The phrase "acquired for more" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey that something was obtained at a higher cost or value, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The rare artifact was acquired for more than its estimated value at the auction."
Alternatives: "purchased for a higher price" or "obtained at a greater cost."
Under the agreement reached by the two companies, Mr. Zelnick said Take-Two would make a presentation in the coming weeks to Electronic Arts explaining why it believes it should be acquired for more than $25.74.
It took a few months, but the net result was that the company was acquired for more than five times the price the small investors were forced to accept.
Later that year, the company was acquired for more than $1 billion by FireEye Inc.
Data were acquired for more than 15 h resulting in 45 frames, each with 600-s acquisition time and an inter-frame delay of 600 s.
In the end, Ferrilla is glad he kept the rights to his IP, because in 2015, Ferrilla's $3 million business was acquired for more than $10 million.
In 2007 beat Lakshmi Mittal in race to buy Indian iron ore producer Sesa Goa acquired for more than $1 billion.
To stake out its ground in the wired world, Motorola, which is based in Schaumburg, Ill., has moved swiftly in the last year, forging alliances with Cisco Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop a new wireless infrastructure capable of delivering high-speed Internet access, and acquiring, for more than $11 billion, General Instrument, a leading maker of cable set-top boxes.
Last week, Seagram, the liquor company that is now an entertainment giant, announced that it would acquire, for more than $10 billion, the global music company PolyGram N.V., 75% of which is owned by the Dutch firm Phlips Electronics N.V. Seagram and PolyGram have somewhat of a history between them.
Salesforce won (Salesforce acquired BeyondCore for more than $110 million in 2016).
I later acquired it for more, which is all I'll tell you.
Comparatively, Apple acquired Siri for more than $200 million and Chomp for $50 million.
