Sentences with phrase «acquired the company behind»

Symbian The Symbian OS is synonymous with Nokia, none more so than after the Finnish phone manufacture acquired the company behind it back in 2008.

Not too long ago, Samsung acquired the company behind Viv, a virtual personal assistant that's expected to find a home in next year's Galaxy S8.

Not exact matches

To power Google Flight Search, the search giant acquired ITA Software, the company behind the search and pricing technology used by Orbitz, Kayak, American Airlines, United, and several others.

After working at nonprofits, Appel Lipsius ran the company's European operations until Church & Dwight, the company behind Arm & Hammer, acquired Orange Glo in 2006 for $ 325 million.

PPR SA (the world's third - largest luxury group behind LVMH and Richemont), for example, recently acquired skate - and snowboarding clothier Volcom Inc. for US$ 607.5 million and CEO Francois - Henri Pinault says he believes there still a lot of growth left in the company.

The data was acquired via a third - party app, and the company behind the app harvested information not just from the users of that app but also from the Facebook friends of users.

Kiva's orange robots, which can slide under shelves and bins of products, are used by Quidsi Inc. — the company behind Soap.com and Diapers.com that Amazon acquired for about $ 545 million last year.

Back in January, Razer acquired Nextbit, the company behind the promising - but - ultimately unsuccessful Robin smartphone.

PR NEWSWIRE - Nov 13 - Online Buddies, the company behind Manhunt.net, acquired Jack'd, a location based gay dating app.

PRESS RELEASE - July 23 - Avalanche, the company behind Date.com and Matchmaker.com, among others, has acquired Golfmates.com, an online dating site for golf enthusiasts.

The Weinstein Company are behind the film after acquiring the rights from Paramount Pictures back in 2014.

Sega, which already owns Total War studio Creative Assembly and Company of Heroes studio Relic has acquired Amplitude, the French studio behind the phenomenal Civ - rival Endless Legend and other terrific strategy games.

The very laws — FERPA, COPPA and CIPA — that schools often hid behind in order to justify banning were originally designed to protect kids from unscrupulous profiteering companies that attempted to acquire personal information from minors.

We think they were attempting to renegotiate the equity split on the company behind CrunchPad, which was to acquire Fusion Garage.

Last Friday, FUNimation, the company behind Dragon Ball Z in North America, announced they have acquired the rights to Dragon Ball Super and are working on an English - dub of the hit anime.

The company behind one of the most widely used game engines has insisted that it is not looking to sell or be acquired.

New Zealand developer / publisher Ninja Kiwi, the company behind the hugely popular Bloons franchise, has acquired Dundee's Digital Goldfish.

In a surprising move, Campo Santo, the developer behind indie hit Firewatch, has recently been acquired by Valve, the monolithic game company behind the digital distribution platform Steam and critically acclaimed titles such as Half - Life and Portal.

Allen & Overy (A&O), Fenwick & West and Debevoise & Plimpton are among the firms advising as US computer games company Activision Blizzard agrees to pay $ 5.9 bn (# 3.8 bn) to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the Dublin - headquartered group behind the popular Candy Crush Saga mobile game.

But when SSRN was acquired last year by academic journal publisher Elsevier, a sibling company to LexisNexis, some scholars and information professionals became concerned that SSRN's free access would eventually be locked behind a paywall (even though SSRN said otherwise) or exploited to mine and sell user data.

While companies like Instacart have famously had some issues with customer service, Shipt's usability was held up as another selling point — and a reason behind Target's decision to acquire the company.

The search giant just acquired Tenor, the company behind GIF libraries on Facebook Messenger, Samsung Messages, GBoard, Kik, and more.

Samsung acquired Harman, the company behind the Harman Kardon brand, for $ 8 billion earlier this year.

There's been a rumor this week, thin even so far as these rumors usually go, but so enormous in potential impact it seems to have captured people's attention anyway: According to Polygon, Microsoft has reportedly talked about acquiring Valve, the independent company behind the Steam gaming platform.

Samsung recently announced that it had acquired intelligent interface developer Viv Labs and with Samsung's S Voice tech falling far behind the likes of Siri and Google Assistant, the injection of an all - new AI assistant could be just what the company needs (alongside many bags of cash).

GoPro, the maker behind world's popular HERO series action camera devices, has announced that it has agreed to acquire French virtual reality (VR) company Kolor.

It first appeared with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 after Apple acquired the developer company behind it.

Beats Audio, the company behind the popular Beats by Dr. Dre line of over-ear and in - hear headphones, is reportedly planning to acquire subscription music service MOG.

Whistle, the company behind a GPS tracker and activity monitor for dogs, has been acquired by Mars Petcare for over $ 100 million.

Last year, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, an artificial - intelligence company that was founded by two of the people behind Apple's Siri.

Chris Monroe / CNET As reported by Geekwire, Amazon has acquired Ring, the Santa Monica company behind the Ring Video Doorbell.

The gaming tech brand has just acquired Nextbit Systems Inc., the company behind the affordable (and unique - looking) Nextbit Robin smartphone.

Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Acompli, the company behind popular email app for mobile platforms.

Namely, it seems Apple has just acquired Beddit, a small yet respected Finnish company behind relatively popular sleep analysis hardware and software.