They acquired another electronics factory, a specialized ceramics company, an organization that built -- very experimentally -- high-speed research calculators.

The number on the tile indicates how many shares the stock market owns in the company that is being acquired.

AMETEK acquired Cameca in 2007 and Imago Scientific Instruments ( Madison, WI ) in 2010, making the company the sole commercial developer of APTs.

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.

In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.

On May 6, 2009, the company announced it was to be acquired by Micro Focus for $ 75 million.

Methodists in Britain acquired their own bishops early in the 19th century, after the Methodist movement in Britain formally parted company with the Church of England.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

In 1970 Bombardier acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, which continues to develop and sell Berkeley DB.

The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

In 1998 the company acquired Dewar's scotch and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $ 2 billion.

Telefónica of Spain acquired a 50 percent share in the company in 2006.

The Tribune company, in financial distress, was acquired by real-estate mogul Sam Zell in December 2007.

This Videocart was shown in a single sales brochure released shortly after Zircon acquired the company.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

In 1998, the Editions de l ' Etoile ( the company publishing Cahiers ) was acquired by the press group Le Monde.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

GSI Commerce, a company specializing in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar businesses, acquired by eBay for $ 2. 4 billion.

All future Supermarionation ventures were funded by ITC, who later acquired the share capital in the company in 1962.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

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.

In 1972, the company acquired the four-store Shop-Rite chain of catalogue stores.

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas Corporation, an architectural company

* Atlas Media Corporation, a non-fiction entertainment company based in New York City, USA

* Atlas Press ( tool company ) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the largest supplier of machine tools to the hobbyist market in the middle of the 20th century

* Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company

* Atlas Van Lines, a moving company

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

* Western Atlas, US company, subsequently Atlas Wireline and Baker Atlas

* Tele Atlas, a Dutch mapping company

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engines powered the Space Shuttle, and the company also supplies booster engines for Delta II rockets and boosters and upper stage engines for Atlas III and V and Delta IV rockets.

These businesses included medical technology company Atlas Development Corporation and several computer-networking companies Xylan ( later Alcatel ), Netcom Systems ( later Spirent Communications ), Ixia Communications, j2 Global Communications, and Tekelec, as well as video-game publisher THQ, and software company Digital Insight.

Atlas Walnut company will also be opening a walnut processing facility in the near future.

Polar and its sister company, Atlas, also do extensive work for the U. S. Air Force ’ s Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

In its heyday it was the company town in which the employees of the Atlas Powder Company lived.

In 1909, Atlas petitioned county courts to change the alliance into a borough, reportedly because the change would make it easier for the company to send and receive mail.

The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

The company, Morgan Knitting Mills, Inc, grew into one of the largest employers in the area, second only to the Atlas Powder Company.

Cement for the Empire State Building and Panama Canal was created at the Atlas Portland Cement Company in the nearby unincorporated company town of Ilasco.

At the beginning of the 1930s BVD was purchased by the Atlas Underwear company located in Piqua, Ohio.