Sentences with phrase «about a rival for»

It is, perhaps, a measure of Lord Mandelson's sense of victory that he is so magnanimous about his rival for the Prime Minister's ear.

Not exact matches

Top Olympic sponsors can pay about $ 100 million over four years to the International Olympic Committee for exclusive marketing rights to the Games, and they keep a close watch for any guerilla marketing during the event by their rivals.

Behind him a slide stating «No user profiling» punctuated his subtle dig at rivals like ad - tech giants Google (goog) and Facebook (fb), which are known for collecting vast data stores about their customers.

Friedberg says that formula is the reason he can charge about 30 % to 40 % less than for a meal than fast - casual rival Chipotle (CMG).

For all its impressive innovations, from the Android operating system to advances in artificial intelligence, Google still gets about 95 % of its revenue from online advertising, and industry watchers believe it will inevitably lose its edge there as rivals grow stronger.

For charity: water, their sleek New York office consists of donated goods but rivals any top creative agency, they employ sophisticated CRM software to learn more about their donors (like a salesperson would a client), and plenty more.

Airbus says it isn't worried about the new offering from rival Boeing as it announced 100 new orders for its A320 aircraft.

The «Squawk on the Street» news team talks about Marvell's agreement to buy rival chipmaker Cavium for $ 6 billion in cash and stock.

Singapore's Global Logistic Properties (GLP) agreed to be acquired by a Chinese private equity consortium backed by senior GLP executives for about S$ 16 billion ($ 11.6 billion), choosing it over a rival bid in Asia's largest private equity buyout.

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

«It creates a potential for someone — a network provider in this case — to discriminate against rivals who would have content,» said Mark Jamison, an economist at the University of Florida who served on Trump's FCC transition team, when asked about AT&T's treatment of DirecTV Now.

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

What is notable, though, is Yigit's suggestion about the future opportunity for BlackBerry and every other Apple rival.

In fact, if Magnusson, senior vice president of cloud development for Oracle (orcl), is worried about any rival cloud provider, it is Microsoft (msft), he told Fortune in an interview after an Oracle CloudWorld event in New York on Wednesday.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

Vectren — Vectren will be bought by rival utility CenterPoint Energy for $ 72 per share in cash, or a total of about $ 6 billion.

On the other line: an investment banker with a juicy tip that chief rival America Online Inc. (AOL) was about to buy old - media giant Time Warner Inc., a deal that ultimately went through for $ 85 billion in stock.

Ma Huateng's arch rival, Alibaba's Ma Yun or Jack Ma was also forthcoming on his views about core technology at the summit: «It is the compelling obligation for big companies to compete in core technology,» said Jack Ma according to the South China Morning Post.

The Beijing - based company has in recent weeks been in talks with bankers about the feasibility of tapping the public markets for cash in the second half of 2018, as it looks to amass a large war chest to fend off rivals in China and other countries, the people said.

The Japanese automaker has been less vocal about its plans for self - driving cars than larger rivals like Toyota and General Motors, which in recent months have shown off major research and development projects and big - ticket acquisitions.

The purchase, to be mostly paid for in shares and convertible bonds, follows Ensco Plc's (ESV.N) acquisition of smaller drilling rival Atwood Oceanics Inc ATW.N in an all - stock deal valued at about $ 839 million in May.

Advocates and lawmakers say they are singling out Facebook because of its size, rivaled outside China only by Alphabet Inc's Google, and because they allege Zuckerberg was not forthcoming about the extent and reasons for the tracking.

But the Honest Ads Act and other rules about ads transparency and data privacy could end up protecting Facebook by being simply a paperwork speed bump for it while making it tough for competitors to build a rival database of personal info.

Companies like Uber and its rival Lyft, and Instacart, a grocery delivery service, have long faced questions about whether they are creating the right kind of employment opportunities for both the economy and for workers.

Marathon Petroleum agreed to buy rival Andeavor for $ 23.3 billion in the biggest - ever deal for an oil refiner that would create the largest independent fuel maker in the U.S. Bloomberg Intelligence's Fernando Valle talks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel about the historic deal.

