Sun Life continued to expand its wealth management business with the 1982 acquisition of Massachusetts Financial Services ( MFS ), the Boston-based investment management and mutual fund company.

The navy's priority re-equipment plans for the 1990s included the receipt of new Inhaúma-class corvettes, the construction of Tupi-class submarines, the refurbishing of the Niterói-class frigates, the acquisition of nine new Super Lynx and up to six former United States Navy Sikorsky SH-3G / H Sea King helicopters, the construction of the conventional SNAC-1 submarine prototype, and the development of nuclear-propulsion technology.

This acquisition included the Cubs.

Other significant developments during this decade included the merging of Jardine Insurance Brokers with Lloyd Thompson to form Jardine Lloyd Thompson, the acquisition of a 16 % interest in Singapore blue-chip Cycle & Carriage and Dairy Farm ’ s purchase of a significant stake in Indonesia's leading supermarket group Hero.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

Myriad smaller subunits included test, evaluation and acquisition activities serving as tenants with former Air Force Systems Command and Air Force Logistics Command entities, as well as ceremonial guard formations such as the SAC Elite Guard.

This included the construction of Lee Tower Residence Halls, the acquisition of a new physical plant building and the construction of a recreation center.

Taft's efforts included one suit against the country's largest corporation, U. S. Steel, for the acquisition of a Tennessee company during Roosevelt's tenure.

This relaxation included the exemption from regulation of all weapons and ammunition except handguns, the extension of the range of persons exempt from the permit requirement, and the lowering of the age for acquisition of firearms from 20 to 18.

After acquisition by the United States as a territory and once Florida obtained state status, the area now included in the county had been governed by Hillsborough County, then Manatee County as the state was divided into smaller and smaller governmental organizations.

Cooperation, common property, economic benefit, freedom of speech and action, kindness and courtesy, order, preservation of health, acquisition of knowledge, and obedience to the country's laws were included as part of the constitution.

The initial acquisition included the parish church of St John ( which was superseded by the chapel ) and three houses to the east of the church which now form the north range of Front Quad.

The town design initially called for the acquisition of, and included four sections — Vose and Springbrook in the north ( around what is now Springbrook Park ) and Bassel and Hall in the south ( around what is now the South Plant ).

This rivalry continued even after the Aldus acquisition, because FreeHand was not included, but Adobe eventually acquired Freehand in 2005 with its acquisition of then-owner Macromedia.

The company refused to accede to an offensive military treaty ; the treaty signed at Madras on 29 March 1769 restored the status quo ante bellum, except for Mysore's acquisition of Karur, and also included language that each side would help the other defend its territory.

This merger included companies such as Heuliez and Karosa, and the result was Irisbus, one of the major manufacturers in the passenger transport sector, which was further strengthened by the acquisition of the Hungarian company Ikarusbus.

The Matador Land and Cattle Company was founded in 1882 by Scottish investors, whose acquisition included 2. 5 million acres in four Texas counties.

The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMG's oldest unit.

These steps included the acquisition on June 2, 2008 of substantially all of the assets of the Pennsylvania Brewery from Diageo North America, Inc. From 2007 to 2009, core product volume brewed at company-owned breweries increased from approximately 35 % to over 95 %.

This acquisition also included the continuation from Rochester to Portland, Maine, incorporated in 1846 as the York and Cumberland Railroad.

These included languages based on HTML ( called SHOE ), based on XML ( called XOL, later OIL ), and various frame-based KR languages and knowledge acquisition approaches.

Attempted solutions had included the Lanchester acquisition and the introduction of smaller cars, the lower-priced 10 hp Lanchester and its matching but 6-cylinder stable-mate the Daimler Fifteen ( later DB17 and DB18 ) introduced in the early thirties.

