On December 14, 2009, SFLC announced the filing of a lawsuit against 14 companies, including Best Buy, Samsung, and Westinghouse alleging these companies had violated GPLv2 by distributing BusyBox in some of their products without releasing BusyBox source code.

On May 6, 2009, the company announced it was to be acquired by Micro Focus for $ 75 million.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The Ricketts family acquired a majority interest in the Cubs in 2009, ending the Tribune years.

In February 2009, Cahiers was acquired from Le Monde by Phaidon Press, a worldwide publishing group which specialises in books on the visual arts.

* 2009: Zappos. com acquired by Amazon. com for $ 928 million.

* In July 2009, it was announced that HP would be making further " salary adjustments " to their acquired EDS staff, to bring EDS salaries in line with HP salaries.

On August 27, 2009, A + E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services.

On June 24, 2009, ZeniMax Media acquired the company.

On June 24, 2009, it was announced that Id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media.

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.

* On April 15, 2009, Macrovision announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Muze, Inc.

In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company, for $ 4. 24 billion.

On December 16, 2009, they acquired starting pitcher Roy Halladay from the Toronto Blue Jays for three minor-league prospects, and traded Cliff Lee to the Seattle Mariners for three prospects.

In July 2009, Jonze acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the Shane Jones novel, Light Boxes.

On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US $ 7. 4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009.

In 2009 REM FM was acquired and subsequently rebranded as Talk Radio Europe ( Talk Radio Europe ).

On October 15, 2009, Warner Bros. acquired the home entertainment rights to the Sesame Street library, in conjunction with Sesame Workshop.

2009 – Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest acquired PacketTrap for network monitoring.

In September 2009, Perot Systems was acquired by Dell for $ 3. 9 billion.

In 2009, Printronix acquired the TallyGenicom brand and their line matrix technology.

SoftICE was originally produced by a company called NuMega, and was subsequently acquired by Compuware in 1997, which in turn sold the property to Micro Focus in 2009.

These efforts were meant to make Cisco a " household " brand – a strategy designed to support the low-end Linksys products and future consumer products ( such as Flip Video camera acquired by Cisco in 2009 ).

In 2007, the Halcyon Company acquired the first-look rights to Dick's works, and in May 2009 they announced that after Terminator Salvation ( 2009 ), they would next adapt Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

In January 2009, Toshiba acquired the HDD business of Fujitsu.

This sample was used to synthesize the element ununseptium for the first time in 2009 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia, after it was bombarded with calcium-48 ions for 150 days.

: The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant — a RBMK type ( closed 2009 )

* Robert S. Norris & Hans M. Kristensen, " U. S. nuclear forces, 2009 ", Nuclear Notebook, " Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "

Deal Raises Eyebrows Amid Concern Over Iran's Nuclear Program ," January 16, 2009

The experiment began in June 2009 and, in January 2010, scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions announced internally that they had succeeded in detecting the decay of a new element with Z = 117 via two decay chains of an odd-odd isotope ( undergoing 6 alpha decays before undergoing a spontaneous fission ) and of an odd-even one ( 3 alpha decays before fission ).

On October 30, 2009, it was reported that Overkill had inked a multi-album deal with Nuclear Blast Records.

* Kiljugun – Extensive military buildup with motorized troop formations and construction of new advanced underground facility – Site of May 25, 2009 Nuclear Test.

* Chung Min Lee, " The Evolution of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Implications for Iran ", Proliferation Papers, Paris, Ifri, Winter 2009

*“ Normalization and Nuclear Issue Are Two Separate Matters ” – A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tongil Korea Net, January 17, 2009.

Williams is currently a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

* Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski ( Strategic Studies Institute, January 26, 2009 ), with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik and Andrew W. Marshall.

* " Presidency in the Nuclear Age ", conference and forum at the JFK Library, Boston, October 12, 2009.

* David Owen, " Nuclear Papers " ( Liverpool University Press, 2009 )

Beckett is currently a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

Upon deregulation of the United Kingdom ’ s electricity generation market it passed to the state-owned Scottish Nuclear, privatised as part of British Energy which was sold to the French company EDF in January 2009, and incorporated in the latter's UK subsidiary EDF Energy.

He is also a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

A march from the American embassy in Grosvenor Square to Trafalgar Square on 1 April 2009 brought together protesters from the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, The British Muslim Initiative, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

* " Presidency in the Nuclear Age ", conference and forum at the JFK Library, Boston, October 12, 2009.

In 2008, the band signed to the German Nuclear Blast Records and released their latest album Blood Oath in 2009.

In February 2009, part of the campus, the remaining nuclear licensed site, passed to Research Sites Restoration Limited ( RSRL ), who are decommissioning the site on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

* Member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

* June 3, 2009, Nuclear cooperation with U. A. E.

Browne currently acts as convenor of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

Moore is supported by the Nuclear Energy Institute ( NEI ), a national organization of pro-nuclear industries and in 2009 he chaired their Clean and Safe Energy Coalition.