Previously, Walmart has acquired a range of startups whose technology it primarily put to use to augment its e-commerce efforts, including, most recently, social marketplace Luvocracy.
Previously, Walmart has acquired a range of startups whose technology it primarily put to use to augment its e-commerce efforts, including, most recently, social marketplace Luvocracy.
Genzyme, too, has a history of making acquisitions to augment its own research efforts.
The center will focus the business school's research efforts and augment its Global Management Program, with its rapidly widening selection of course offerings.
The resignation came amid tensions within the newsroom over the company's efforts to augment its financial journalism with new sources of revenue, including the sale of specialized research to institutional investors.
The base chief, an agency veteran, had traveled to Afghanistan last year as part of the C.I.A.'s effort to augment its ranks in the war zone.
The company has licensed Palm OS to rival manufacturers like Sony and Handspring, in an effort to augment its hardware revenue and to fend off a challenge from hand-held equipment powered by Microsoft's operating system, Pocket PC.
Headliners Microsoft msft rose 2.2% after agreeing to buy closely held Entropic in an effort to augment its speech-recognition software products.
In 2014, Google bought AI company DeepMind for a reported $500m, augmenting its own AI efforts which had been bundled together into the Google Brain unit.
