In the spring of 1953 Seaver opened a letter from Barney Rosset, who had just acquired for a few thousand dollars the assets of Grove Press, a stillborn Greenwich Village publishing firm.
Its bankers may have information needed to determine whether the onetime successor to Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and chief executive, had violated securities laws when personally trading in shares of Lubrizol, which Berkshire just acquired for $9 billion.
Looking at Skybox - just acquired for $500m by Google - in August 2013: Forty years after humans first saw pictures of a blue and white marble taken from space, it's remarkable how few new images of Earth we get to lay eyes on.
Just look at Mint, which was just acquired for $170 million by Intuit.
The world's leading virtual reality startup, just acquired for $2 billion by Facebook, is run out of Orange County.
It's also worth noting that Uber has been a longtime user of Braintree for payments processing, a company PayPal just acquired for $800 million.
