Acquires [verb]

Microsoft and Oracle already announced plans to make bids to acquire ByteDance.

Last month, the company announced it had acquired the production company behind the hit podcast “Serial.”

Last month, the company said it will acquire podcast production company Serial Productions.

That being said, the maker of Microsoft Office is not an obvious candidate to acquire a social video app popular with high schoolers.

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to acquire TikTok from its parent company ByteDance, which could avert a ban.

This inflection point has been most apparent in the streaming services that TV networks have introduced or acquired and that are untethered from their legacy linear businesses.

The team behind it, Serial Productions, will be acquired by The New York Times Company, it was announced last week.

He said that Vuori has acquired 220% more customers in the second quarter of this year compared to the first quarter, so retention will be a key focus for the company for the rest of the year in order to maintain momentum.

Ken Lagana, evp of digital sales at Entercom, which acquired Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Media last year, said the first half revenues of both businesses finished up year over year, though he declined to provide specific numbers.

An estimated 275,000 undocumented immigrants are among those who may have acquired such licenses, and whose photos, addresses and other personal information would be in a state database.