Sentences with phrase «acquiring the company called»

We recently acquired a company called e-love, which was the old Perfect Match product, out of a bankruptcy.

RIM acquired a company called Torch Mobile in 2009, for their webkit web browser technology.

According to a tweet sent out by CNBC, and a separate report published by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired a company called Emotient.

Not exact matches

Waymo sued Uber in February, claiming that former Waymo executive Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, called Otto, which Uber acquired soon after.

BIG FOOD: Campbell Soup paid $ 700 million to acquire a soup company called Pacific Foods in a move toward more natural and organic - focused products.

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.

It's cheeky to call this a failure; the company was acquired for $ 2.6 billion.

Meanwhile, ride - sharing app Uber bought an autonomous transport trailer startup called Ottomotto in August 2016; the acquired company had filed its U.S. trademark application in March 2016.

Calling the company «America's fourth automaker,» Morgan Stanley's Adam Jones noted that Tesla, based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently acquired the ability to mass - produce vehicles after taking control of a former GM - Toyota factory that can churn out 500,000 units per year.

• Calero Software, a portfolio company of Riverside Partners, acquired Comview Corporation, a Huntington Station, N.Y. - based specialty telecom expense management, call accounting and usage management software and services provider.

In addition to Eatsa, Friedberg is pushing quinoa through a company he acquired called Northern Quinoa Production Corp., which contracts with local farmers in Canada to grow the crop with its proprietary seed.

To get money back to the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another company.

But after the company's second turn of events — the announcement late Tuesday night that Zirtual would be acquired by a company called Startups.co — she agreed to talk to Fortune.

In July, a newly formed private equity firm called Transformational Capital acquired the company's assets for an undisclosed sum.

But in the company's earnings call, Reichental said, «Overall, we're disappointed with our results,» and blamed the company's «rapid expansion» — 3D Systems acquired three companies in 2014 — for creating «operating efficiencies that we are currently addressing.»

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.

It's made by a company called Mallinckrodt, which acquired it 2014.

Musk also used the earnings call to try to assure investors that SolarCity, the solar company that Tesla is in the process of acquiring, won't be too much of a financial drag on the business.

Unlike the 1980s vintage, these shells are created by experienced management teams that hope to acquire a private company and take it public using a process called a reverse merger.

The case is tied back to intellectual property that Merck gained in a 2014 acquisition of a biotech company called Identics, spending almost $ 4 billion to acquire it.

After acquiring the rights to a future income stream (such as a retiree's pension payments), these pension purchasing or structured settlement companies, sometimes called «factoring companies,» may turn around and sell these income streams to retail investors, often through a financial advisor, broker or insurance agent.

Notes that Facebook and others charge per API call: it makes technical and financial sense for companies to retain user data once acquired.

WhatsApp, the messaging company acquired by Facebook, is a reliable service that can be used in most countries for placing phone calls or sending messages over a data connection.

The case is based on Levandowski allegedly stealing files from Waymo before he left the company to bootstrap a startup called Otto, which Uber later acquired for $ 680 million in August 2016.

There's a company called Rio Novo Gold that is being acquired by a company called Aura Minerals, and Rio Novo is trading for 12.5 cents Canadian.

In the realm of acquiring ownership in individual businesses, it often includes avoiding a trap many investors find tempting: Namely, overlooking what one famed economist has called the «tried and true» companies that rarely change, are highly profitable, and pump out ever - increasing sums of free cash flow for the stockholders despite being so ordinary few give them a second glance.

Snap by Groupon (previously called SnapSaves) was acquired by Groupon in 2014, and Buytopia.ca, who accelerated their growth by acquiring seven smaller competitors, ranked # 3 on the «Profit Hot 50» list of the fastest growing Canadian companies, and # 1 on Chatelaine's W100 list of fastest growing companies.

Before Uber — which he joined in 2013 along with former CFO Brent Callinicos and Uber SVP Emil Michael — Baker headed international growth at the social media giant for two years after the company acquired his dating app called Friend.ly in 2011.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

In 1993, when I was the CEO of Au Bon Pain, we acquired a 19 - store chain called the Saint Louis Bread Company, which we believed would help us build a gateway to the nation's suburbs.

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.

Also in 2012, in the 2nd largest M&A, Glencore acquired another Swiss multinational mining company, Xstrata, in what was called the biggest mining takeover ever.

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.

From the acquisition standpoint, last year we acquired a company in Boston called Progressive Gourmet, which brought with it another set of suppliers and service providers.»

Beston last year acquired two dairy processing facilities at Murray Bridge and nearby Jervois after a company called United Dairy Power went into administration.

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.

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Tuesday called for the prosecution of officials of BOST over the sale of some 5 million liters of contaminated fuel and according to the NPA the companies that acquired the product are not licensed.

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.

After moving to Chalmette, it's believed he travelled to San Francisco, California, and worked selling novelties and in sundry manual jobs before setting up a company called Street Fashions USA, acquiring premises, and amassing his fortune flipping property in the Bay Area.

If so, the company representative should ask for the visitor's business card, swipe his or her badge in a lead - retrieval device (see below) or otherwise acquire contact information and even set up a future appointment or phone call at a specific time after the Show.

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I saw a prototype several months before that, and it turns out Amazon had quietly acquired a company in 2010 called Oy Modilis that specialized in light - guiding films like those used in the Paperwhite.

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

Microsoft recently acquired popular IM and video calling company Skype in May, where many were hoping a Skype application for Windows Phone 7 would be available by now with video calling.

Over the past few years RIM has been building up its team, acquiring the players it needs to fix their historic weaknesses and «future proof» the company (a term RIM's Co-CEO Jim Balsillie used on their last Earnings Call).

If an acquiring company pays more than book value for an acquired company, the difference is called goodwill.

Indexia finance provides bank loan and is amongst the top 3 finance company and top 3 loan service provider company in India Hence, acquiring more capital in order to promote any business or consolidating old debts and credits, beckons the call for Business loans.

A backdoor listing (also called a reverse takeover) occurs when an unsuccessful listed company acquires an unlisted company in exchange for cash or shares in the listed company.

Since the acquiring company will typically offer a significant premium, this will offer an opportunity for instant profits for call option holders while at the same time being a big negative for put option holders.

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.