The company did not disclose its acquisition price for Widevine, or terms of the agreement.
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That acquisition price was roughly the market value of all of Motorola in 2008.
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So, in this very crude calculation, AirTran pays for the acquisition price in 4.5 years, excluding financing costs.
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Small, prosperous diagnostic companies are in short supply, which explains the battle for Biosite and the high acquisition price.
The biggest headache has been Autonomy, which HP alleges had been embroiled in financial chicanery that drove up its acquisition price.
If the piece sells above the original acquisition price, Art Auction Guarantee takes 15% of the profit and the owner keeps the rest.
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions and apparently thinks TripIt is on to something based on the acquisition price.
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It will also have the opportunity to chalk up a lot of its acquisition price to "goodwill" rather than to recording label contracts and movie deals.
To initially determine the value of companies, we used the first-day market capitalization of venture-backed companies at the time of their IPOs or their acquisition price if purchased.
The Nextant 400XT can can fly faster, farther, and at a lower cost than many of the latest small-cabin jets and at about half the acquisition price.
Altisource Residential hopes its strategy will result in "a lower acquisition price and therefore a higher return relative to competitors that focus on direct purchases of single-family rental properties, " according to the prospectus.
Lockheed Martin certainly made its contribution to the increases, but the reflex of politicians and pundits to blame the prime contractor for rising costs misses most of what is going on in terms of the acquisition price-tag.
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Pinterest is not disclosing the acquisition price.
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Since July this year, Art Auction Guarantee, a company founded in 2011, have offered buyers of art at auction a guarantee that, for a percentage of the acquisition price (5% to 7.5%), they will get back what they paid for the piece if it is resold at auction after two years or more and fails to make the reserve price.
The impact of the acquisition on the stock price has been even better.
There are countless studies of mergers and acquisitions showing that in the days surrounding acquisition announcements the share price of the buyer usually declines.
In digital media space, the median price for an acquisition has risen faster than a helium-filled balloon.
In many countries, the buyer must record the difference between the price of the acquisition and the target firm's reported assets as a new asset on its balance sheet.
Neither company has disclosed the price of the acquisition.
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Our ranking formula ignores the original amount invested in a deal (as it is often undisclosed), instead weighing most heavily the market capitalization of a venture-backed company on the close of its first day of trading or the purchase price in an acquisition.
Tata Motors, India's largest automaker which bought luxury car brands Jaguar Land Rover just before the global meltdown last June, is paying the price for its mistimed acquisition.
In next-door Latvia, Russia will continue to block oil transit to that country's Ventspils terminal, again with the same end in view: acquisition of energy infrastructure at a bargain price.
In a list of 10 predictions for 2013 sent to clients today, PrivCo forecasts the failure of the location-based social city guide and its acquisition, at a fire-sale price, within the next 12 months.
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In addition, regulators are looking into efforts by Mr Greenberg to pressure specialists on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to support AIG's share price while it was completing its acquisition of American General in 2001, paid for with shares.
As such, analysts say that, at the right price, Riversdale is a highly attractive acquisition.
The acquisition, for which Facebook and Microsoft did not provide a price, was reported yesterday by Advertising Age as likely to happen today.
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And Veba this week sacked the head of Stinnes, its distribution division, after he insisted on making an acquisition that Veba's finance people feared might weaken its share price.
Phooey, says Mr Sirower, who notes that when executives play the acquisition game, they pay, in addition to the current market price, an up-front premium for a stream of payoffs sometime in the future.
The offer documents will be amended to reflect the new offer price, but this will not alter the timing of the acquisition.
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