Blu-ray purchases snapped up 7 percent, rentals of DVD and Blu-ray discs together were rolled up to take 18 percent of the pie, VOD accounted for 9 percent with 3 percent of the cash left for digital downloads and online streaming.
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And last year, HTC snapped up non-Chinese divisions of Dopod, aiming to bulk up the marketing and distribution of HTC-branded phones in Australia and Southeast Asia.
His second over contained an innocuous slider down the leg-side, but Simmons lazily flicked at it, and Cook - crucially standing a few yards closer to the action than a regulation square-leg - snapped up a catch.
The supposed savior, the man-child snapped up by Nike at age 14?
Investors eyeing the breathtaking drop in shares of the airline operator snapped up in- and out-of-the-money put options across multiple expiries.
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Investors snapped up out-of-the-money calls in the front month, suggesting the stock may have more room to run in the near term.
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Options traders positioning for shares in the name to move higher this week snapped up in- and out-of-the-money weekly calls on the stock today.
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But like many Americans, I was a bit shell shocked three years ago when Belgian brewing giant InBev snapped up Anheuser-Busch, one of the most iconic companies in the history of US capitalism.
ING, the Dutch bank-and-insurance group which in 1995 snapped up Barings, an investment bank with a big asset-management arm, after the British firm went bust.
Cost-conscious chatterboxes snapped up deals offering calls of unlimited duration within the same network.
Clavier points out that consolidation means layoffs, and layoffs mean talent that can be snapped up by start-ups.
That is why veterans are snapped up by start-ups, says Alan Baker, president of the Israel-Canada Chamber of Commerce in Tel Aviv.
The 27-year-old, attempting to loft Shahadat for another maximum down the ground, was snapped up by Tamim Iqbal at long-off and Suresh Raina was bowled playing across the line to Rubel.
Two years later he snapped up a larger take-and-bake pizza outfit, Papa Aldo's out of Portland, Ore.
Smaller manufacturers with weaker balance-sheets will be snapped up by bigger, more efficient firms, he predicts, and shortages that have crimped the industry's growth will ease.
Owais Shah pulled Sharma for six and four to join in the fun but he was snapped up at wide mid-on off RP Singh, who clean bowled Collingwood.
Gidman fell four short of a what would have been a deserved century when he propped forward to Gough and was snapped up at silly mid-on by Gordon Muchall.
They took the VCs' money and ran: The graphical user interface went to Apple and appeared in the Lisa and the Macintosh, ethernet went to the startup 3Com, and the digital-printing language was snapped up by Adobe Systems.
Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The ugly financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
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Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The dour financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
However in response, the FAI reiterated their recent comment that over 6, 300 of the 10-year seats have been snapped up.
The show has recently been snapped up by US network NBC - with Robinson in place to host the American version.
But chip giant Qualcomm snapped up a lot of high-profile assignments and newcomers like Nvidia started nosing into the phone market.
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Although Bayer Leverkusen handed back half of their allocation, the match will be a sell-out as locals quickly snapped up the spare tickets.
There's also Eric Fisher of Central Michigan and Lane Johnson of Oklahoma, two more 300-pounders who could be snapped up in the first 10 picks.
In August, for example, it snapped up ChapterHouse, a health-care consultancy.
Film rights were also snapped up for a reported seven-figure payday.
Facebook snapped up Instagram, the photo-sharing app, in April.
US-German car giant DaimlerChrysler later snapped up a 65% stake in the firm.
He was finally dismissed 40 minutes from stumps when Jehan Mubarak snapped up a chance at short fine-leg off Upul Chandana.
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