California - based mobile game developer Jam City has recently announced that they have
acquired another company named Brainz.
Not exact matches
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.
The
company's new TV division is also appealing to yesteryear; it's being branded as Mainframe Entertainment, the
name the
company scrapped in 2006 when it was
acquired by Rainmaker Income Fund.
A newly formed
company then
acquired all of OnLive's assets and will continue to operate under its
name and run its services.
Sony has indeed made some recent moves to prepare for this eventuality, first by
acquiring cloud gaming provider Gaikai — despite its Japanese
name, the
company is also based in California — and Japanese broadband provider So - Net.
After
acquiring Australmin Holdings Ltd. and a subsequent merger with BHP Gold Limited, the
company changed its
name to Newcrest in 1990.
August 2010: Intel agrees to
acquire McAfee Inc., the computer security
company which still bears its founder's
name, for $ 7.68 billion.
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.»
After Amazon
acquired the two - year - old startup for $ 90 million, it used the
company's technology to power Amazon's social features — including Purchase Circles, which analyzed ZIP codes and domain
names on purchases to tabulate bestseller lists — before shutting down the site less than two years later.
• Though Whitehead is not
named as one of the shareholders
acquiring Sprout back from Valeant, she had privately owned the
company with her then - husband Bob Whitehead before selling it in the summer of 2015.
Twenty years later, the
company was
acquired by AFC Enterprises Inc., which later changed its
name to Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.
The newly formed
company that
acquired Palo Alto - based OnLive's assets will operate under OnLive's
name, continue to offer its services and operate its game service and has offered jobs to nearly half of the
company's former employees.
Pardot was
named to the Inc. 500 in 2012 and shortly thereafter Pardot was
acquired by ExactTarget in one of the largest SaaS acquisitions ever of a bootstrapped
company.
The private equity angle — a familiar
name in the recent flurries of LBOs that collapsed into bankruptcies, including iHeartMedia, Toys «R» Us, Gymboree: Bain Capital
acquired Guitar Center in an LBO during the boom in 2007, whereby the
acquired company took on a large amount of debt to fund its own acquisition, and then took on more debt to expand further.
On November 21st, a relatively small biotech
company named Gilead Sciences (GILD) made headline news in the pharmaceutical investment community when it
acquired a little - known hepatitis C drug developer
named Pharmasset Inc. (VRUS), for $ 10.8 billion, in an all - cash deal.
Last year, Danone, the French food multinational,
acquired U.S. dairy
company WhiteWave for $ 10 billion, combining the
companies under the
name DanoneWave.
, Vince Otte
acquired the
company and changed the
name to Barrister Executive Suites, which today has 26 business center locations throughout Southern California.
A month later, the
company reported that it had hired two Canadian banks to find blockchain - connected deals, which was followed by a notice of an agreement to
acquire Backbone Hosting Solutions, which operates a cryptocurrency mining server farm in Canada under the trade
name Bitfarms.
The firm raised several more funds, and
acquired companies with some of the best - known brand
names, including Domino's Pizza and the Sealy mattress
company.
In 1965, the
company's
name changed to Sherry - Lehmann after
acquiring its largest competitor, M. Lehmann, a gourmet butcher shop and grocery store on Park Avenue in New York City.
Last year, Danone, the French food multinational,
acquired U.S. dairy
company WhiteWave for $ 10 billion, combining the
companies under the
name DanoneWave.
Swisse is in a unique position of having Chinese owners but an Australian brand, after the business was
acquired in two tranches for a total of $ 1.7 billion in 2015 and 2016 by a
company now called Health & Happiness after changing its
name from Biostime International.
Merck KGaA, a Darmstadt, Germany,
company founded in 1668 by the family that makes up a majority of its present ownership,
acquired Serono SA in January 2007, creating a division of the parent
company named Merck Serono.
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology
Company, which took its new
name after Millennium was
acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals in May 2008, came in at No. 5, followed by Merck KGaA, Schering - Plough Corporation, Amgen, Gilead Sciences, and Johnson & Johnson at No. 10.
The
company would also be
acquiring the clout of Smithfield's
name and knowledge of U.S. production practices and technology, she says.
