The immediate assumption that has to be
made after this acquisition is that Amazon has its eye on a Siri imitation or something with similar capabilities.
One important update LinkedIn
made after its acquisition by Microsoft is that the default setting is to let MS Word plagiarize your LinkedIn profile content to help others create their resumes.
Not exact matches
Brisbane - based law firm Shine Corporate has
made its second
acquisition in Western Australia, paying $ 13.3 million for personal injury specialist Bradley Bayly Legal,
after paying a higher price last year for Stephen Browne Personal Injury Lawyers.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has
made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd,
after failing to reach the minimum
acquisition level of 50 per cent.
After all the frenetic deal -
making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and
acquisitions.
Two years ago,
after Facebook's $ 19 billion
acquisition of WhatsApp
made huge news, the New York Times reported that Zuckerberg and WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum negotiated the deal over a plate of chocolate - covered strawberries at Zuckerberg's house.
My Little Pony - owner Hasbro
made a new
acquisition approach to Mattel,
after the two had
made at least two prior attempts at a deal.
An announcement about Xamarin serves as its climax: Barely 10 days
after closing the
acquisition, Microsoft would
make the startup's technology available for free within Visual Studio, its popular software development application.
SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but
after making the shift with
acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.
Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business
after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business,
make strategic
acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.
Essentially, Constellation starts
making money off an
acquisition the day
after buying it.
After buying a German company last week, Yelp has
made France its latest target with another
acquisition.
Back then, shells — that is, companies with ticker symbols but no operations — became synonymous with so - called pump - and - dump schemes in which stockbrokers artificially inflated share prices
after a shell merged with a private company, without
making financial statements on the
acquisition available to investors.
«
After 20 years in the business, we had to
make major
acquisitions or be swallowed alive,» Shindler says.
After all, the currency fueling much of the deal -
making — those companies» inflated equity valuations — is now depressed, and
acquisition targets may prefer to hold out for a higher price.
For loans
made after December 15, 2017, the deduction threshold for
acquisition debt is lowered from $ 1 million to $ 750,000.
After acquiring his interest in Blockbuster, Icahn began giving interviews to the press and writing letters to shareholders (and to me) claiming that we'd botched the
acquisition, that we'd spent too much money on our online business, that we shouldn't have ended late fees, and that the CEO (that would be me) was
making too much money.
Jaipur - based Girnar Software Pvt Ltd is looking to launch several verticals related to the automobile segment, as the company behind CarDekho and BikeDekho portals continues to expand aggressively
after making a series of
acquisitions over the past year and a half.
Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast
acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to
make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake
after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted
after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).
Court documents
made public late on Tuesday show that Fresenius (NYSE: FMS) dropped its
acquisition of Akorn
after uncovering evidence that the generic drug developer submitted fraudulent data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for at least six different drugs dating back to 2012.
But with mega-cap behemoths, the businesses tend to remain intact
after technological change so long as there is an identifiable bolt - on
acquisition to
make in the sector.
Dole management has also stated that
after the sale to Itochu is finalized that it may look to sell or spin off further assets, or
make some
acquisitions to bolster its operations within new Dole, any of which may help unlock further value in its shares.
New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to
make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations
after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.
Since we last met, our Collective Ambition has united us on every front, and helped us significantly improve our financial position even
after making the largest
acquisition in our history, in City National Bank.
The competition regulator's decision to approve the deal last week without
making market inquiries has intrigued bottlers, suppliers and advisers alike, particularly
after its intervention last year in Asahi's
acquisition of Australia's third - largest soft drink and water bottler, P&N Beverages.
The competition watchdog has delayed
making a decision on BP's $ 1.8 billion
acquisition of Woolworths» fuel business until August
after receiving a request for more time by Woolworths and BP.
UK - based consumer products company PZ Cussons, known for Imperial Leather and Morning Fresh, is emerging as a key player in the Australian food industry
after making its second
acquisition in just over a year.
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The transfer
acquisitions made last summer did cheer up the fans by addressing addressing some of the issues, but it did not take long for the moans to re-start
after the first game we lost.
