Sentences with phrase «year was its acquisition»

Vista's largest industry transaction during the year was its acquisition of financial software company Misys for $ 2.02 billion.

One of the biggest and costliest deals so far this year was the acquisition of a stake in the Interactive Data Corporation, a financial market data company, by two private equity firms, Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus, according to Capital IQ, which tracks the industry.

The trade for Dikembe Mutombo was the key last season, and this year it's the acquisition of Derrick Coleman [above].

Not exact matches

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

There have been roughly 140 acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups since 2011, including 40 this past year alone, the venture capital research firm says.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

As we explained to the reporter before he published the piece, it is misrepresentation to classify equity Mayer previously vested in over four years at the company as a «payout» from an acquisition.»

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Jill Barad ran the toy company for a few years in the late 1990s until she was ousted following a widely panned $ 3.5 billion acquisition of software company Learning Co..

Shapiro said Seeso will launch more than 20 original programs in its first year alone and that more new shows and acquisitions will be announced soon.

Although RBC can grow organically in all of these areas, analysts are expecting McKay to make a sizable acquisition, especially because the bank is sitting on more cash than it's had in years.

The Campbell deal, meanwhile, is the largest in the company's history; in the last five years it has made six acquisitions, including Bolthouse, Plum, and Kelsen.

Spirit estimates the acquisition will be accretive to adjusted non-GAAP earnings per share in the first full year after closing.

My guess is there will be many strange bedfellows with complementary strengths, potential acquisitions and unexpected mash - ups (think Google and Walmart) that will bring many variations of this to life over the course of the next 10 years.

Its impressive earnings and revenue trajectory — following its major acquisition of Softgate Systems this summer, it's on track to exceed $ 100 million in revenue this year — could have something to do with the fact Tio is a classic 20 - year «overnight» success story.

As big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitions.

Naturally, his forecasts were derailed by a combination of a deluge in mortgage costs from the disastrous acquisition of Countrywide Financial, and years of extremely low rates that shrank the margins the bank earns on its giant loan portfolios.

Globally deals totalling $ 1.55 trillion have been struck so far this year, while in Europe mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have totalled more than $ 621 billion, up 151 percent on the same period in 2017, Thomson Reuters data shows.

That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.

From Ashton Kutcher investing in Dwolla to Instagram's record - setting acquisition, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the startup.

2015 has been a record year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Because Samsung Pay will be compatible with most existing magnetic stripe terminals as well as NFC terminals (as a result of its acquisition of LoopPay), it is going to drive significant payment volume, particularly in the next 5 years.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

But the Kremlin is afraid of doing that openly: the ruble nearly collapsed two years ago when Rosneft used a similar trick to refinance its $ 55 billion acquisition of TNK - BP.

In recent years the value of patents that have been monetized through acquisitions or licensing has neared $ 200 billion, and yet that represents a tiny portion of all patent grants.

That's because craft is growing fast and has fueled rapid merger and acquisition action over the past few years.

«They said 2010 was the big acquisition year, and 2011 would be about putting everything in its right place and investing in personnel to scale those smaller businesses.

But it has been more than two years since Kraft Heinz's last deal, its acquisition of Heinz in 2015.

• There have been fewer mega-deals: 2017 has certainly not been spectacular when it comes to mega-deals we've seen in years past, like Dell's acquisition of EMC for $ 67 billion or Heinz's acquisition of Kraft Foods for $ 55 billion.

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.

2015 has been a record year for corporate mergers and acquisitions, including the recent announcement that industrial stalwarts Dow Chemical and DuPont will combine.

That's a little over a year after Apple completed its acquisition of the music company, and five months since its replacement first appeared on the scene.

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

«This acquisition will significantly expand our presence in the U.S. branded organic and natural foods industry, where sales have been growing at a 12 percent compound rate over the last 10 years,» said Jeff Harmening, General Mills executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Woonsocket, Rhode Island - based CVS has been transforming itself into a health - care business for years, propelled by its acquisition of the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager platform in 2007.

Hitachi is also betting on the acquisition to ready it for battles with formidable Chinese rivals such as the $ 130 - billion behemoth CRRC Corp that was created earlier this year from the merger of mainland state - owned train manufacturers CSR and CNR.

The company has seen solid growth in the past four years — 30 %, reports Peter — and the CEO's hope is that prudent acquisitions will maintain the trend.

In defending its merger plan, Comcast is saying its real competition is no longer other cable companies, but rather so - called over-the-top Internet service providers such as Netflix, which is the same rationale Bell used in Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last year.

In recent years, Salesforce has been on acquisition binge, buying up companies across the country from Halifax - based GoInstant to Toronto's Rypple to B.C. - based Sitemasher, among others.

The breach wasn't disclosed to the investing public until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon's acquisition of its operating business in 2016, the SEC said.

He kicks off 2018 and his third year as CEO of the health care company with a stock that's up nearly 70 %, strong earnings and profits, and a strategic acquisition.

I know you were fairly intimately involved in the various acquisitions that Canadian Tire has made over the past few years, like the Forzani Group that operates Sport Chek and Mark's Work Wearhouse.

Yahoo has been in the original content business for years, but recent acquisitions suggest the company would rather focus on cheap and easy - to - get user - generated content.

Speaking with Fortune, Almeida says he is ready to do more acquisitions this year and he's interested in «any company that is within our area of business.»

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump scuppered Broadcom's attempt to buy mobile chip maker Qualcomm, and the Department of Justice is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

The pace of acquisition over the past two years has been «aggressive and fast,» according to Vincent Romans, founder of the Romans Group, a collision repair industry consulting firm based in Chicago.

Most companies were able to hold out through the price troughs of 2015, Jefferies equity analyst Jason Gammel said, but 2016 could set the backdrop for further acquisitions by year - end.

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.