Sentences with phrase «yuen woo»

As Zynga becomes the latest adopter of the digital currency, the move highlights a budding trend: businesses adopting bitcoin to woo a key consumer demographic.

Donald Trump's plan calling for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for new moms is a step toward wooing women voters and a step up from current federal law — which doesn't require companies to provide any paid leave — but it's still behind the times for the business world.

Reports say the iPhone maker is still wooing broadcast networks to be part of its content package — raising the question of why Apple (AAPL) is bothering in the first place.

Typically, to win big headquarters deals, states and cities have to grant tax breaks and other concessions as Boston and Massachusetts did to woo General Electric's (ge) headquarters from Connecticut to Boston.

Some other accountant could try to woo me away with a discount or a fruit basket, but the relationship creates my loyalty to my service provider.

After that, it's up to the subject line and content itself to woo your recipient ever so creatively into clicking on the actual email.

The company saw six times more orders over the past weekend than it did over a weekend one month prior, according to Woo.

Entrepreneurs might sell out or be wooed across the border by American VCs.

HONG KONG, April 26 (Reuters)- Two Chinese biotechs have axed plans to list in New York and instead aim to raise up to $ 800 million in Hong Kong IPOs, seeking to cash in on new rules to woo early - stage drug developers, sources said.

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

But Lyft's reputation as a friendlier company goes a long way toward wooing drivers — and this GM partnership would only seem to help.

But it's not the firms wooing young talent that dominate the news — it's the ones using interns as slave labour.

The U.S. Small Business Administration, widely considered near useless to high - tech startups, has made two efforts in as many weeks to woo this innovative group of entrepreneurs.

But as creative as those attempts are to woo Amazon for its second headquarters, it's far more likely that the big dollars that Amazon has asked for will be a major deciding factor in its location.

Facebook, AOL and a new startup called Vessel have attempted to woo YouTube stars away, prompting the company to respond by offering better financial terms, according to the Wall Street Journal.

If McDonald's is going to recover, it needs to stop asking, «How can we woo new customers?»

The ebb and flow of paying jobs is the torment of working independently, until you learn the tricks of wooing and keeping clients.

Trudeau might yet woo the pinstriped set.

One solution would be to try and attract potential instead of the finished product, wooing thousands more international students to come and study at our educational institutions.

Revenue from free, advertising - supported services which Spotify uses to woo new listeners to the service in order to eventually convert them to paying members, grew to 102 million euros in the first quarter, up 38 percent, year - over year.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

They had done their razor reconnaissance, and after that first trip to Eisfeld, Katz - Mayfield wooed Feintechnik, traveling regularly to Germany to meet with CEO Becker, whose direct German business style melded well with Katz - Mayfield's data - oriented tendencies.

To woo these iconic companies — among them P&G PG, Estée Lauder EL, and Macy's M — Alibaba is pitching itself as a shortcut to the world's most populous market.

In an effort to woo drivers, Uber launched an initiative called, 180 Days of Change — a campaign that aims to make «meaningful changes and improvements» to the driving experience.

This ad tech company is looking to woo potential clients at Advertising Week New York by sending a marketer into space on Virgin Galactic.

In this regard, an early - stage venture called Carmel Organics very recently wooed leading VC firm Ankur Capital to raise undisclosed Series A funds.

As far as wooing venture capitalists is concerned, More informs that Finzy's investors were following developments at the startup ever since the time of inception.

Trump, who attaches great importance to the optics of pageantry and ceremony, chose to honor Macron with the first state visit of his administration as he woos the French president.

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

A Columbia law professor, Richman was previously quoted in The New York Times as a «close friend of Mr. Comey's who helped woo him to Columbia in 2013.»

For instance, Microsoft is wooing new customers through software called Microsoft 365 F1, and is introducing more cloud services.

What's driving this shift, according to Woo?

The bankers spent three months wooing the firms in their database with details about Accurate's financials and found serious interest from 12 private equity groups, all of them far larger than Evolution.

The data from the Q1 Woondex came from 50,000 + «techies» that submitted their information over the Woo platform between Jan. 1 and March 31.»

Many European capitals are trying to woo businesses, with Paris lobbying particularly hard.

British Columbia's wooing of foreign tech workers turned away by the U.S. is nothing new.

Whether or not it sells may depend on Ingram's ability to woo skeptical insurers and doctors since the product's label explicitly states that it doesn't have substantial proven efficacy.

Verizon is planning to announce a big content partnership in the next few weeks, following moves by competitors AT&T and T - Mobile to woo customers with free offers for popular video services.

Woo disputed this, saying that the company was testing «a couple different variants» of SPRINT, and while this one is «very similar» to the product now sold as the third iteration, it is not identical.

Alabama spent an estimated $ 250 million to woo Daimler AG's Mercedes - Benz to put an autoplant in Tuscaloosa two decades ago.

At a time when Canada should be wooing foreign investment, we actively seem to be chasing it away.

At one point, CEO Geoffrey Woo went as far as to describe HVMN's products as unlocking «next - level thinking» that will be key to humanity's evolution.

«In a way, it's almost arming humanity against artificial intelligence and robots,» Woo told Bloomberg.

Woo also said the tested compound had more Vitamin B12, but the lab test did not show this difference.

Anthony Lacavera, the founder of Wind Mobile turned VC investor, told Canadian Business earlier this year that the situation means entrepreneurs sell out prematurely or get wooed across the border by U.S. investors.

Britain is among the countries wooing Saudi Aramco, which is considering listing some shares abroad.

They really are — despite the unemployment rate — being wooed by many top companies,» she explained.

LONDON — A former senior civil servant at the Treasury has attacked the government's decision to backstop a $ 2 billion (# 1.5 billion) loan to Saudi Arabia's state oil company in an apparent bid to woo the company to list in London.