But other sources have also said INCJ is in talks with Bain Capital about bidding for the unit, as the U.S. private equity firm appears willing to put in more money than rivals.

Rival Dick's Sporting Goods swept in and bought the Sports Authority's intellectual property — mainly customer information — for about $ 15 million.

Make no mistake about it, Google's hope for the Pixel is to have a device that can rival Apple's iPhone.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

But Pennsylvania Democrats have grown increasingly nervous about the potential for a Morganelli upset, after United Together, an affiliate of the centrist organization No Labels, began spending against his top rivals.

(Reuters)- Canadian electric utility Hydro One Ltd (H.TO) said on Wednesday that it would buy rival Avista Corp (AVA.N) for about C$ 6.7 billion ($ 5.32 billion) to expand into the U.S. Northwest.

But Coty's stock is still up about 17 percent from before Reuters» June 8 report that it was fighting rivals such as Henkel for P&G's beauty business and had submitted a bid for the P&G assets.

China's handset - makers are rightly worried about its bid for rival chipmaker Qualcomm.

Uber's Philippines suspension caused a spike in demand for rival Grab, as well as long queues near offices and malls and some disgruntlement about reverting to using regular taxis.

** U.S. gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy said it would buy rival Vectren Corp for about $ 6 billion, the latest in a string of mergers in the sector as power consumption in many parts of the country flattens.

The shares traded at about 22 times forecast 2014 sales, nearly double the multiple at social media rivals Facebook and LinkedIn Corp, even though Twitter is far from turning a profit and posted a loss of almost $ 70 million for its most recent quarter.

Stelmar was floated on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001 and subsequently sold to a rival in 2005 for four times the initial share price at about US$ 1.3 bn.

This raises serious concerns about the role and responsibility of companies working for political campaigns in Kenya's volatile political climate, particularly considering The Real Raila's incendiary claims include that rival opposition candidate Raila Odinga's administration would «remove whole tribes», for example.

The two are rivals when, for example, religion makes counter factual claims about the world.

The most important thing about my God is that is has children, but they are not to be whorshipped as they are rivals in the cosmos for the love of my God.

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

We have still to find the reason not only for the triumph of Christianity over its many rivals for the allegiance of the Roman Empire and of the Hellenistic world, but also for the birth and growth of the Church, for monasticism and its continuing vigor, for the existence and quality of the New Testament, and for the power that could bring about the mass conversions.

The white stuff has hardly crossed my mind for years but for some reason I recently started thinking about it and wondering if I could make a homemade version to rival the white chocolate of my youth.

Victorian dairy farmer co-operative Murray Goulburn is considering raising its $ 500 million - plus takeover bid for Warrnambool Cheese & Butter to about $ 10 a share in an effort to arrest the momentum behind Canadian rival Saputo's offer.

«I was surprised when I heard people talking so much about Swiss chard because I think that cauliflower probably has a bigger chance of being a rival for kale than other veggies.»

Wenger was also asked about his sides chances for the upcoming match, with their rivals coming into the match with unconventional form.

How about we hijack a league rivals target for a change.

i hate those who mention cesc in their comment, who is him by the way, is he a god, can someone tell me where will he play in our starting11 or who should we bench so that he can play by the way why bothering mentioning someone who plays for chelsea.we did nt need him and he did nt need us and mou said that, if he realy respect us as you faithful fab fans think then why he has not said anything about that until now.for me arsene was right about that and fab was the one who was wrong for choosing chelsea while he knows that mou will mock us and the manager that he said he respected so much.he is just like other judas who play for our rivals and i will not make a plea if he will be bood at the emirates.

If it is all about Trophy these are guarantee winners but no he chooses to play for our domestic rival.

Now we are hearing that Vardy will stay with Claudio Ranieri and so the search goes on for Arsene Wenger, although one candidate spoken about seemed to be already set to sign for our Premier League rivals Manchester United.