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But there are some caveats, the biggest of which is Microsoft's mixed record with big acquisitions as evidenced with Yammer, Skype and Nokia.

Not exact matches

As big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitionAs big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitionas Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitions.

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

TD's new acquisition had become the largest trust company in Canada largely by selling itself as the anti — big bank, offering its 3.7 million customers revolutionary (for the time) services like 24 - hour telephone banking and extended branch hours.

As Recode notes, this is the biggest ever e-commerce acquisition.

The acquisition will instantly make Circle a rising threat to Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., as well as Bittrex and Kraken, the runner - ups.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

Big corporations such as Amazon and Google (which acquired Nest for $ 3.2 billion) have helped drive startup development through acquisitions.

It's an area that CEO Marissa Mayer has identified as critical to revitalizing the Web portal, and the Flurry deal marks one of her biggest acquisitions during her two - year tenure.

Whitman did not rule out «smaller» future acquisitions, pointing to HP's acquisitions of 3Com, 3Par, and Aruba as examples of purchases that have paid off big in terms of expanding HP's networking and storage businesses.

The deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.

But one big downside is that as Salesforce has grown via (many) acquisitions, Force.com's proprietary nature makes it hard to bring those new technologies in - house and integrate them.

While most of our conversation revolved around start - ups, seeing as Monday's deal was Google's biggest acquisition ever, I thought I'd post a quick excerpt from our chat:

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

Big banks could be getting closer to making big bitcoin acquisitions, as blockchain bets keep growiBig banks could be getting closer to making big bitcoin acquisitions, as blockchain bets keep growibig bitcoin acquisitions, as blockchain bets keep growing.

Schusser, who joined Apple in 2004, has demonstrated an ability to work with music labels, studios and publishers — the companies that determine Apple's content acquisition costs, as it seeks to compete with big spenders such as Netflix and Spotify.

Expect well - funded top dogs — companies like Bit9 + Carbon Black, Tanium, CrowdStrike — to weather the storm while more traditional big tech names and security stalwarts snap up smaller firms through «tuck in» acquisitions, cleaning up the field as the pipsqueaks wither away.

It's also a break from the food business, where Berkshire (BRKA) has done a string of big deals recently, including Heinz and Kraft, as well as providing financing for Burger King's acquisition of Canadian doughnut chain Tim Horton's.

Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

Songa's biggest shareholder, Perestroika, owned by Norwegian investor Frederik Wilhelm Mohn, would become the largest shareholder in Transocean as a result of the acquisition with a stake of about 12 percent, the firms said.

The acquisition initially made Bank of America the biggest home lender, but it has been shedding market share as it wrestles with delinquent loans and lawsuits related to mortgage - backed securities.

Acquisitions would get harder, as smaller bets would become much bigger relative to Yahoo's market capitalization.

On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending acquisition by Adobe), we have more big news from Trinity Family member and Real Estate tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.

On a recent conference call, the CEO explained a $ 700 million share repurchase as follows: «The reason that I made the biggest acquisition in the history of the company this last month was because the company is so cheap.»

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

Exxon, a latecomer to shale, is now positioned as one of its biggest players, with Tillerson's acquisition of XTO Energy in 2010 the first sign of its growing recognition of the sector's importance.

A former top executive behind China's biggest acquisition of an overseas carmaker is setting out to make history twice, raising $ 1 billion in an initial fundraising round as the latest homegrown electric vehicle startup to challenge Tesla Motors Inc..

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

Until now no - one has seriously considered FMG as a candidate for merger and acquisition activity, except as a target for a bigger company such as Brazil's iron ore giant, Vale, or a big Chinese steel mill.

Over the years, as it has expanded through acquisitions, the company has eyed the Reckitt Benckiser brands, and when the sought - after division was put up for sale earlier this year, it stepped up with an aggressive bid, McCormick's CEO said a day after announcing McCormick's biggest acquisition ever.

