It is a provider of patent risk solutions, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence and advisory services.
Competitors to Live Gamer, which bought recent acquisitions of microtransaction platforms Twofish and N-Cash last year, include PlaySpan.
To Buy Time Acquisition activity can also make sense when the acquisition allows an incumbent to "buy time" for its organic efforts to bear fruit.
Denbury Resources, an oil and natural gas producer based in Plano, Tex., said it would buy Encore Acquisition for about $4.5 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Home Products had previously agreed to be bought by JRT Acquisition Inc. for $1.50 a share.
Dobbies was Tesco's first non-food acquisition, bought for £155m in 2007 when Sir Terry Leahy was in charge.
That prospect is unlikely to reassure investors.Asset inflationVivendi's gigantic loss for last year included a euro12.6 billion writedown in the value of assets bought during its acquisition binge.
Great Portland Estates added 20.5p to 548p after UBS moved from neutral to buy: Recent acquisitions should deliver short-term income streams which will boost earnings but these also form the longer-term development pipeline.
The distinction is not scholastic subterfuge, but a hard-bought acquisition in the fight for freedom.
Another company, LR Acquisitions, bought the company's patents and 70 prototypes of the un-launched Lily drone.
Employees bought in hostile acquisitions know they can walk away.
