Sentences with phrase «acquisitions at tech companies»

According to her LinkedIn account, Gaylor «has advised clients on over 150 transactions representing over $ 100 billion in transaction value,» including acquisitions at tech companies such as Facebook, Zynga, Netflix and Linkedin.

Not exact matches

The San Francisco company, which is valued at $ 5.5 billion, hired Qatalyst Partners, an investment bank known for helping tech companies with mergers and acquisitions — or, sometimes, to locate and secure new funding, according to reports.

With growth in mind, Yahoo has made several high - profile acquisitions aimed at building the Sunnyvale, California - based tech company's audience reach and depth of talent.

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

Over the past few years, we've seen traction: Consider VMWare's $ 1.54 billion acquisition of AirWatch; the growth of startup hubs like Atlanta Tech Village and Tech Square; and company success stories like that of Kabbage, which just raised $ 150 million, at an $ 875 million valuation.

Four tech companies are bucking the downward trend: Amazon, Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft are on track to make more acquisitions this year than 2016 at the current rate.

Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.

Let's back off the tech company acquisition analysis and look at the comics industry side of things:

Perverse Incentives Lie Behind Microsoft's Linkedin Purchase This FT article on Microsoft's recently announced acquisition of Linkedin is critical of CEO Satya Nadella for poor capital allocation discipline — but equally critical of the «lavish equity incentives that investors have heaped upon his plate... designed to encourage Mr Nadella to behave as if he's running an Apple or a Facebook — tech companies that are at the forefront of consumer innovation.

Mr. Chen has extensive experience in helping high - tech companies in Silicon Valley and China on building comprehensive patent portfolios and developing sophisticated international patent strategies, assessing, avoiding and responding to third - party IP threats, inter partes reviews (IPRs) and reexaminations at the patent office, district court patent litigation, in - bound and out - bound technology licensing, and negotiating IP asset transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the like.

At Legal Tech NY 2012, I had the opportunity to speak with Jim Hammond, the Vice President for Global Marketing at Aderant about the company's recent acquisitions and the cohesion of its various brandAt Legal Tech NY 2012, I had the opportunity to speak with Jim Hammond, the Vice President for Global Marketing at Aderant about the company's recent acquisitions and the cohesion of its various brandat Aderant about the company's recent acquisitions and the cohesion of its various brands.

To that end, Apple's 2014 acquisition of display tech firm LuxVue will certainly help; the company even built basic Apple Watch prototypes using MicroLED screens at the end of 2017.