Sentences with phrase «acquired the company last»

After Samsung acquired the company last year, however, Viv was folded into its operations.

Not exact matches

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, whose company is owned by AOL (which was itself acquired by Verizon last year), sent out a memo to employees on Friday saying the company is shifting its approach to video.

-- 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..

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.

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.

What probably will make a difference is whether the board — which last fall paid out a $ 300 million special dividend to shareholders — accepts the offer by Arthur T. Demoulas to acquire the 50.5 percent stake in the $ 4.6 billion company now controlled by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas and other family members.

Last year, 76 % of Canadian software company CEOs told PricewaterhouseCoopers they planned either to be acquired or to merge.

Blue Apron reported a loss of almost $ 55 million last year, as the cost of acquiring new customers hurt the company's bottom line.

To do that, the company acquired AOL for $ 4.4 billion last year.

The good news for the payment company is that it pulled in $ 34 million of Bitcoin - related revenue last quarter — the bad news is that Square spent nearly as much to acquire Bitcoin in the first place.

Irving said that the company is working to incorporate tools from the Video Genome Project, a metadata company Hulu acquired late last year, which could allow it to be more granular in its searches.

In June 2015, Nest announced its first new product since Google acquired it for $ 3.2 billion last year — a smart camera called the Nest Cam, the first real product integration between the two companies.

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

Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that NBCUniversal was in preliminary talks with BuzzFeed, among other media properties including Vice Media and Business Insider, to take equity in these companies or acquire them.

And within months of announcing that it was acquiring Rdio last year, Pandora was reported to be on the block (although co-founder Tim Westergren has downplayed that idea since he took over as the company's CEO).

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

It even made a short list of companies Alphabet was mulling trying to acquire, Recode reported last year.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

Last year, the company acquired the TV Guide Network for $ 255 million, a move Icahn criticized.

The Japanese group said cost overruns at U.S. power projects handled by the CB&I Stone & Webster Inc business it acquired last December from Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV (CB&I) would be much greater than initially expected, potentially requiring a huge writedown.

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

Last year, Tesla acquired German manufacturing company Grohmann Engineering to help it speed up its vehicle production.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Last year, the company was in talks with Unilever to be acquired.

Toward that end, a plan to combine VMware vCloud Air with Virtustream, the enterprise cloud company EMC acquired last year, was tossed.

Last year's third place finisher, satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 millLast year's third place finisher, satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 milllast August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 million.

Salesforce.com investors are already spooked by the speculation it could acquire Twitter: its shares are down 6 % since news of the company's interest flared up last week.

The Canadian - born company's first major product since being acquired by Japan's Rakutan last year joins a slew of new tablets hitting the market this fall.

The Miss USA Pageant was recently acquired by WME / IMG after the company cut a deal with the pageant's co-owner Donald Trump last year, Variety reports.

Sanofi lost out on buying California - based cancer specialist Medivation to Pfizer in 2016, and also missed acquiring Swiss biotech company Actelion, which was bought by Johnson & Johnson last year.

Tsinghua Unigroup, which had revenue last year of about 12.3 billion yuan, was also in talks about cooperating with a «world - class memory chip giant» to build a new chip factory in China, Zhao said, a move that could help his company acquire intellectual property needed to manufacture memory chips.

Hot or Not was acquired for $ 20 million in cash last year by Noel Biderman's company, Avid Life.

The Quebec - based company's revenues and profits have surged since it acquired Scandinavia's Statoil Fuel & Retail last June for US$ 2.58 billion.

A VimpelCom subsidiary helped fund Wind Mobile's entry into Canada's wireless industry about five years ago but the federal government blocked the European telecom company from acquiring full control last year.

Meraki, a cloud network company acquired by Cisco Systems last year for $ 1.2 billion, touts Presence as a seamless way to increase brand exposure while also collecting data about mobile behavior across locations to «enhance your onsite customer experience.»

These include Jaiku, the erstwhile Twitter competitor that Google bought last year, and Dodgeball, a social networking startup that the company acquired in 2005.

The group acquired Misfit in November of last year for $ 260 million in a bid to get the company back on track after slow earnings earlier in 2015.

Facebook acquired Oculus for $ 2 billion last year, a technology company which created the highly anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

But, by paying $ 1 billion to acquire it last year, the company is pretty certain there's gold in them thar photos.

The snack maker is a company worth watching, particularly after Trian Fund Management's Nelson Peltz suggested that Pepsi should acquire Mondelez, which was spun off from Kraft last year.

It doesn't, however, integrate with Lynda.com, the online learning company it acquired for $ 1.5 billion last year, that could help students pick up extra skills for the jobs and professions they discover through the app.

When Saputo Inc., Canada's largest dairy producer, won a hard - fought battle to acquire one of Australia's biggest dairies in 2014, it may have looked to outside observers as if the company had jumped into the frenzied bidding at the last minute, spotting an opportunity to spin a fast deal.

Rival company Apple is also paying attention to facial recognition: Last week, the tech giant acquired a patent for a way to «detect faces using information in digital video feeds,» Bloomberg reports.

Pulford expects a bulk of the deals to come from private equity groups acquiring listed companies following a doubling in the value of such deals last year.

In the last few months, a number of the industry's leading companies have been acquired by or have made acquisitions of smaller companies.

After Endeavour Mining acquired True Gold Mining last April, the junior company's executive team in Vancouver found itself out of a job.

Waymo, the company spun out of Google's self - driving car technology, on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Otto, a company Uber acquired last year, of stealing intellectual property.

IBM (ibm), for example, acquired Wall Street compliance firm Promontory Financial Group late last year in a push to bring the tech company's AI platform, Watson, to banks and hedge funds.

The company also holds a majority interest in CT Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: CRT.UN), which acquired most of the company's real estate last year, and operates a financial services division which includes credit cards.