In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

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.

As of 2008, DreamWorks acquired the rights to produce a live-action film adaptation of the original manga with Steven Spielberg.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.

The Fells, a local nonprofit organization that has maintained and managed the John Hay Estate on Lake Sunapee for over a decade, acquired the northern half of the property from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2008.

In turn, that company was partially acquired in 2005 by Pernod Ricard, now the largest spirits distributor in the world since its merger with the Swedish Vin & Sprit in March 2008.

In 2008 2 medium-range radars were acquired for the Air Forces Airspace Surveillance and Control Command.

* Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB on 26 February 2008.

In July, they signed three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez and acquired 2008 American League Cy Young winner Cliff Lee before the trade deadline.

In October 2008, production company Coolbai acquired the merchandising and distribution rights until 2013 to a number of the Smallfilms productions.

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.

In 2008, they found a buyer ; imeem acquired Snocap in a fire sale.

* Resolution plc, a defunct major manager of in-force UK life funds acquired by Pearl Group in 2008

After the wide-reaching retreat of the Bayer AG from less popular professional sports in 2008, the club acquired its current name.

: Midnight in the House of Hurt ( 2008 ), Batman acquired a new nemesis, who shadowed him for seven more issues: his name was Pierrot Lunaire.

* Massive Entertainment in Malmö, Sweden, founded in 1987, acquired by Vivendi Games in 2002, sold to Ubisoft on November 10, 2008.

* Swordfish Studios in Birmingham, England, founded in September 2002, acquired by Vivendi Games in June 2005, sold to Codemasters on November 14, 2008.

In 2008 Dexa Systems spun off from Schlumberger and acquired Enterprise Security Services business, which included the smart card solutions division responsible for deploying the first large scale public key infrastructure ( PKI ) based smart card management systems.

In 2011 market shares were divided between Hughes Christensen, Smith Bits ( recently acquired by Schlumberger ), REEDHycalog ( acquired by NOV in 2008 ), Security-DBS ( now Halliburton Drill Bits and Services ) HDBS, and smaller companies such as Tercel Bits, Drilformance, VIPER BITS, DOWDCO, Varel, TSK, PDC Logis, Focusrocbit, Sam ( AOE ), Walker-Mcdonald et al., Ulterra, Lone Star Drill Bits, OTS, and Shear Bits Ltd. making up the rest.

On 29 February 2008, the three entrepreneurs transferred the brand, acquired in 1999, to the Gustav Gerig AG, an Aargau company, and the product thereby returned to its canton of origin.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

As an Egyptian with links to Scotland, Al-Fayed was intrigued enough to fund a 2008 reprint of the 15th century chronicle Scotichronicon by Walter Bower.

* 2008 – George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda ( b. 1928 )

* 1926 – Walter " Killer " Kowalski ( wrestler ) Canadian professional wrestler ( d. 2008 )

Walter Röhrl's 1981 924 Carrera GTS driven during the 2008 Rallye Deutschland.

* Kockelmann, Holger, Praising the goddess: a comparative and annotated re-edition of six demotic hymns and praises addressed to Isis ( Berlin ; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008 ).

At the April 2008 elections, Umbria gave more than 47 % of its votes to Walter Veltroni.

* Walter J. Kavanaugh ( 1933 – 2008 ), member of the State Senate who represented New Jersey's 16th Legislative District who had been a successful businessman in Somerville and a life member of the Somerville First Aid & Rescue Squad.

* Armanti Edwards, starting quarterback for the Appalachian State Mountaineers football team, and winner of the 2008 Walter Payton Award, given to the top Football Championship Subdivision offensive player.

Other former presidents include Robert Cooley ( 1981 – 1997 ), Walter Kaiser, Jr. ( 1997 – 2006 ), and James Emery White ( 2006 – 2007 ), and Haddon Robinson ( 2007 – 2008 ).

* Selle, Hendrik, Theognis und die Theognidea ( Berlin ; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008 ) ( Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 95 ).

More recently, he held a minor role in the 2008 film Valkyrie, as the commanding general of the German Afrika Korp X Panzer Division, and as a voice actor for Sir Walter Beck in Fable III ( 2010 ).

In 2008 and 2009, original members Walter Kibby, Christopher Dowd, and Kendall Jones joined Fishbone on stage on various occasions, most notably for the shoot of the Pepsi " Pass " commercial, which aired in January 2009.

* Rosemary Firman, ‘ Parratt, Sir Walter ( 1841 – 1924 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 March 2008

Tower Colliery was finally closed on 25 January 2008, although production continues at the Aberpergwm drift mine owned by Walter Energy.

* Juan Curuchet, former road bicycle racer and track cyclist, winner of the Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics at the age of 43 along with Walter Pérez.

In 2008, Jim McAuley, a soldier who boasted on Facebook that he had served with the SAS and killed more than 100 people, was termed a " Walter Mitty " by genuine soldiers who exposed him as a fantasist, forcing his resignation from the army.

In 2008, the popular band Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra emerged ; they have released two albums.

* In the 2008 film " The Visitor ," Walter, Zainab and Mouna ride the ferry, pointing out the space where the Twin Towers once stood, as well as the Statue of Liberty.

* Aizawa, Kenneth ; Schlatter, Mark, " Walter Pitts and ' A Logical Calculus '", Synthese ( 2008 ) 162: 235 – 250.

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

* Darren McFadden – winner of 2006 and 2007 Doak Walker Award, 2006 and 2007 Heisman Trophy runner-up and winner of the 2008 Walter Camp college football player of the year award.

presented a new production of No, No, Nanette in May 2008, directed by Walter Bobbie, with choreography by Randy Skinner, starring Sandy Duncan, Beth Leavel and Rosie O ' Donnell.

Shippey retired from the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2008.