Initially they acquired DataTree Inc. in the early 1990s.

So the mutual fund industry had the regulators all to itself.

In 1989, OMV acquired a 25 stake in plastics group, Borealis.

All of this data got Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota s attention.

In 1993, Accor acquired a stake in the Hungarian Pannonia hotel chain with 24 hotels.

Then, last month, Google acquired Metaweb and its user generated database Freebase.

In turn, Sofidif acquired a 25 share in Eurodif, which gave Iran its 10 share of Eurodif.

In 2008, FactSet acquired a copy of the Thomson Reuters WorldScope database, which it develops and markets as FactSet Fundamentals.

This crisis absorbed almost all of the European Union s political attention this summer, even as famine in Africa has worsened.

Mariyah's beautiful writing, along with her most timely story breaks has captured the imagination of the readers, leaving them asking for more after each part.

Most underperforming ethanol companies went bankrupt or were taken over by entrepreneurs who had successful track records in running efficient operations.

To be sure, China s national balance sheet, which boasts positive net assets, has garnered significant attention in recent years.

Let me start off with a technical problem in language that I've worried about for quite some time and indulge me in my passion for verbs and how they're used.

The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and Egypt s Dream have also won large segments of the general Arab public with entertainment programs.

On July 20, 2006, the company announced that Jeff Bezos had acquired a minority stake via his personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions .

In Denmark, the telecommunications company TDC was taken over by a group of private equity firms in 2005, with 80 of the purchase financed by borrowing.

In October 2013 it was announced that Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its parent SoftBank had acquired 51 of the company for a reported 2.1 billion.

The representative of Nigeria said that how to get Africa out of its poverty cycle had long occupied the attention of policymakers at the national and international levels.

In June 2010, FactSet acquired Market Metrics, a market research firm situated in the United States that is solely focused on surveys conducted on advisor and insurance products.

To say that, over time, other bodies, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the specialized agencies, have usurped the powers and role of the Economic and Social Council is a defeatist attitude.

With a development plan by the Port of Singapore Authority having fallen through, the China Overseas Ports Holding Company has taken over, raising strategic concerns in India, Japan, and the US.

The cost of corruption has been particularly high in India and Indonesia, where policies created monopolies that earned scarcity rents, which were then allocated to officials family members.

This is exactly what happened when Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008, and what happened when AIG was taken over by the US government (actually in a resolution type structure, with losses implied for creditors) two days later.

Retail tools such as Altsys Fontographer (acquired by Macromedia in January 1995, owned by FontLab since May 2005) added the ability to create Type 1 fonts.

The observation that stem cells, as master cells, could give rise to a whole variety of different cell types heart cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells captured the attention of the media and the imagination of the public.

Repsol acquired complete control of YPF in 1999 in February 2008, it transferred part of its shares to the Petersen Group, which today holds 25 .

In 1947, the film assets of the successor companies of Pathé News, Inc. were purchased by Warner Bros. from RKO Radio Pictures, which had acquired them in 1931.

The authorities acquired some of the toxic assets, which over time became easier to value, as a few years of data on mortgage delinquency rates allowed investors to find ways to measure the risk.

European and other international banks had acquired a lot of dollar denominated assets which they habitually funded in the interbank market as the market dried up, they were forced to buy dollars.

And, on December 30, 1995, InterSystems acquired the DSM product line from DEC. InterSystems consolidated these products into a single product line, branding them, on several hardware platforms, as OpenM.

Brazil, the largest country in South America and home of 194 million people, has captured the attention of the world for its achievement 35 million Brazilians have escaped poverty over the last decade thanks to its fast growing economy which has consequently enhanced the middle class in Brazil.

In 1988, Rolls Royce acquired Northern Engineering Industries (NEI), a group of heavy engineering companies mainly associated with electrical generation and power management, based in the North East of England.

They have complex relationships to other things, and by representing that information using verbs for example, the company that Google acquired vs. the company that Google competes with we can represent the world more accurately.

In Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 left a legacy of deep political and economic crisis in the weaker economies of Southern Europe. This crisis absorbed almost all of the European Union s political attention this summer, even as famine in Africa has worsened.

No company exemplifies this more than Gazprom, the state run energy behemoth, which has gobbled up oil assets, media, banking interests, and farms within Russia, and seeks to do the same with downstream energy assets outside Russia, particularly in Europe.