Foreign investors are snapping up clubs in Belgium's second division.
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However, some Chinese refiners are snapping up cheap crude supplies.
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Chinese investors have been snapping up sports and entertainment assets abroad.
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And buy they did, snapping up the skillet by the thousands.
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But residents in smoggy places are snapping up the stuff anyway.
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It has been on a buying spree, snapping up ecommerce companies Jet.
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Despite the high prices, parents appear to be snapping up the items.
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And payments companies are also snapping up ways to expand their services.
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Payments companies have already been snapping up ways to expand their services.
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Snapping up porcelain ornaments and knit gloves for last-minute Christmas gifts.
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PayPal then bought Braintree two years later, snapping up Venmo in the process.
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Under KKR, Epicor has been acquisitive, snapping up many small-business software vendors.
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Maybe they should worry about continental European judges snapping up the valuable cases.
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Snapping up innovative European firms, and their patented technologies, is an obvious shortcut.
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This summer, Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo, a year after snapping up AOL.
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Chinese companies with high-profile backers have been snapping up assets overseas recently.
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Speculators in digital currency are snapping up G.P.U.s for a very different purpose.
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Factories are being overhauled to produce new models, and automakers are snapping up batteries.
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That was Deutsche Bank snapping up metal for a cash-and-carry financing deal.
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Meanwhile, Broadcom has become the world's fifth-largest semiconductor firm by snapping up rivals.
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And a significant number of those hands are snapping up investment-worthy contemporary art.
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Alibaba, meanwhile, has been beefing up its offerings, snapping up food delivery service Ele.
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There's a bright side to this loss, though, even if Apple snapping up Xnor.
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So far, Iger has been a savvy acquirer, snapping up Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.
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Walmart, meanwhile, has been snapping up smaller online retailers in recent months, most notably Jet.
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It would open the door to Beijing snapping up democracy advocates, dissidents and other critics.
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The REIT has also been snapping up more farmland in California, Florida and other states.
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During the 2008 financial crisis, he began snapping up real estate when people were liquidating.
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So far, Mr. Iger has been a savvy acquirer, snapping up Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.
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The Fed began snapping up securities after a tumultuous episode in money markets last year.
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In a boisterous early sequence, she rampages through a store snapping up everything in sight.
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Kansas residents were snapping up Ozark trail insulated tumblers to keep drinks hot or cold.
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It has been snapping up software companies but this is its largest deal to date.
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The Omaha, Nebraska, investor has also been snapping up more shares of his own stock.
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So now that the company has gone public, guess who's interested in snapping up Snap stock?
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He was referring to China's snapping up of oilfields, mines, ports, giant dams and power grids.
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Iranians are snapping up foreign currency because it is one of the few sound investments available.
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And data shows investors are snapping up every kind of U.S.-issued bond they can get.
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Big tech companies also have been quite acquisitive, snapping up promising AI startups of all stages.
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The group is already the country's top bricks-and-mortar retailer, and is snapping up content.
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Buyout firms have been seeking to profit on this trend by snapping up educational software companies.
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They are hiring former prisoners as kitchen assistants, and snapping up employees whom competitors have fired.
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A key aspect of Namdar and Mason's strategy is snapping up malls at very low prices.
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Elizabeth Warren created a vacuum by snapping up much of the elite talent earlier this year.
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Most notably, in 2014 Facebook spent $19 billion on WhatsApp, snapping up a leading messaging platform.
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A possible sign dealers are snapping up whatever cash they can to avoid year-end shortages.
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ET, the entrance level of the store was buzzing with customers who were anxiously snapping up bargains.
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As gold prices rose in the 2000s, many firms went on a spree, snapping up mediocre mines.
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Grain importers in the Middle East and North Africa have been snapping up wheat cargoes, underpinning prices.
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In short, making those shows and snapping up those awards is expensive — and vital to Netflix's growth.
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Only six months after snapping up virtualization specialist Parallels, Canadian software company Corel is itself getting acquired.
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This round will no doubt go a ways toward snapping up some key real estate, as well.
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And just last year, Bezos sent shockwaves through the food retail industry by snapping up Whole Foods.
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Then, Platinum delivered the master stroke, snapping up Glacial's assets out of bankruptcy for about $53 million.
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Also, some of the Japanese companies are getting in on the action and snapping up independent breweries.
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While others retrenched, Wells Fargo substantially expanded, snapping up ailing North Carolina lender Wachovia, in late 2008.
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Facebook has taken that approach for several years, snapping up venture-backed companies Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus.
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Amazon Studios also earned a reputation for snapping up the distribution rights to indie films at Sundance.
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Apple has hundreds of employees working on autonomous car technology, and carmakers are snapping up tech talent.
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Those who can afford to are even snapping up their second or third property as status symbols.
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It was a stunning reversal for Chinese shares, which investors had been snapping up only days before.
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"Publishers started snapping up space operas, leading to a huge demand that needed to be filled," she says.
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Indian airlines are snapping up new aircraft, with some 450 in operation and more than 1,000 on order.
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But Mr Ashley has been picking over the carrion, snapping up the famous names slain by online shopping.
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SAP is acquiring Qualtrics for $8 billion, snapping up the survey software company just before its planned IPO.
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Japanese investors chased yield, snapping up U.S. Treasuries in the midst of their own country's negative-yielding bonds.
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Chinese companies have been snapping up cutting-edge German technology to push upmarket and gain a global footprint.
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Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, have been snapping up top talent in these states.
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Madeley said British and Americans alike were snapping up souvenirs ahead of the May 19 wedding in England.
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Indian refiners, for instance, are instead snapping up the next cheapest alternative, Iraqi Basra Heavy, the trader said.
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Michael Kors executives said they were snapping up the luxury fashion brand Versace, whose fashions are shown above.
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This NBC News piece is among several of late about consumers' snapping up fossil fuel-powered home generators.
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International investors are meanwhile snapping up the high-yield Russian bonds before their access is potentially cut off.
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A few months later, it extended its reach to 20 U.S. states by snapping up Cablevision for $17.7 billion.
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SAP (SAP) is acquiring Qualtrics for $8 billion, snapping up the survey software company just before its planned IPO.
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So, will you be snapping up Alexa-approved (and designed!) looks as soon as they hit shelves next year?
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We've been greedily snapping up bits of American Horror Story marginalia in the waiting period for the new season.
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Since moving his company downtown in 2011, Dan Gilbert has been snapping up real estate at a rapid pace.
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Back in March, Yahoo set a deadline for all suitors interested in snapping up its web and associated businesses.
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But the call-out certainly didn't stop the actress from snapping up a storm while on her tropical getaway.
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Investors have been snapping up condominiums to rent out amid the development boom, creating opportunities for high-end renters.
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Private equity firms are snapping up dermatology practices, and at least some healthcare experts are not thrilled about it.
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Aside from snapping up promising pieces, there are other ways wealthy locals can support the arts community, they explained.
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Walmart then went on an acquisition spree over the next couple years, snapping up startups including ModCloth, Bonobos, Shoes.
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Retailers like Amazon and Walmart are snapping up space once reserved for makers of office furniture and home flooring.
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The company started snapping up canalside parcels in 2012, when prospects were murky and financing was hard to get.
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Big Food pivoting to adapt to future food trends by snapping up promising start-ups is a growing trend.
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By snapping up DirecTV in 2015, AT&T surpassed cable giant Comcast as the nation's largest pay-TV company.
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Private equity firms are snapping up dermatology practices, and at least some health care experts are not thrilled about it.
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He returns to Asia frequently, snapping up old and new Chinese-language culinary textbooks as they come back into print.
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Big banks have been snapping up fintech firms to better serve customers who have quickly become accustomed to digital products.
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With Prime Day 2019 kicking off today, it's time to get primed on what sex toys are worth snapping up.
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Large automakers and Tier 244.83 suppliers looking for an edge started snapping up startups brimming with self-driving technology talent.
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With easy access to government loans, Chinese firms are snapping up foreign robotics companies and intellectual property related to automation.
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FOMOs are early adopters, snapping up the latest gadgets and sending documents to colleagues via the latest file-sharing programme.
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Lauren Johnson found companies like The Trade Desk and TripleLift are snapping up TV talent to try to own OTT.
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In the oil industry, however, investors are snapping up debt and equity from troubled companies, in expectation of a rebound.
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Zuckerberg also went on a shopping spree, snapping up companies that seemed to be building big audiences on mobile devices.
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That has not stopped Iranians from snapping up millions of iPhones smuggled in from places like Dubai and Hong Kong.
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According to Chatelain's account, McDonald's particularly flourished, snapping up property nationwide and setting off cycles of simultaneous investment and divestment.
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JMT is making the most of bad times, snapping up distressed debt at just 5 percent of its nominal value.
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That has not stopped Iranians from snapping up millions of iPhones smuggled in from places like Dubai and Hong Kong.
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Hedge funds swoop in to try to make a buck when they see distress, snapping up bonds at bargain basement prices.
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In addition, institutional investors are snapping up affordable homes by the thousands in select markets nationwide and converting them to rentals.
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Amazon came to the Sundance Film Festival with its wallet open back in January, snapping up the rights to six films.
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One of the companies intent on snapping up the British assets of Tata Steel said that layoffs weren't on the cards.
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LVMH hovered near record highs after saying Chinese shoppers were still snapping up goods at its major brands like Louis Vuitton.
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On a sector basis in the small and mids, hedge funds have been snapping up energy stocks and ditching consumer discretionary.
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That said, acquirers are snapping up early-stage companies at a decent clip, with some big tech players entering the fray.
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Podcasting took center stage this week, with music giant Spotify snapping up podcasting tool startup Anchor and podcast production company Gimlet.
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Berlin is in the process of tightening its foreign takeover rules to prevent Chinese rivals from snapping up German tech companies.
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Foreign investors have been snapping up debt recovery firms in Italy, whose banks sit on 300 billion euros in soured loans.
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Billionaires spend millions snapping up the island's few single-family homes in secluded, ritzy neighborhoods like Orchard Road and Holland Village.
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When he's not working, snapping up real estate, or getting philanthropically or politically involved, Ross spends time golfing, boating, and exercising.
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Hedge funds are snapping up insurance against a South Korean default as the nuclear threat from North Korea appears to grow.
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As the company argues, though, snapping up too many of them too quickly could hinder Ambac's ability to meet other liabilities.
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For the best performing bond fund manager, swimming against the tide and snapping up the unloved names paid off in 2016.
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The MakerPhone is already well past its $15,000 goal, most of which was people snapping up the early bird $89 deal.
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Tyson Foods announced Monday it has invested in Beyond Meat, snapping up a 5 percent share in the vegan food company.
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One last thing ... we ask Pete about people snapping up guns amid the pandemonium too, and he says it makes sense.
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Iyer seems constantly in the world, leading new bands and curating concert series, snapping up awards, teaching at Harvard and Banff.
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Museums and international collectors are snapping up his large canvases, minimalist grids painted in oil stick over collages of personal documents.
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In just eight years, WeWork has become a titan of the real estate market, snapping up pricey leases around the world.
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And he has become a collector of Lopez silver, having purchased new works but also snapping up vintage pieces at auctions.
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Home sale prices have risen sharply, and middle-class buyers are snapping up homes in neighborhoods they avoided in the past.
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Zuckerberg's eye for a deal has so far been fairly sharp; snapping up Instagram for $1 billion was a shrewd move.
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But that hasn&apost stopped developers from building luxury condos and hotels or wealthy buyers from snapping up real estate there.
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Brolin and Boyd have been snapping up a storm during their Costa Rica getaway, sharing countless pictures of there adventurous activities together.
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Apple doesn't always tell the world when it buys another company — but in reality, it's quietly snapping up startups all the time.
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For the latter group, he says it's vital that they're growing under their own power and not just snapping up their competition.
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The Chinese government, for its part, is surely delighted that its national technology champions are snapping up stakes in hundreds of startups.
