Sentences with phrase «just acquired a company»

Amazon has been experimenting with bricks - and - mortar stores and just acquired a company with a nationwide footprint to try out new things.

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Just a day after announcing that CVS (cvs) will acquire Aetna (aet) for approximately $ 69 billion, the CEOs of the two companies told CNBC's «Squawk Box» that the merger will reduce healthcare costs for consumers «immediately.»

But Wither cautions that to succeed, these buyers need a «burning desire» to do whatever it is the company they're acquiring does — not just experimenting with a change of workplace scenery.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

The unwinding is hitting stock prices too — and not just of the companies that were about to be acquired.

He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

CHESKY: Yeah, to qualify that I'd say not including things like Lux [the company's new luxury business], which we just acquired.

Kresta Holdings» major shareholder, China - based Aplus, has outlined plans to acquire the Malaga - based company just six months after buying a large interest in the group.

Still, 80 % of analysts have a Buy rating on Valeant, and some argue the company is already funding innovation, just in a different form: «The company is effectively «outsourcing» R&D by acquiring companies with late - stage, early - growth assets instead,» writes Nomura analyst Shibani Malhotra.

Sales have been muddled in recent years and the company is in the process of remaking itself just a few years after it acquired private - label manufacturer Ralcorp for nearly $ 5 billion in early 2013.

Just before I completed my undergraduate degree, a company I founded had just been acquired, and I was working for the new parent compJust before I completed my undergraduate degree, a company I founded had just been acquired, and I was working for the new parent compjust been acquired, and I was working for the new parent company.

But Google is getting serious — deadly serious — about its hardware; just recently the company agreed to acquire a phone - making unit at HTC for $ 1.1 billion, making its intent to take on the phone market known.

She had acquired the capital to build the company by selling equity to a group of angel investors, who owned just over 50 percent of the stock and thus controlled the board.

Just over a year ago it acquired Adapt, a U.K. company that helps customers move to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.

The data was acquired via a third - party app, and the company behind the app harvested information not just from the users of that app but also from the Facebook friends of users.

Tesla, the electric car company of which Elon Musk is chairman, chief executive, and the largest shareholder (with a 26.5 % stake), has just made an offer to acquire SolarCity, the clean energy company of which Elon Musk is chairman and the largest shareholder (with a 22.2 % stake.)

It has just launched a real - world pilot of self - driving cars in Pittsburgh — though it's not on par with Google technologically — and got one of the original members of Google's self - driving project when it acquired autonomous trucking company Otto.

My last idea, EliteDaily.com, also known as The Voice of Generation Y, I co-founded with one of my interns and we took it bootstrapped from an apartment to a company with over 200 employees in just 4 years getting acquired for $ 50,000,000 in 2015.

Check out just a few of the women - led startups whose companies either went public or were acquired:

Just two days after its announcement that Google plans to acquire satellite imaging company Skybox, Google is at it again.

Netflix's defensive play comes just days after Icahn disclosed that he had acquired 9.98 % of the company's shares.

Major Cannabis Player Sees Florida Sales Surge Over 250 % and Will Acquire 75 % Ownership in Massachusetts Deal Source: Streetwise Reports (4/17/18) A medicinal cannabis company has seen its Florida sales increase 253 %, and the company just gained 75 % control over a Massachusetts - based dispensary operation, expanding its influence in the medicinal marijuana industry.

Companies are being acquired at earlier and earlier stages — often just 2 or 3 years from startup.

Today, just two months after GM announced it was acquiring the assets of former ride - hailing company Sidecar, the company said it was purchasing another Silicon Valley - based entity: Cruise Automation.

Root9B is a cybersecurity company that announced just last week that it had been acquired by an affiliate of Tracker Capital Management.

Not to mention that the company's founder, Elon Musk, just used shareholder money to bail out his other company, Solar City, by acquiring it for a 30 % premium.

The dot - com crash was a recent memory, Google had just gone public, and News Corp had just acquired the big social - network company of the time — Myspace.

Facebook just purchased Instagram for $ 1 billion, making it the largest company Facebook has acquired — and also immediately providing a plot for The Social Network 2: Why Is Everything So Faded Out?

«One of the nicest things about acquiring Max & Erma's isn't just about increasing the size of our company, but gaining the knowledge and experience from their existing team.

Brownson joined Conagra in September 2016, just a few months after the company acquired Frontera Foods Inc., which Brownson co-founded in 1996 with Rick Bayless and Manny Valdes.

The company, which debuted on the ASX just a week ago, saw an increase in training revenues, significant growth in its telco business, the awarding of a large labour hire contract to a logistics supplier and contribution from acquired business, OneForce Recruitment.

Let's say that the director of analytical chemistry needs to hire a research scientist to run the mass spectrometer that her company just acquired.

Gilt Groupe, which was acquired for $ 250 million in January 2016 by Hudson's Bay Company after raising $ 270 million, and the bankrupt Nasty Gal, which was bought by UK retailer Boohoo for just $ 20 million after raising $ 65 million, are examples of this.

Just two years later, General Atlantic acquired a majority stake in the company, valuing it at $ 500 million.

Further demonstration of a recovery in the watch sector came with the deals announced this month: a consortium of Hong Kong - based investment funds acquired just over 30 percent of O Luxe Holdings (formerly Ming Fung Jewellery), a listed Hong Kong - based watch distributor and retailer, valuing the company at around $ 1 billion; whilst France - based Efficio Group, a company specialising in digital communications, acquired France's largest second - hand luxury watch retailer Cresus.

IMDb's trivia page reveals that they acquired rights to the film for just $ 2 million, making their losses relatively small compared to the many other companies that gambled on this dog.

The Weinstein Company acquired the film back in September 2011, showed it at Sundance 2012, and eventually released it to just a handful of US theaters last fall, conceding this was too strange for a wide release and not good enough to warrant an awards campaign (at least not at the risk of the studio's three genuine contenders).

The company was acquired by News Corporation just weeks after Joel I. Klein, a former New York schools chancellor, left city employment to work for News Corporation as vice president of educational technology.

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As A Total Number There Are Reports That Just 94 Vehicles Had Ever Been Produced For The Global Market Place And If We Consider Further Past Great Aston Martin Cars, The Vanquish V12 SDP Model Has Already Entered Into The Company's Heritage Sector, Meaning That Values Are Certain To Continue To Climb, With The New Breed Of Enthusiastic Collectors On A Globe Scale, Wanting To Acquire Their Very Own Piece Of British Motoring History.

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..

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Habitual investor of the company, Intel, has just announced they have acquired majority ownership of Kno.

Zinio has just acquired Audience Media and the marriage between the two companies marks an industry - first in the space between a company focusing on consumers merging with one that focuses on business relationships in the magazine publishing industry.

The company has just acquired Mofibo for # 13.3 million and is now the largest streaming service for audiobooks in Europe.

As of January 2012 the majority of Kobo, Inc. was bought by a Japanese Company, and just maybe those laid - back Canadians have acquired some Samurai soul in the exchange (maybe they had it in them all along, but we'll see).

Kobo itself might have just been acquired by Rakuten, but that isn't stopping the company from forging on with its own $ 200 Android tablet.

Recently acquired Google mobile phone company Motorola Mobility has just announced the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 media edition, as the successors to their first Xoom Android tablet from earlier this year.