Android diehards counter that many Apple fans will blindly buy up anything the company produces and that the closed iOS system stifles creativity.
But it could serve to re-energize the Apple faithful who line up to buy whatever new gizmos the company makes and may be growing impatient for new ones.
Proview had a product called the IPAD, Apple set up a shell company to buy the trademark from them.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn owns a small stake in offshore driller Transocean and is looking for regulatory approval to buy up nearly 5% of the company.
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The vote came after Icahn had made two separate offers to buy up MGM debt in order to merge the company with Lionsagte, a studio where he is the majority shareholders.
We'll see if investors buy the company stock and whether the stock price goes up or down.
When the plant's elderly general director instructed him to buy up company shares so it would not fall into the hands of an outsider, Mordashov bought most of them himself.
Freeing up more cash could buy the company time to see if there really is a desire for a number three smartphone company.
Other analysts have speculated that the company could buy up production businesses, even suggesting that Apple and ITV could settle their potential tug-of-war over the three-letter name by the simple expedient of the former buying the latter.
The company also extended the deadline for exercising options to buy up to 775, 000 HP shares.
Leviton, the Melville, NY-based manufacturer of lighting management systems, data networking solutions and electrical wiring devices, said it plans to buy Obvius, the energy-management start-up company based in Portland, Oregon.
An alternative way for companies with less than stellar ratings to get through tricky periods used to be to set up special entities that would buy receivables from the parent company, using money that was raised cheaply from the capital markets.
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The company also said it will buy back up to 5% of its outstanding common stock.
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The company's strategy is to buy up firms at home and abroad and instil its own standards of quality.
Now, not as many people like it as much and the company is trying to dream up more stuff to sell that everyone around the world will buy.
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It would continue to reinsure Independent Insurance (insurers also buy insurance for themselves) only if the company was to put up collateral.
They can buy a company, load it up with debt, lay off the workers, strip away the pensions, send the jobs overseas -- and still make a big profit doing it.
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"If it were up to me, I'd buy all the stock and take the company private, " says Burkle.
Oshkosh faltered badly during the subprime crisis when demand for its construction equipment dried up right after the company had taken on massive debt to buy Wall Street darling JLG, a maker of lift equipment.
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Kelly oddly feigns a lack of certainty about how economically stimulative private equity is, but as evidenced by them only getting paid if they can buy a company and fix it up for sale at a profit, the answer to this seeming riddle is self-evident.
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In a filing with the SEC on Friday, Schulze said he was in negotiations with Best Buy about deal in which up to three private equity firms would invest in the company, in exchange for a board seat for each firm plus two nominees by Schulze.
Seidenfeld says he was set up by a vengeful Kazakh minority shareholder who tried and failed to buy the company Seidenfeld ran at a big discount.
On the economic side, in addition to solidarity loans, the company has set up a microfranchise program that allows members to buy wholesale products to distribute in their communities.
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If they accept it, then their company will join the JGI incubator, where the University will buy up to 50 percent of the business for ten to twenty thousand dollars.
Spinoffs these days are being driven by the growing influence of hedge funds, where impatient managers buy up shares of a company and pressure managers to sell off parts of a business to spur quick market gains, many experts say.
The previous owner of The Sorrel Horse in Shottisham, Suffolk intended to sell the pub for housing, prompting local people set up a company to buy it.
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And if the company does go public again, institutional investors will not exactly be lining up to buy shares.
Because Mr. Dell eventually allied himself with private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take Dell private, it has been up to Mr. Mandl to defuse worries that Mr. Dell had an inside track to buy the company on the cheap.
But executives have been uncomfortable about the secondary market that has sprung up to buy shares from current and former Facebook employees because such sales have led to inconsistent valuations of the company that are based on small numbers of shares changing hands.
That same year, he teamed up with Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban to buy a 30% stake in media company Bezeq, which the Israeli government was selling.
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