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Long before Trump launched his presidential campaign to "make America great again," Julie Magill was a believer, snapping up the site www.PresidentTrump.
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The group is supposed to focus on building infrastructure in Yunnan, one of China's poorest provinces, not on snapping up property elsewhere.
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There are plenty of good reasons why the Gulf "super-connectors" are snapping up a growing share of the international aviation business.
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We all know Home Depot sells flooring, drills and other tools; therefore, it isn't expected to be snapping up quantum computing startups.
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Forced out in 1987, Mr Murray bought a mine in eastern Ohio, and then spent the next two decades snapping up others.
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Warren Buffett made waves in 2016 when Berkshire Hathaway purchased Apple shares for the first time, snapping up 9.8 million of them.
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Chinese companies and individuals have been snapping up overseas assets, prompting authorities to tighten controls on outflows such as limiting offshore investments.
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Meanwhile, Amazon has continued its breakneck expansion, snapping up Whole Foods this year with little objection from the U.S. government's competition cops.
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Shoppers are snapping up nonperishable items like canned goods and cereal and emptying shelves of fresh staples like milk, meat and bread.
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In recent years, at least two large central banks have been snapping up large quantities of equities, typically considered a risky investment.
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Not only were Iranians snapping up its snacks, but the company was exporting one-fourth of its wares to Iraq, earning dollars.
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In 2012, Jared Kushner's company went on a buying spree, snapping up about 653,000 apartments around the country, roughly doubling its inventory.
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It could be making millions more if not for scalpers snapping up seats and hawking them for $267,2500 a piece or more.
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Eugene is manipulated with surprising ease for someone so clearly smart, eagerly snapping up the first scrap of praise tossed his way.
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As of last week, the European company had also been interested in snapping up DuPont's nutrition division, according to a Bloomberg report.
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RIP RevolvAfter Nest was bought by Google in the summer of 2014, it went on a acquisition spree, snapping up connected home products.
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The crew has been busily promoting the film these last few weeks – and Theroux has been snapping up a storm along the way.
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You can start to see why China's steel mills are snapping up iron ore again in anticipation of stronger demand for their products.
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On the Republican side, the presidential hopefuls are snapping up any TV spots to stand out due to the large number of potentials.
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She's been known to spend her fortune going on vacation and snapping up real estate, as well as on multiple charities and causes.
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These merchants emphasized that buyers weren't interested in health tonics; they were snapping up these "cash bladders," as they call them, as investments….
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BP, Shell and Chevron were among the other companies snapping up acreage, and Reuters reports that the sale netted Brazil's government $2.4 billion.
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That could indicate that sectors like health care and manufacturing are snapping up workers, forcing retailers and restaurants to raise pay to compete.
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He went on sprees through the shops of Rome, Venice, Nuremberg and Cologne, often snapping up hundreds of titles on a single visit.
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Santos acquired Quadrant Energy last year in a $2.15 billion deal, snapping up Quadrant's 80 percent stake in the promising Dorado oil find.
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After snapping up Somos, the most coveted target in the basic education space, Kroton expects to focus on smaller acquisitions and organic growth.
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She sold four collector's editions of the album at Target stores, and tweeted pictures of her fans proudly snapping up all of them.
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The group that controls Otkritie started to expand its banking business in 2008, snapping up a small lender, RBR, and renaming it Otkritie.
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So it's $12 an hour working for the inauguration, putting up fencing, laying down flooring, snapping up cigarette butts with a metal picker.
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The company has gone on an aggressive acquisition spree over the last three years, snapping up hotels and logistics companies among other businesses.
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As the controlling investor in Sprint, Son has long been interested in snapping up T-Mobile to bulk up against AT&T and Verizon.
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In fact, much of the money stays near the Golden Gate, with the Bay Area snapping up more than 25 percent of all investments.
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That has pushed up prices for coal assets, which companies such as Terracom had been snapping up in countries like Australia, Indonesia and Mongolia.
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Amazon's Whole Foods is considering snapping up square footage belonging to fallen retail giants like Sears and its subsidiary Kmart, Yahoo Finance is reporting.
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It mostly grows by snapping up smaller fry, but an attempt to buy a midsized Swiss rival, Sika, has gone on for two years.
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Maybe you've lusted after a classic quilted Chanel handbag for some time, or perhaps you're more interested in snapping up Balenciaga's stretch-knit sneakers.
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I could see them scouting out the landscape and deciding that no one is established enough---or threatening enough---to be worth snapping up.
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Paltrow looks to be making the most of the family getaway, as she's been snapping up a storm of her stay in Buenos Aires.
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Shoppers already purchase food, clothing and shoes online, yet they hesitate before snapping up high-end items, including appliances and furniture, on the web.
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New players such as Liberty Group are snapping up previously unwanted assets such as the small 50,000 tonne per year Lochaber smelter in Scotland.
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Keen to experience such wondrous novelties as Peking-duck-topped, Mickey-Mouse shaped pizza, Chinese families are now eagerly snapping up entry tickets online.
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As a result, college kids have been snapping up rooms in the luxury homes, in some cases paying rents as low as $825 USD.
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The US cannabis retailer Curaleaf on Wednesday said it's snapping up the Chicago-based Grassroots Cannabis in an $875 million cash-and-stock deal.
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Meanwhile, speculative investors have cashed in by snapping up properties and sitting on them until the value increases enough to make a lucrative sale.
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Dermatology is a hotbed of the trend, which typically takes the shape of private-equity-backed management or support groups snapping up the practices.
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Anbang has been active with its money in other industries in the United States, snapping up Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company late last year.
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The top 292 Canadian marijuana companies are now worth nearly 23 billion Canadian dollars, or $22 billion, and investors are snapping up the stock.
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Back then, BP was seen as a trendsetter in the global energy industry, snapping up other companies and making an early foray into renewables.
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Analysts at Jefferies note that past efforts to secure oil supply have involved snapping up equity stakes abroad or arranging loan-for-oil schemes.
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In February, Hathorn told Reuters Mondi could borrow to fund acquisitions after spending 94 million euros on snapping up consumer packaging firms last year.
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And after years of Chinese firms and individuals snapping up properties overseas, pushing real estate prices to new highs, buyers are finally pulling back.
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Speculators are snapping up a new virtual currency known as Zcash that was designed by university academics and built to be all but untraceable.
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It has certainly been acquisitive in the "infrastructure" of AR over the past couple of years, snapping up Metaio, FaceShift, Emotient and Flyby Media.
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L for $143 billion, snapping up a British company whose towering stilettos have been made famous by celebrity customers from Princess Diana to Kendall Jenner.
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The company confirmed on Thursday that it's buying its way into the pharmacy industry by snapping up PillPack, a service that sells prescription drugs online.
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Britain's public-procurement market might also be of interest, in which case expect headlines about American health-care firms snapping up National Health Service contracts.
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Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are all making big movies into the media world, snapping up consumer attention time, advertising dollars, and content creators.
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Enamoured of his relaxed ways and calls for social justice, fans are snapping up Moontem, "Moon items", such as copies of his spectacles and ties.
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The study also noted increasing private interest by ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) in snapping up clubs as the EPL brand continues to grow.
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And if you find yourself snapping up more comics than you can carry home, don't worry — someone nearby is surely selling some superb tote bags.
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And while she's been snapping up a storm since returning on set, it's her boyfriend Ben Hanisch's latest post that has left everyone asking questions.
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China's heavily state-influenced companies have been on a buying spree, snapping up businesses, property and technology from Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States.
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Since the Great Recession, snapping up prime real estate in coastal American cities, sometimes sight unseen, has become an increasingly popular sport with China's wealthy.
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Epic is taking the same approach, but gamers I spoke with told me that snapping up Metro: Exodus at the eleventh hour crossed a line.
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Following the Civil War, in the states of the defeated Confederacy—among them, Virginia— Northerners poured in, snapping up elective offices for personal financial gain.
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Fortress built its footprint in Japan by snapping up troubled hotels in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis when most investors shunned the sector.
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HNA, which began in the aviation industry, has been on a two-year buying spree snapping up assets worldwide from logistics to hotels to banking.
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Hotel fitness instructor Veronica Rohan came up with the practice when she noticed that guests were snapping up the tails, which range from $120-150.
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Snapping up supplies in February Weeks ago, federal agencies were already increasing the purchasing of some products like hand sanitizer more than tenfold, Noble said.
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Shoppers, preparing for the possibility that the coronavirus could keep them quarantined for weeks or months, have been snapping up every roll they can find.
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Snapping up so many surrounding development rights, better known as air rights, has an added benefit, said Ran Korolik, the executive vice president of Victor.
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Blackstone wasn't the only company snapping up deals with links to Saudi Arabia: • General Electric said it had agreements worth $15 billion in various projects.
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"It's no surprise agencies are snapping up people from the Remain and Leave campaigns given the huge complexities of Brexit for businesses," Ms. Thomas said.
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When Marc Lore started running Walmart's e-commerce division three years ago, he went on a buying spree, snapping up a series of smaller retailers.
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Separately, buyers from Russia and the Middle East are snapping up properties in luxury hotbeds such as Columbus Circle and Central Park West, Armstrong added.
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Intel is snapping up deep learning startup Nervana Systems in a huge bet that artificial intelligence represents the next big shift inside corporate data centers.
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ChemChina, one of China's largest chemical companies, has been on a buying spree, snapping up stakes in chemical, machinery and transport companies domestically and outside China.
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So will you be snapping up some Mickey or Minnie-themed goodies with Gap's first Disney collection or holding out for picks featuring other beloved characters?
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Disney is currently leaving the toxic but profitable Fox News assets to the Murdoch cabal, and snapping up pretty much everything else under the Fox roof.
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Sterling began snapping up other background check companies in 2008 and soon started making lists of the fastest-growing companies in the country published by Inc.
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Italy is Europe's biggest market for soured bank loans and high on the radar of international investors, who have been also snapping up debt servicing businesses.
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Big tech companies are snapping up every available square foot, as there is huge demand for large office spaces, which continue to be in short supply.
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Since the appointment of Marc Lore, an internet entrepreneur, as head of e-commerce, Walmart has gone on its own shopping spree, snapping up online retailers.
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Some customers were already snapping up special edition items released to coincide with the show, including nylon trench coats and bomber jackets for 990 pounds ($1,300).
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Chinese customers have also become a major force in the global property market in recent years, snapping up homes in the U.S., Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
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Argentina's central bank, which has been snapping up dollars over the past month, reversed gears as it intervened in futures markets to shore up the peso.
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European investors have been snapping up reverse Yankee trades in recent weeks with McDonald's attracting 14bn of orders for a 2.5bn three-tranche bond last month.
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It's a bargain considering the cheapest annual train pass from BVG costs €13 ($890), which means you save hundreds of dollars while snapping up new shoes.
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Under Steinberg, Zeta Global has been on an acquisition tear this year, snapping up AI firm Tenmos and Sizmek's demand-side platform and data-management platform.
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While stocks have climbed to record highs this summer, investors have been snapping up defensive companies out of fear the good times may not last long.
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The deal is the most recent for Gannett, which has been snapping up publications to broaden its reach and make itself more appealing to national advertisers.
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During the turmoil of the 250s, a time of severe debt crises often called Mexico's lost decade, he had grown rich by snapping up bankrupt firms.
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Before delaying its IPO and finding itself in the middle of a potential boardroom coup, the young startup was snapping up a wide variety of startups.
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Lufthansa is already one of the few European airlines to have driven merger activity in the region, snapping up Swiss, Austrian and bmi several years ago.
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The source said jewelers were paid anywhere between 20 and 65 percent above the going rate by buyers snapping up the precious metal with old notes.
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SMFG's chances of snapping up the Permata stake improved after two key rivals dropped out of the race for the lender, sources said earlier this month.
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Wealthy Chinese investors have long been snapping up properties around the world, but new technology is allowing small-timers to get in on the game too.
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The public has become increasingly tired of seeing able-bodied actors snapping up rare and coveted roles for disabled characters and are making their voices heard.
