SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is paying $55 million to $60 million to buy Face.com, according to people familiar with the matter, acquiring the company that provides the facial-recognition technology used by the world's largest social network to help users identify and tag photos.
Russian oligarchs are notorious for the manner in which they have spent — and, for that matter, acquired — their fortunes, but, as the country's economy has matured, the big spenders have, too.
The great expectation is that they will definitively confirm or deny the existence of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that would help explain how matter acquires its mass.
Screenwriters don't spend months or even years researching their subject matter without acquiring a grasp of the basic facts.
The companies had talked more than a year ago, but then Ameritech, which is now owned by SBC Communications, complicated matters by acquiring a stake in the Belgian carrier.
Mr. Farella's "mandate is to figure out how to optimize the value of our total media offering," he added, and to explore matters like "acquiring further capabilities" in the media area.
Their training needs are wide and profound and range from being updated on content matters to acquiring management and social skills.
In the documentary about him, Mr. Vogel sought to dispel the notion that running a film society was a simple matter of acquiring films and showing them.
Whether the society was small, with leadership a matter of acquiring influence rather than hereditary position, or larger, with chiefs who were looked on with awe and treated with reverence, every gift or service had to be reciprocated.
There's also the matter of acquiring a code of ethics as a scientist, yet another "skill set" that can be developed by conducting reviews.
