Sentences with phrase «rival companies such»

This means that users, for example, can charge a Samsung smartphone even if the transmitter is made by rival companies such as Apple.

Not exact matches

He said it would be hard for the Justice Department to argue that such a commitment did not address its concern that AT&T would raise the rates it charges for Time Warner content to rival pay - TV companies.

Germany, one of Europe's green superpowers, is home to clean - tech manufacturers like wind turbine maker Siemens and solar - panel producer Solarworld; there's hope such companies might one day rival legends like Volkswagen and BMW.

Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix Inc (nflx).

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

The Toronto - based company also alleges Keurig's licensing agreements with coffee roasters prevents them from dealing with rival pod makers such as Club Coffee.

As rivals such as Instagram and Snapchat gain traction with advertisers and social media users, investors have questioned how long Twitter could persist as a stand - alone company.

The system will allow companies and government agencies to manage and secure not just BlackBerry devices on their internal networks, but devices that run on rival operating systems such as Android, Windows and Apple's iOS.

The company obtained 32 % of sales in such economies at the time, compared with about half for rivals Unilever and Colgate - Palmolive (CL).

On Wednesday, Hulu named Joel Stillerman as its chief content officer, a newly - created role that will oversee the streaming company's overall content strategy at a time when Hulu is looking to expand its original series and film offerings to better compete with rivals such as Netflix and Amazon.

Amazon Channels are just one piece of the company's ever - expanding portfolio of streaming video content, as Amazon looks to better compete with streaming rivals such as Netflix on a global scale.

FRANKFURT, May 1 - The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

FRANKFURT, May 1 (Reuters)- The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

Unfortunately, those well - paid employees were also the most effective at making sales, and the company quickly lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy that had better - trained employees.

JD.com, the country's biggest online direct retailer and Alibaba's top rival, said it tested delivery by drone to customers in four rural areas in what the company believed to be the first commercial use of such service.

Following the investment, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell noted that the stake in AppNexus gives rival companies, such as Publicis Groupe and Omnicom, «nowhere to go» — a positive sign for AppNexus» viability.

FRANKFURT The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

Worse, to get it linked into solar, customers would have to turn to an entirely different company, such as SolarCity or one of its rivals.

Mr Musk said the carmaker had reduced the amount of cobalt in its Nickel - Cobalt - Aluminium battery cells produced by Panasonic below rival battery companies who use a different chemistry.Korean battery companies such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI, who produce Nickel - Manganese - Cobalt batteries, are expected to commercialise a lower - cobalt battery chemistry by next year.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick as well as leaders of companies such as Ford, BMW, Google and ride - sharing rival Lyft have cited 2021 as a date when self - driving cars could constitute the bulk of vehicles in urban centers.

When it was first coming to market, a Great Companies» portfolio manager acknowledged that XGC's price tag was higher than rival large - cap funds such as Vanguard and iShares.

The company faces stiff competition from deep - pocketed music streaming rivals such as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Apple Music and Sweden's Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N), whose results on Wednesday failed to enthuse investors.

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

Deloitte's Mr Harvey said during the past few years rival wine companies such as Argentina and Chile had made strong gains in the key US and UK markets at the expense of Australian producers because their own currencies were so weak and their bottled wine prices were extremely competitive on the shelves of liquor retailers in the US and Europe.

Rival offers for companies such as property group Australand and gas distributor Envestra were also withdrawn, but the companies were acquired by the successful suitor.

2) Sell Ox for $ 40M to Chelsea — Sellig to a hated rival is asinine but Wenger and company have contractually allowed this to happen and can't let such a young player walk for free next summer 3) Sell Alexis to PSG for $ 60M.

The ruling came as a result of a suit filed by a rival infant formula company PBM, which supplies major chain stores such as Wal - Mart and Target with store - brand formula.

The company is focusing on defending its actions in China, using the regulatory system to «encourage» rivals such as Microsoft to make changes in business practices, defending its acquisition of companies such as DoubleClick from anti-trust accusations, and working to open government information to searches.

