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4. Founded in 1983 and developed a presentation program that would later be known as Microsoft PowerPoint, this was Microsoft’s first acquisition.
7. Fun Foods India was acquired by this German company in 2008 for Rs 110 crores.
8. An arrangement where a private company acquires a public company, usually a shell company, in order to acquire the status of a public company.
9. Liberty Global paid $16 billion for U.K.'s No. 2 pay-TV operator with close to five million customers.
10. In March 2008, Google acquired ________ for $3.1 bn, Unlike many other dot-com companies, it survived the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Today, it focuses on uploading ads and reporting their performance.

1. Oracle acquired this company which sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services and that created the Java programming language, and the Network File System (NFS) on 27 January, 2010.
2. In 2002 AT&T spun off its broadband to ____ , a merger that created “the nation’s largest cable company.
3. This company sold its smartphone and tablet division in 2008 for US$100 million in order to focus on personal computers and then paid US$200 million to buy it back in November 2009.
5. On January 4, 2012 IBM acquired this software company whose product suite is designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams, especially those involved in SOA, BPM and cloud computing.
6. It is the investigating effort made by an individual to gather all relevant facts and information that can influence his decision to enter into a transaction or not.