Sentence examples for been acquired though from inspiring English sources

Perhaps further reflecting the immaturity of Wayra, it says that to-date none of its startups have been acquired, though it notes that several negotiations are currently taking place.

A more parsimonious hypothesis is that the phasmid pectinase gene was acquired through horizontal transfer from a bacterial ancestor, much as the beetle pectinases are thought to have been acquired though horizontal transfer from an Ascomycete fungus [ 23, 30, 65], or as leaf beetle xylanases may have also transferred from a gamma proteobacteria [ 69].

And that is why Accredited was acquired — though at a reduced price — and the others were not.

Firms that applied for more patents were less likely to be acquired, though if they obtain unusually highly cited patents they may be a more attractive acquisition target.

(Gompers's definition of success is starting a company that goes public, so it applies inexactly to Quidsi, which was acquired, though the general lesson seems to apply).

Clear images were acquired, though requiring a long and technologically unacceptable integration time of the order of minutes.

Hyman didn't mention anything about being acquired, though AllThingsD says that HTC is close to buying the company through its Beats headphones subsidiary.

The "YouTube of music" might benefit from being acquired, though Twitter recently passed on the idea, which I believe was because it needed to spend the money to get its own monetization squared away by buying ad tech companies instead.

At the receiver, instantaneous, though imperfect, CSI is acquired through minimum mean-square estimation of the channel based on some set of pilot observations.

Though most of the collection was acquired through correspondence, Rainey does occasionally buy things from dealers.

Then came word that it may-or-may-not have been acquired by Microsoft, though the deal still has yet to be confirmed.