Sentences with phrase «internet upstart»

WHAT: The story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose Internet upstart worked with anonymous whistleblowers to expose some of the world's biggest secrets, including corruption within the U.S. government.

Who: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten and Alicia Vikander What: The true story of two men's quest to expose the corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Both CBS and Shari Redstone have embraced the choice of Parsons, who served as chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Inc. from 2003 to 2008, after its turbulent takeover by internet upstart AOL.

Peer - to - peer lenders hope they can undermine banking in much the way that internet upstarts revolutionised the music business.

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The question is — despite MacMillan's conversion on the road to the Internet — can his upstart firm genuinely move beyond the comfortable verities of the 1,000 - channel broadcast industry and become a company that competes in the deep space of the online world?

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

But he's diving straight back into the world of Internet shopping with the acquisition of two upstart online shoe retailers, announced today.

Internet giant Amazon.com acquired Zappos in 2009, a year after the upstart retailer's sales topped $ 1 billion.

The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.

Over the last 10 years, however, as the internet expanded, low quality overseas manufacturing spawned numerous upstart sauna companies importing containers of infrared saunas with little to no understanding of the therapeutic benefits of infrared therapy.

To wit, when a school - age upstart seeking on - set experience showed up unannounced on location one day, carrying a signed liability waiver he downloaded from the Internet and a permission slip from his mother, his help was not turned away.

ST. GEORGE — Expanding its reaches to homes without Internet, UPSTART is partnering with CenturyLink to help provide families with preschool - age children the opportunity to enroll in the online - based preschool program.

Upstart is one of the newer peer - to - peer (P2P) lending platforms available on the Internet.