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Acision was born on February 20, 2007, when LogicaCMG Wireless Networks was sold for £265m (US $525m) to private investors Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries and became known as Acision.
By November, the two had brought in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and comedian Drew Carey as investors and MLS had announced Seattle as the next expansion team.
Since that time some of his biggest success stories include being one of the founding investors of Virgin Megastores in the UAE (which has now grown to hold a major market share in the region) followed by the creation of the global brand “A1 Grand Prix.”
The piece was about investors 'spending up big' at art auctions on P&O Cruises.
Efasa is administered by Bolivian Railway Investors, a subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC, which owns the railway from the frontier between Abaroa and Ollagüe down to the Chilean Pacific coast ports of Antofagasta and Mejillones.
The biggest loser among boo.com's investors was Omnia, a fund backed by members of Lebanon's wealthy Hariri family, which put nearly £20 million into the company.
The original founders of the Bluefish were Mickey Herbert, Jack McGregor, Mary-Jane Foster, and the Bridgeport Waterfront Investors.
Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.
Bent's glass work factory is in trouble, and Ken steps in and finds new investors.
Some well-known value investors such as John Neff have questioned whether there is a such thing as a "contrarian", seeing it as essentially synonymous with value investing.
Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.
The company is owned by its employees, board members and outside investors, which as of 2005 was reported to include Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California.
Shortly thereafter, Acker led a group of investors who purchased a controlling interest in Air Florida, a low-cost carrier which reminded Acker of his competition with Southwest in Texas.
When the Fidesz lost the next elections e started the HírTV with exterior investors' help.
MyCityDeal is backed by two key investors, Germany's Holtzbrinck Ventures and Rocket Internet.
Hogarth regarded Fawkes' popularity as indicative of the mentality of the public; as part of his act Fawkes produced money from thin air by an act of sleight-of-hand, which Hogarth may have seen as analogous to the exceptions of the investors in the South Sea Bubble (whom Hogarth had mocked earlier in his Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme).
His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.
Bissell continued to considerably expand his and the New York investors' land in the Titusville region, in Franklin and Petroleum Center, PA.
The indictment also alleged Kasey falsified emails from Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen's manager, as part of the effort to defraud the investors.
Other celebrity investors include fashion model Heidi Klum, fitness trainer Jillian Michaels, and Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz.
The Loveland Chamber actively uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to start conversations and inform investors about events, business trends, legislative affairs and community news.
Among the investors in the project are GE Commercial Finance Real Estate, Cinema City International, Aviv Construction and Public Works and Quinlan Private.
Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations.
As one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, Bronfman is also the main shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank and the Shufersal supermarket chain.
The bank, which was authorized to issue banknotes, broke free from the Yuan Shih-k'ai government's control in 1916 under the leadership of Chang Kia-ngau, and became a private, merchant-owned bank in 1923 when the cash-strapped Peking government sold all but a symbolic number of its shares to private investors.
The majority of the Legacy MFS Executives (through the help of Kiewit and other investors) started another company, Level 3 Communications.
Then in April 2011, Navarre sold Funimation to a group of investors including Gen Fukunaga.
The company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange on 20 August and has major advisers and investors on-board including Aviva, Invesco and F&C Asset Management.
In 1961 he joined Bagley Wright, contractor Howard S. Wright, architect John Graham, and financier Ned Skinner as investors in the Pentagram Corporation which was to build and own the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair.
In 1928, the Oliver Typewriter Company was sold to investors who formed the British Oliver Typewriter Company in Croydon, England.
The Palms and Book families were the investors in the construction of this building; it was named after Francis Palms, who lived in the nearby Croul-Palms House.
In response to the blockade various specially-built steamers were built and put to use by British investors who were heavily invested in the cotton and tobacco trade.
Refco Inc. entered crisis on Monday, October 10, 2005, when it announced that its chief executive officer and chairman, Phillip R. Bennett had hidden $430 million in bad debts from the company's auditors and investors, and had agreed to take a leave of absence.
Designed by Philippe Starck and financed by Dallas businessman Blake Woodall, the club's investors included music star Stevie Nicks, who performed on opening night along with Grace Jones on Memorial Day weekend of 1984.
RockLive is headquartered in San Francisco, California and its investors include teen-star, Justin Bieber and boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather.
The company is supported by a number of investors including Mike Markkula who originally invested in Apple Computer Inc in 1976 and brought that company to market.
In 1941, Vanderbilt teamed up with Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. and other investors to acquire for breeding services the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.
But some economists, for example Eugene Fama, argue that most of these patterns occur accidentally, rather than as a result of irrational or inefficient behavior of investors: the huge amount of data available to researchers for analysis allegedly causes the fluctuations.
On the one hand, American investors, especially Hopkins’ client Henry Clay Pierce, wanted to unseat oil tycoon Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray and his Científico puppets.
However, during its tender process, no investors showed interest in bidding these two toll roads except one bidder, which is PT Thiess Contractors Indonesia.
Investors include Battery Ventures, Consigliere Brand Capital, DFJ Gotham Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, and angel investors.
Hellmund's investors, including Red McCombs and Bobby Epstein, are building a new track outside of Austin, Texas, that is being engineered by Herman Tilke and Peter Wahl.
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.
The Toronto franchise was bought by Frank Robinson, Percy Quinn, who was also president of the Dominion Lacrosse Association, a Canadian professional lacrosse league that had patterned itself after the NHA and other investors.
TransferWise has received seed funding amounting to $1.3 million from a consortium including leading venture firms IA Ventures and Index Ventures, as well as individual investors such as PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, former Betfair CEO David Yu, and Wonga.com co-founder Errol Damelin.
The company raised a Series A round of funding with many of these same investors, and Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, and the SV Angel group.
2011 – VIA raises $5.3 million from private investors including Carl Berg.
The high technology and IT sectors are also growing with the help of investors like Google, Toshiba, Dell, GE, LG and Sharp.
In September 2010 Votizen announced it had raised $1.5 million in funding led by Peter Thiel and Sean Parker of Founders Fund with participating investors including 500 Startups, David Cowan, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Mark Goines, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, PivotNorth, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar, and Tom Shields.
A web television company based in New York City, New York, Next New was launched in March 2007 by founders Fred Seibert & Emil Rensing, with Herb Scannell, Timothy Shey and Jed Simmons with $8 million in funding from investors including Spark Capital.