Motorola attracted an acquisition offer from Google in August, largely due to its patent holdings.
FORBES: Identifying The Tech Leaders In LTE Wireless Patents
The most famous Zynga title is FarmVille, a game made after SlashKey spurned an acquisition offer from Zynga.
FORBES: Clone Wars: Zynga Vs. EA And The Baffling Laziness Of Copycat Games
The other four still offer excellent acquisition potential and great value in their own right.
On 3 December the Addicks confirmed that lifelong fan Murray had accepted a legally binding offer for the acquisition of Baton 2010, Charlton Athletic Football Company Limited and Charlton Athletic Holdings Limited from an investor group represented by Varney.
But certainly future budgets that the administration will offer will reflect the acquisition of these new properties.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.
The acquisition further strengthens Tesco's digital entertainment offer, following the purchase of movie and TV streaming service blinkbox in 2011 and personalised internet radio service WE7 in June 2012.
ENGADGET: Tesco recruits Andy McNab's e-book firm Mobcast to help win the Supermarket content war
It is not clear what impact the acquisition will have on Samsung's plans to offer gaming via its smart TVs through Gaikai.
And just last week, Dish Network made clear that its planned acquisition of spectrum from TerreStar will allow it to offer a competitive mobile broadband service.
FORBES: Justice Condemns AT&T/T-Mobile: Three Reasons Silicon Valley Should Worry
The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.
"The acquisition of WMS is transformational for Scientific Games, enabling us to offer a complete portfolio of lottery and gaming products and services to both new and existing customers around the world, " Scientific Games Chairman and CEO A. Lorne Weil said in a statement.
Merger Monday rolls on with an offer for a majority stake of Timberland and a big technology acquisition by Honeywell.
FORBES: Timberland, EMS Tech Find Buyers, But Fail To Keep Lift On Markets
We believe that an acquisition can be completed expeditiously and are prepared to commence a cash tender offer with no financing or due diligence conditions.
FORBES: Cypress Makes Hostile $2.48/Shr Bid For Ramtron International
The offer documents will be amended to reflect the new offer price, but this will not alter the timing of the acquisition.
FORBES: Luckless Dell Holds Onto 3PAR With $1.8 Billion Bid (Update: HP Counters With $2 Billion)
In the note, he predicted the company might be about to offer an insight into its earnings, an announcement of restructuring, an acquisition or a decision to enter into a strategic investment.
And SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard has offered compelling reasons about why he feels the deal with SAP will offer greater value to customers: The Top 10 Reasons for SAP Acquisition from SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard.
FORBES: As Marc Benioff Cranks Up M&A, Is Pre-IPO Workday a Target?
"As Verizon continues to expand our suite of programming across multiple devices, it's imperative that we offer our FiOS TV customers access to all that NBCUniversal has to offer, " said Terry Denson, vice president of content strategy and acquisition for Verizon.
ENGADGET: Verizon and NBCUniversal bring TV Everywhere to even more places
Although the acquisition was unexpected, the three business owners provide advice to prepare other entrepreneurs for an impromptu offer.
FORBES: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From This Week's Tech Acquisition
Hurd says HP could end up competing with Google, which plans to offer applications software over the Internet and could move into corporate videoconferencing via its recent YouTube acquisition.
Bracelin argued HP was too distracted with Hurd's departure to undergo an offer of this magnitude, while Oracle was too preoccupied with trying to profit from its Sun acquisition.
Valeant said ISTA refused to enter into a confidentiality agreement when it first approached the company about an acquisition in October, and subsequently rejected a written proposal, so Valeant has decided to make an unsolicited offer to shareholders.
FORBES: Pharma News: Valeant Bids for ISTA, Pfizer Announces Study Results, Vaccine Pact
应用推荐