News tagged with acquisitions
The Role of Sleep in Learning New Words
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has demonstrated for the first time the importance of sleep in learning new words, and has shown the process has fast and slow components. The slow component is associated with ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 13, 2009 |
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Facebook launches iPhone camera app (Update)
Facebook released a "camera" application Thursday that lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones.
May 24, 2012 |
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SAP to buy Ariba for $4.5B, extending cloud push
(AP) -- Business software maker SAP AG on Tuesday said it will buy Ariba Inc., which makes Web-based software that connects suppliers and buyers online, for about $4.51 billion.
May 22, 2012 |
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Oracle's 3Q earnings top analyst forecasts
Sales of new software licenses at Oracle accelerated in the latest quarter, easing concerns about customers defecting to less expensive alternatives on the Internet.
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Music service gives Myspace second wind
Faded online social network Myspace said Monday it was getting a second wind due to the popularity of a freshly launched online music player.
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Myspace purchase a 'huge mistake': Murdoch
News Corp's purchase of Myspace was a "huge mistake" and the social network was mismanaged "in every possible way" following the acquisition, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said Friday.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship between how a word sounds and what it means.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (Update 2)
Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion deal to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is aimed at giving the Internet search leader more legal firepower as it battles Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to gain ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Microsoft adds a collaboration feature to the Word Web App
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is looking to make a move into Google's office suite functionality on the web. They announced on the Windows Live blog that they are adding a new feature to the Word Web App and ...
Jul 08, 2011 |
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eBay buying Zong for $240 million
PayPal owner eBay said Thursday that it has agreed to buy mobile payments provider Zong for $240 million in cash.
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Twitter buys TweetDeck for reported $40M to $50M
Twitter has bought TweetDeck, a London-based startup that helps people read, write and organize the short messages posted on the online network - and will keep the service going.
May 25, 2011 |
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Language learning: Researchers use video games to crack the speech code
When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person. Given this, how do infants decode all of the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and meanings?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 18, 2011 |
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Google's $700 million ITA buy cleared with conditions (Update)
Google's entry into the online travel sector was cleared for takeoff Friday as the US Justice Department gave the green light to its $700 million purchase of flight data company ITA Software.
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor
Computer chip maker Texas Instruments said Monday it would buy California rival National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in an all cash deal.
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Mergers and acquisitions
The phrase mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity.
For more information about Mergers and acquisitions, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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