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The Fed went on a spending spree, snapping up billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds to manipulate interest rates and the economy.
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On the far side of the alley—the one we couldn't cross because bullets were continuously snapping up it—the girl stopped and regarded us uncertainly.
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But a valuation expert says the increase in Chinese buyers snapping up property in Singapore will only have a minor impact on the local housing market.
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She married Mr. Dickerson in 21966, and he established himself in Washington society by snapping up Merrywood, restoring its grandeur and filling it with European antiques.
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The thinking went that by stopping holidaymakers from snapping up new-builds, housing would become more affordable to people who live in St Ives all year round.
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China is the top buyer of South American soybeans, iron ore and other commodities, while Chinese investors are snapping up stakes in key sectors such as energy.
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Investors are snapping up municipal bonds and driving yields sharply lower because the current plan, unveiled last Thursday, would slash the amount of tax-exempt debt available.
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The Big Four have already retreated from overseas and are reversing a two-decade trend of snapping up wealth managers and brokers, while decluttering products and processes.
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Investing in index funds and paying off debt will likely do more for your bottom line than snapping up a couple of shares of a trendy company.
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DAVAO, Philippines (Reuters) - Be it "DU30" car plates or "The Punisher" T-shirts, Filipinos have been snapping up any merchandise they can featuring President-elect Rodrigo Duterte.
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In a bid to seek cover from the risk of a global downturn, investors have been snapping up bonds, sending negative yields cascading across the euro zone.
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Instead of buying Netflix, or a TV network, or at least snapping up the rights to must-see TV like the NFL, this was just … a show.
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Microsoft's LinkedIn on Monday announced the acquisition of Glint, snapping up a start-up whose software helps human resources managers understand how workers feel about their employers.
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Investors seized on those inflation comments as a sign that the Fed is unlikely to rush into another rate rise too soon, snapping up bonds and stocks.
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But the rouble has enjoyed support from investors who were snapping up Russian treasury bonds on expectations the central bank would cut rates more than previously thought.
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That said, corporate acquirers did make a few big Q20193 purchases, snapping up VC-funded companies in sectors ranging from medical devices to enterprise software to beverages.
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Google needs to ensure it keeps snapping up the best talent that specializes in deep learning, competing with other companies like Pinterest (which focuses on visual search).
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He finally managed to gear his project up by snapping up a Boeing 737 from Indonesian airline Batavia Air, which stopped flying in 2013 after declaring bankruptcy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is on a roll overseas, snapping up assets in South America and flexing its financial muscles to drive growth.
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With oil and gas prices growing over the past two years, Qatar has not departed from what it is best known for - snapping up big-names properties.
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Foreign investors have splurged hundreds of billions of yuan snapping up A-shares, particularly after China promised more access for them by combining two inbound investment schemes.
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Liberty House, which has been snapping up distressed steel and aluminum assets, said the deal more than doubles its worldwide steel-rolling capacity to 15 million tonnes.
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That number, the researchers write, is comparable to the number of homes taken off the market by speculative buyers snapping up apartments and letting them sit vacant.
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Instead, it is focused on finding undervalued public companies and snapping up unloved divisions of some companies, or using its portfolio companies as platforms for more acquisitions.
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What you're failing to see is that buying a home, while (theoretically) more expensive than snapping up a pair of Balenciaga sneakers, is on the shopping continuum.
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The population, once predominantly German, now includes more Polish residents, more millennials crowding into new bars, more investors snapping up properties and renting them out through Airbnb.
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Expedia is "planting seeds for faster growth," snapping up international hotels in Europe and Asia as a way to boost profits, according to one Wall Street firm.
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Shares in a Hong Kong-listed Chinese pharmaceutical company popped Monday following a U.S. news report that New Yorkers were snapping up a cough syrup it sold.
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On Thursday, L Brands said it would sell 22010 percent of Victoria's Secret to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm that has been snapping up struggling retailers.
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Peloton, a company that makes high-end stationary bikes and treadmills that stream live classes, is snapping up new users and is currently valued at $4 billion.
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With oil and gas prices growing over the past two years, Qatar has not departed from what it is best known for - snapping up big-name properties.
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Ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in Australia amid concerns that foreign buyers are snapping up properties to cash in on a boom in Asian food demand.
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Freeport, like other big miners, has been selling assets to cut debt, while China has been snapping up commodity assets around the world to feed its massive economy.
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WATCH THIS: From Miss Israel to Wonder Woman: What You Need to Know About Gal Gadot And it's not just new movie merch that fans are snapping up.
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Customers were snapping up $500 CBRN suits to withstand chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attack and $200 gas masks in sizes that fit children as young as 5.
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He suggests running to a local fabric store —like JoAnn's, where he has a line — and simply snapping up a yard or two of whatever catches your eye.
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In the U.K., there have also been rumors that Amazon has considered snapping up real estate from failing brick-and-mortar superstores, although so far nothing has materialised.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said on its website that it would be snapping up Canada Goose shares to bring its fight straight to the boardroom.
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EPH and Czech peer Seven Energy have pursued a contrarian strategy of snapping up older, polluting power generation assets while major European utilities are focusing on renewable sources.
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The crash comes as Ethiopian has been snapping up stakes in small carriers around the continent to pre-empt potential rivals and become the dominant pan-African airline.
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But since then we've seen a lot of larger companies recognizing the opportunity there and snapping up those startups, such as Concur buying Hipmunk in September last year.
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Liberty House, which has been snapping up distressed steel and aluminum assets around the world, had emerged as a top contender to take over Ascometal alongside Schmolz + Bickenbach.
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After years of snapping up bonds in a bid to revive inflation, the BOJ holds assets equivalent to more than 90 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
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And traditional media companies, like Viacom and Univision, are getting in on the action, too, snapping up online sex-ed personalities and releasing their own pop-sexual content.
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Under Chief Executive Paul Raines, GameStop has been expanding its digital and mobile offerings and snapping up technology brand stores that sell mobile phones and other electronic devices.
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Earlier this year, PIF built a stake of just under 5 percent in Tesla by snapping up shares in the open market, rather than acquiring newly issued shares.
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Between 2006 and now, Disney spent around $100 billion to become the unbeatable giant it is today, snapping up Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, BAMTech, and 21st Century Fox.
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Wealthy Chinese are not only scooping up the fine wines, but they've also developed a taste for vineyards, snapping up more than 100 chateaux in France's Bordeaux region.
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One of the more common complaints is that the Epic Games Store is anti-gamer or anti-consumer, snapping up exclusives and forcing people to use the platform.
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New York City has one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, a distinction earned via a boost from wealthy foreigners snapping up pricey apartments.
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In the past decade, they have swept into cities like New York, London, and Los Angeles, snapping up real estate and provoking anxieties about inequality and globalized wealth.
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Faced with a hopeless task, Napoli completely lost their momentum and Real coasted through the rest of the game, Morata snapping up a rebound for the third goal.
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The deal highlights the attractiveness of Hong Kong's insurance businesses, which have been boosted by growing wealth in the city and Chinese visitors snapping up foreign currency-denominated products.
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GFG Alliance, a $10 billion metals, industrials and energy group, has been snapping up distressed industrial assets in Britain, Australia and the United States in the past few years.
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Amazon has just made its second acquisition in the health-care space, snapping up a start-up called Health Navigator, which provides technology and services to digital health companies.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, which has been aggressively snapping up global assets, is in talks buy a controlling stake in Singapore-listed logistics firm CWT Ltd CWTD.
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After snapping up Pebble back in-late 2016, Fitbit announced that it would be end-of-lifing the startup's products, and only continuing support through the end of 2017.
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At the same time, mainland Chinese firms are snapping up residential land in Hong Kong, fuelling concerns that prices will continue to spiral higher amid robust demand from developers.
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On the left, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont draws the largest crowds, snapping up badges bearing the motto "Feel The Bern", or imitation Andy Warhol portraits of their hero.
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Shire has been on a US$50bn acquisition frenzy over the past three years, snapping up Dyax, NPS and ViroPharma in addition to its headline-grabbing purchase of Baxalta.
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Fuel oil margins in Europe have approached five-year highs, as shippers and other users have been snapping up the product while it is being produced in lower quantities.
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As the country's fast-growing film, television and video game industries vie for audiences, entertainment companies in search of quality homegrown content are snapping up IPs left and right.
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Nestle, which took a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee in September, is trying to reignite slowing sales by snapping up small independent brands that appeal to younger consumers.
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"Salesforce's competitors are snapping up [data sources] and will integrate them into their platforms to add additional perspective and intelligence," Brent Leary, co-founder at CRM Essentials told TechCrunch.
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Meanwhile, enterprise giants will continue snapping up these enterprise software upstarts to bolster and innovate higher-performance offerings in an attempt to provide customers with a seamless, uninterrupted workflow.
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Banks positioned themselves to be long volatility – in other words, to benefit if volatility spiked – by snapping up options contracts ahead of the market rout, according to the people.
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The world's tech powers have moved to Cambridge, England — including Microsoft, in the building at left — snapping up engineers and researchers, particularly in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence.
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As California moves to legalize the recreational use of marijuana this November, growers are snapping up land from wine country to Humboldt County in the hope of cashing in.
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All of those D&D consumers are snapping up the Fifth Edition, a new rule set released in 2014 that emphasizes a flexible approach to combat and decision-making.
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Others have been in search of a bit more open space, choosing to put a seas distance between themselves and the virus, by snapping up their own secluded island.
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SMFG's chances of snapping up Permata have improved after two key rivals dropped out of the race to buy the $2.4 billion-valued lender, sources said earlier this month.
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Activist investors have been snapping up stakes in companies they feel are underperforming in a volatile economic environment, pushing for changes in strategy to extract more value for shareholders.
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Customers were snapping up Patanjali Ayurved's affordable, Indian-made products such as coconut oil and ayurvedic remedies, in a mounting threat to foreign companies that had bet big on India.
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Papermaster entered AMD in October 2011 and the company seemed to be in a state of free fall, with major rivals like Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung snapping up dissatisfied employees.
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The acquisition highlights the attractiveness of Hong Kong's insurance businesses, which are receiving a boost from growing wealth in the city and Chinese visitors snapping up foreign currency-denominated products.
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Cable and internet provider Altice USA has agreed to buy news streaming start-up Cheddar for $200 million, snapping up a growing video site with a focus on ad revenue.
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First it was CA Technologies, which Broadcom agreed to acquire a year ago for $22018 billion, snapping up a 42-year-old developer of software used by information technology teams.
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Sub-Saharan Africa's only major profitable state-owned airline has been snapping up stakes in smaller carriers around the continent in a bid to become the dominant pan-African airline.
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With Cisco snapping up AppDynamics right before it went public, investors and companies were waiting to see if there was actually some appetite for IPOs — which, apparently, there is plenty.
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Traditional trucking companies like JB Hunt and Ryder are snapping up furniture and appliance delivery and installation companies—because it turns out millennials really will order anything on the internet.
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Pet lovers, taking matters into their own hands, are snapping up CBD products, according to a 2018 nationwide survey of 1,068 dog owners by Colorado State University veterinary medicine researchers.
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The health care industry is consolidating rapidly — hospitals are merging with each other and with insurers; pharmacies are buying insurance companies; and drug companies are snapping up other drug companies.
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Global investors are snapping up high-risk bonds in Asia — especially those offered by Chinese property developers — in a sign that investors are increasingly more willing to take bigger bets.
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The GFG Alliance, a $10 billion metals, industrials and energy group, has been snapping up distressed industrial assets in Britain, Australia and the United States in the past few years.
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The local central bank has been snapping up dollars, buying close to 20.44 billion dollars in the last month, seeking to rein in peso strength and top up dollar reserves.
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By snapping up podcast producers, the streaming service is hoping to stock up on high-profile titles in its rivalry with Apple, which has historically been the top podcasting platform.
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Health-conscious consumers snapping up everything from electric toothbrushes to kitchen appliances drove up 2015 profits at electronics giant Philips as it seeks to spin off its historic lighting business.
