Sentences with phrase «private companies say»

Private companies say that they are having a hard time attracting workers, and they are often forced to give employees on - the - spot raises to prevent them from going to competitors.

When you hear a private company say it will have a technology in five years, you roll your eyes.»

What are the private companies saying in response?

Not exact matches

«In determining fair values for our private investments, we continued to follow our long - established process of considering a variety of company - specific and market - based factors,» the statement said.

The much - anticipated international listing of Saudi Aramco — the world's largest oil company — is likely to be delayed until 2019, but that decision makes sense given that oil prices are expected to head to $ 80 per barrel, a private equity investor said.

Ferrick's lawsuit sought at least $ 200 million on behalf of copyright holders from Spotify, a private company which says it has more than 75 million users and has been valued at $ 8 billion.

The same logic applies to acquisitions, with Schlein saying a public company acquirer «isn't going to do something stupid» and overpay for a company just because the last round of private investors did.

For companies shuttling five or six executives, the cost of tickets can easily match or exceed the cost of a direct charter on a private jet, said Crabbe.

Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

Critics say that the bill would allow private companies to swap clients» data without consent or notification.

But there's more at stake here: If the company does adopt more rigorous background checks, which could include fingerprinting, drivers seeking classification as employees could try to use the move as evidence they are indeed employees and not private contractors, says one labor attorney.

«I don't really trust a private company to watch out for equity because I haven't seen it happen,» councilwoman Meghan Sahli - Wells reportedly said.

Mohu's Crabill wouldn't provide specific unit sales or revenues since the company is private, so we can't prove what he's saying about antennas is true.

Weakness in the global economy and concern about the uneasiness of markets, as well as uncertainty about many lushly - priced private companies known as unicorns, drove the markdown, investment experts said.

Most likely such a sale would be to a private equity company that would then divide up the assets, she said.

PitchBook senior analyst Garrett Black said in a statement that three factors — private companies staying private, volatile public markets and a looming rise in interest rates — are driving the trend.

Mr. Comey said last week that private talks with the tech companies have been «increasingly productive.»

It's wonderful,» said Frankel, who has been using her social media to urge companies to join her efforts and says that private companies and citizens are really pulling through for the island where government has fallen short.

«The same companies and the three PBMs say the private suits are meritless» — with one PBM CEO declaring: «It is a complete falsehood that we would prefer prices to go up.»)

Net investment income fell 1 percent to $ 603 million, due to lower private equity returns compared with a year earlier, the company said.

Besides it tech giant challengers, Dropbox also said that smaller companies like work software companies Atlassian and Box are also a threat as well as unnamed private companies.

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

However, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate in mid-December, which is likely to have a direct impact on fundraising and force down the high valuations of many of these late - stage private companies, venture capitalists and economists say.

The disclosure confirms media reports last week that said Dell was considering going public after operating for roughly five years as a private company.

Bayless, who specializes in later - stage private - equity placement, says, «Origin Group allows larger companies to utilize the advantages of being small and flexible in order to attack problems created by their bigness.»

He said that Japan's greatest problem was a lack of private sector borrowers, and argued that the Japanese government needs to put in place stimulus measures to try to encourage companies to borrow.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

It's still in the company's best interest to remain private for a while longer, he says.

«This is both a response to everything you are seeing in the world, this DOD regulation, but also an effort by not just the DOD, but by the administration to drive companies in the private sector generally towards greater cybersecurity and more disclosure with the government,» Lee said.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

«We certainly believe staying private is a good alternative, and we also believe when you come public you need to have a fully mature business model and you should not rush that date,» he said, noting that public companies face a rigorous and endless series of quarterly reports.

One would - be buyer, a private equity firm from New York City, said it lacked the funds to buy the company.

«Companies that have healthy employees may see increases, and those with sicker employees may see decreases,» says Alan Cohen, chief strategy officer for Liazon, a private health care benefit exchange in New York City.

The company said this month that it would sell its private - label unit to TreeHouse Foods, after it came under pressure from Jana Partners, its second - biggest shareholder with about 7 % stake.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

«From the time we started till now we have seen significant changes taking place in the renewable energy space,» he said, citing the major changes in the Indian scenario like change in pricing of the energy, private companies taking ownership in renewable energy business and both, favourable and not - so favourable behaviour of the banks in lending funds to the energy businesses.

That said, even if the Waterloo - based company wanted to go private, it might not be easy.

A head of one of the largest U.S. private equity companies said a geopolitical surprise is the only thing for markets to worry about in the next two years.

Private - equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of The Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, The Weinstein Company said on Tuesday.

There's no firm rule for valuing private companies, so your boss may be willing to sell for some multiple of his annual earnings (say, three to five times the company's bottom line).

The company intends to keep Jeep to anchor the mass - market car business that also includes the Dodge and Ram brands, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.

He said the company is leading the way in «differential privacy,» a field that, in his words, «uses hashing, sub-sampling, and noise injection to enable this kind of crowdsourced learning while keeping the information of each individual user completely private.»

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in her opinion that the law «shelters employees of private contractors that serve public companies, just as it shelters the public companies» own employees.»

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

Separately, the White House said a private - sector partnership connected to the Startup America program was announcing $ 1 billion in services — from free software and consulting to legal services — to 100,000 start - up companies during the next three years.

The data center software company's sudden stock spike follows several media reports on Thursday that said Dell was considering going public, just five years after the technology giant went private in a deal worth nearly $ 25 billion.

MuleSoft — the next highly valued private tech company to go public — will really test whether tech valuations can survive public scrutiny, Kathleen Smith, Renaissance Capital chairman, said Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Alley.»

Eventually, Jenkins says, Saildrone could have enough drone boats to be able to predict the world's weather with more precision than traditional satellites — something that private companies in shipping, oil, and plenty of other industries would surely want.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

The company has said the cyber attack was carried out by a «state - sponsored» actor, but some private security experts have challenged that assertion.