Sentences with phrase «global rivals in»

Global rivals in the sector face mounting costs to engineer vehicles that emit little or no carbon dioxide, and can avoid collisions using complex robotic driving systems.

FCA still lags many of its global rivals in profitability, and it has more debt than most.

Not exact matches

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

If the Taliban were successful, it could draw in both ally Pakistan and rival India, which could have global consequences.

A Perth company that has become a global leader in the education software market is facing uncertain times as main rival Blackboard takes over two of its biggest partners.

Prologis, a logistics company with a global footprint, will acquire smaller U.S. rival DCT Industrial Trust in an $ 8.4 billion all - stock transaction, including the assumption of debt, the two companies said on Sunday.

The GE deal vaults the merged business past Halliburton to rival only Schlumberger NV for dominance in the global oilfield service market.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

BRF, formed after Perdigao SA acquired larger rival Sadia SA in 2009 amid fallout from the global financial crisis, is Brazil's biggest foodmaker, producing everything from fresh chicken to frozen lasagna.

By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»

Lyft, in the meantime, benefits from a major company with easy access to cash as well as a global footprint — the very resources the startup needs if it hopes to compete with rival service Uber.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

The report, distilled from a more detailed classified document submitted to Congress last year, warns that America's two authoritarian rivals are actively seeking to «co-opt or replace the free and open order that has enabled global security and prosperity in since World War II.»

From a relatively sedate program on a quiet campus in north Toronto when he was appointed in 1988, he has built Schulich into one — if global rankings are to believed — that rivals the world's best.

Singapore's Global Logistic Properties (GLP) agreed to be acquired by a Chinese private equity consortium backed by senior GLP executives for about S$ 16 billion ($ 11.6 billion), choosing it over a rival bid in Asia's largest private equity buyout.

Neither of the rival plans offered by Boehner in the House and Reid in the Senate seemed to have the necessary votes in Congress amid a bitter stalemate that could have far - reaching repercussions for the fragile U.S. economy as well as global markets.

The Q400, with a backlog of 50 planes, has about 25 percent of the global market in small commercial planes and comes second to European rival ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprops.

Thursday's announcement follows similar price cuts of the console in Asia, including its home market Japan, and adds pressure on rival Microsoft (MSFT), whose Xbox One system has lagged the PlayStation 4 in global sales.

Both companies have cooperated with Korean giant Samsung, which is waging a fierce IP legal battle with Apple and is its main rival for global hegemony in smartphones and tablets.

The two global leaders in the auto industry are fast considering Tesla as a rival, with Daimler's Mercedes Benz B - Class compact car and Toyota's Lexus LS sedan directly competing with Tesla's $ 71,000 Model S.

The acquisitive owner of Hainan Airlines is building a portfolio of minority stakes in global rivals.

NYSE and its rivals Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets have hoarded those licenses in recent years, in part because each gives them another vote on deciding the fate of important parts of the market's infrastructure, including the lucrative data feeds that traders can't operate without.

Their latest comments highlight the industry's remarkable resilience, but also serve as a warning to rivals and traders: a retreat in U.S. oil production that would help ease global oversupply and let prices recover may prove shorter than some may have expected.

The joint Regulatory Cooperation Action Plan announced this week seeks to lower costs for businesses and consumers, increase trade and investment, and help U.S. and Canadian companies compete more effectively with new, strong rivals in global markets.

As the corporate wrote in its weblog: «Customer polls last year revealed the popularity of Litecoin as a rival alternative crypto to Bitcoin... It's faster than Bitcoin, has lower blockchain fees and may become a global payment option available on dozens of big brand websites in coming months.»

Glencore Plc's billionaire Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Glasenberg, underscored his belief in the longevity of the global commodities boom by beating his biggest rivals in handing out surplus cash to investors.

Competition for Uber is intensifying in the global ride - hailing market, as rivals like Lyft and Didi Kuaidi raise billions of dollars in to expand as quickly as possible.

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

He said: «We are on the verge of trashing our global name and brand in an act of self - mutilation that will leave our international rivals stunned, gleeful and discreetly scornful».

Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke told The Australian Financial Review that with large assets in California it was in a stronger position than other global rivals even if there were changes in tariffs and other measures that might make it more difficult for exporters selling into the American market.

Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien mounted a similar defence in February, blaming the entry of global rivals such as Aldi for pricing pressure on suppliers and saying Woolworths» future was at risk unless it responded to changing market conditions.

With the UK described as a «shop window on the world of wine», Harpers Editor Andrew Catchpole brings together leading figures at the forefront of NPD, exploring the latest consumer focused developments, the economic imperative of embracing research and change, while asking why wine appears to be lagging behind rival categories of spirits and beers, plus the advances embraced in other global markets

A decade from now, both players could play instrumental roles in the NBA's continual global expansion and efforts to rival soccer as the world's top sport.

There is also the construction of a new stadium to rival the finest in the world and boost Spurs» global reach and brand (areas where United are significantly ahead, admittedly).

The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and global appeal extended the international significance of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his death marks an end of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority of the Czech Republic in the world.»

About 15 minutes into the Channel 4 undercover video here chief executive Alexander Nix, managing director of CA Political Global Mark Turnbull, and chief data officer Dr. Alexander Tayler appear to be slyly suggesting they're ready and able to broker the use of prostitutes and bribes to entrap and blackmail a client's political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in the past.

But he accuses his rival of opposing all the major, long - term decisions needed to ensure Britain swims, not sinks, in the global race.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

In the meantime the environmental health groups note that the health impacts of pollution rival diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis but lacks similar systematic global systems to combat it.

[It's] so popular, in fact, that it's now challenging global payment systems like Visa who've been forced to adapt by creating their own [rival] system here,» Opoti says, referring to the multinational's new mVisa service.

«At this stage, there are no on - demand dating services that could rival apps like Tinder because of its incredible growth and prevalence in the online dating world,» says Edmunds of Global Dating Insights.

Combat the immortal Titans while fending off attacks from rival players and establishing your influence in the global Ascend conflict.

It's true that English language productions have a substantial global advantage, that only three current Spanish actors rival Watts and McGregor in international fame (Antonio Banderas and real - life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), and that film is as much of a business as it is an art.

I, Tonya is a story covering the rise and fall of Tonya Harding, a former American figure skater, who first gained prominence due to her immense skating talent, and gained global notoriety for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

Beyond that, the feature can hit the ground running by presenting the character in any of the classic adventures he's experienced in the comics — be it involving his position as a diplomat and representative of Wakanda on a global scale; doing battle with the various rival tribes that live on the border of his nation; or protecting the country's most valuable resource: Vibranium.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

That's up from 9.75 million vehicles sold in 2012, and it's enough to put Toyota ahead of key global rivals General Motors and Volkswagen.

Cadillac hopes to go through a lot of changes in the coming years as it strives to be a competitive global luxury brand to rival the best from Germany, but its model nomenclature is only a small piece of that puzzle.

This trend was indicative of Lexus» smaller global status; while Lexus» range of cars was very successful in North America, the marque's sales lagged behind its German rivals in Europe.