As opposed to an environment driven by clients» needs, «It was a world of mergers and acquisitions, and the word on the street was that the bigger the bottom line you make, the better job security you have,» he recalls.

Treasury Wine Estates chief Michael Clarke says he has the strong backing of the winemaker's biggest shareholders, as well as private equity suitors circling the group, to embark on an acquisition campaign in the United States and reverse years of drifting by the business.

The chief financial officer of Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates is being shifted from number - crunching to a new role running the operational side of the wine group's big United States operations as it undergoes a major distribution overhaul and eyes acquisitions.

Nothing like having actual players greet you at the rink and having their newest and biggest offseason acquisition, Ryan Kesler, as the lead - off man.

I read that Kondogbia is now linked to s as well which would be a great acquisition and Id really like to see either Benzema (my first choice) Higuain (my second choice) or Lcazetta (Third only due to his lack of big game experience) but the way things go with AW we'll not get any of the aforementioned as they will be snapped up by other teams while AW is on holiday and swanning around wherever he swans around during the majority of the summer.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

In a rare stroke of humility, Sanders said Rhodes, who was fired as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and then the Green Bay Packers after the last two seasons, «was the Redskins» biggest acquisition of the off - season.»

The Seahawks have attempted to utilize their big offseason acquisition more as a blocker, than as a receiver.

Dylan Richter had 16 in his debut this season — again he is a big acquisition, as they signed him away from Team Harris in the Summer..

Yet as impressive as it was for Tigres to incorporate Sosa and Quinones, the biggest arrival to the Monterrey club was the recent acquisition of French striker Andy Delort.

The coming in of welbeck is not bad, lets give him time as we may have done with Ozil.Even though he may not score, his pace intimidates opposition teams, unlike most of our players who are too slow on the ball and vanish in big games, therefore he is a good acquisition.

Following an impressive spell at Benfica, Nico Gaitan earned a big money move to Spanish giants Atletico Madrid over the summer and the Argentine was widely seen as a very good acquisition for Los Rojiblancos.

-- candidates will get a clue and start buying Adwords with their name, but also the name of their opponents (hint: the latter won't like and will take it out on Google)-- everytime there'll be big news (hurricane, breaking news, Paris Hilton's latest...) which tends to draw lots of eyeballs to Google, expect the whatever - happened - today keyword to point to the page of a candidate's site with his / her position on the topic du jour — opponents will urge their supporters to engage in whack - an - adword games (also known as click fraud) to cost as much money per click as possible to the other campaign and drive up cost of acquisition of a new visitor to the advertiser's site.

On the heels of the debate over how to categorize the biggest state land acquisition in a generation, the Adirondack Council pooh - poohed state government over what they perceived as a lack of commitment to expanding Wilderness, protecting forests and wildlife, addressing threats from off - road vehicles and strengthening state agencies.

Giving the order, the judge could not comprehend how a big national project such as the gas project could have been undertaken without due diligence on the acquisition of the land.

One mission of the Facility is to establish user - friendly workflows ranging from sample preparation to image acquisition, image processing, and long - term data storage, especially for imaging modalities generating very big datasets or files, such as slide - scanning, high - content screening, and 3 - D scanning electron microscopy.

As industry growth slows, fashion's biggest players are looking to grow by acquisition.

It'll be a busy day and we're planning on covering a lot, from the big issues the industry is facing such as user acquisition and mobile monetisation, to European law, data security, SEO and apps.

The Match Group has made some big acquisitions in the dating space — including OkCupid for $ 50m in 2011 — but none as big as this massive $ 575m deal for Plenty of Fish.

It's long been the cock of the walk at Sundance, from big buys «Little Miss Sunshine» and «Napoleon Dynamite» to Oscar contenders «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» «Brooklyn,» and «The Birth of a Nation,» the $ 17.5 million acquisition that skidded into ignominy and a disappointing release as its writer - director - star Nate Parker was tainted by a rape scandal.