Sentences with phrase «bought in»

«There's only one thing that is relevant, and that is whether a U.S. investor bought in your sale.»

The emergence of further interest in Vocus brightens buyout prospects for a firm which has seen its share price slide in the wake of a May profit warning as it struggles to make the most of acquisitions bought in a three - year $ 2.4 billion shopping spree.

Since Rhapsody bought it in 2011, not much has been heard of the once high - flying peer - to - peer service that transformed public assumptions about consuming music.

The Elad Group bought it in 2008 for $ 675 million and carried out a major overhaul, adding a residential condominium component.

VR developers at studios big and small are speaking out against Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion.

Apple Music debuted in 2015, yet most smartphones bought in China use the Android operating system, and Spotify hasn't announced plans to expand there.

Garriques took over in April after the company and its 1,740 stores were bought in a bankruptcy court by Standard General, a New York hedge fund.

At 2009's event the company — inspired by a pair of flip flops founder Kyle Berner bought in Thailand in 2007 — picked up advice from Stanford University business students about how to ramp up its distribution to handle a deal it had just signed with Whole Foods.

In this picture, you can see the beautiful hand - carved wood mermaid that I bought in a store in Jacmel, Haiti.

We are all bought in and believe in it, and we have so much fun.»

Walmart plans to include items bought in - store by early next year, and those sold online by third - party sellers eventually.

It was immediately apparent that the previous owner — the New York Times, which bought it in 2005 for $ 410 million — had not really invested much in the site.

There's also food bought in the cafeteria and restaurant.

Only the company's acquisition of Pixar — which the company bought in 2006 for about $ 8 billion — even comes close and that's mostly thanks to home video sales.

• «My first computer was a TRS - 80 bought in 1979 at local Radio Shack — 16K with a black and white monitor and cassette tape drive.

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

The 87 - year - old billionaire still lives in the five - bedroom home in Omaha, Nebraska, that he bought in 1958 for $ 31,500.

I'm proud of my staff and the way they put it out,» Sherry says, adding that his team spent a couple months putting the experience together last year before seven customers bought in.

(Waze, if you don't know, is a popular traffic app, which Google bought in 2013 for more than $ 1 billion.)

The main place we've applied reinforcement learning in our core products is through collaboration between DeepMind [the AI startup Google bought in 2014] and our data center operations folks.

As the two companies wait to hear whether their merger is approved by U.S. regulators, Office Depot will stay focused on merging its business with OfficeMax, yet another office - supply store that Office Depot bought in November of 2013.

This way, every participant is incentivized — especially, those who have bought in early — to increase the project's value.

The Jack Purcell was designed in 1935 as a badminton shoe — Purcell himself was a Canadian badminton player — but Converse bought it in the 1970s.

«I've never seen such enthusiasm for a product,» says CEO Tratt, who cut his product - development teeth as an original employee of game company Cranium, bought in 2008 by Hasbro.

Oister also sliced open a football his father had bought in the late 1950s.

Desktop: Needing more screen real estate to evaluate skate options, I jumped on her iMac and found a high - quality pair from Bauer, a brand I've bought in the past.

The cash and shares deal could also provide a potential exit route for Walmart, as Asda, which it bought in 1999 for 6.7 billion pounds, has been struggling to grow over the last five years as discounters Aldi and Lidl attract its price - conscious customers.

«If the shoes are bought in Austin, the money goes to Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin.»

DeepMind, which Google bought in 2014 for roughly $ 650 million, said Wednesday that it would open a research center in Edmonton, Canada.

The ban, issued by presidential order on Monday, may complicate the Petro scheme, as the virtual coin can only be bought in dollars or euros.

People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,» says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.

The teaching tools are being sold by TenMarks, an online education company that Amazon bought in 2013 for an undisclosed amount.

Walmart plans to add items bought in store to the service early next year.

He struggled a decade ago to turn a profit when nurturing Izze to $ 25 million in sales; it was still in the red when PepsiCo bought it in 2006.

Which is why the idea of a Kaplan - like uniform — a single outfit, bought in bulk, that looks good everyday — is so appealing.

My parents and all of my athletic coaches throughout the years continuously harped on me about the extreme importance of goal setting; however, I never completely bought in.

A massive English shirt manufacturer had bought it all in those 48 hours.

A series of letters between JPMorgan's lawyers and the Fed, released to Reuters through a Freedom of Information Act request, show Wall Street's primary regulator took a tough stance on the bank's efforts to hold onto the global network of Henry Bath & Sons warehouses, part of the larger RBSSempra commodity trading business it bought in mid-2010.

Oculus Rift, the San Francisco - based VR startup that Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, is finally set to launch its consumer headset in the first half of the year.

Canadian Pacific shares have more than doubled since Ackman bought in.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Over the last 20 years, in spite of the housing crash, you would have done better with real estate if you bought in one of the 20 U.S. cities where prices have risen the most.

Trump bought it in April of 2014.

He bought it in 2010 and spent a lot of money renovating it.

Streaming video currently appears on Twitter only when the creator or provider has signed a partnership deal of some kind with the company — as the NFL and others such as Bloomberg News have done — or when someone uses Periscope, the streaming - video app that Twitter bought in 2015.

If you're unfamiliar with Conor McGregor that means you're probably unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the company bought in 2000 for $ 2 million and recently sold for $ 4 billion.

In August, Bernasconi said he had never expected to sell the whisky, which had been in the bar as a collector's item since his father bought it in the 1990s.

But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.

Critics were quick to point to Yahoo's failure to reinvigorate the equally suffix - averse Flickr, which it bought in 2005.

White also owns a condo in Park City, Utah and a penthouse in New York City's East Village, bought in 2008 for $ 1.9 million, according to Variety.