Oracle issued swift responses by having gone on a recent shopping spree of its own.
An international shopping spree has brought the company big operations in Argentina, Italy, Mexico, America and Australia.
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Graff relocated to New Bond Street in the tony Mayfair neighborhood--and went on a real estate shopping spree.
So, the word on the street is that Chevron is looking to go on a shopping spree.
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One product that's proved especially popular in the post-Communist shopping spree is cars.
There are clear signs that their 17-year shopping spree that helped bring prosperity worldwide is coming to an end.
Managed-money accounts in platinum continued their shopping spree and boosted their net-long position.
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Goldman also used the global slump to expand abroad, especially in Asia, going on a shopping spree for distressed assets.
Microsoft Chairman BillGatesBill Gates is on a shopping spree, and Internet telephone providers are at the top of his list.
Meanwhile, as WarrenBuffettWarren Buffett continued his weeklong shopping spree of European companies, the euro got another boost on Tuesday afternoon.
To pay for the shopping spree, he wants to spin off his textile operations into a separately listed company next year.
The M100 also included retailer Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ) in their mini shopping spree.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is on a shopping spree, and Internet telephone providers are at the top of his list.
After three or four hundred pages, the details of the latest shopping spree, protracted divorce or convoluted financial deal become numbing.
Meanwhile, as Warren Buffett continued his weeklong shopping spree of European companies, the euro got another boost on Tuesday afternoon.
EWallet is a small browser extension that you "carry" as you move from one Web site to another on your shopping spree.
Three years ago he reversed course and embarked on a shopping spree.
Oracle has been on a shopping spree this year that has included two impressive social marketing companies, Involver and Vitrue.
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The deal frenzy was over, and only when the deadline of Christmas actually loomed, did consumers come back for one more shopping spree.
This is great news for companies who are on a shopping spree, since most acquisitions are wealth destroyers for shareholders of acquiring firms.
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Although U.S. investors have become somewhat skittish about green technology, Asian conglomerates are at the start of what could become an extended shopping spree.
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Vicki Bryan of Gimme Credit, a bond-research firm, worries that Vanguard's shopping spree (and dividends to its shareholders) have left it with excessive borrowings.
The M100 also included retailer Target in their mini shopping spree.
Ever since then, Chinese oil companies have all but ignored U.S. assets while on a global shopping spree, forging ventures in Brazil, Venezuela, Iran, Angola, Sudan.
The 100-day writers' strike contributed to--and accelerated--the international shopping spree.
Then it switches to scenes of fashionistas hopping into their Spark mini-cars, which are rendered in five different unique colors, with one throwing boxes from a shopping spree into the back seat.
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So, with that said, we suggest you wait at least a day or two before using your smartphone to go on a shopping spree, because those online checkout forms can be downright tortuous.
But with every legislator determined to protect bases and guard units in his or her home district, it looks harder and harder to see how money can be freed for this shopping spree.
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