In October 2008, YTL Corporation announced that it will acquire 26 % stake in Starhill Global REIT ( then known as Macquarie Prime REIT ) for S $ 202 million.

In December 2008, YTL Power International Bhd announced that it will pay S $ 3. 6bil cash and take on a debt of $ 201 million for PowerSeraya Ltd. PowerSeraya is the second largest power generation company in Singapore by installed capacity, supply about a quarter of Singapore's total licensed generation capacity.

Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.

In 2008, LG Display Co., Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Sharp Corp. have agreed to plead guilty and pay $ 585 million in criminal fines for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels.

On March 12, 2008, BBC News Online reported that " instead of underpinning the mortgage-backed securities market, it seems to have had the opposite effect, giving lenders an opportunity to dump the risky asset " and that Carlyle Capital Corp. " will collapse if, as expected, its lenders seize its remaining assets.

A January 17, 2008, article in the Wall Street Journal stated, " In November, Connecticut-based Poseidon Resources Corp. won a key regulatory approval to build the $ 300 million water-desalination plant in Carlsbad, north of San Diego.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that " Top executives from General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. Tuesday expressed doubts about the viability of hydrogen fuel cells for mass-market production in the near term and suggested their companies are now betting that electric cars will prove to be a better way to reduce fuel consumption and cut tailpipe emissions on a large scale.

On September 26, 2008, Washington Mutual, Inc. and its remaining subsidiary, WMI Investment Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

On October 16, 2008, Capitol West Appraisers filed a class action lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp. ( now owned by Bank of America ) alleging Countrywide blacklisted appraisers who refused to appraise real estate at inflated prices.

On December 24, 2008, the STB approved CN's purchase for $ 300 million of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company ( EJ & E ) ( reporting mark EJE ) from US Steel Corp originally announced on September 27, 2007.

On March 4, 2008, Murkowski's former chief-of-staff, Jim Clark admitted that he was aware that Veco Corp had paid $ 10, 000 for a political poll to gauge the popularity of then-incumbent Governor Murkowski.

On 26 June 2008, a fire in Lawachara National Park ( a natural forest ; a major national park, rare of its kind in the region, and crucial to maintain the biodiversity of Bangladesh's flora & fauna ) had broken out as Chevron Corp. carried out a 3D seismic survey that was to be six-months long.

In July 2008, Steuben was sold by Corning Incorporated for an undisclosed price to the Schottenstein Stores Corp., which also owns 51 % of Retail Ventures, a holding company for DSW, Filene's Basement, and formerly Value City Department Stores ; Value City Furniture, which changed its name to American Signature Furniture ; 15 % of American Eagle Outfitters, retail liquidator SB Capital Group, some 50 shopping centers, and 5 factories producing its shoes, furniture and crystal.

As of February 1, 2008, Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Yamaha Corp.

In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows / Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning user interfaces for the PenPoint OS.

In August 2008, the Indians extended their lease agreement with Gateway Economic Development Corp. for the stadium from 2013 to 2023.

As of February 2008, a dispute exists between Stryker Corp. and the U. S. Department of Justice concerning a subpoena linking the company to aforementioned misconduct in sale of products.

On December 17, 2008, the Baltimore Examiner reported that the Baltimore Development Corp. had received 4 proposals for the 1st Mariner Arena replacement that could take away a " major entertainment venue " for Baltimore for up to " 4 years " and the estimated price is $ 300 million, but could be more depending on additional retail and hotel uses.

* はじめて Hajimete ( 19 November 2008 ), the theme song for " Gyōretsu no Dekiru Hōritsu Sōdanjo Cambodia Gakkō Kensetsu Project " ( Nippon Television Network Corp .)

In April 2008, Magna's wholly owned subsidiary, Cosma International, announced that they were buying the Ogihara America Corp. stamping plant in Birmingham, Alabama, that makes parts for Mercedes-Benz and other automakers.

On November 21, 2008 U. S. Bank purchased Downey Savings & Loan Assn FA from Downey Financial Corp and Pomona First Fed Bk & Tr ( PFF ) from PFF Bancorp Inc, CA.

In 2008, McMoRan Exploration acquired the famed Blackbeard offshore prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, that Exxon Mobil Corp. abandoned in 2006 after drilling a dry hole.

In January 2008, Kopin Corp. announced a 0. 44 inch ( 1. 12 cm ) SVGA LCD with an astonishing pixel density of 2272 PPI ( each pixel only 11¼ μm ).

Since August 2006 it is part of Secure Computing Corp, which was acquired by McAfee in 2008.

On 20 May 2008 News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch named Thomson as the paper's new managing editor, succeeding Marcus Brauchli.

The company was previously known as A. H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the newspaper company spun off from Belo early in 2008.

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, Bunge acquired Walter Rau margarine company from Germany.

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.