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As such, they avoided contact with rival companies by means of secrecy, NDAs and a vertical flow of information.

Richard Lovejoy, a director of the Opera Software subsidiary that operates FastMail, said he doesn't recall receiving any such requests but that the company still has a relatively small number of users compared with its larger rivals.

For heavy carbon - emitting companies, global warming policies are typically a threat to their operations, while greener rivals often view such policies as a way to further insulate themselves from the competition.

According to Eric Schmidt's, the chief executive, statement, the company would become the leader of the Chinese internet market despite the challenges, such as censorship issues and fierce competition from the largest home - grown rival called Baidu.com.What is more, Google's Vice President and «Chief Internet Evangelist», Vint Cerf, supported the company's decision to expand its activities in China, although it should have complied with the Chinese government's demands to censor information.

Sacrilege, blasphemy, call it want you want, but the famous factory gates in Maranello will be opening to allow the big cash cow out, for two clear reasons: The first is that Ferrari has customers who want such a car and the Italian company would rather their money came to them than went to a rival.

The Jaguar F - Pace is the company's first SUV and a rival to everything from the Audi Q5 and BMW X3 through to the Porsche Macan, such is the breadth of its engine options and pricing structure.

The U.S. tech giant Apple has brought about a design aesthetic with its iPhone and iPad that set it apart from rivals such as Samsung Electronics and Sony and helped make it the most valuable company in the world.

The five - years / unlimited mileage warranty is already impressive enough (and thoroughly tempting for company car buyers, considering the miles fleet vehicles can potentially rack up in such a short period of time), but it's the 10 - years / 100, 000 - miles powertrain warranty that sets the Genesis G80 apart from its chief rivals.

The success of the Renegade has encouraged the company to weigh up a B - segment rival to cars such as the Ford Ecosport.

But I have never hesitated to challenge the company on such matters as the attempted Google Book Search settlement, and I also loathe the privacy abuses from Google and rivals — most recently, the obnoxious practice of scooping up photos in your collection for Google + for the iPad, without any upload request from you, so they're only a click or so away from «on the air.»

Huawei is well - known for making mobile phones for company's such as Orange and Vodafone, with the Orange Stockholm and Vodafone Smart — where the Honor is set to be their first flagship handset, with a set of specifications that rival those of HTC, Sony Ericsson and Samsung devices.

However, selling the tablet at such a price point wasn't adding much to the company coffers, which is struggling after having ceded a lot of ground to its rivals Apple and Samsung.

It's been a turbulent few years for Plastic Logic, the embattled e-reader company, but the past few days have seen such a frenzy of activity that even the hardest - working rivals would be put to shame.

Synching a vibrant online community of readers with Kindle tablets and Amazon's content promised to strengthen the company's position against e-book shops run by rivals such as Apple and Google.

Of course, such is the Kindle's lead in the e-reader market that, as Nook UK MD Jim Hilt admits, his firm is primarily fighting Amazon's other rivals for the bigger company's leavings.

Next, we can't forget that 65 % of of the company's sales are derived from grocery stores, which means that Hormel doesn't just have to deal with competing products from rivals, but also must deal with large grocery chains such as Wal - Mart (WMT), and Kroger (KR).

Amazon could amass 70 million checking accounts in just five years, a recent report from Bain & Company estimated; such a customer base would rival that of the largest banks in the U.S.

It added that one of the claims it has issued over the word «candy» was because it believed the a rival iOS developer used «candy» in the title of an app in «a calculated attempt to use other companies» IP to enhance its own games, through means such as search rankings».

Analysts point out that in France shares in computer games companies such as Infogrames, Havas, Ubi Soft and Titus are given far higher values, enabling them to mount takeover bids for British rivals.

Apple is currently embarked on a hiring spree for software engineers as the company seeks to enhance Siri so it can compete more effectively with rival digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant.

It believes California should require companies to hand over more data to government officials, which could help it catch up with rivals such as Google and Uber that have been developing self - driving cars for much longer.