Sentences with phrase «second was the acquisition»

The first was a merger of Lexis Nexis and Wolters Kluwer and the second was the acquisition of The Practical Law Company by Thomson Reuters.

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Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

That is a 26 percent premium and marks the second largest U.S. banking acquisition since the financial crisis.

It's just WeWork's second pureplay co-working acquisition, the first being Singapore - based SpaceMob.

The ExactTarget / Pardot deal is the second - largest Salesforce acquisition to date — and the largest until 2016 when Salesforce acquired DemandWare.

Second, acquisitions are often better deals than going public.

A second way to think about improving your acquisition ratio is to revamp your customer retention strategies.

The network equipment company said the deal would likely close during the second half of 2013 and it expects the acquisition to be slightly dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2014.

That said, the cost per acquisition for this marketing tool is second cheapest after email marketing.

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.

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.

The second wave was purely a CMO - led wave around demand generation online tied to customer acquisition experiences that were both mobile and social.

The planned merger would be the second - largest M&A deal on record behind Vodafone AirTouch's $ 172.0 billion acquisition of Mannesman in 1999, according to Dealogic.

The BroadSoft deal is the company's second major acquisition this year following the $ 3.7 billion acquisition of privately - held AppDynamics in March.

Nearly a decade removed from its acquisition of Guidant — which Fortune labeled the second - worst ever at the time — Boston Scientific is finally pivoting from the pacemaker and heart - stint driven business it had been pursuing.

IAC / InterActive Corp reported its second quarter earnings today and net income was up 78 %, but Wall Street wasn't impressed — the jump was thanks solely to divestiture and lower acquisition costs.

NVCA president Mark Heesen is also concerned that the total value of merger and acquisition deals, another key outlet for VC - backed companies, was 40 percent less in the second quarter than in the same period in 2007.

In the history of the Chicago's newspaper wars, Ferro's acquisition of the Second City's second paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the TrSecond City's second paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the Trsecond paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the Tribune.

The second is the much larger deal — VMWare's $ 400 + million acquisition of Springsource, an enterprise and web application development and management startup.

The acquisition was invented so you can sell your business and leave the kids money, still spoiling them rotten, but at least sparing the business from second - generation ruin.

Regulators are set to focus on AT&T's powerful control over broadband and television customers since it is the nation's second - largest wireless company, after Verizon, and biggest paid television provider since its recent acquisition of DirecTV.

The following month, in September 2010, LinkedIn announced its second acquisition when it took on ChoiceVendor, a Yelp - style B2B review site that was subsequently closed after the deal.

This is the second question for Dropbox, beyond the uncertainty around its customer acquisition costs and churn: to what extent can it expand its market?

August 1, 2012 - Marlin Equity Partners («Marlin») is pleased to announce the acquisition of ATC Drivetrain, Inc. («ATC Drivetrain») from GENCO ATC, North America's second largest third - party logistics provider.

Organic search is also ranked second for lead acquisition, following only direct traffic.

It's the second - largest acquisition Intel has ever made, following last year's purchase of Altera for $ 16.7 billion.

CVS said Wednesday that its proposed $ 69 billion acquisition of Hartford - based health insurer Aetna is on pace to close in the second half of this year.

The Shipt acquisition is just one of many reasons why a tie - up between the country's second largest grocery retailer and Target makes sense, believes digital supply chain consultant Brittain Ladd.

The second type of M&A deal that could see increased traction once oil price volatility subsides are the small «bolt - on acquisitions» of small and mid-sized U.S. fracking firms.

Our second priority, strategic acquisitions is also about growth.

Nest's acquisition was the second biggest acquisition by Google in recent time, second only to the $ 12 Billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

A second property acquisition will be announced in May, with plans for additional acquisitions later this year.

More specifically, for the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, Darden's revenue a climbed 14.6 % year over year to $ 1.88 billion — comfortably above the $ 1.85 billion investors were anticipating — including 11.5 % growth related to its acquisition of Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen earlier this year, and a 3.1 % increase in blended same - restaurant sales from Darden's legacy brands.

Nest labs was also acquired for $ 3.2 billion USD in January 2014, which was the second biggest acquisition by Google in recent times.

Shares of Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (NYSE: KORS) were looking attractive today after the fashion house posted better results than expected in its second - quarter earnings report and raised its outlook following the closing of its Jimmy Choo acquisition last week.

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

The partnership with Lyft and the acquisitions of Sidecar and Cruise — the latter of which the company expects to close in the second quarter — signal that GM is getting serious about its driverless future.

My second acquisition was for 15 additional shares of BNS, also on the Toronto Stock Exchange in CAD.

Verizon Communications Inc. is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $ 4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo Inc., after the company reported a second major email hack affecting as many as 1 billion user accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A second method employed for encouraging audience contributions and the acquisition of names is the offering of «incentives,» such as free gifts — records or books.

The second hurdle after the acquisition was to ensure the talented employees who are committed to the company were engaged and saw their future in the organization.

This was the company's second major acquisition in recent years.

This is the second new geographic market Coveris has entered in the past six weeks, following the recently announced acquisition of Elldex, a full - service flexible packaging company in New Zealand.

The second part of the automation job was the complete process data acquisition for the filling process cells that cover the data processing for seven filling lines, with approximately 150 associated controllers used to cyclically read 21,000 digital and 2,000 analogue data points.

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.

«This is Harvest Hill's second add - on acquisition and, with Brynwood Partners continued support, the company will continue to grow both organically and through strategic add - on acquisitions.»

The acquisition of DeLeón will accelerate Diageo's share of ultra-premium and above ($ 40 +) tequila, which is the second - fastest growing tequila segment in the U.S., according to Nielsen.

• Malone and Payton, the free - agent acquisitions who were supposed to turn the Lakers into — all together now — the best team ever assembled, each signed a two - year deal, with the second year at the player's option.

Philadelphia's recent acquisitions have increased public interest in this game, as it is currently the second most - heavily bet Week 1 matchup, trailing only New England vs. Miami.

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.