Sentence examples for surprising acquisition from inspiring English sources

Nor is Oculus the first surprising acquisition for Zuckerberg.

Their most surprising acquisition was a 2.5-carat, pear-shaped, dark olive-green diamond, Mr. Bronstein has said.

Square, the popular mobile payments company, has proved just how important designers are by making a surprising acquisition.

Typically, when a company makes a surprising acquisition like this, analysts jump in to explain the strategic shift that the purchase represents.

Facebook's surprising acquisition of WhatsApp signals that it has realized that users' true social network is the contact list on their smartphones.

Moving forward from Ping Identity's surprising acquisition, the question remains of whether tech unicorns will begin considering private equity as a viable means of exit.

But Monday had a spate of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, surprising investors, who had expected deal activity to slow in the grim environment.

Chiefly through financial engineering (his company, renamed livedoor in 2004, has split its stock 30,000-fold) and a succession of often surprising mergers and acquisitions, the market value of the empire Mr Horie built rose to about ¥930 billion ($8 billion) at its peak.

This is not surprising, as Facebook acquisitions are almost always about engineering talent versus product.

So when the Menil Collection in Houston announced this week that it had bought two new canvases by this 76-year-old earth artist, the acquisition was surprising.

The most surprising thing about this acquisition is its size.