The memo mentions that the site is being
acquired for a seven figure amount cash deal plus equity in the merged entity which will launch operations as a new
company by the
name of"TheCrusades.com»
As shortly as you sign in on the dating website, you're released a new user
name and additionally in isolation interpretation that will provide help to
acquire your dating website and additionally
companies.
That caught the eye of easyGroup's lawyers and the
company agreed to change its
name to Cupid, having
acquired companies of that
name in the UK and US.
In fact, a couple of Hou's finest early films actually had been
acquired in the mid -»90s by a very small
company called the International Film Circuit, founded by an intrepid one - woman show
named Wendy Lidell.
If issued to a licensed rebuilder, who possesses or
acquires a vehicle that is designated as, or for which evidence or information of a «flood vehicle» has been provided, the vehicle is considered a salvage vehicle and designated on an Application for Salvage Certificate in an insurance
company or licensee's
name.
Baker Motor
Company of Charleston, S.C. has
acquired Schaeffer BMW in Wilmington, N.C. and changed the
name to BMW of Wilmington, reports Stars News online here:
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This was because in 1989 the
company had introduced the Discovery model, requiring the original Land Rover to
acquire a
name.
First
acquired by Google in 2005, Android (the
company also of the same
name) has since seen several upgrades.
Sometimes we had just done an asset purchase of a
company and everything rolled under the parent
company (the former
company didn't legal exist anymore but we used the
name because of the brand) but in some cases, the «division» was either an
acquired or created
company that had a separate legal entity that filed their own taxes, had separate Fed ID numbers, D&B numbers, bank accounts, etc..
Also, even though it isn't being mentioned, the Mobile Fusion platform is believed to be the outcome of the data management
company named Ubitexx that RIM
acquired in May 2010.
As per the latest Tablet PC news, HP has filed a trademark for the
name «Palmpad, «fueling rumors of the upcoming tablet PC that HP said it is making based on the WebOS mobile operating system after
acquiring the Palm
company may be so
named.
Amazon buys domain
names on a regular basis, so it's no surprise to see the
company acquiring the domain
name kindlevoice.com.
In a smart move by Amazon, shortly before announcing the new Kindle Fire HD family of products to the world on September 6, 2012, the
company acquired the domain
name KindleFireHD.com.
RIM
acquired a
company by the
name of QNX back in April 2010 from Harman International.
Also, they
acquired the Doubleday Book Shops from the Bertelsmann
Company (who had purchased them along with Doubleday, the publishing imprint) and the rights to the Scribner's bookstore trade
name from the publisher Macmillan.
It's
named the Torch after a WebKit
company RIM
acquired named Torch.
According to whois records, RIM has
acquired the rights to blackpad.com, indicating that the
company will intend use a
name that sounds ominous at best — and a source of cringe - inducing humor at worst.
Two of the more interesting domains Amazon
acquired in the group were AmazonKindleIce.com and KindleIce.com, which may be nothing more than defensive
names the
company is adding to its portfolio of over 20,000 domains.
As you are aware, over the last several years, BlackBerry has been
acquiring and integrating
companies and it is now time to end the use of the brand
names from these acquisitions and align everything under the BlackBerry Brand.
In 1979, asset management
company Vance, Sanders & Company acquired Eaton & Howard and in 1990 the combined company changed its name to Eaton Vance Mana
company Vance, Sanders &
Company acquired Eaton & Howard and in 1990 the combined company changed its name to Eaton Vance Mana
Company acquired Eaton & Howard and in 1990 the combined
company changed its name to Eaton Vance Mana
company changed its
name to Eaton Vance Management.
In December 2016, Alaska Airlines
acquired Virgin America, and the
company is transitioning into one brand under the Alaska Airlines
name.
Ironically, the
company only
acquired the brand recently (Saga Furs changed its
name from Finnish Fur Sales (FFS) after the purchase).
He created the Buffett Partnership after meeting Charlie Munger, and his firm eventually
acquired a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway and assumed its
name to create a diversified holding
company.
Inspired by her experience raising a Standard Poodle
named Jordan — whose lifespan turned out to be far too short despite receiving vigilant care using the products and best practices available at the time — Weiss founded Ark Naturals on a handful of pet vitamin products under the Nu - Pet brand, which she
acquired from a
company that had been selling into the veterinary channel.