Sentence examples for In the largest acquisition from inspiring English sources

Houston is the home town of the computer giant Compaq, which announced this week that it planned to buy the Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion in the largest acquisition ever in the computer industry.

Mr. Welch -- known as Jack throughout corporate America and on Wall Street -- decided to delay his retirement, originally planned for this spring, after G.E. agreed in October to buy Honeywell International for $45 billion, in the largest acquisition it had ever undertaken.

Today, you might recognize him as the now billionaire CEO of WhatsApp, the messaging service that on Wednesday announced it was acquired by social networking juggernaut Facebook in the largest acquisition ever for a venture-backed company.

LinkedIn reported strong second quarter results with revenue and and earnings that beat estimates, about two months after Microsoft announced it would buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, the largest acquisition in the software company's history.

Sold out to Procter & Gamble for $2.3 billion in 1999; was the largest acquisition in P&G history at the time.

The deal, which Microsoft is paying for all in cash, represents the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.

Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.

In 2000, he oversaw the largest acquisition in history when he successfully completed a $183 billion hostile takeover of Mannesmann of Germany.

In what is now the largest acquisition in tech history, Dell bought EMC for $67 billion or $33.15 a share.

In April Cargill completed the largest acquisition in its history, buying Cerestar, a French ingredient maker, for $1.1 billion.

In August Heinz made the largest acquisition in its history, paying $820 million for HP, the British maker of Lea & Perrin's Worcestershire sauce, in a kind of cocktail-sauce-synergy.