Events Tagged: "acquisition"

Venice acquires Cyprus - last Queen Caterina Cornaro abdicates, Venice gains valuable sugar and wine producing kingdom

Powers Accounting Machine Company acquired by Remington Rand, creating major IBM competitor

Remington Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation for $437,500 plus stock - gains UNIVAC technology and contracts

Remington Rand acquires Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - gains cryptography and military computing expertise

AMD launches K6 processor using NexGen technology - competitive with Pentium II at lower price

ChemChina acquires Syngenta for $43 billion, largest Chinese acquisition of foreign company

Bayer completes acquisition of Monsanto for $63 billion