GLOBEtrotter was then acquired by Macrovision in 2000.

In implementing its strategy to regain political dominance over post-Soviet countries by taking over their economic infrastructure, the Russian state, since 2000, has acquired several key assets in the energy sector and Soviet-era industrial plants.

In 2000, HK was contracted to refurbish the SA80 rifle ( AR-18 based also used in the G36 ) for the British Army, since at the time HK was a subsidiary of BAE Systems who had acquired Royal Ordnance Factory.

Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $ 12. 5 billion ($ billion today ).

QED was acquired by the semiconductor manufacturer PMC-Sierra in August 2000, the latter company continuing to invest in the MIPS architecture.

) In late 2000 IBM introduced 64-bit z / Architecture, acquired numerous software companies such as Cognos and introduced those software products to the mainframe.

Following Mobil's merger with Exxon, at the start of 2000 BP acquired all the petrol retailing assets as well as the Coryton refinery ( but sold it to Petroplus in 2007 ).

As the need for office space in the Palace increased, Parliament acquired office space in the nearby Norman Shaw Building in 1975, and more recently in the custom-built Portcullis House, completed in 2000.

Quarterback Jim Harbaugh, who was acquired in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens for a conditional draft choice in 2000, became the Chargers starting quarterback.

In September 2000, SGI acquired the Zx10 series of Windows workstations and servers from Intergraph Computer Systems ( for a rumored $ 100 million ).

In 2006, 93 Games Studio announced that they have acquired the license to produce the official Twilight 2000 Version 3. 0, with plans for a 2008 release with the title Twilight: 2013.

White Wolf acquired the rights to the game in 2000, even though no new material had been produced for the game in over four years.

Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc. Palm was later acquired by U. S. Robotics Corp., which in turn was later bought by 3Com, which made the Palm subsidiary an independent publicly traded company on March 2, 2000.

The company was acquired by Primedia in 2000 in a deal that valued About at $ 690 million.

Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000.

In 2000 Psion acquired Teklogix in Canada for £ 240 million, and merged its business-to-business division, Psion Enterprise, with the newly acquired company.

IBM, which had previously acquired the primary commercial vendor of DFS and AFS, Transarc, donated most of the AFS source code to the free software community in 2000.

* Berkeley Systems in Berkeley, California, founded in 1987, acquired in 1997, closed 2000.

He acquired wider notice while starring in Fox Family Channel's television series Higher Ground in 2000, portraying a teen who was sexually molested by his stepmother, and then turned to drugs in his despair.

In October 2000, Royal Crown was acquired by Cadbury Schweppes plc through its acquisition of Snapple.

In October 2000, the patent was sold to Texaco and a week later Texaco was acquired by Chevron.

Creative then acquired Aureal's assets in September 2000 through the bankruptcy court with the specific provision that Creative Labs would be released from all claims of past infringement by Creative Labs upon Aureal's A3D technology.

MPR acquired Marketplace Productions, which produces Marketplace, " Marketplace Morning Report " and " Marketplace Money " from studios in Los Angeles, in association with the University of Southern California, in 2000.

Pfizer has made numerous acquisitions, including of Warner – Lambert in 2000, Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009, the latter acquired for US $ 68 billion.

* Pope John Paul II ( 2000 )-Press agent Lee Solters arranged a ceremony orchestrated in front of a crowd of 50, 000 in Saint Peter's Square in which the Pope was recognized as an honorary Globetrotter.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

Well known creators who have worked for 2000 AD include:

First released in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998, Hikaru no Go achieved tremendous success, spawning a popular Go fad of almost unprecedented proportions ; it received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and its creators received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 for the series.

The debate intensified in the final days of the 2000 election when six Republican state secretaries of state, led by the California state secretary of state, Bill Jones, charged that vote-pairing web sites were illegal and threatened criminal charges against their creators.

In 2000, many of the vote pairing web sites were hosted in California, and so when the California state secretary of state, Bill Jones, charged that the web sites were illegal and threatened their creators with criminal prosecution, some ( but not all ) of the sites reluctantly shut down.

It is possible that Jones's threats of criminal charges against the creators of the vote-pair web sites changed the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.

Alex St. John, one of the creators of DirectX, said in a 2000 interview that,

Also working on early feature Ro-Busters ( after Starlord merged with 2000 AD ), Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 ADs earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs / issues.

In the Prog 2000 holiday special, published at the end of 1999, Johnny Alpha was revived by his original creators, Wagner and Ezquerra.

Filmmaker Eli Roth's Hostel ( 2005 ), released in January 2006, was the first to be called " torture porn " by critic David Edelstein, but the classification has since been applied to Saw ( 2004 ) and its sequels ( though its creators disagree with the classification ), The Devil's Rejects ( 2005 ), Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), and the earlier films Baise-moi ( 2000 ) and Ichi the Killer ( 2001 ).

The company was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2000 from the film studio ( and Microsoft, which had part ownership of the company ) and in 2003 merged with the Westwood Studios ( the original creators of the Command & Conquer series ) and EA Pacific ( originally Westwood Pacific ) to create the new EA Los Angeles development studios.

Judge Dredd was created for IPC's new science fiction comic 2000 AD in 1977 by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, but problems in pre-publication led to both creators walking out, and the first published story was written by Peter Harris and Pat Mills, and drawn by an inexperienced young artist called Mike McMahon.

The Musical ", which aired on November 22, 2000, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving ( November 23 ), the creators went to spend time with their families for the holiday, and then came back on Sunday, November 26, to finish " Pip ".

His first lead role came in the science fiction television show The Zack Files ( 2000 ), which its creators described as " an X-Files for kids ".

One of L ' Association's most distinctive works is the seminal black-and-white anthology Comix 2000 which features work from over 300 creators from 29 countries in one 2, 000-page hardcover volume.

The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) in 2000 to " raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life " and " to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe ".

David Atkins and Ignatius Jones, who were the artistic creators of the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, were also the co-creators of the musical, The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular.

Introduced in Chabon's novel in 2000, the Escapist is said to be the creation of the book's protagonists Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, a pair of Jewish comic book creators in the 1930s and ' 40's.