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.

Eldorado Gold Corporation is a Vancouver, British Columbia based company involved in the mining, exploration and development of gold properties in China, Brazil, Greece, Romania and Turkey.

Eldorado gold is also the first North American company to successfully construct and operate a gold mine in China.

A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7. 00pm.

Buses are produced by the Canadian company New Flyer, Eldorado, and Gillig.

It is owned by Grupo Estado, a holding company which publishes the Jornal da Tarde and owns the radios Rádio Eldorado AM and FM and the Agência Estado, largest news agency in Brazil.

He incorporated his own company in 1926 under the name “ Eldorado Gold Mines, Limited .”

Howe had purchased a controlling interest and expropriated Eldorado mining company.

Howe authorized Gilbert LaBine, then Eldorado ’ s president, to begin buying the company ’ s stock in secret.

If Eldorado were seized using the government ’ s emergency powers, the company would revert to its original ownership and control when the war emergency lapsed .”.” Because Eldorado was purchased outside the scope of the War Measures Act Canada remained in control of the mine after the war had ended.

The Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited company was originally organized in 1927 as Eldorado Gold Mines Limited to develop a gold mine in Manitoba.

The Canadian Government took over the company by purchasing share control in 1943, and in early 1944 the name was changed to Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited.

Together with a discovery of the Port Radium deposits, the Eldorado company opened the Beaverlodge Mine at Uranium City, Saskatchewan.

During this period the name of the company was changed to Eldorado Nuclear Limited.

The company leased the old Port Radium settlement from Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited and used the old camp and mill to recover silver and copper values.

The company then reopened the old Eldorado Mine workings and produced more silver and copper until 1981 when low silver prices closed the mine for good.

His company was then known as Eldorado Gold Mines Limited ( later renamed Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited.

* Robert Bothwell, ( 1984 ) Eldorado, Canada's national uranium company, University of Toronto Press ISBN 0-8020-3414-4