Sentence examples for gaining technology from inspiring English sources

I.B.M. said yesterday that it had agreed to buy the Alphablox Corporation, gaining technology to integrate analytics like customer buying trends into existing software.

Schippers says the philosophical thrust is to serve a growing demand among graduates of liberal arts degrees who have found decreasing demand for their 'soft skills' vs the job market of 25 years+ ago — and who are therefore looking for ways to upskill after formal education, with a focus on gaining technology skills (and specifically skills that can help them get jobs).

With the FeeFighters acquisition, the focus is clearly on gaining technology aimed to help Groupon's merchant partners, an area which the company has been diving into more deeply lately, with this month's launch of the Groupon Scheduler booking service, another product that came out of an acquisition (OpenCal), as an example.

This year, like recent years, saw some continuation of big trends: with a few exceptions, the international policy community keeps failing to come to a meaningful agreement on climate change; carbon emissions just keep rising, transparency is increasingly unavoidable and keeps gaining technology-enabled traction; pressure from big companies on their suppliers keeps going up.

As we are gaining technologies to manipulate genes, evolutionary thinking about their origins and functions becomes more crucial than ever.

The McKesson Corporation, a leading drug distributor, has agreed to buy the Moore Medical Corporation for $40 million to gain technology for promoting and selling products on the World Wide Web.

Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, agreed to buy a marketing company, Enpocket, to gain technology for placing advertisements through text messages and e-mail.

They note that Google has a history of making deals to gain technology or talent, not to annex new geographic territory.

Motorola plans to buy MeshNetworks to gain technology that bolsters wireless connections for data, video, Internet-based telephone and other services.

The Invitrogen Corporation, which makes chemical kits used to analyze and clone genes, has agreed to acquire the closely held Dynal Biotech for about 2.5 billion Norwegian kroner ($381.6 million) to gain technology for cell research.

Cisco Systems csco agreed to acquire closely held StratumOne Communications for $435 million in stock to gain technology used in high-speed networks.