With many other companies offering enterprise flash storage hardware and software we believe that the trend of flash memory company acquisitions will only accelerate in the coming months.
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In the week running up to the 2012 Flash Memory Summit, August 20-23, 2012 ( www.flashmemorysummit.com) there have been a number of announcements on flash memory products and even flash memory company acquisitions.
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Shaw has seen all sorts of rumors, ranging from the serious such as company acquisitions and employee dismissals to the silly, including an unfounded report that Shaw had undergone a hair transplantation.
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The company is using acquisitions and joint ventures to move into costlier cosmetics.
Business confidence, bolstered by more exports, rising consumer spending, corporate tax reductions, and a friendlier government attitude to company mergers and acquisitions, is at its highest for five years.
Already the dominant player in China, look for AVIC to play a far more prominent in-your-face role, as the cash-rich company makes more acquisitions, locks down more joint ventures and makes further, more publicized inroads into the global aerospace market.
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Although it ranked as one of the company's biggest acquisitions ever, the deal generated little interest.
The net loss number includes charges for 11 acquisitions the company did in 2011.
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"Yes, a small company can grow through acquisitions, " said Joy Butler, a business lawyer who owns her own Washington, D.
The company has made four acquisitions of its own in the past five years, adding (even) smaller businesses that also produce lifts.
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The company has made 64 acquisitions, 3 in the last year alone.
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The new campus will let the Round Rock, Texas company keep employees from acquisitions such as Zing, Ocarina, Scalent, and Everdream in the same 240, 000-square foot space.
The company held back on acquisitions in 2010 and 2011 as Smallwood said the valuations of projects were simply too high at that time with silver prices reaching all time highs.
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BrassRing had jumped to an early lead in recruiting software, and with an eye on the public markets, the company spent freely on acquisitions and publicity stunts--like creating a character, Joboo the eGhost, who embarked on a three-month, 8, 000-mile journey in the JobooMobile.
When the company assessed Autonomy before the acquisitions, the financial results appeared to pass muster.
The 46-year-old one-time takeover king built up Finance One into Thailand's largest finance company through a series of acquisitions since 1980.
Apart from its regular program of buying subscriber lists of small ISPs, the company has made just two acquisitions this year.
The company has made eight large acquisitions since the beginning of 2008.
She notes that this would leave the company with limited resources for acquisitions, unless as with the proposed Skype deal it taps cash held offshore.
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Goldman Sachs and other large investors took a big stake in the company and helped finance the acquisitions, which saw Suddenlink add 1.2 million subscribers.
But thanks to network effects and acquisitions, the company, which was founded in 1994 as a simple job board, can boast over 20m users and 14m listings.
Vodafone has also suffered serious write-downs on its businesses in Turkey and Ghana due to adverse changes in the macroeconomic assumptions the company made when sizing up acquisitions in the markets.
Mr Whitacre, who took up the posts in 1990 and is the longest-serving boss of a large telecoms company, made several huge acquisitions during his tenure and is credited with instigating the industry's consolidation.
"Even so, the company remains committed to selective acquisitions, non-core asset sales where appropriate and an extensive project plan which currently numbers 30 in an effort to underpin future production across several energy sources, " he added.
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Some recent asset-backed securities have been priced to yield as little as 0.5%, but even that is enough of a premium to two-year Treasurys yielding 0.2% for company treasurers as they weigh acquisitions and other longer-term options for deploying cash.
Weill, who built the company in a series of acquisitions starting in the late 1980s, when he rescued a little Baltimore commercial credit firm, said the financial conglomerate model now under fire at Citi and elsewhere is a solid model and worth fighting for.
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