Initiated one - year
after the Danone Group's
acquisition of Wockhardt's nutrition business, the integration audit «did not identify any payments
made to doctors.»
These charges were
made about one year
after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, [259] about three years
after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that «no additional evidence has come to light,» [56] five years
after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single «rogue reporter,» [260] ten years
after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal
acquisition of confidential information, [261] and 13 years
after the Met began accumulating «boxloads» of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard.
Iger has voiced support for Searchlight and other Fox movie businesses, saying during a reporters» call shortly
after the
acquisition was announced in December that «we like being in the business of
making quality movies.
After rumours of an
acquisition last month, 2K has confirmed it'll be publishing the WWE series
made by Japanese developer Yuke's.
After being one of the early
acquisitions at the festival, The Spectacular Now (from director James Ponsoldt, whose film Smashed
made my favorites at Sundance last year) became one of the most loved film in Park City this year.
To succeed, you need a vast array of content options and multi-media divisions while continuously looking to improve even
after making splashy
acquisitions.
Making their second Sundance
acquisition after picking up Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, Deadline reports that The Film Arcade has acquired U.S. rights to People, Places, Things.
Making their second Sundance
acquisition after picking up Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, Deadline reports that The Film...
In too many cases that I see,
after several years, the child has
made little or no progress in the
acquisition of basic skills since entering the special education program.
Accounts have shown how Pearson
made a # 100 million this year alone
after its # 500 million
acquisition of Brazilian firm English Language Training.
HP may be
making a comeback in the smartphone market,
after failing to do anything with the $ 1.2 billion webOS
acquisition, and unlike then when they immediately ditched Android, this time they may be a... Read More»
After the vote tallies were announced, Doug Pihl, the Chairman, President and CEO of MathStar
made a presentation regarding the strategic alternatives currently being explored by the Board, which include the possibility of a merger with a private company or a restart of MathStar upon the
acquisition of certain video encoding technology.
If economic times get very bad, and absent social unrest and violence in the streets, astute managements of creditworthy companies will be in a position to
make super-attractive
acquisition deals just as was the case
after the 2008 economic meltdown.
On loans
made on or
after October 14, 1987, you can deduct mortgage interest paid on
acquisition indebtedness up to a total of 1.0 million.
Yes, having the owners / management in place for a year (to bed things down)
makes perfect sense — and it's not difficult to devise an appropriate incentive structure — but a significant minority stake
after that offers little additional reward & plenty of potential risk (& sub-par
acquisition benefits).
The Board
made this decision
after completing an exhaustive evaluation of various strategic alternatives available to the Company for enhancing stockholder value, including but not limited to, continued execution of the Company's business plan, the payment of a cash dividend to the Company's stockholders, a repurchase by the Company of shares of its capital stock, the sale or spin off of Company assets, partnering or other collaboration agreements, a merger, sale or liquidation of, or
acquisition by, the Company or other strategic transaction.
The news comes just a few months
after Skyscanner announced the
acquisition of London start - up Twizoo and the use of in - trip content through Ctrip's
acquisition of Trip.com; both with the aim of
making Skyscanner a place where travellers can find everything they need for travel planning in one single place.
Bear in mind that while the original Banjo games were, in fact, published by Nintendo (technically
making the titular heroes Nintendo characters), Microsoft obtained the rights to the series
after their
acquisition of developer Rare in 2002.
After the auction, Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer commented that nine of the top lots were purchased by «private Americans» and noted that museums are now «building galleries» rather than
making acquisitions a priority.
[6] The collection is expanding, particularly in terms of works
made after 1950 (recent
acquisitions include pieces by Louise Bourgeois and Wolfgang Tillmans).
The
acquisition of Global Loft (Spread) was
made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor for the purchase of American art
made after 1945 in memory of Robert Shapazian (1943 ¬ — 2010), whose estate gave The Huntington Andy Warhol's painting Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle), 1962, and Brillo Box, 1964, as well as a group of Brillo boxes by Pontus Hultén in 2010.