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Disney made a lot of savvy moves in the run-up to launching Disney+, but none were savvier than snapping up BAMTech to ensure that its apps will work well.
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Keith Bansemer, vice president for marketing at My Patriot Supply, which sells bulk food, water devices and seeds, said customers have started snapping up the company's six-month food supplies.
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What remained to be seen was whether investors, as they have done in the past, would buy the dip, snapping up financial assets in the wake of a minor downturn.
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CALGARY/MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Canada's Kinross Gold Corp is putting future deals in Russia on hold after snapping up a development project in a country hit by Western sanctions.
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They have been accused by prosecutors of snapping up dollar future contracts based on their knowledge of a plea bargain deal in a corruption case they had signed last year.
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Rick Ross just paid the cost to truly be the boss of luxury SUV owners -- snapping up a rare version of the popular G-Wagon that blows away the rest.
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One measure of how willingly the market is snapping up bonds, particularly those lower in quality, is through covenant quality, or the amount of protections being demanded in case of default.
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R&F added its footprint in the U.K. earlier this year after snapping up Nestle Tower in south London for around 60 million pounds and Vauxhall Square for 157.77 million pounds.
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Snapping up the Daily News adds another big city to a portfolio that includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune in a bid to go after national advertising dollars.
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Hellman has been on a tech buying spree, helping lead the $11 billion acquisition of Ultimate Software this year, after snapping up Financial Engines in a $3 billion deal last year.
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Groupon itself has managed to stay afloat amid that drama, and has even shaped up to be a consolidator of sorts, snapping up its once-arch rival, LivingSocial, for a song.
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Thoma Bravo and Vista have led the charge over the last few years, snapping up cloud companies focused on everything from marketing automation and event planning to analytics and financial transparency.
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Foodpanda has been on an international shopping spree over the past two years, snapping up food delivery startups around the world in order to expand in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
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Gina Martin Adams, institutional equity strategist at Wells Fargo Securities, tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Friday it may be time to start snapping up some beaten-up stocks at these levels.
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Central banks slowed their gold purchases in February, snapping up 25 tons of the yellow metal against a combined 41 ton purchase in January, data from the World Gold Council showed.
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Kevin Hart and his new wife Eniko Parrish touched down in St. Barts on Monday to take their wedding celebration beachside – and of course, the couple are snapping up a storm.
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Steinhoff has been aggressively expanding in developed markets since moving its primary share listing from Johannesburg to Frankfurt in 20.8482, snapping up Britain's Poundland, U.S-based Mattress Firm and Australia's Fantastic.
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A number of start-ups have evolved to try and tackle the problem of scalpers and bots snapping up the best seats, resulting in sky-high prices, which don't benefit artists.
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Read more: Foreigners are snapping up real estate on a tiny Mediterranean island to get EU citizenship, and it highlights the significance of 2nd passports as status symbols among the wealthy
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LONDON (Reuters) - European insurers are snapping up more emerging-market debt, spurred on by worries that negative-yielding bonds in Europe might not offer enough returns to meet their future payments.
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Such risky assets, which normally yield double-digit returns, are high on the radar of international investors who have also been snapping up Italian debt collectors in the past two years.
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Mr. Geier's focus for the next 20 years was largely on snapping up companies, among them the Lowe Group; Scali, McCabe, Sloves; Campbell-Mithun-Esty; Newspaper Services of America; and Deutsch.
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Verizon isn't threatened by AT&T snapping up Time Warner because it can negotiate those deals without having to spend billions on another media company, Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said.
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Why it matters: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has aggressively diversified AT&T, snapping up media and entertainment assets in order to move the telecoms company beyond the wireless phone business.
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Snapping up individual stocks comes with its own risks, too: You can easily become too concentrated in any one industry, meaning that all of your holdings will rise — and fall — together.
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Cheapskates built its online business by sourcing goods from local businesses, like a friend who makes yard signs, buying from distributors and snapping up clearance products at RadioShack and other retailers.
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Gupta, executive chairman of $10 billion metals, industrials and energy group GFG Alliance, has been snapping up distressed industrial assets in Britain, Australia and the United States over the past few years.
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Two weeks after announcing it's working with Lyft on a network of self-driving cars, General Motors is snapping up employees and intellectual property from the recently defunct ride sharing company Sidecar.
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French oil major Total SA has expanded its stake in Uganda's Lake Albert oil project by snapping up most of Tullow Oil Plc's stake for $900 million, the companies said on Monday.
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Google's core search service has been blocked in China for over seven years, but that isn't stopping the internet giant from snapping up artificial intelligence and machine learning talent from the country.
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In recent years sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have ramped up their exposure to real assets, snapping up iconic skyscrapers in London and Manhattan, luxury hotels and multi-year concessions for Australian ports.
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Regulators are looking at how top Chinese companies have borrowed money, and how they've structured massive deals like the snapping up of marquee assets from Legendary Entertainment to the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
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That figure was well below the $43 billion worth of spectrum on offer however, as carriers shunned the priciest category of airwaves, snapping up less than half of the total on offer.
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With the rise of streaming services and the success of shows like Game of Thrones, Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix have been rapidly snapping up big science fiction and fantasy novels for adaptation.
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A new, shady line of work is already emerging: opportunists are said to be snapping up 1,000-rupee notes at a deep discount from those with too much stashed cash to declare.
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Germans are complaining about an overheated real estate market, and the country's fund managers are furious that the ECB has been snapping up, since early June, all the high-quality corporate bonds.
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At a time when many larger companies are snapping up startups that have developed interesting applications or technologies around areas like AR, mapping, and autonomous driving, there may be more to come.
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The new measures are also meant to address concerns that offshore owners are snapping up homes as investment vehicles and leaving them empty, taking much-needed housing stock out of the market.
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Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, dropped about $1.1 billion on Apple stock in the first quarter of 2016, snapping up 9.8 million shares in the company, according to a company filing on Monday.
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The company has done a lot of things far better than they have, and either Canon or Nikon could do a lot worse than snapping up the company before the other does.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors are snapping up foreign stocks, giving international equity managers the most cash in two years, Investment Company Institute data for the latest week showed on Wednesday.
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Lil Pump is sharing his wealth, in the iciest way possible -- snapping up bust down watches for his whole crew ... 'cause that's what you do when you're dripping in half a mil.
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Investors have been snapping up some consumer goods and banking shares in anticipation of strong earnings and the possibility of dividend payments, especially after Nigeria emerged from recession in the second quarter.
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After the attacks in Paris and New Year's security scares, Germans have been snapping up self-defense equipment like stun guns - to the delight of a Czech manufacturer who corners the market.
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So European utilities began snapping up the unwanted American coal instead: more of it was exported to the Netherlands than to any other country in 22 and the first half of 22.2.
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The GFG Alliance, whose assets spans industrials group Liberty House and energy group SIMEC, is a growing commodities conglomerate that been snapping up distressed steel, aluminium and energy assets around the world.
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Lufthansa has been a key player in hectic M&A activity in the industry, snapping up Brussels Airlines and parts of insolvent Air Berlin last year to expand in the budget market.
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The legendary actor was spotted at a Whole Foods Sunday in Beverly Hills, where Rocko was snapping up a bunch of groceries ... but wasn't touching any of it with his bare hands.
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With consolidation, Wall Street-backed firms' once-bold strategy of cleaning up the mess created by the crisis by going to foreclosure auctions and snapping up hundreds of cheap homes has ended.
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Start-ups like Snapchat, TikTok and others have sprung up quickly over the past 10 years, snapping up early adopters and teenagers, a youthful demographic that Facebook — and its advertisers — value immensely.
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Everyone from recent M.F.A. grads to some of America's most decorated playwrights have been snapping up jobs on shows, and now the schools that train them are seeing fresh opportunities as well.
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Lufthansa has been a key player in hectic M&A activity in the industry, snapping up Brussels Airlines and parts of insolvent Air Berlin in 2017 to expand in the budget market.
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Elected officials from many small and mid-sized cities decried the rise of outside investors snapping up homes as rental properties, and the increased cost to public safety in dealing with disturbances.
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And in an environment with constant political instability, WCS provided a much-needed level of stability and institutional memory, snapping up the park service's most talented directors when their terms ran out.
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"The trade spat is far from over, but while the rhetoric and the actions have been dialled down, traders are swooping in snapping up relatively cheap stocks," CMC Markets analyst David Madden said.
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From Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons to newly-minted Chinese entrepreneurs, the wealthy have flocked to London over the past two decades, snapping up everything from opulent homes to soccer clubs.
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After snapping up stakes in European football clubs, Wanda is now turning its sights on Hollywood, announcing plans to buy Dick Clark Productions that granted it the broadcasting rights to Golden Globe Awards.
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Chinese firms have been snapping up hotels and hospitality brands around the world, from Fosun International's purchase of France's Club Mediterranee to Anbang Insurance buying up the famous Waldorf Astoria in New York.
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Del Vecchio, the 84-year-old billionaire and chairman of eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica, rattled Italian finance last month when he unexpectedly became Mediobanca's third biggest investor, snapping up a stake in the bank.
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But you'd better hurry — a pair of sandals we were eyeing from the line already sold out, and we have a feeling it's not the only one shoppers will be snapping up ASAP!
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Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, spent $26 million of his personal fortune to buy his bank's stock on Thursday, snapping up 500,000 of its shares, which have fallen sharply.
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While credit-scoring behemoth Equifax continues to work through the fallout from its massive security breach, one of its big competitors is snapping up a startup in the UK to diversify its business.
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Although it is a longtime shareholder in Coty, privately held JAB has focused on expanding its food and beverages empire, snapping up Dr Pepper, Krispy Kreme and Pret A Manger in recent years.
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Liberty House Group, which has been snapping up distressed steel and aluminum assets around the world, is currently the preferred bidder for auto component manufacturers Amite Auto India, the company said last month.
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Rather than snapping up a luxury Mayfair bachelor pad, the pretrial hearings also highlighted that Sarao still lived with his parents in a three-bedroom house on a nondescript street in suburban London.
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Read MoreInvestors snapping up new homes for rentals "There are still plenty of solid opportunities available for real estate investors willing to cast a wider geographic net," said Daren Blomquist, a RealtyTrac analyst.
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In June, Drahi made a surprise move into the art world by snapping up Sotheby's in a $3.7 billion deal, partly funded by the sale of some of his shares in Altice USA.
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More recently it has morphed into a popular annual event, with members of the public snapping up premium cuts of meat that would otherwise be bought by the city's top hotels and restaurants.
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Even after you've considered home ownership from every angle, asked yourself some important questions and weighed the pros and cons, you still might want to hold off on snapping up your dream home.
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Privately-owned Liberty, which plans to list some of its businesses in 2018, has been snapping up distressed steel assets in Britain and around the world, including in the United States and Australia.
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In 2013, Google began snapping up robotics companies to create a robot unit under Andy Rubin, the man who built Google's Android smartphone software into the dominant operating system of the mobile era.
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The place was wall-to-wall packed with shoppers snapping up armfuls of coffee mugs and faux plants before queueing up in stanchion-organized lines for 30 minutes to pay for their purchases.
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Don Bilson, head of event-driven research at Gordon Haskett, was among the analysts thinking the well-known hedge fund investor and activist may be snapping up a stake in the video streamer.
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Some New York parents — the kind who get their preschool application in before the third trimester of pregnancy — are already snapping up their subscriptions to the next season of the Philharmonic's children's programs.
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Still, we've seen instances where things change at the last minute — like Cisco snapping up AppDynamics right before its IPO — and TechCrunch previously reported that Microsoft seemed to be interested in the company, too.
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Chinese buyers, previously regarded as slow and inconclusive, have proved they can move fast and are snapping up deals even when the asset in question has been earmarked for an initial public offering (IPO).
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A successful $17.5bn international bond sale, the largest ever from an emerging market, has already allowed the government to resume paying contractors, and investors' enthusiasm for snapping up the paper is a good sign.
