Sentences with phrase «with those stakes on»

With those stakes on the line, the window dressing, effective though it is, is just that.

Not exact matches

Aeryon, an 80 - person firm that has staked its business on serving the exacting needs of professionals with products that sell for up to $ 200,000, could end up being side - swiped by producers of the type of flying toy you bought at Best Buy for your kids for Christmas.

Shareholders who held stock on the date of Bertolini's announcement and still hold it today have seen the value of their original stake more than double (compared with the more modest 34 % gain for the S&P 500 during the same period).

Succession planning is tough for any business, but try doing it with billions at stake and tens of thousands of jobs on the line.

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

With an early success on its hands, Econet is staking much of its future growth in Zimbabwe — and other African countries in which it does business including Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana — on non-voice revenues that come from programs like EcoCash.

Meanwhile, Linton said Canopy has already begun collaborating on cannabis - based drinks with Constellation Brands since the Corona - beer maker signed a deal to acquire a nearly 10 - per - cent stake in the licensed producer for $ 245 million in October.

Ma reaped more than $ 800 million selling shares in the company he set up 15 years ago as Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, based on company filings, with the value of his remaining stake of 7.8 percent surging to more than $ 17 billion by Monday.

But the company has staked its future on a new sort of expansion strategy — a joint venture with Bombardier, announced in February.

This puts the stakes of the dispute on par with other epic early - days battles such as the one between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Winkelvoss twins.

Both Ripple and R3 declined to comment from this story, but sources familiar with the litigation, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, said the sides have not explored settlement talks but are staking the outcome on the court's decision.

Few of us will ever face a public grilling the likes of which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with on Capitol Hill, but how he prepared for the big event offers a lesson for anyone who wants to perform their best when the stakes are high.

They want a higher valuation, but they have to haggle with venture investors, who want to set a price based on how they can maximize their own profit when they sell their stake.

The stakes are high, with a space race for a new era viewed as a linchpin to help make life better here on earth.

While I haven't worked for Facebook, I have worked with CEOs of publicly - traded companies to prepare them for presentations, keynotes or televised interviews when the stakes are high and the pressure is on.

Collins, on the other hand, sits on Innate's board and is its largest shareholder with a nearly 17 % stake.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on his conversation with American Airlines CEO on the possible stake from Qatar Airways.

In a filing with U.S. securities regulators on Thursday, Buffett disclosed he had bought 2 million shares, or an 8 % stake, in Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), a real estate investment trust Sears created last summer to extract money from its enormous real estate holdings.

It's been betting on itchy Chinese feet, with stakes in Chinese travel - booking websites, as well as investments in Alibaba, JD.com and Amazon.

The two companies previously discussed a merger after billionaire Liberty Media Chairman and Starz shareholder John Malone exchanged part of his Starz holdings for a 3.4 % stake in Lionsgate along with a seat on the studio's board.

HNA, which is Hilton's largest shareholder with a 26.1 % stake, announced the impending sale on Thursday through a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

JD's stake in Farfetch will let the Chinese e-commerce platform bank on the established reputations and existing distribution relationships that Farfetch has with luxury houses and Chinese consumers who are hesitant about transacting on the proliferation of fake goods on local Chinese marketplaces like Tmall and JD.com.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

But given Trump's unwillingness to stake out clear positions on taxes and spending, and his enthusiasm for threatening trade wars with China and Mexico, supporting Trump could risk elevating the populist, protectionist wing of the Republican party over the significant chunk of Republicans who believe in cutting spending and promoting free trade.

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

So now the stakes are high, as The White House has refused to negotiate with the GOP on a debt ceiling hike.

He left Zenefits with a good portion of his stake intact, sources told Business Insider at the time, but not on good terms.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

But it's in your best interest to understand what's at stake, help craft an overarching strategy, and stay on top of security initiatives — just as you would with any other major activity in your company.

It was valued at around $ 12.3 billion in late 2017, when Europes Spotify Technology swapped a stake with it, according to IFR's calculations based on disclosures in filings by Spotify.

But with so many interests — and political careers — at stake, the risk that talks could fall through at any point remains a serious risk,» he warned, adding that such a scenario would have an impact of a 1.5 percent contraction on the U.K.'s long - term growth trend.

Flush with cash, Cuban started making a range of investments, most notably, forking over $ 285 million on January 4, 2000, to get a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, a team that had just completed its 10th losing season in a row.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

The stake in line with Thiel's iconoclastic investment philosophy, which has paid off handsomely with huge gains on early investments in companies like Airbnb and Facebook.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

On March 10, Tencent, Alibaba's nemesis, announced that it had acquired a 15 % stake in JD.com, with which it intends to launch a full - frontal attack against Alibaba's e-commerce business.

His deal with Metric will see him take a minority stake in the new fund, evaluate deals and draw on his extensive network of contacts.

With municipal elections (including in Rome and Milan) in March and a referendum on constitutional reforms that the prime minister has staked his political future on due for October, Renzi has to build a new momentum.

An imposing six feet five inches tall, James has to duck through the doorway as he enters the front room, where his older brother (a mere six feet three) has staked a claim on the only office with a view.

They contend that its open policies prove the benefits of experimenting with data and using information to establish a «direct relationship between an individual's decisions and their impact on the business» — something the grocery chain accomplishes by giving each employee high - level access to the company's financial data, and therefore a greater stake in the business.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 - Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.

T. Rowe's resistance could put pressure on Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison to consider making a new offer to combine his software company with NetSuite, in which he holds a 40 % stake.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters)- Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.

In sharp contrast to the high - stakes, breathlessly followed proceedings of recent months, this appearance — on March 6, 2014 — occurred in a nearly empty courtroom in downtown Los Angeles, with not a single reporter present.

Elon Musk's stake in the company also fell roughly $ 1.8 billion to $ 11.5 billion in the same period, based on the most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company denies a recent unsourced report by French magazine Challenges that Orange had reached a deal with Vivendi that would include Orange buying a stake in Telecom Italia — the Rome - based telecom in which Vivendi has a 24.9 % stake — and buying up to 20 % of the film and television production studio Canal Plus Group.

Swiss Re said on Wednesday that talks with SoftBank over a minority stake of no more than 10 percent in the reinsurance giant were continuing and «at an early stage».

On May 21 he reached a long - desired deal with Yahoo! to buy back half of the U.S. Web portal's 40 percent stake in Alibaba Group.

So is it really a big surprise that Russia is using Cold War tactics paired with new technology to influence the US election considering how big of stakes are on the line?