquiring Levandowski's start - up company,» the report reads.

«According to Levandowski, these meetings progressed from September to December 2015, and escalated from Uber being a customer for after - market car kits to it acquiring Levandowski's start - up company.»

She has also started several companies, most notably Switch - Mobile, a mobile VoIP company that was acquired.

Earlier this year, Waymo accused Uber of using stolen tech to kick - start its autonomous car program after Uber acquired Otto, another self - driving car company, that was founded by a former Google employee.

Former Uber and Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski allegedly stole more than 14,000 files before he left Waymo and started the self - driving truck company that is Otto, which was almost immediately acquired by Uber.

During a recent FirstMark Capital Demand Generation Roundtable, I was among roughly 25 senior - level marketers from 15 early - to mid-stage companies brought together to discuss what strategies and tactics are working to acquire customers for our start - ups.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

Paul JJ Payack has served as a senior executive of three Fortune 500 high technology companies (Unisys, Dun & Bradstreet, and StorageTek), and three Silicon Valley technology companies (Apollo Computer, Intelliguard Software, Legato Systems) that were acquired by four other Silicon Valley giants (EMC, Dell, Oracle, and HP), as well as numerous start - ups and re-starts.

His business experience also covers selling and acquiring businesses, helping company start - ups and revitalizing failing businesses.

Waymo alleged in its hearing on May 3 that this «NewCo» referred to the company Levandowski would start and Uber would acquire once he quit.

This includes starting and managing his own software company (Microline Software — acquired by Blaze Software) and acting as a value added board member and consultant to the founders and CEO of Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), nCircle Network Security, StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), etc..

Starting in 2007 (through Iroquois Valley Farms LLC) and establishing itself as a leader in socially responsible investing before «SRI» and «Impact Investing» were common vernacular, the Company has a long track record of successfully acquiring organic and transitional farmland.

As I've written before, once a start - up reaches a $ 1 billion valuation, they limit the number of big companies capable of acquiring them.

Although most companies are not acquired for 10 figures, there have been dozens of multimillion - dollar acquisitions of start - ups that make no money whatsoever.

The call includes updates on the start of gold production at the company's Mineral Ridge gold project in Nevada, the letter of intent to acquire the Santa Rosa gold mine in Panama, and the company's due - diligence efforts to secure a senior stock exchange listing.

He served as founding CTO of Hulu running engineering and product and started three of his own companies (all of which were acquired).

Alphabet claims Anthony Levandowski, who was a key executive in the company's early self - driving efforts, stole 14,000 proprietary files before leaving to start a company called Otto that Uber later acquired.

Henry started by founding Vintage House Distributors in Southern California and soon acquired a group of regional fine wine companies.

Since owner Bob Palka acquired the patent and started production 12 years ago, the company has produced more than 7,000 cardio - fitness exercise machines for customers in the United States and the international market.

True Health Diagnostics — a Texas - based laboratory company that about two years ago acquired Health Diagnostic Laboratory in downtown Richmond and now operates HDL's former headquarters — has started offering tests for hereditary cancers.

Conru owns 90 % and is worth $ 100 million + (The other 10 % is owned by Lars Mapstead, whose start - up, Cams.com, was acquired by the company last year.)

According to the TechStars website, of the companies that have gone through the program since it started in 2007, 163 are still active, 17 have been acquired, and 19 have failed.

The announcement reportedly signified a changing trend in the technology industry, as large corporations like yahoo, facebook, and google acquired start - up internet companies that generated low amounts of revenue as a way in which to connect with sizeable, fast - growing online communities.

When the first Silicon Valley software company he started was bought out in 1997, Reed Hastings suddenly acquired gigabytes of two scarce commodities: time and money.

After HNC was acquired by Fair Isaac in 2002, Gutschow retired from the company and started thinking of ways to give back.

The economic inequity that is happening, both among men and in the nation as a whole, is largely one driven by education, with better - educated men and women who continue to add to their skills earning more and acquiring greater assets in the forms of stocks, bonds, stakes in companies (including businesses they start on their own), and real property.

Once GM started acquiring more car companies, Buick had to play second fiddle to Cadillac, as it became the General's premier brand.

CreateSpace started around 2002 as a DVD - on - demand company, called CustomFlix, and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.

This is why I started my initial rant with my opinion that corporate publishing — that is, large publishing companies where the acquiring editors are some of the least powerful people — might as well be doomed.

Amazon too has acquired a touch screen company that has started the rumor balls rolling that the next offering from Amazon might be a «Super Kindle» sort of thing that will take the battle all the way to Apple camp.

On an amusing sidenote: Texas Instruments was one of the first investors in P.A. Semi, the fabless semiconductor company that was acquired by Apple in 2008, paving the way for the Curpertino consumer electronics giant to start manufacturing its own custom chips for products like the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

It's entirely likely that should Comixology start to die that it would be acquired by another company (I could almost even see Valve making this acquisition and integrating it into Steam).