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After snapping up a series of small online retailers, Wal-Mart said Monday that it is launching an innovation hub to identify the ideas, people and technologies that will drive the future of retail.
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Formula sales per resident birth in Hong Kong started to surge in 2008 and are now more than 25 times higher than before the crisis, suggesting mainland shoppers are still snapping up foreign formula.
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The interruption is also bad news for European refiners which have been snapping up relatively cheap Kurdish barrels over the past year, boosting profits and already being spoilt for choice in an oversupplied market.
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Michael Kors agreed two months ago to buy Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion, snapping up the British company whose towering stilettos have been made famous by celebrity customers from Princess Diana to Kendall Jenner.
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Between 2013 and 2015 Chinese companies invested more than $13 billion, snapping up oil and fishmeal assets and building two huge copper projects that have buoyed growth in the wake of the commodities bust.
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And IBM has also been snapping up digital agencies, in part to better compete against the likes of Adobe and an army of management consultancy firms that also offer digital and interaction design services.
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They control about $6.5 trillion, according to data provider Preqin, and have transformed the global investment landscape by snapping up stakes in multinational companies and landmark real estate in cities from London to Melbourne.
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Liberty House, one of the world's largest privately owned industrial groups and Europe's third largest steel producer, has expanded rapidly in recent years, snapping up distressed steel and aluminum assets around the world since.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - CEFC China Energy is considering more deals after recently snapping up a $9.1 billion stake in Russia's Rosneft, industry sources said, shrugging off a growing debt pile and rising regulatory scrutiny.
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Apple is well aware of this problem, and has been snapping up behavioral scientists like Heather Patrick, so the race is now firmly underway for tech giants to develop a device that truly sticks.
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Concern has been growing across Europe at China's buying spree on the continent, with investors snapping up often iconic businesses in a way many fear could threaten Europe's position as a high-value economy.
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But state-owned ChemChina boss Ren Jianxin's dream of snapping up either Syngenta or its U.S. rival Dow Chemical Co goes back much further - to just after his firm was officially established in 2004.
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OTTAWA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Foreigners maintained their healthy appetite for Canadian securities in October, snapping up C$15.75 billion ($11.75 billion) worth of bonds, stocks and money market paper, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.
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Wiese was optimistic for the outlook for Europe despite gloomy economic forecasts but was cautious about the idea of snapping up cheaper assets in Britain following its June vote to leave the European Union.
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It's also creating a housing crunch with many older dormitories filled to capacity and students snapping up rooms in private residences such as the nearly 500-bed residence in Wroclaw, which opened in September.
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Almost all the paper was bought by foreign investors, with U.S.-based buyers in particular snapping up 6783 percent of the bond due in 2678 and 221.7 percent of the note due in 21.
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Some of the excess crude will be absorbed by nations snapping up cheap oil for their strategic reserves, including India and the United States, but that will only mop up some of the supply.
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Mr. Spitz, a fourth-generation Texan with family roots in the pest control business, plunged into the post-disaster frenzy, snapping up 150 homes around Houston in the first 90 days after the storm.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union has yet to scare off overseas investors, who are snapping up British government bonds at the fastest pace on record, figures on Wednesday showed.
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Döderlein, whose company helps develop mobile payments products for 17 banks, said that this would result in big, mainstream tech companies snapping up smaller fintechs to harness the newer technologies they have on offer.
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Its larger Paris-based rival LVMH, owner of Louis Vuitton, recently raised the stakes by snapping up US jeweler Tiffany, increasing its presence in one of the fastest-growing pockets of the luxury industry.
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Sanofi is investing in its more buoyant businesses like rare diseases and making a further push in the cancer market, snapping up U.S. biotechnology firm Synthorx in a cash deal worth about $13 billion.
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AB InBev, home to global brands like Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, has been on a craft beer buying spree in recent quarters, snapping up names like Elysian, Golden Road, Four Peaks and Breckenridge.
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BRASILIA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin American stocks will keep rising in the coming year, with investors snapping up Brazilian shares on hopes a budget reform will bring down borrowing costs, a Reuters poll showed.
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Otkritie bank, part of the wider Otkritie group, grew rapidly in recent years, snapping up banks such as Nomos, non-pension funds and insurers, and even the diamond business of Russian oil producer Lukoil.
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Otkritie Bank, part of the wider Otkritie Group, grew rapidly in recent years, snapping up banks such as Nomos, non-pension funds and insurers, and even the diamond business of Russian oil producer Lukoil.
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Big multinational developers like Statoil and Dong Energy are also investing in the business, snapping up leases for ocean parcels with the aim of competing for utility contracts in Maryland, Massachusetts and New York.
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At a time when Russia's biggest banks were retrenching due to the world economic slowdown and Western sanctions on the country, Otkritie was snapping up assets from diamonds to pension funds and rival banks.
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Its larger Paris-based rival LVMH, owner of Louis Vuitton, recently raised the stakes by snapping up U.S. jeweller Tiffany, increasing its presence in one of the fastest-growing pockets of the luxury industry.
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He chose Labor as his vehicle like a motorhead snapping up a wreck to restore: Its poll ratings were at record lows, and it was projected to win only eight of 120 Knesset seats.
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During the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vekselberg forged a metals empire by snapping up newly-privatized aluminum assets with his longtime business partner Len Blavatnik, a naturalized dual U.S.-U.
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And then Northern's starting roster signed with EnVyUs, a much larger organization, in the time-honored tradition of bigger esports organizations snapping up whole lineups in order to jump to the top of the order.
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Ambitious Chinese company LeEco has made two big inroads on its push into Silicon Valley, snaffling a senior legal counsel from Google and snapping up Yahoo's property at the center of the U.S. tech hub.
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That potential sale is in stark contrast to the four years CEO Marissa Mayer led Yahoo through an acquisition binge, snapping up 2149 companies for a total of $212013 billion, according to a company spokesperson.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss watchmakers Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille are snapping up stakes in their franchised shops, seeking to tighten their grip on the sales network as a growing number of top brands ditch wholesalers.
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So Cruz and Rubio had hoped to win by organizing early, snapping up talented operatives and key endorsements, while beginning caucus trainings last fall in the hopes that a strong organization could overcome Trump's momentum.
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The move comes after Reuters reported last month that two investment firms, Blackstone Group LP's GSO Capital Partners LP and Anchorage Capital Group LLC, were snapping up J. Crew's debt to facilitate such a deal.
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Meanwhile, Oculus is snapping up as many exclusives as it can: Superhot was announced as one last month, and we learned at E3 that former Vive title Giant Cop will now launch first on Rift.
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Gupta, executive chairman of GFG Alliance which is a $10 billion metals, industrials and energy group, has been snapping up distressed industrial assets in Britain, Australia and the United States in the past few years.
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By snapping up short-term Treasury bills, the Fed also helped to reverse the so-called inverted yield curve, which happens when the yields on long-term bonds fall below those on short-term bonds.
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By snapping up short-term Treasury bills, the Fed also helped to reverse the so-called inverted yield curve, which happens when the yields on long-term bonds fall below those on short-term bonds.
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Earlier this month it was revealed that a number of companies, including Salesforce and Alphabet, are looking at snapping up the company as it might make sense in the context of a greater tech empire.
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The owner of Hainan Airlines Co inked about $20 billion in deals last year, snapping up a stake in Hilton Hotels and investing in catering and logistics firms and is increasingly pushing into financial services.
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But Cooperman said if you believe the virus will be "history" by June, there's little reason not to continue snapping up stocks at a discount to the loftier multiples seen just a few days ago.
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He joined forces with a Charleston partner, Michael L. Wooddy, who holds 2800 percent of Mr. Zoukis's position, and in 43 began snapping up all the available lots they could find, ultimately more than 24.
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Today, the queue is partly a resellers' market: energetic young entrepreneurs snapping up wares in multiples, then flipping them at soaring markups on eBay or selling them for pocket change to finance their own buys.
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Prices have been driven up by huge city incomes and bonuses, by population growth outstripping the supply of new housing, by foreign investors snapping up London property as a convenient way to store their wealth.
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Arrium's committee of creditors decided on the Korean group over Great Britain's Liberty House, the industrials and commodities group that has been snapping up troubled steel plants around the world, according to the administrator, KordaMentha.
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Now to stop your end-of-year reward from burning a hole in your wallet, you could consider snapping up one of CNBC's top picks of the coolest ski chalets on the market this winter season.
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The government's push has sparked a flood of new activity in soccer; new tournaments are being created, such as the 2017 China Cup that begins Tuesday, while investors are snapping up clubs and digital streaming assets.
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Since going public in 2013, Vonovia has grown by swallowing up smaller rivals, and has expanded outside its home market, snapping up Austria's Conwert and Buwog, and last year buying Sweden's Victoria Park for $1.1 billion.
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An earlier wave of those seeking to escape Venezuela's collapsing economy, sky-high inflation and food shortages saw engineers snapping up jobs in Colombia's then-burgeoning oil industry or working in multinational companies in capital Bogota.
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For all its silicon expertise and billions of dollars invested in research, Intel has never been a leader in graphics, though the company is now hoping to correct that situation by snapping up AMD's graphics chief.
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MONTREAL/EDMONTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Foreign investors are snapping up ski chalets and commercial properties in Canada as a drop in the nation's sagging currency in the past two years means their money buys much more.
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In an official response made public on Wednesday, Peru's lawyers accused Gramercy of conducting a "desperate smear campaign" against the sovereign in an attempt to reap hefty returns after snapping up the bonds on the cheap.
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The rotation involved people selling shares of companies like drugmaker Merck and spice guru McCormick & Co. and snapping up shares of chipmakers including Texas Instruments, Xilinx and Lam Research, all of which recently reported strong quarters.
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Electronic payments providers such as market leaders Paytm and MobiKwik, and smaller players FreeCharge, Citrus, ItzCash and Oxigen, seized the opportunity, snapping up millions of customers and merchants caught out by the sudden shortage of cash.
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HONG KONG, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley moved a step closer to taking a controlling stake in its Chinese investment banking joint venture after snapping up the 13% stake it needed for control, exchange filings show.
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Oil majors such as Exxon Mobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Statoil have been snapping up blocks in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil that hold crude under thousands of feet of salt.
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Other major players — including the Carlyle Group and Sam Zell's Equity LifeStyle Properties — are snapping up manufactured home communities, with one analyst calling it "the most recession-proof housing stock in existence," as TRD previously reported.
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Prior reporting in the Information has suggested the company had been looking for potential buyers since February 2019 and that the purchase is an "acqui-hire," meaning that Apple was primarily interested in snapping up Drive.
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More and more analysts are advising calm — that the trend is ultimately less crucial than one might think because Amazon and other warehouses are snapping up workers in larger numbers than retail workers are losing jobs.
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AI is also an area that is ripe for acquisition: some of those big tech companies are also snapping up AI startups in order to pick up new talent and tap into what they've built already.
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The Reimanns have been on a buying spree, snapping up familiar food and drink brands, including Keurig Green Mountain coffee, Dr Pepper, Snapple, Caribou Coffee, Panera Bread, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and the bagel chains Einstein Bros.
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Del Vecchio, the 84-year-old founder of eyewear giant Luxottica, has openly criticized Nagel's management choices after snapping up 6.94% of Mediobanca last month in a surprise move that made him its third-biggest investor.
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U.S. retailer Michael Kors has agreed to buy luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion, snapping up a British brand launched in the east end of London and made famous by celebrity fans including Princess Diana.
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That Little Haiti sits on some of the highest ground in a city besieged by rising sea levels is no coincidence when it comes to the rate at which developers have been snapping up property there.
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Mr. Barrack, who made his fortune snapping up undervalued real estate assets, is the executive chairman of Colony NorthStar, and has been a trusted confidant to Mr. Trump during the campaign and since he took office.
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Facebook acquired Israel-based Onavo in 2013, snapping up the free security app that lets users access a virtual private network, or VPN, to browse the web and download apps with a greater degree of privacy.
