VeriSign announced Monday that it planned to acquire Kontiki for $62 million, in a move to enter the broadband content services market.
QUICK & REILLY INC., New York, which provides discount brokerage services, said it would take a 24percentt stake in eWing, a Japanese online brokerage firm, for an undisclosed amount, in a move to enter Japan's fast-growing online investing market.
The BB&T Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to buy the Regional Financial Corporation, a closely held Florida bank holding company, for $275 million in stock, in a move to enter the Florida market.
A move to enter the Indian civil service proved unsuccessful, and so he went back to Lahore, where he pursued a less than brilliant legal career at the high court.
Zions Bancorp, which operates in eight Western states, said Wednesday that it agreed to purchase Amegy Bancorp, the third-largest independent commercial bank in Texas, for $1.7 billion in cash and stock, in a move to enter the Texas market.
Now Facebook is rumored to have recently inked a partnership deal with a Chinese Internet giant in a move to enter the country (which, as some have pointed out, won't be a walk in the park any way you look at it).
