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.
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.
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.
So, the gain technology of assured customer requirements, which using gray system theory, is proposed in this paper.
"I'm not saying all these platforms will stay the same forever," he said, "but in the near-term they will remain and gain technologies to acquire targets and process information and disseminate that information much more quickly".
This being said, it is important to take into account alternative ways to gain technologies, e.g. through open innovation, networks and cooperation, by outsourcing R&D.
As we are gaining technologies to manipulate genes, evolutionary thinking about their origins and functions becomes more crucial than ever.