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Private equity funds have increased their presence in oil exploration and production outside the United States since the 2014 collapse in oil prices, snapping up assets from oil companies seeking to reduce debt and narrow operations.
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It is HNA Group, a conglomerate that has been snapping up American firms and has agreed to buy the investment firm of Anthony Scaramucci, who has been appointed the White House's liaison to the business community.
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The original books, written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo, built up a mass following in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, with many childhood readers from those days still snapping up the titles decades on.
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The tighter new rules have already stymied a global buying spree by Chinese corporations, which had been snapping up football clubs, movie studios and skyscrapers, but have faced obstacles in recent months due to restrictions on financing.
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Under his guidance, the group rebuilt into a formidable force that swept across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, snapping up control of major cities and leaving a grisly trail of death and destruction in his wake.
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With a long-delayed African "open skies" revolution still mired in red tape, Ethiopian has been snapping up stakes in small carriers around the continent to pre-empt potential rivals and become the dominant pan-African airline.
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Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke, said he views Amazon's decline as the result of a rotation by investors who are dumping names like Alphabet and Facebook, and are snapping up industrials and financials — and also retailers.
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EBOS Group extended gains, climbing as much as 5.9 percent to a fresh record high after snapping up a deal on Monday, to distribute pharmaceutical products to over 400 Chemist Warehouse and My Chemist stores in Australia.
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To be sure, some U.S buyers are treading cautiously after snapping up vacation properties in the early 2000s, when the Canadian dollar hit record lows, only to be forced to sell when the global financial crisis hit.
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It's not clear who would be snapping up a recruitment site right now for tech or anything else, although LinkedIn has been active in that area, both with its own business and buying smaller operations like Connectifier.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - American consumers are snapping up plentiful low-cost pork, but U.S. farmers are worried that trade spats with key export markets in China, Mexico and Canada could hurt a lucrative part of their pork business.
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The 10 largest U.S. hedge funds have made the most of the slide in the oil price, snapping up $213 billion in cheap energy stocks, making the sector the top buy of the last quarter of 24.
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Despite the skittishness around European and Japanese equities, Riverfront Investment Group's director of international portfolio management, Chris Konstantinos, also told "Closing Bell" that his firm has been careful in snapping up buying opportunities in Japanese real estate.
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Japanese supermarkets, manufacturers and consumers are snapping up all the potato and chips they can find as a poor harvest from the country's top potato producing region hits fresh supplies, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Monday.
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Here's how it all works: Since the financial crisis, the Fed had been a major player in the Treasurys market, snapping up nearly $22015 trillion worth during three rounds of bond-buying that began in late 2008.
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A few months later, it extended its reach to 20 U.S. states by snapping up the country's fourth-largest operator, Cablevision, which provides cable and broadband services in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, for $17.7 billion.
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It comes the same week as former Procter & Gamble executives prepare for their $345 million Legacy Acquisition to begin trading in the U.S., focused on snapping up companies in consumer packaged goods, food, retail and restaurant sectors.
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London (CNN Business)Investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, seeking the security offered by the precious metal as the coronavirus pandemic trashes economies and forces central banks to print trillions of dollars in new money.
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In Redwood City, on the peninsula between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley, private equity firms have been snapping up buildings that house lower-income service workers and repositioning them for higher-income tech workers.
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Because the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds dropped well below 1 percent on Friday, hitting lows never before seen in the United States, snapping up government-backed bonds could have far less impact in the future.
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Malaysians living in Johor have complained of large numbers of Chinese people snapping up properties in Forest City, besides concerns of environmental damage, a glut in the property market, and the impact of land reclamation on fisheries.
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Since then, it has been snapping up huge stakes in rapidly growing tech companies including, prior to the WeWork deal, investments in the vertical farming company Plenty, online lenders Kabbage, and e-commerce firms Fanatics and Flipkart.
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Elsewhere around the world, international buyers are snapping up easy-to-lock-up-and-leave, high-rise residences under hotel banners like Mandarin Oriental, Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and W, in cities from London to Barcelona to Bangkok.
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Indeed, this new infusion of cash comes months after the company completed its fourth acquisition to date, snapping up France-based rival BnbLord, a startup that it claims is the largest Airbnb host platform in France and Portugal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds appear to have spotted an opportunity in the European Central Bank's bond-buying scheme and are snapping up long-dated debt in anticipation of profits from selling it back to the central bank later.
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Private equity funds have increased their presence in oil exploration and production companies outside the United States since the collapse in oil prices in 2014, snapping up assets from oil companies seeking to reduce debt and narrow operations.
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From Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons to newly-minted Chinese entrepreneurs, foreign buyers have driven a spending spree on London property over the past two decades, snapping up everything from opulent homes to iconic commercial property.
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Smaller Canadian producers have raised concerns they will not be able to meet Enbridge's minimum-term and volume commitments and be shut out of the Mainline by larger competitors and U.S. refiners snapping up all the available capacity.
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Proving that it is no dinosaur when it comes to snapping up American film companies, Dalian Wanda, a Chinese conglomerate, agreed to buy Legendary Entertainment, which produced "Jurassic World" and other recent box-office hits, for $3.5 billion.
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In recent years, every major luxury group including Hermes, Kering, Richemont and LVMH has been snapping up suppliers, from tanneries to flower growers, securing access to high quality raw materials in competition that grows more fierce every year.
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It boosts its presence in Central and Eastern Europe by snapping up Switzerland-based generic company PharmaSwiss for $481 million; AB Sanitas of Lithuania for about $500 million; Canada's Afexa Life Sciences and Sanofi SA's dermatology unit Dermik.
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Working from his kitchen counter at home in North Texas, Mr. Harber said he went on the buying spree to take advantage of the dropping prices, snapping up shares of blue chip companies like Apple and Exxon Mobil.
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Investors have been snapping up government bonds issued by countries like Russia, Turkey and even Mongolia, enticed by mouthwatering yields and a perception that economic and political risks, which previously warned investors away, are no longer so severe.
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" Despite the festival-like atmosphere, with people eating flavored shaved ice and snapping up T-shirts, model tanks and military-themed cookies at souvenir stands, Mr. Ishihara's wife, Takako, 49, said the exercises felt "like a real battle.
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As a result, Egyptians have been snapping up apartments and villas in new desert developments, confident that housing prices have nowhere to go but up in an overcrowded country whose population is growing by 2.5 percent a year.
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As rural hospitals continue to close — since 2010, 113 rural hospitals have closed, many in states that refused Medicaid expansion — the Catholic health care industry flourishes, snapping up struggling rural facilities in mergers and narrowing access to care.
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"We definitely see a younger group of people that I've never seen before, and I grew up in Port Jervis," said Paula J. Meloi, a local real estate agent, referring to newcomers, including those snapping up weekend homes.
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"We definitely see a younger group of people that I've never seen before, and I grew up in Port Jervis," said Paula J. Meloi, a local real estate agent, referring to newcomers, including those snapping up weekend homes.
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The Chinese company has been on a buying spree since the middle of the last decade, snapping up firms from countries ranging from Israel to France and Germany to produce and trade pesticides, vitamins, organic silicon, rubber and plastics.
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A secretive Chinese company with deep ties to the country's Communist Party has become one of the biggest foreign investors in the United States over the past year, snapping up American firms in a string of multibillion-dollar deals.
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Allianz went on a British buying spree Friday, snapping up the remaining 51% stake in U.K.-based LV General Insurance Group for up to £578 million ($123 million) and acquiring a 100% of Legal & General Insurance for £242 million.
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It is three years since one local banker, Fernando Ulrich, called Portugal "a Chinese aircraft-carrier in Europe"—back then, Chinese buyers were already snapping up stakes in "strategic" local companies as quickly as the government could privatise them.
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The investment firm has been among the most active buyers of bad debts in Europe in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, snapping up cheap loans from Ireland to Italy and selling them on as market conditions improved.
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PARIS/BOSTON (Reuters) - Franco-Israeli cable magnate Patrick Drahi made a surprise move into the art world by snapping up Sotheby's in a deal worth $3.7 billion, marking the art auction house's return to private ownership after 31 years.
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Snot Goblin currently has the top-selling album on Bandcamp thanks to a groundswell of social media support, which has seen metalheads and other well-wishers snapping up digital copies of The Path Of The Shrunken Heads in droves.
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Large food and beverage companies like Nestle SA, Unilever Plc and Conagra Brands Inc are snapping up smaller brands to combat growth challenges, while brick-and-mortar retailers are grappling with how to grow their online presence following Amazon.
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In the hot U.S. market of connected (or "smart") home devices—which millions of Americans are snapping up at a rapid clip—two new products are banking on an old fashioned idea: Keeping homes safe rather than just comfortable.
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Now in its ninth year, RSD sees music fans flock to independent music shops, forming long queues in the hope of snapping up limited-edition vinyl releases that form part of an official list released ahead of the day.
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Alongside growing VC funding in AI, US tech firms are snapping up British-founded startups, leading to concerns that the UK is losing the best of its artificial intelligence to Silicon Valley just as it becomes a key technology.
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Beijing, through the country's firms, has been snapping up assets as part of the One Belt One Road project launched in 2013, undertaking a record 19 global infrastructure deals worth $6.8 billion in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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This Australia launch is organic, with Didi developing its own team, while in Taiwan it has used a franchise model and it went into Brazil via acquisition, snapping up local Uber-rival 99 at a valuation of $1 billion.
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Del Vecchio, which became Mediobanca's third biggest investor last month by snapping up 7 percent of the bank, said he expected the new plan to focus more on its investment banking business, boosting its role in Italy and Europe.
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China's crude demand, which is usually strong ahead of the peak winter season, has been stoked further as some Chinese independent refiners, known as teapots, are snapping up cargoes to use up import quotas by year-end, the sources said.
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They added that funds have been taking positions in consumer goods while locals are snapping up shares in mid-tier banks in a switch from bonds, where the outlook for yields is negative as government seeks to lower its borrowing costs.
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There are echoes here of Google robotics, Rubin's post-Android pursuit, which left the world wondering what, precisely the company was building amid an acquisition spree that found the company snapping up Boston Dynamics, Industrial Perception and Bot & Dolly, among others.
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Shares in Bellamy and other formula makers have surged since late 2015, with local media reporting Chinese visitors snapping up the product in Australia to re-sell at a huge mark-up back home, where food safety scandals are rife.
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Several private equity firms invested in footwear companies in recent years, with Apax Partners LP acquiring Cole Haan, Sycamore Partners LLC buying Nine West, part of the Jones Group Inc, and Golden Gate Capital and Blum Capital snapping up Payless ShoeSource.
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To grow in new markets, Robbins has orchestrated multiple billion-dollar-plus acquisitions, snapping up emerging companies like software performance management vendor AppDynamics on the eve of its initial public offering in 22013, and identity management company Duo Security last year.
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But Shell was not the only one to take advantage of the slump to secure growth by snapping up rivals reeling from the slide in Brent crude from a 4.73 high of $115 a barrel to just $27 in January 2016.
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In recent years, Deutsche has assisted one of mining's few durable operators, Blackhawk Mining, based in Lexington, Ky., which has been snapping up some of the best mines of bankrupt or nearly bankrupt companies such as Patriot Coal and Arch Coal.
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At a pop-up market stall just off Canal Street, the Madison Avenue of the unauthenticated, shoppers have spent the last week snapping up off-price, jeans, hoodies, T-shirts and boxer briefs with a familiar, almost-right logo: Deisel.
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But because, it seems, hope springs eternal, this week another business put its hat in the ring: Coach, snapping up the aforementioned Kate Spade for $2.4 billion and creating its own stable of American brands, including Stuart Weitzman, purchased in 2015.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's largest telecoms group Telstra Corp Ltd has taken a bet on the resource industry's appetite for cash-saving technology from drones to wireless production-tracking, snapping up a specialist firm to set up a dedicated mining services unit.
