Sentences with phrase «acquired companies like»

For the price it plans to pay for WhatsApp, Facebook could have acquired companies like United Continental, Best Buy or Sony.

[19] Its business model was to milk acquired companies like cash cows for their cash flow.

Big companies are hungry to acquire companies like Machinima.

Walmart has also been in steep competition with Amazon, leading the company to try things like opening FedEx Office locations inside stores and acquiring companies like Jet.

Data science is about to reshape marketing, Mr. Nix maintained, and the big advertising conglomerates would survive only by developing their own targeting technology — or acquiring companies like Cambridge.

Not exact matches

This has driven interest in acquisitions and joint ventures by big beverage companies like Starbucks, which acquired Atlanta - based tea retailer Teavana in 2012, and Hain Celestial, which says it plans to complete multiple acquisitions of ready - to - drink beverage brands valued at $ 5 million to $ 20 million.

Shapiro said NBCUniversal hopes to draw in users with already popular NBC titles like SNL and Parks & Recreation, but the company plans to hold onto those customers by recommending a range of additional content — particularly original and acquired programs exclusive to Seeso — as part of selections curated by real people.

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.

«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.

When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag made several predictions about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.

The lofty valuation comes in part because companies like HootSuite, surfing the social media wave, have been getting acquired ravenously of late.

CHESKY: Yeah, to qualify that I'd say not including things like Lux [the company's new luxury business], which we just acquired.

It has since acquired other companies like LSI, and was also reportedly looking to spend about $ 10 billion buying another chipmaker like Xilinx, Renesas Electronics or Maxim Integrated Products.

It has since acquired other companies like LSI, and was reportedly looking to spend about $ 10 billion buying another chipmaker like Xilinx (XLNX), Renesas Electronics or Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM).

«This was a time where we felt like we could acquire the company on terms that would be attractive to the shareholders of QVC,» he said.

«This was a time where we felt like we could acquire the company on terms that would be attractive to the shareholders of QVC,» QVC CEO Mike George said.

Consider also a company like Horizon Pharma (HZNP), a biopharmaceutical firm that has acquired three other pharma firms since September of 2014.

This sort of performance surely pleased investors, but they also have faith that the company will be able to continue to diversify its revenue stream with drugs like chemotherapy treatment Abraxane, which was acquired through Celgene's 2010 takeover of Abraxis.

Yet no matter how many fans the kids» clothing company acquires or how big its factory gets, «it feels like we're still sitting my garage,» says Temple, referring to her original production facility.

Statwing, a company that Qualtrics acquired in 2016, was like «Qualtrics for statistics,» Smith says.

In addition to acquiring high - end products from companies like Seventh Generation, he says, «they really need innovation to grow volume.»

The company acquired a Google Glass - like startup called Vergence Labs back in 2014 and has since hired a bunch of other eyewear and wearable technology experts.

Intel has acquired a handful of companies over the past few years like chip maker Altera for $ 16.7 billion and automotive component and sensor provider Mobileye for roughly $ 15 billion, but a possible acquisition of Broadcom would dwarf those deals.

Although Yahoo says it wants to focus on its strategic growth plan, as mentioned above, chairman Maynard Webb (great name for a digital enterprise like Yahoo) confirms that the company is also «exploring strategic alternatives,» which is code for «Please acquire us at a reasonable price.»

Alcohol companies like to acquire as a way to add more products to their lineup, but they're not afraid to innovate either.

It may seem like Gannett's attempt to acquire Tronc — the newspaper company formerly known as Tribune Publishing — has been going on forever, but that's probably because it has died and been revived so many times it's difficult to keep track.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

He can acquire companies around the planet, overpay by as much as he likes, and there is effectively nothing that his shareholders or his board can do to stop him.

In September, Hill had predicted an «inflection point» ahead for CVS should the company transform itself by acquiring a managed care organization like Aetna.

On Tuesday, Mr. Zuckerberg also said that his company would roll similar Snapchat - like tools onto Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012.

Both investors and companies tend to adore DRIPs — investors, because they're an easy way of acquiring stock without having to pay any broker's fees (and DRIPs also spare you the temptation of blowing your dividends on sneakers and tasting menus) Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled companies tend to adore DRIPs — investors, because they're an easy way of acquiring stock without having to pay any broker's fees (and DRIPs also spare you the temptation of blowing your dividends on sneakers and tasting menus) Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled in DRIPs.

Pursuant to the Amalgamation, Huayra and Angel AcquisitionCo will amalgamate and the amalgamated company will become a wholly - owned subsidiary of Angel and Angel will acquire all of the 40,388,565 Class A common shares of Huayra that are expected to be issued and outstanding immediately prior to the implementation of the Amalgamation in exchange for a like number of post-Subdivision common shares of Angel at a deemed issue price per share of not less than Cdn.

When it became clear that the bid could not be fended off indefinitely, Pyott, with his board's blessing, negotiated a deal whereby Allergan would be acquired by Actavis (a company whose business model, like Allergan's, was growth oriented).

In 2015, news reports revealed that Uber had an operating loss of $ 470 million on $ 415 million in revenue, confirming suspicions that the company has been bleeding money for the sake of achieving steep growth and acquiring market share.391 In China, the company has lost more than $ 1 billion a year.392 The strategy of aggressive price competition and brazen leadership coupled with soaring growth prompted immediate comparisons to Amazon.393 Like Amazon, Uber has drawn immense interest from investors.

He has earlier invested in companies like Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon) and WarbyParker.com.

After Didi acquired Uber's China operations in August of 2016, it expanded its international footprint through investments in companies like Brazil's 99.

Garlinghouse is also a prolific investor, putting money into companies like Vurb (which was acquired by Snapchat for more than $ 110 million).

In addition to liking BMC's products, we liked the company's aggressive share repurchases and its valuation, which is much lower than the multiple of sales at which many similar companies have been acquired.

Acquiring Slack is no longer in Microsoft's plans, as the company's co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella do not seem to like the idea.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public, rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.

It creates a conundrum for company's like Amgen: do they invest heavily in their pipeline and try to develop there way out of slowing growth, or do they look to acquire a smaller company further along in the development phase.

«There's no reason why a dairy company can't acquire a dairy alternative business or launch non-dairy products — some of them already did, like Lion in Australia, and they already manage them both separately without any issues for consumers.

Former KIND Snacks» investment firm, VMG Partners, was asked during the recent Food Vision USA in Chicago if big food companies like Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo should acquire emerging products or create their own brands to scale up innovation.

But although 412 Food Rescue recently acquired a small refrigerated truck for highly perishable items, their model relies on a large network of 750 individual volunteers, much like the new crop of tech - driven companies around the nation that are finding ways to simultaneously reduce food waste and feed the food insecure.

«Also in the course of the financial year, the company acquired the rights to distribute brands from India's United Spirits Ltd (USL) for brands like McDowell's whisky.

«In January 2016, Guinness Nigeria acquired the distribution rights for Diageo, its parent company's International Premium Spirits (IPS) like Johnnie Walker, Ciroc and Baileys in Nigeria.

«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.

And once Nestle acquired the company, they really jacked up the price, and I think it's like $ 800, or something ridiculous like that, if you don't have insurance coverage for it.