While waiting for an acquisition's approval and completion, Mr. Schaeffer said, Mandalay could hardly grow as aggressively as it might like.
Expect to throw down $599 for a piece of the action if you don't feel like waiting for an acquisition that may never happen.
There is a precedent of sorts: in his beer company, he has achieved a balance of terror with his partner, Heineken, with each side owning a 37.5% stake.Diageo will pretend to be patient, but waiting for a transformational acquisition has a high opportunity cost.
Those waiting for big, profitable acquisitions involving venture-backed unicorns will have to keep waiting.
Federal officials granted a request for early termination of the waiting period for acquisition, and the company was notified by the Federal Trade Commission, Univision said.
Until then, we will be eating popcorn waiting for the next Salesforce acquisition.
"If players are getting in the mind frame of waiting for something to happen," said Cashman, referring to possible acquisitions, "that's the wrong mind frame to have.
Actions can then be triggered, such as a data-acquisition routine, or analysis or display programs waiting for data.
"Far from being timorous little mice waiting for the cat to come and eat us," he said, "we have been remarkable for acquisitions south of the border".
The rapid acquisition of a new mate does not mean that the male was not waiting for his mate to return.
And as CNN has reported, Twitter employees are "waiting for their stock options to vest with the hope of a better financial return from an acquisition".