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WASHINGTON — A secretive Chinese company with deep ties to the country's Communist Party has become one of the biggest foreign investors in the United States over the past year, snapping up American firms in a string of multibillion-dollar deals.
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A few years ago, Castro's son, Antonio Castro Soto del Valle, was spotted snapping up a number of the most opulent suites in a Mediterranean resort in southern Turkey, hopping aboard a luxury yacht, and sunning in Mykonos for good measure.
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Despite the slowing Chinese economy and escalating U.S.-China trade war, its reserves have been gradually rising since late 2018, helped by tight capital controls and rising inflows from foreign investors who are snapping up the country's stocks and bonds.
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So-called secondary market investors are already placing bets that mergers and acquisitions will pick up in the oil patch by snapping up shares sold by publicly listed energy companies that could use the money to acquire assets at a discount.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From Pakistan to Turkey, the world's largest independent oil trader Vitol is betting on a spike in gasoline and diesel demand in young and growing nations by snapping up filling stations that disappointed oil companies are prepared to sell.
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So it does seem like there's plenty of appetite for M&A, with other recent big exits with Intel snapping up Nervana Systems for $350 million and Salesforce picking up Quip for $750 million (the latter of which was also a Greylock investment).
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Ocasio-Cortez grills Zuckerberg over Facebook allowing lies in political ads (CNBC) Amazon (AMZN) has just made its second acquisition in the health-care space, snapping up a start-up called Health Navigator, which provides technology and services to digital health companies.
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It holds some extremely valuable intellectual property, from Avatar to Alien to X-Men; Disney's been snapping up massive amounts of IP in recent years, and Comcast is looking to invest further in the franchise game, too, including outlets to distribute it.
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Fuelled by reports that the United Kingdom and the European Union have made progress on a deal to give London basic access to EU markets after Brexit and gains in global stocks, traders lost no time in snapping up the heavily shorted currency.
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Manafort lived an extravagant lifestyle, snapping up expensive homes and cars, and spending more than half a million dollars on "fancy clothes" and $21,123 for a watch, a prosecutor said in the government's opening statement at the trial in a Virginia federal court.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil traders are chartering more ships and snapping up fuel oil storage tanks in and around Singapore, the world's top bunkering port, to stock up cleaner fuel that will meet new shipping rules coming into force next year, industry sources said.
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ISLAMKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - As Pakistan bets on cheap coal in the Thar desert to resolve its energy crisis, a select group of women is eyeing a road out of poverty by snapping up truck-driving jobs that once only went to men.
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This is due in part to the increasing might of Lyft, which is now snapping up users faster than its larger rival, but also because of tightening competition in meal delivery, where Uber's big success story, Eats, is no longer growing as quickly.
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Sanofi's move comes on the same day that Abbott Laboratories agreed to buy medical device maker St. Jude Medical for $25 billion and AbbVie announced a $5.8 billion deal for cancer firm Stemcentrx, highlighting a pattern of healthcare companies snapping up smaller rivals.
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The owner of Hainan Airlines Co inked about $20 billion in deals last year, snapping up a stake in Hilton Hotels and investing in catering and logistics firms - spending that raised concerns the group was borrowing too heavily and spreading itself too thinly.
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This month, regulators have upped their game on examining how top Chinese companies such as conglomerate Wanda and insurer Anbang have borrowed money, and how they've structured massive deals, such as snapping up marquee assets from Legendary Entertainment to the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
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When Verizon announced Monday it was snapping up Yahoo for a cool $22015 billion, the sale was hailed as the death knell for the early internet, but it also raised questions about the future of some of its properties in the Asia Pacific.
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It's still too early to tell if Salesforce plans to ramp up its purchases again this year, but the company has set some extremely ambitious revenue goals and one way it can reach those targets is by snapping up high-growth startups.
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This is the kind of technology some of the biggest companies in the world are snapping up right now, and yet, scuttling off to make me a coffee in the kitchen is someone who could be sitting on just such a company.
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Much of the companies' debt was accrued in the period from 2007 through 2012 when McClendon was allegedly engaged in an antitrust conspiracy, a time when Chesapeake was snapping up millions of acres of land leases nationwide to expand its shale drilling.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global investors raised exposure to U.S. assets in October, increasing holdings of American stocks to the highest in at least five years and snapping up bonds, with fund managers optimistic Wall Street can avoid a full bear-market reversal before 212.
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Technology companies like Google and Apple are devoting extensive resources to putting self-driving cars on the road, while traditional automakers like Ford and General Motors are snapping up talent in the hopes of preventing technology companies from moving onto their turf.
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However, we get that counters upon counters of products (or pages upon pages for the online shopper) can be a bit overwhelming, so we've done a deep dive to find the rarely-discounted products that are worth snapping up during the sale.
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NN Group has steadily increased its presence on the Dutch market by snapping up ailing rivals after being spun off by former parent ING in 2014 as a condition set by the European Commission for state aid received during the financial crisis.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Companies snapping up their own shares might provide additional fuel for the U.S. stock market to rebound in coming weeks following a wave of strong quarterly earnings reports and tax cuts that have left more cash on balance sheets.
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These structural factors help explain why German 10-year yields have fallen below a key ECB interest rate but they didn't during the global crisis - largely because back then, the euro zone central banks were not snapping up Bunds at the same pace.
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The joke ultimately became a major fandom meme, one that included bombarding McDonald's with requests to bring back the sauce, and snapping up jars of old sauce from 1998 for outrageous prices on Ebay — including a single packet that sold for almost $23,2272.
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In the Land of the Rising Sun, Japanese consumers are snapping up gold due to economic jitters even as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks to enjoy popular support, securing 28 out of 25 seats up for grabs in the upper house at Sunday's election.
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Investors have cited uncertainty over the outcome in Istanbul, as well as strained U.S.-Turkish ties, declining central bank reserves, and a months-long trend of Turks snapping up foreign currencies, which has been met by a range of measures to shore up the lira.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - After snapping up assets at a record pace so far this year, Chinese buyers are expected to hold back in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election in November, nervous that campaign rhetoric might invite closer regulatory scrutiny of deals.
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SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese state-backed consortium is snapping up a majority stake in Australian vitamin company Nature's Care, valuing the firm at around A$800 million ($619.92 million), the latest in a string of deals led by China for global nutrition assets.
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The planned investment in the $22020-billion refinery and petrochemical project on Indias west coast is a prime example of how Aramco is trying to squeeze value out of each barrel of oil it produces by snapping up refining capacity, mainly in fast-growing Asia.
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On Thursday, shares related to Chinese conglomerates Dalian Wanda Group Co and Fosun slumped on news the banking regulator had ordered checks on offshore loans to several acquisitive Chinese firms which have been snapping up assets overseas, including Wanda, Fosun, HNA Group and Zhejiang Luosen.
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The planned investment in the $22018-billion refinery and petrochemical project on India's west coast is a prime example of how Aramco is trying to squeeze value out of each barrel of oil it produces by snapping up refining capacity, mainly in fast-growing Asia.
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Institutions, like the mega pension fund TIAA-CREF, the super-wealthy investor set and overseas agricultural giants are still snapping up land this year, and potentially scouting what will seem like bargains years from now as farm real estate values have started to decline.
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On Thursday, shares related to Chinese conglomerates Dalian Wanda Group and Fosun slumped on news the banking regulator had ordered checks on offshore loans to several acquisitive Chinese firms which have been snapping up assets overseas, including Wanda, Fosun, HNA Group and Zhejiang Luosen.
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The cultural anthropologist Chuzaburo Tanaka began snapping up these intricately stitched "boro," or rags, around Aomori Prefecture in the 1960s, and his collection, paired with examples of avant-garde Japanese fashion featuring boro-like patterns, is now making its first visit to the United States.
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PPG is currently on an acquisition spree, snapping up smaller coatings companies, while paints maker Akzo Nobel last year decided to focus on its core business by selling its specialty chemicals division Nouryon to buyout firm Carlyle Group LP and Singaporean wealth fund GIC.
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Randy and Mike Donley grew up watching their father collect these pieces of Americana and got into the game themselves, snapping up antique guns and military memorabilia and assorted pieces of American history like toys, lamps, telephones, phonographs, music boxes, telegraph equipment and war souvenirs.
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MONTREAL/ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - Chinese companies and individuals are selling more used private planes than in previous years as economic growth slows in China, and U.S. buyers are snapping up hard-to-find models, according to interviews with business jet analysts, dealers and consultants.
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He also says Madonna made him aware of the documentary, "Paris is Burning" -- which captures the drag culture of the city -- and apparently wants a pat on the back for bringing it to audiences in the U.S. and beyond by snapping up the distribution rights.
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When China's economy showed signs of slowing a few years ago, evidence suggested that wealthy nationals were snapping up U.S. assets in order to get money out, an effect that has yet to abate even as Chinese buying slows in other parts of the country.
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The Hunter for Target collection has been highly anticipated for months and with over 300 styles available for men, women and children – as well as home and outdoor items – you shouldn't wait much longer before heading over and snapping up the items you've had your eye on.
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We've kicked off 463 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before its public listing — and what many believe will be an IPO filing for Snapchat's parent Snap.
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While investors might want to think twice before snapping up shares backed by a diminishing asset — huge in value though that asset might be — the Saudi kingdom has many good reasons to seek to monetize at least some of its oil wealth and begin diversifying its economy.
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This is another big move for Netflix, which has spent much of the last year snapping up exclusive rights to (or just outright financing) work from A-list directors like the Coen brothers, Ava DuVernay, Martin Scorsese, Shonda Rhimes, David Fincher, Dee Rees, and Noah Baumbach.
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Overnight, Chrysaor became one of the largest oil and gas producers in Britain with output of 115,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, snapping up more than half of Shell's British production capacity, including the Buzzard field which helps to set the global Brent oil benchmark.
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The spectacle was broadcast into movie theaters and streamed on computers across the globe—but photographer Tyler Mitchell was actually on the ground, behind the barricades with Yeezy himself, snapping up intimate photos of the man during one of the crowning moments of his already storied career.
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ANKARA, July 3 (Reuters) - Turkey plans to hike its bank and insurance transaction tax rates to 0.2% from 0.1% for individuals' foreign exchange purchases, in a move meant to curb a trend of Turks snapping up dollars and euros, according to two people familiar with the plan.
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Granted, it seems like every U.S. channel is snapping up British drama these days to help flesh out its lineup, making this slick adaptation less distinctive; still, there's a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for good mysteries, and adding this one to the menu isn't an ordeal at all.
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DARWIN, Australia — When the dry season spreads over the tropical savannas of Australia's Northern Territory, rangers start watching for the so-called firehawks: flocks of black kites, whistling kites and brown falcons that hunt near bushfires, snapping up small animals flushed out by the smoke and sparks.
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No changes to text) By Jamie McGeever and Andy Bruce LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union has yet to scare off overseas investors, who are snapping up British government bonds at the fastest pace on record, figures on Wednesday showed.
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They also called for rent relief, as many Southern cities have undergone such rapid expansion in the past decade that rising home ownership and renting costs—driven by Wall Street firms snapping up real estate by the handful—have forced working class citizens from their home communities.
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Since last week, investors have been snapping up longer-dated bonds to rebalance their portfolios at month-end and for curve-flattening trades based on the notion that longer-dated Treasuries would fare better than shorter-dated issues if the Federal Reserve raises overnight borrowing costs further, analysts said.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Growing tensions with North Korea should worry global electronics firms such as Apple Inc as they source key parts from South Korea, but investors are brushing off such concerns and snapping up shares in key exporters, heartened by robust earnings and big investment plans.
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Driving the news: Broadcasters aren't supposed to own more than one top-rated outlet in any market, but they are snapping up multiple stations anyway in small markets like Parkersburg, West Virginia and Greenville, Mississippi, as the broadcast TV market is challenged by changes in technology and advertising.