Since the acquisition of the material, WIDEawake-Deathrow Entertainment LLC, under the management of WIDEawake Entertainment Group Inc., has made many positive steps towards improving the image of Death Row by making good on its promise to make royalty payments to many of the various artists, producers, and songwriters with commercially released material under the label. On " Record Store Day " April 18, 2009, the label has issued a free Death Row " Record Store Day " CD sampler, which included Petey Pablo's " Pay for the Pussy ," Crooked I's " Hoodstar ," and Danny Boy's " Do What You Do.

* Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation in the hard disk drive market ( after the acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division by the former and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies by the latter )

From its 2007 acquisition of 100 percent ownership of H3C Technologies Co., Limited ( H3C ) — initially a joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies — 3Com achieved a leading market presence in China, and a significant networking market share in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

With the acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies, Cisco began to sell a line of video recording devices called " Flip Video " that had been Pure Digital's only line of products.

Dell's first acquisition occurred in 1999 with the purchase of ConvergeNet Technologies.

Other significant milestones were the acquisition of the ventilator company, LIFECARE International in 1996, sleep apnea competitor, Healthdyne Technologies in 1998 and medical monitor and sensor leader, Novametrix in 2002.

The largest transactions have been: the acquisition of Goodrich Corporation by United Technologies Corporation for 16. 2 bil.

Additionally, the acquisition of Cyrix's intellectual property and agreements would be used by VIA to defend itself from its own legal troubles with Intel, even after VIA Technologies stopped using the Cyrix name.

The acquisition also resulted in the expansion of VMware's education services portfolio by the inclusion of SpringSource University and its authorized training partner, SpringPeople Technologies.

United Technologies put Rocketdyne up for sale in March 2012 as part of an effort to avoid selling new common shares to fund its largest-ever acquisition, the $ 16. 5 billion pending takeover of aerospace components maker Goodrich Corp.

On March 6, 2006, ATI Technologies announced the acquisition of Shanghai-based MacroSynergy, a fabless chip designer and XGI Technology alliance company, as well as related personnel working out of XGI Technology's Santa Clara, California location.

On 8 July 2008, Ubisoft made the acquisition of Hybride Technologies, a Montreal-based studio renowned for its expertise in the creation of visual effects for cinema, television and advertising.

Technologies developed by 20 / 20 Software were integrated into Ghost after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000.

In 2004, Juniper utilized the recovery of high-tech markets to fund the company's largest purchase: a $ 4 billion acquisition for NetScreen Technologies ( which had just acquired Neoteris ).

From a brief period from the close of the Amersham acquisition in April 2004-June 2005, GE Healthcare was organized into two primary business segments: GE Healthcare Technologies, led by Joseph Hogan, and GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, the former Amersham business segments that were led by Peter Löscher.

Germany was also a primary target for Altran during this period, starting with the 1997 establishment of Altran Technologies GmbH and the acquisition of Europspace Technische Entwicklungen, a company that had been formed in 1993 and specialized in aeronautics.

After the acquisition of Cetus, Chiron split its operations among five entities: Cetus Oncology, for cancer drugs ; the Biocine Company, for vaccines ; Chiron Diagnostics, for blood screening and other diagnostic tests ( later sold to Bayer AG for $ 1. 1 billion ); Chiron Intraoptics, for eye surgery, and Chiron Technologies, for research and development.

On November 11, 2010, assets of Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., were offered for acquisition, including its Intellectual Property (“ IP ”), in whole or in part.

* 1998-03-01: completed acquisition of AFE Technologies ( first purchased 70 % in late 1996 )

With the acquisition of Royal Group Technologies the company is now also a major producer of building materials ranging from piping and siding to window profiles, decking, and fencing.

In the meantime Apple had acquired Spruce Technologies in 2001, and was busy retooling the DVD authoring package that came with that acquisition ( DVD Maestro ), and in August 2003, Apple released DVD Studio Pro 2.

Further acquisitions included the April 2009 acquisition of Neoteric Technology Ltd as well as the April 2010 acquisition of California based Global Med Technologies Inc.

With the acquisition of CalComp Input Technologies, GTCO began doing business as GTCO CalComp Inc.