Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

A ban on the use of betting exchanges took effect in Western Australia on 29 January 2007, with Betfair successfully claiming this new law violated the Constitution of Australia.

On 27 January 2009, Betfair announced the purchase of the TVG Network in the United States from Macrovision $ 50 million USD as part of Macrovision's dissolving of TV Guide's assets.

In January 2003, the Armenian government and United Company RUSAL signed an investment cooperation agreement, under which United Company RUSAL ( which already owned a 76 % stake ) acquired the Armenian government's remaining 26 % share of RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill, giving RUSAL 100 % ownership of RUSAL ARMENAL.

On 24 January 2005 it was announced that Mandrakesoft had acquired Conectiva for 1. 79 million euro ( 2. 3 million U. S. dollars at the time ).

By January 1970, Zambia had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining interests, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesia Selection Trust ( RST ); the two became the Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines ( NCCM ) and Roan Consolidated Mines ( RCM ), respectively.

* Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems on 27 January 2010.

* On January 1, 2007, Macrovision acquired Mediabolic, Inc.

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 Wannsee Villa, which the Stiftung Nordhav acquired in November 1940, was the site of the Wannsee Conference ( 20 January 1942 ).

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

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

By January 1970, Zambia had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining corporations, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesia Selection Trust ( RST ); the two became the Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines ( NCCM ) and Roan Consolidated Mines ( RCM ), respectively.

* January 9 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773.

Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000.

The term appears in Marx's article in the New-York Daily Tribune article " The Emancipation Question ," January 17 and 22, 1859, although there the term is used to describe humans who act like a capital to the producers, rather than in the modern sense of " knowledge capital " endowed to or acquired by humans.

* High Moon Studios in San Diego, California, founded in 2001, acquired by Vivendi Games in January 2006.

In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

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

The company was renamed Lycoris in January 2002 and its assets were acquired by Mandriva on June 15, 2005.

After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems ( in January 2010 ) it renamed both StarOffice and StarSuite as " Oracle Open Office ".

They acquired Adrian Dantley in exchange for Knight, but Dantley ( who was averaging nearly 27 points per game at the time ) was traded in December, while the Pacers ' second-leading scorer, John Williamson, was dealt in January.

In January 2009, L0phtCrack was acquired by the original authors Zatko, Wysopal, and Rioux from Symantec.

* Computer Network Technology Corporation, an enterprise acquired by McData in January 2005

* The company acquired EqualLogic on January 28, 2008, to gain a foothold in the iSCSI storage market.

Following the success and critical acclaim for this set, BCI Eclipse on January 16, 2006, struck a long-term exclusive deal with Entertainment Rights for distribution rights to its entire Filmation catalog ( with the exception of the Archie series which was acquired by Genius Products ).

After Harding acquired The Pennsylvania Inquirer, it was briefly published as an afternoon paper before returning to its original morning format in January 1830.

In January 1995, it acquired Continental Baking Company, for US $ 330 million and 16. 9 million shares of Interstate stock from Ralston Purina.