Sentences with phrase «betting companies do»

Betting companies DO NOT «set» the odds of an event happening.

I love it when clubs, agents, betting company do all they know to get bargain out of either Wenger or Arsenal, in fact something both, for me it's a statement that we are a force to reckon.

Not exact matches

Sound Ventures managing partner Effie Epstein explained that the fund focuses primarily on seed stage through series B investments, but doesn't limit the types of companies it bets on.

But it does mean using some discretionary money to bet on high - risk long shots, or smaller, lesser - known companies with massive upside potential.

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

The ruling did not shut down Uber «s self - driving car lab entirely, which would likely have been a major blow as the company is betting its current ride services network will eventually rely on self - driving cars.

I bet you didn't know the average founder of a venture - backed company is a former executive between the ages of 35 and 44.

I bet that if Arthur T. Demoulas does not win his bid for the other 50.5 percent of Market Basket, the company's stakeholders will be worse off.

Car companies are betting if they offer you the right carrot — discounted car insurance, a coupon at the gas pump — you'll share your data without blinking, just as you do when you post on Facebook or type a query into a Google search.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

Both companies are betting that the same customer base who would have laughed at the idea of paying $ 6 for a cup of coffee 20 years ago but now does so daily can be persuaded to do the same for a carefully steeped cup of Jasmine Oolong.

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

It's not where our big bets are as a company for pursuing digital transformation — the basic areas where we're focused, either on driving top - line revenue or reducing bottom - line cost — we don't see Microsoft enabling that.»»

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

But as health care costs climb — employers pay 36 % more today than they did five years ago — companies are betting on long - term cost savings with their own clinics staffed with physicians, nurses, even chiropractors, physical therapists and pharmacists.

The company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

Short selling is a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

Note the similarity here to the controversial practice of short - selling stocks, wherein a trader is betting that the value of a stock is going to go down — that is, betting that the company will do poorly.

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

Companies often hire celebrities to endorse their products because they invoke feelings of trust and familiarity on potential consumers, and Bitcoin Direct is betting that Tyson's face tattoo will do what Walter Cronkite's mustache did for CBS News.

If it doesn't, it's a modest bet for a company that invests much more on each of its movies.

But bet they did — pouring $ 4.2 billion into digital health companies in 2016 alone.

I did a speculative bet many years ago with a Chinese solar company.

According to a report in Bloomberg News, SoundHound is betting voice will be the main way people interact with IoT devices and is aiming to get device makers to use AI tools that the company develops instead of doing it on their own.

These companies don't bet the farm on a.

The market doesn't seem to have much interest in betting against such a profitable and fast - growing company.

Many people who day trade use spread betting to do so and many spread betting companies offer access to alternative investment markets.

I'm aware that there's explosives all over the place,» and it makes me too conservative for making bets that I otherwise should make because there are some great payments companies out there — Stripe, Square, et cetera — that I talked to very early and couldn't bring myself to lean in to do despite world class great entrepreneurs.

What do you bet that if the same meds that prevent polycystic ovary disease and other maladies didn't also prevent pregnancy, every one of these misogynistic dolts would be all for insurance companies being forced to cover the costs of such drugs?

«The relatively high proportion of Northern Territorians who've had a bet at 11.1 % does buck this trend, however its worth remembering that the Northern Territory has long been a home to many Australians sports and horse racing betting companies due to the favourable laws in the jurisdiction.

For the massive, multi-million and in some cases billion dollar betting companies, do you not think they'd have the resources to actively pursue inside information?!? «Hmm my source says this is extremely likely to happen... We're still paying over the odds for it not to happen as the media is yet to catch wind of it..

We were the first company to ever offer the percentage of bets placed on each team, and if a sportsbook ever does agree to offer the percentage of money placed on a game, we will certainly do our best to acquire that data and make it available to our members.

Look out for the big names Don't even think about putting money on a bet through a company that you have never heard of.

The betting company had earlier done a one off deal to sponsor the Magpies when they took on Liverpool in the Carling Cup back in 2013.

Insurance is based on making bets that something won't happen, but sometimes it does, and when that happens, the company has to pay.

He's optimistic about the company's future but knows he has to hedge his bets — as he once failed to do in his academic career.

Rather than feeling pressure to, say, cut a research and development group to boost the short - term bottom line, the laws enable company management to keep betting on innovation investment even when it does not maximize shareholder value at every given moment.

However, if stress and the inflammation that it causes do not lead to cancer, one would have to wonder why the billion dollar pharmaceutical companies are betting on the relationship.

Like Porsche with the 911R, Aston is using the manual option to appeal to a smaller customer base that doesn't mind paying a premium to get the company's most evocative engine connected to a manual gearbox (Update: To clarify, the manual is a no - cost option on the Vantage but we're willing to bet the cars will have a premium applied by dealers and resellers).

If you do that all along the way, that is going to protect you from ever having to make that big hail mary bet that you sometimes see companies make right before they fail or go out of existence.»

The two companies are betting that anyone looking for a a one - stop total solution for e-readers, smart watches, smartphones and digital signage will do business with them.

If these overseas companies made products in English and advertised in america I bet they will do well.

Check out my covers at http://jmbolton.com/IDBPI.html#bkcovers I'll check out this site... bet it's another one where the company gets all the $ $ and the artist does all the work for next to nothing.

I don't have sales numbers or company reports to validate my thought here, but I'm willing to bet that adding up sales of all Android tablets combined this year and it wouldn't match what the iPad brought to Apple in the last three months.

When a company comes along that does it better, you can bet I'll be jumping ship.

Basically I am «betting» on which company will do well, and this can change due to «upsets» just like in sports, but my main question is this:

That said, for Quicken Loans, they don't want to bet the company, and they do want publicity, so contracting with Buffett is worth their while.

This indicates investors are betting the issue won't be called, usually because the company lacks the cash to do it.