The shifts in the media landscape started to become more noticeable - blogging was becoming influential, and a series of big money acquisitions officially ended the dotcom bust.
Biotech is littered with examples of big money acquisitions or licenses written off or abandoned subsequently (Sirna and OncoMed come to mind).
Litvack was Hollywood, big money acquisitions, big vision.
The team, on paper, had it all: ace pitchers in Justin Verlander and Doug Fister, a can't-miss closer in Jose Valverde, a slugger in Miguel Cabrera and an off-season, big-money acquisition in Prince Fielder.
It is way too early for that kind of panic in baseball season, but the Angels are starting to think about it, with their latest big-money acquisition, Josh Hamilton, playing a small-money game these days, Jeff Passan writes on Yahoo.com.
Clubs employ a variety of responses when their big-money acquisitions aren't working out.
Microsoft has a poor record on big-money acquisitions in recent years – though its overall record is good.
But as Stuart Applebaum, the spokesman for Random House, noted: "The favorite pastime in book publishing is second-guessing the competition's big-money acquisitions".
Rio Tinto's $38 billion bid for Alcan sent ripples throughout Europe's mining sector on Thursday, with the offer's substantial premium heating up the prospects for big-money acquisitions.
The authors outline numerous cases of Chinese companies, often buoyed by dominance in the Chinese domestic market and saturated with cash from Chinese banks, swooping into Europe to make big-money acquisitions or large-scale investments in infrastructure.
