Sentence examples for it acquired that from inspiring English sources

The 3Com Corporation agreed yesterday to pay $259 million to people who bought its stock during a five-month period in 1997 when critics said it was concealing important information about the operations of a company it acquired that year.

[Page C2.] 3Com to Settle Suit for $259 Million To settle a class-action lawsuit, 3Com agreed to pay $259 million to people who bought its stock during a five-month period in 1997 when critics said the company was concealing important information about the operations of U.S. Robotics, which it acquired that year.

In December, the Fed said it would also expand its holdings of Treasuries by $45 billion each month, replacing a program in which it acquired that amount of long-term Treasuries each month by selling the same amount of short-term Treasuries, so that the total size of its portfolio remained unchanged.

Facebook is also now giving away access to CrowdTangle, the journalism tool startup it acquired that helps reporters sift through trends, measure their social posts and identify sources and influencers.

To make up for that weakness, Salesforce is working on some skunkworks projects, particularly related to Prior Knowledge, a startup it acquired that originally launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year.

It acquired that intellectual property when it bought Sun Microsystems, which owned Java, in 2010.

In a letter to the accounting office, Mr. Wood emphasized that the energy agency needed more authority to punish lawbreakers and expressed the hope that the study would help it acquire that power.

Though the deadly H5N1 strain does not currently spread from person to person, scientists have worried that it may acquire that ability.

The deadliest strain of bird flu, H5N1, does not now readily infect humans or pass among them, though scientists worry that it could acquire that ability through biological rearrangement, setting off a human pandemic.

The company is now out of most of the businesses it acquired from that deal, and sold off its graphic chips business to Taiwan-based Via Technologies last year.

That's according to Daum Kakao, which confirmed to TechCrunch that it didn't acquire that asset.