Sentence examples for surprise acquisition from inspiring English sources

Nikkei's surprise acquisition of the "Pink 'Un" was confirmed after hours of intense speculation that began after Pearson had first told the stock exchange that it was in "advanced discussions" over a sale of the newspaper yesterday morning.

Roche, Europe's fifth-largest drug maker, has had its own setbacks in recent years, including sluggish sales growth and the surprise acquisition of 20percentt of its shares earlier this year by its crosstown rival, Novartis A.G.

Nine months after the surprise acquisition was announced, EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes has said she is satisfied that the deal holds no potential danger to the software market.

The virtual reality startup, leveraging the $2bn investment gained from Facebook's recent surprise acquisition, is working on a new massively multiplayer online (MMO) world that aims to go beyond gaming to create a new communication network, said Oculus's chief executive, Brendan Iribe.

That surprise acquisition also underscores the failure of the Revolutionary generation "to recognize the opportunity presented by the Purchase to revisit the Native American question so as to avoid removal," Mr. Ellis writes, and its "unwillingness to use this extraordinary occasion to promote the possibility of prohibiting the expansion of slavery into the Louisiana Territory".

Gartner predicts M&A fever for UEBA vendors in 2016 after the surprise acquisition of Caspida by Splunk ($190 million) last year.

The surprise acquisitions of Howard and Nash seemed to return a fading team to its status as the team of the new millennium, with five titles since 2000.

Fresh off the completion of its surprise $650 million acquisition of Newsday, Cablevision said Tuesday that it was considering a variety of ways to reward investors.

Facebook's surprise $1bn acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram last April demonstrated its defensive strategy to keep the competition at bay. "The Instagram deal was not about what the company was worth, but what it was worth to Facebook to take it out of competition.

Eclipse's name was raised again as a possible merger candidate in June of last year after EQT Corp. made its surprise $6.7 billion acquisition of Rice Energy.

He admitted surprise that their acquisition of Tebow attracted significant news media coverage.