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Even before Disney's acquisition of Fox, the rest of Hollywood had grown accustomed to Mickey Mouse throwing his weight around in ways not immediately visible to general audiences, like snapping up the limited number of windows to exhibit films in IMAX theaters, which often command a premium ticket price.
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In a race to create the best AI solutions in an increasingly hot sector, U.S. tech behemoths like Alphabet's Google and iPhone maker Apple have been quietly snapping up dozens of artificial intelligence companies over the last five years, according to a recent report from analysis firm CB Insights.
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Jangho's bid comes at a time when Chinese investors are snapping up Australian health-related companies in a variety of subsectors, including an A$800 million deal to buy vitamin company Nature's Care and a A$1.87 billion bid for liver cancer treatment firm Sirtex Medical Ltd SRX.
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But when Kanani, dressed in a blue chequered apron and carrying a container of grain, walks past the chicken house and gives a familiar call, the yard is in no time packed with birds of many different colors, snapping up the grain almost before it hits the ground.
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These deep-pocketed players have been snapping up little low-power TV stations all over the country, not because they are interested in featuring the latest high school football team or delivering the late local news, but because they have found the mother lode of value for broadcasters — spectrum.
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Now that they're snapping up houses in greater numbers, many older millennials are making up for lost time: They're bypassing the traditional gateway to home ownership — the starter, or entry-level, home — and buying larger, more expensive houses where they're likely to raise families and maybe even grow old.
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IAG has led M&A in the European airline sector since its formation through the merger of British Airways and Iberia in 2011, but over the last year its rival Lufthansa has been at the forefront of consolidation, snapping up Brussels Airlines and parts of insolvent Air Berlin.
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One of the biggest trends in the world of financial technology has been an ongoing push towards consolidation, where larger fish are snapping up smaller fish (including a proliferation of interesting startups) to get improved economies of scale in a business model where every transaction brings incremental returns.
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Within a few years he had sealed a string of takeovers, snapping up such storied creative agencies as J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy before moving into the cash cow of media planning and buying by creating Group M. Market-research firms and public relations groups such as Finsbury followed.
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After snapping up millions of views and more than 150,000 followers for playing his one-of-a-kind keyboard on Instagram, Parsons is dropping his very first solo album, The Brockettship, on Modern Icon/Ropeadope Records, featuring 15 original songs that fuse jazz, hip hop, new wave, rock, and pop.
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Britain's Liberty House, the industrials and commodities group that has been snapping up troubled steel plants around the world is one of only two bidders remaining for Arrium, a steel company, with mining and distribution arms that fell on hard times after using debt to expand, according to the sources.
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Competitors like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook have been working hard to not only develop a lot of the cutting-edge work in-house, but they have been working closely with universities, as well as snapping up companies and talent coming straight out of universities, to advance their in-house work.
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Witnesses for the prosecution in the fast-moving tax and fraud trial, which got underway on Tuesday, said Mr. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for President Trump, went from snapping up lizard- and ostrich-skin jackets worth at least $2240,2000 to skipping payments on more than $22016 million in bills.
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Value legend Bill Nygren's Oakmark Funds have become the latest addition to the growing list of billion-dollar-plus fund managers snapping up stocks of India's private banks, one of the biggest beneficiaries of a resurgent and reforming South Asian nation's burgeoning middle-class-driven, high-single-digit GDP growth story.
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Although South America's top talents flock to Europe, where playing conditions, security and salaries are all far superior to those at home, better organization means the European are churning out more and more good players, as well as snapping up others who are eligible to play for more than one nation.
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With the exception of its $3 billion acquisition of headphone and streaming company Beats in 2014, Apple has mostly made small deals valued at less than $500 million over the past decade, snapping up small companies working on key technologies such as augmented reality displays, camera sensors and artificial intelligence software.
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And at Newark Liberty International Airport, travelers have been snapping up vinyl records from the shop at CBGB L.A.B (lounge and bar) operated by OTG in Terminal C. "We don't report volumes, but I can tell you it's the top seller in that retail concept," said Eric Brinker, an OTG vice president.
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Flash forward to today, and designers Rachel Mansur and Floriana Gavriel have not only added even more covetable designs to their their minimalist-style handbag collection but they've expanded the line to include gorgeous classic coats and stylish shoes, too – and celebrities can't stop snapping up everything the brand has on offer.
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From early 4003 until this past winter, the developer, the Bauhouse Group, appeared on track, purchasing three contiguous apartment buildings at 428, 430 and 432 East 58th Street, between Sutton Place and First Avenue, for about $32 million, buying out tenants and snapping up air rights, to the tune of $120 million.
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Digital influencer incubator Ruhnn Holding, after-school education provider Puxin, and pet product manufacturer Dogness International are other examples of Chinese companies that listed on Nasdaq in the last two years with more investors from China snapping up their shares than from the United States, according to sources close to the companies.
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Bloomberg News: "Investors are snapping up Chinese financial assets, encouraged by progress on trade and signs that the world's second-largest economy may be stabilizing... "The return of risk appetite in China comes amid growing optimism that Beijing and Washington may sign an initial deal on trade as soon as next week.
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Agents, editors and publishers have been snapping up everything from campaign trail memoirs to coffee-table books with images from the women's march to titles that sound suspiciously like self-help books (Gene Stone's "The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen").
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To stop the billionaire from hitting, or coming very close to, the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to seal the Republican nomination and to raise the prospect of a contested convention, they must do more than simply start snapping up victories in the remaining nominating contests: They must fundamentally reshape the political map.
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But while Lucasfilm may be operating with specific criteria on its part, the same cannot be said for other studio and production companies, who have been regularly snapping up male independent filmmakers and giving them an opportunity to direct larger films, even while female directors argue the same opportunities aren't being offered to them.
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It is not hard to see why an episode of "Reply All", another Gimlet show, in which a medical con man implanted goat testicles into impotent men, attracted the attention of Hollywood heavyweights Richard Linklater and Robert Downey Jr. But studio executives should take the nature of the podcast into consideration before snapping up rights.
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The 2017 federal tax reform prompted an influx of high earners to Miami — and they&aposre spending millions on luxury real estateIn the past couple of years, some of the highest earners in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California have been relocating to Miami and snapping up luxury real estate.
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On June 28, Amazon announced that it was buying PillPack for an undisclosed sum (later revealed as $753 million), snapping up a company that delivers most of the medications consumers can get from their local drugstore packaged in convenient white packets so people will remember to take them, along with automatic refills and 24/1753 customer support.
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Spotify last year spent what's estimated at between $400 million and $500 million on buying up podcast-related businesses, and it's kicked off this year with another podcast acquisition, snapping up Bill Simmons' The Ringer network to boost both its sports coverage, as well as its positioning in what it sees as the future of media.
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Just as Verizon has been snapping up companies to consolidate its position (it's in the process of buying Yahoo, and it has also put billions into other businesses in other areas like IoT), AT&T has been acquiring more video service providers — including DirecTV and Charter Communications — to expand its footprint in the content delivery business.
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This isn't the first time that conservative-leaning Sinclair has waded into politically sensitive territory: The company has gone on an acquisition spree, snapping up local stations across the country — most notably a $3.9 billion pending merger with Tribune Co. Democrats are worried about Sinclair's expansion as it looks to expand its local media footprint in 2020 battleground states.
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In the Central African Republic, a former Russian intelligence officer is the top security adviser to the country's president, while companies linked to Mr. Prigozhin have spread across the nation, snapping up diamonds in both legal and illegal ways, according to government officials, warlords in the diamond trade and registration documents showing Mr. Prigozhin's growing military and commercial footprint.
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Gascons are for the most part proud of their provinciality, and many of them have developed the curious habit of describing their bucolic land in terms of all the things it doesn't have: big cities, mass tourism, traffic, urban stress, high-speed rail service, autoroutes, soaring real estate prices, hordes of Parisians snapping up summer homes and so on.
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There are no reported deals for other administration officials who have resigned or been fired — including Nikki Haley, John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, James Mattis, Walter Shaub, Steve Bannon, Sally Yates, Reince Priebus, Sebastian Gorka and Don McGahn — but, given the way Americans are snapping up these books, you can be sure publishers are circling.
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This million-square-kilometer network of prairies—home to 12 endangered bird species, including the saffron-cowled blackbird (Xanthopsar flavus), the marsh seedeater (Sporophila palustris), the chestnut seedeater (Sporophila cinnamomea) and the black-and-white monjita (Xolmis dominicanus)—faces ever-increasing pressures from industrial-scale agricultural companies, which are snapping up the land to raise cattle.
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Read more: Big ad agencies are slashing the number of ad-tech companies they work with — and tech firms are racing to stay a step aheadMarketers are snapping up data companiesAccording to research from the consulting company R3 Worldwide, marketers spent $7.2 billion on mar-tech acquisitions during the first half of 2019, equivalent to a 97% year-over-year growth.
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Rocio, who works part-time for an autism treatment assistant program, and Lenise, the clinical director of an agency that provides in-home behavioral services for autistic children and teenagers, make it work on a combined low-six-figure income by way of setting their own rules, snapping up a deal when they see it, and eating a lot of cold-cut sandwiches.
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Two salient facts of the ride-sharing industry are that it's generally a very capital-intensive business — market leader Uber has raised $21 billion, for context — and it is built on economies of scale, and those two forces have been leading to a lot of movement, with the bigger fish snapping up the more promising of the smaller fish, and many more startups going belly up.
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If your knees go weak at the mere sight of a roller coaster, and you shrink in your seat whenever a Six Flags commercial comes on television, you may want to think twice before snapping up a ticket to "Ride the Cyclone," a musical comedy about, odd as it seems, a gruesome accident at an amusement park that takes the lives of six teenagers.
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While the Army began fielding the Sig Sauer P320 that the Pentagon adopted as the M17 under the Modular Handgun System in 2017, Marines will finally get their hands on the compact M18 variant starting in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 — right on the heels of thousands of soldiers who are snapping up their pistols ahead of schedule thanks to Sig Sauer's industriousness.
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There are many ways to invest in promising fledgling companies: buying into a venture capital fund, snapping up shares of pre-IPO firms on the secondary market, purchasing stakes in local chains or mom-and-pop-shops or nabbing publicly traded shares of young companies across the tech, biotech, health-care or food industries, which have yet to establish themselves as solid financial performers over the long term.
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The company went public in 1999 and shortly thereafter went on a buying spree, snapping up five companies in the US and India from 2001 to 2007 and expanding into different areas of IT. One of those companies, The A Consulting Team, which had been listed on the Nasdaq since 1997 and was acquired by HMIT in 2006, would be renamed Helios and Matheson Analytics and later buy MoviePass.
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Over the last couple of years, a once well-kept secret began to gain traction in New York media outlets: wealthy American investors, including VCs and hedge fund managers, had begun snapping up tracts of land in New Zealand, largely out of fear that a Trump administration could have a destabilizing effect on an already polarized United States but also owing to growing concerns about climate change and other impending disaster scenarios.
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Among them were the $100 billion-plus acquisition of British brewer SABMiller by AB InBev and oil major Shell's $70 billion purchase of oil and gas company BG. Small firms such as Robey Warshaw have been snapping up veteran bankers fleeing bureaucracy and shrinking paychecks at the big players and are proving popular among companies that value their niche expertise and independent advice without the the type of cross-selling sometimes favoured by big banks.
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The deal represents an expanded relationship between Twitter and IGN, which most recently used the social network to broadcast coverage from the esports-focused event, the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in L.A. Other recent deals will bring more sports to Twitter as well, as the company is snapping up access to more niche programming, like that from the Canadian Football League (CFL), the Arab world's inter-club football, and the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL).
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Apple has had a mixed run when it comes to AI. The company was an early mover when it first put its Siri voice assistant into its iPhone 4S in 2011, and for a long time people would always mention it in conjunction with Amazon and Google (less so Microsoft) when they would lament about how a select few technology companies were snapping up all the AI talent, leaving little room for other companies to get a look in to building products or having a stake in how it was being developed on a larger scale.
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