Sentences with phrase «latest big acquisition»

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Though its deep pockets have often enabled it to catch up through acquisitions, Gillen says that sometimes «they were just too late to the market to... reclaim a big piece.»

A few weeks later Facebook called, and it became clear that the way for our team to have the biggest impact was to work together,» Williams wrote when he announced the acquisition.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

The deal announced late Wednesday comes less than two years after Google bought Motorola Mobility for $ 12.4 billion in the biggest acquisition of Google's 15 - year history.

Big Idea: Stepping up from being executive chair of Santander's U.K. unit on the death of her late father, who turned a family - owned regional bank into one of the 20 biggest banks in the world, she will need to consolidate her father's post-2008 acquisitions in Europe, Latin America and the U.S.

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..

-- 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.

KeyCorp and M&T Bank Corp. each dropped a spot on SNL Financial's latest rankings of the biggest banks by assets in the United States, due to a big acquisition by another bank.

«The biggest growth driver of late 2017, which will inevitably have a major influence on sales well into 2018 and beyond, is Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods,» said Spencer Millerberg, CEO at One Click Retail.

Fitbit building a proper smartwatch makes sense with their latest acquisitions, including the luxury smartwatch maker Vector, and the biggest acquisition of all for the company: Pebble, which was confirmed just before the end of 2016.