They portrayed the changes Gates proposed as necessary steps in restoring discipline to the acquisition process.
For example, I can remember when I was leading a major merger and acquisition process.
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By radically changing the information technology business model, cloud computing also challenges the traditional federal acquisition process.
It would accelerate the user acquisition process at an extremely low cost.
The Yankees filled Ng's shoes with another well-known executive, Jean Afterman , whose work has been vital to the scouting and player-acquisition process.
The defense acquisition process in itself is notoriously burdensome and costly, often driving the costs and time to deployment of weapon systems up exponentially.
That's about twice as long as last year's conference took to sell out, meaning either Google found some more seats or slowed down the ticket-acquisition process.
Mr. Gilmore estimated that about 20 films were at some stage in the acquisition process, but that negotiations are moving slower this year, consistent with the pace at other festivals, like Sundance and Toronto.
According to analysts, the proposed law would make land acquisition a time-consuming process, with some saying it will mainly affect large infrastructure projects as they would need more land and therefore approvals from more people.
It is in the process of completing the acquisition of Allos Therapeutics (ALTH), whose drug, Folotyn, is a small-molecule therapeutic for cancer.
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Hewlett-Packard has been angling to morph into a one-stop tech shop in the vein of IBM and shortly Oracle, which is in the process of closing its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Google is in the process of completing its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings , which will push it even more into the smartphone sector, where its Android operating system has been successful, and will put Google in even closer, more direct competition with Apple .
As part of the acquisition, Kingdom Holding is in the process of trying to sell all of the hotel stakes formerly owned by Kingdom Hotel Investments.
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"We continue to improve operating performance and with the acquisition of Goodbean we are leading the consolidation process in our market, " he said.
It also requires that a U.S. agency take responsibility for each transaction, and it gives CFIUS a relatively brief review process to determine whether a proposed acquisition by a foreign firm poses a risk to national security.
Then a few years ago, Synchronoss offered a sync process for phone upgrades that came from a smart acquisition of FusionOne.
Shortly after its acquisition by Triarc, Wendy's began an 18-month process of interviewing 10, 000 consumers.
We also do not understand why HP is raising these issues now given that Autonomy reported into the HP Finance team from the day the acquisition completed in October 2011, there was an extensive due diligence process and Autonomy was audited as a public company for many years.
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As a result, we would like to proceed in the process to acquire Dell and hereby submit, in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, this Acquisition Proposal.
Bank of New York, which was founded in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, America's first Treasury secretary, knows that hostile acquisitions are rarely able to use an accounting process known as pooling, which is much kinder to the profitability of the combined firms than the alternative acquisition accounting.
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