Last summer, it was "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," by Gustav Klimt, a lovely painting acquired for a headline-grabbing hundred and thirty-five million dollars.
By Peter Schjeldahl Last summer, it was "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," by Gustav Klimt, a lovely painting acquired for a headline-grabbing hundred and thirty-five million dollars.
The mobile market has had an unusually exciting past couple of weeks, with news of the Nokia and Microsoft partnership and HP launching a suite of devices based around its newly acquired webOs making headlines.
Last month, Yahoo made headlines when it acquired Summly, a newsreading mobile app started by a 17-year-old in England, for an undisclosed sum.
Last fall PBS became the subject of many headlines when it acquired "American High," a reality program documenting the lives of a group of Illinois high school students.
Reddit Reddit made headlines when Conde Nast acquired them.
It seems one of the Chicago baseball teams had just acquired Enos "Country" Slaughter, and the headline read, "Welcome to Chicago Enos".
Peltz also made headlines recently when he acquired a 3% stake in Kraft Foods (See "Kraft Hit By Peltz's Train").
Headline-grabbing investor Carl Icahn acquired a stake of about 7% in Temple-Inland last month and immediately set about cheerleading his own plan for the Austin, Tex.-based company.
The article and headline said Darryl Pitt, the man who had acquired the piece to be auctioned, needed the money.
"I'm just looking forward to the opportunity right now," said Williams, who was acquired Wednesday from Utah in the team's first headline-grabbing move under their new owner, Mikhail D. Prokhorov.
