Sentence examples for was quickly acquired from inspiring English sources

Reddit raised $100,000 and was quickly acquired by Conde Nast for between $10 million and $20 million.

Then there are the quirky players, like Bac'n —a startup to sell bacon on the Internet, which was quickly acquired by Bacon Freaks.

Waymo claims its trade secrets were stolen by Anthony Levandowski, who allegedly downloaded 14,000 confidential documents from Waymo systems before launching the self-driving truck company Otto that was quickly acquired by Uber.

One of the most notable players to emerge in the past year in this area was Karma, a super slick social mobile gifting app that was quickly acquired by Facebook within hours of its initial public offering.

Another video-sharing service, Vine, debuted just over a year ago, and was quickly acquired by Twitter.

PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, "Don Jon" was quickly acquired by Relativity Media for $4 million -- one of the bigger deals to come out of the festival.

But the upshot is that older workers will benefit when skills are quickly acquired and quickly eroded, because they can boost their productivity with "staccato episodes of short-term training".

"She feared there could be further riots in the near future and hoped, therefore, that losses in equipment would rapidly be made good and that any new equipment which was identified as necessary would be quickly acquired".

I suspect YouTube will be quickly acquired and/or duplicated.

He posts the portfolio to eBay in 2006, and it's quickly acquired by a Lawrence, Kansas book dealer (who has also requested anonymity).

They belong to a quite different evolutionary lineage and can be quickly acquired or lost through transposition or recombination.