And with Instinet he achieved the near-impossible: eliminating the acquired company's costs while keeping--indeed increasing, revenue.
These commando-like management teams descend on the newly acquired company and act as in-house consultants.
If the acquisition is successful, the searcher takes over as CEO and runs the acquired company.
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They see decisions made (or not made) that took the acquired company off course.
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We know that growth is something that inspires them and then there is enthusiasm within the acquired company.
Most acquisitions work out for the acquired company only, not the acquirer, and this seems certain to fit that mold.
The sale is structured as a leveraged buyout, which requires the acquired company to repay the debt taken on to finance the deal.
You don't have to be particularly adept at running the acquired company, just smart enough to claim the interest deduction, in order to make a fortune.
Rupert Murdoch announces a deal in the media sector, for example, and all boats rise to reflect at least part of the premium paid for the acquired company.
Ordinarily in a mega takeover, the shares of the acquiring company sell off after the completion of the deal as some shareholders of the acquired company dump their new stock.
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There was a phishing attack the other day when a large company acquired a small company.
Recently, Amex has continued to make moves in the social media space into gaming, the company acquired the virtual currency company Sometrix in hopes of integrating their Serve mobile payment system into the payment path of the 450 games in over 200 countries that Sometrics supports.
Another company making waves in the social media support space is Salesforce.com, which recently acquired a company called Assistly.
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Facebook recently acquired a company called Glancee, which did something similar to the Find Friends Nearby feature.
The Weavers also run LC Footwear, LLC, which acquired another company both Weavers owned shares in, PL Footwear, Inc.
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Zynga made a huge investment in mobile and acquired a company, he says.
"We have a definite social contract with the community, " says Jesseman, who acquired the company in 1985 and created an ESOP.
That strategy has been very helpful and looking back over the last several months, Apple acquired another company AuthenTec.
Once a Google engineer after the search giant acquired his company FeedBurner, Costolo suggested that Google may have lost its moral compass.
Moreover, EMC knew the VMware team well when it acquired the company.
Bank of America said it reached the settlement "to resolve issues about Countrywide's alleged historic practices" before it acquired the company in 2008.
Intel also has operating systems and BIOS. Intel acquired a company called Wind River, and this is a very strategic asset for McAfee.
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"We have a definite social contract with the community, " says Jesseman, who acquired the company in 1985 and created a share-ownership program for employees.
Google has struggled to profit from YouTube's enormous stock of videos and user accounts since the search giant acquired the company in October of 2006.
To save his company, the founder reached out to one of its major customers, a large health care corporation, which ultimately acquired the company and allowed it to thrive.
In recent months, it released new software tools that give search marketers more access to its ad platform, known as Microsoft adCenter, and in July the company acquired AdECN, an advertising exchange company that aims to host a fully transparent, NASDAQ-style marketplace for ads.
Kimberly-Clark ( KMB - news - people ) shares fell slightly, about 1% after the company announced it acquired privately held safety product company Jackson Products for an undisclosed amount of cash.
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The company also acquired mobile app GroceryIQ which enables the company to push coupons to mobile as well.
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Also Facebook gaming company Double Down Interactive was recently acquired by video poker company International Game Technology, fueling more speculation.
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