Apple is definitely exploring acquiring them, and don't be surprised if Microsoft is right there to help once again, to ensure Google doesn't get them.
Officials around the league said that at the end of Scott Layden's tenure, he was shopping Kurt Thomas and, like Isiah Thomas, was exploring ways to acquire Wallace and Marbury.
Mr. Peck said the company, which never reported a profit, was exploring the possibilities of being acquired by another company and selling its game properties.
Last week, Joseph P. Nacchio, Qwest's chairman, indicated that he was exploring ways to negate his deal to acquire U S West.
Jerry Kilgore, Virginia's attorney general, said the state was exploring an action to force the defendants to forfeit any assets acquired as a result of the alleged spamming.
He was exploring his art.
The technology giant is exploring the idea of acquiring Tidal because of its strong ties to popular artists including Kanye West and Madonna, according to the Wall Street Journal.
General Dynamics, for its part, has been exploring the idea of acquiring Russia's Arena system, which uses a radar to detect antitank missiles or grenades and destroys them by firing munitions, according to Aleksandr I. Kobin, the general director of Rosvooruzheniye, the Russian arms sales agency.
One possible path along which nature evolves and acquires its habits was explored by Peirce using statistical analysis in situations of experimental trials in which the probabilities of outcomes in later trials are not independent of actual outcomes in earlier trials, situations of so-called "non-Bernoullian trials".
The potential presence of horizontally acquired β-lactamases was explored by phenotypic tests, which included Etest MBL strips (AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden) for the detection of class B carbapenemases and double disk synergy tests (DDST) for the detection of ESBLs, using amoxicillin-clavulanate and ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, imipenem, or meropenem disks (distance from 5 to 30 mm).
