It would accelerate the user acquisition process at an extremely low cost.

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Shortly after its acquisition by Triarc, Wendy's began an 18-month process of interviewing 10, 000 consumers.

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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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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.

ECONOMIST: Buy, buy