Companies must anticipate consumer demand in the future, build in production time to meet that consumer demand, and build in acquisition time to meet the required production capacity.
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We were deep indoors though, so native GPS wasn't working and we couldn't get a clear idea of satellite acquisition time.
The improvements are hardly akin to a blowout buyout like AOL's acquisition of Time Warner.
That adds urgency to AOL's pending acquisition of Time Warner, which has 12.6 million cable homes ideally suited for broadband.
According to analysts, the proposed law would make land acquisition a time-consuming process, with some saying it will mainly affect large infrastructure projects as they would need more land and therefore approvals from more people.
Over time, looking at Customer Acquisition Cost is a useful way to tell if a company is having an easier or harder time selling its software.
At the time the acquisition corps consisted of 127, 000 workers, of which 52, 000 were contract personnel.
At the time of acquisition, drill results for the ore body at Chimiwungo indicated significant potential for copper.
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In 1994 I decided to chase our largest Canadian acquisition up to that time, all the assets of Inuvialuit Petroleum Co.
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The acquisition comes at a time when Campbell shares have soured, and the entire packaged food industry is struggling to pass off prices to consumers.
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Finally, Web startups hoping to be Google or Apple acquisition targets had a harder time getting venture capital this past quarter.
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Today some 70% of frames sold are made by the parent company, up from 5% at the time of the acquisition.
Neither Merrill Lynch nor Bear Stearns filed for bankruptcy but were arguably illiquid if not insolvent at the time of their acquisition.
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Varicent had more than 180 customers at the time of its acquisition.
At the time of the acquisition, Mr Sarrazin and his side-kicks were desperate to reassure Kleinwort that heavy Teutonic boots would not be trampling all over their precious merchant bank.
The property right of the Zouheils in the partnership is personal property and is governed by the law of their matrimonial domicile at the time of its acquisition in this case, Morocco.
The acquisition comes a month after Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons said AOL had been "stabilised" after years of subscriber losses and cost-cutting - in 2003 it lost 2.2 million internet members.
Meanwhile, as my colleague Jeff Bercovici reports, Murdoch has moved back the timetable for acquiring British broadcaster BSkyB, apparently with the hope that the hacking scandal will blow over in due time and the acquisition will be allowed to take place.
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Today some 70% of the frames sold are made by Luxottica, up from 5% at the time of the LensCrafters acquisition.
For Time Warner, the acquisition would not only create a more serious competitor, but help unwind a complicated relationship with Comcast left over from an earlier acquisition.
In essence, Groupon is claiming that its massive expenditures on marketing and related customer-acquisition costs are a one-time thing, a side effect of creating an entirely new market.
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This deal is the latest in a long string of old media companies buying up online properties, one that stretches back to Time Warner's acquisition of AOL in 2000.
At the time of the Yahoo acquisition, Geocities had focused on monetization and let scale grow on its own, making a few mistakes along the way in terms of figuring out monetization at scale.
Unlike consumer grade smart phones that yield low performance and high failure rates when force-fit into line of business applications, the CS40 is built on Windows Embedded Handheld technologies including the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and is designed for mobile professionals who need versatile and reliable access and acquisition of information in real-time, at the point of work.
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At the time of the Huffington Post acquisition, he said, AOL had 400 engineers and 400 journalists on staff.
Martin is also bullish on Time Warner because of its acquisition of cable operator Adelphia, which will be accretive to earnings and create a "separate currency" for the company's cable assets.
In fact, at the time of the IBM ThinkPad acquisition, the China business was 37% of total Lenovo revenues, so the China sales out of the global revenues by Q4 fiscal 2009 had actually increased nearly 10%.
Subtract a one-time charge related to its acquisition of graphics chip specialist ATI, and AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share during its March quarter, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share--even after AMD had guided estimates lower not once but twice over the preceding quarter.
After all, the best that can be hoped for is that the President will not get such approval since, if it were granted, Iraq would almost certainly agree to admit inspectors -- then proceed to diddle them as it had before, staving off U.S. action while buying further time for Baghdad's acquisition of atomic or nuclear weapons.
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