To complicate things further, search giant Google last year acquired Motorola Mobility - mainly for its patents.
The surge comes not from Belk shares rallying, but the release of the annual proxy, which shows Gambrell over the past year acquired a greater stake in the chain.
Take an example from back in 1996, the year Disney acquired ABC, to see why.
Last year we acquired AdMob, which has been huge for us.
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Last year it acquired a 1, 300-employee outsourcer in Chile, and it plans to add 1, 500 to the 485 people at its Brazil arm.
To diversify further away, earlier this year HP acquired Palm, the proprietary PDA-smartphone maker, to launch its own-branded smartphones, effectively competing directly against Nokia, Apple, Motorola, Samsung and Dell.
Last year Coke acquired control of coconut water brand Zico and dipped its toes in U.S. dairy for the first time, buying a stake in the maker of Core Power, a workout recovery shake.
Earlier this year, it acquired a 60% stake in food maker Yinlu Food Group.
In November of last year, Sinopec acquired an 80-percent stake in Pecten Cameroon Co.
Earlier this year, EarthLink acquired CIDCO, which made the Mailstation e-mail device that includes a limited e-mail service.
Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference.
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Last year, it acquired Massmart Holdings to build its presence in Africa.
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It was the second time he had been to the factory after visiting in 2011, the year the trust acquired the building.
While this may be a modest blow, last year Verizon Wireless acquired Hughes Telematics, which has relationships with Mercedes and Volkswagen (VLKAY).
Some 99, 000 people die each year from infections acquired in the hospital, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In April last year they together acquired 5% of Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, Italy's biggest banking group, becoming part of a controlling group of shareholders.
Ten thousand patients die each year from hospital acquired infections.
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Tebow, who spent an unproductive season with the Jets last year after being acquired from Denver in a trade, showed up over an hour before the 8 a.m. reporting time.
That video focus has increasingly shifted to include consumers: Last year the company acquired cheap camcorder Flip maker PureDigital, and plans to release a TV-based videoconferencing system sometime later this year.
Last year, Pfizer acquired Alacer Corp.
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The 21-year-old Cayones, acquired by the Yankees from Pittsburgh last year in the deal sending A.J.
Last year the company faced the added burden of assimilating Marquis Jet, which the company had acquired the previous year.
David, 60, got his start in 1975 at Otis Elevator, which UTC acquired a year later.
Any income earned or assets acquired that year are counted more heavily than in later years.
Last year, the publisher acquired Hybride Studios, a Montreal-based special-effects company, where the film was shot.
TDC, a Danish telecoms company acquired last year in Europe's largest leveraged buy-out so far.
Each year, hospital-acquired infections sicken about 1.7 million and kill 99, 000 people in the United States.
In addition, production will start this year at a newly acquired particle-board plant in Novgorod, Russia.
Instagram, which Facebook acquired last year, already uses hashtags, allowing users to sort photos by the symbol.
And he's a wide receiver that they acquired this year, just like Randy Moss, to much less fanfare.
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