As Mr Zwirner explained, "The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open soon, so it has to get cracking with its acquisition programme.
Pros: Microsoft demonstrated it's hungry for data with its acquisition of LinkedIn.
Though the company is large with $3.4 billion in sales–it competes with giants including Oracle (with its acquisition of Sun), Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Google, too, has made a big concession to Apple's approach, signaling with its acquisition of Motorola Mobility last year that it will also design its own devices.
Last year, it jumped into user-generated video with its acquisition of Grouper.com.
That is an effort that it has filled out so far with its acquisition of AOL, and now Yahoo.
It may be hoping that will change with its acquisition of the Astonishing Tribe, an interface and design company, which it announced on the R.I.M. blog last week.
Along with its acquisition of Tom Brown, the company said that it planned to accelerate the sale of conventional oil and gas wells in Canada.
With its acquisition, Scotiabank will expand its presence in China, where it has been doing business since the early 1980s.
R.B.S. is struggling to cope with its acquisition of a large Dutch lender, ABN Amro.
Comcast became a direct competitor of CBS in January with its acquisition of NBC Universal.
