Sentences with phrase «about is in the game»

Investing is not about being in the game as most would have you believe, it is about winning the game.

Not exact matches

«I will certainly be wistful about the loss of the homes themselves because they were environments in which we grew up, we played, we got muddy in the streams and rode horses, and had games and all of those memories.

A year ago, most analysts were thinking about the situation in terms of a «cooperative game,» in which players would strive for a price that maximized their profits.

The debate will likely be fierce, but officials hope it will result in a more open dialogue about overcoming harassment in games (and online) without the threats other discussions about the topic have been forced to deal with.

The start - up, which has raised about $ 8 million, was founded in May 2010 and originated as a social network for gamers.

«I would consider Chat Fu an incredible success if I was sitting in a coffee shop or bar and overheard a conversation between strangers talking passionately about the game,» he says.

There have always been doubts about Apple doing a massive, game - changing acquisition, even though rumors regularly emerge that the iPhone - maker may have interest in buying a media giant.

SXSW screwed up last October when it canceled two panels that revolved around Gamergate, an ongoing debate in the video game community about the way women are portrayed in the gaming culture.

Not an in - depth analysis of the routes Funchess ran, about adjustments he made, about the game plan Panther coaches devised, but still: Positive words about players and coaches, giving credit where credit is due.

Icide's is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in the game, in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

We have talked a good game about installing new software and applications, some of which are even developed in our own city, and using those to provide for more advanced traffic management but we've done very little.

As people worry about Dropbox and Box.com's future, companies large and small are getting into the pure storage game; a business backbone in the cloud

Gaia Essentials, her small boutique in Moss Beach, California, is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in a game in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

And I think the brands that find that purposeful driven marketing, that make that emotional connection even in conversion media, and that really think about the long - term game are the ones that are going to win.

In the case of video games, rumours have been circulating for a while now about both Sony and Microsoft implementing technology into their next - generation consoles — expected this year — that would make it impossible to play used products.

And since we're talking about video games, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada has released a few new snippets of data just in time for E3.

Perhaps most telling is what Sherman, one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL, revealed to The MMQB's Peter King about what he told Watson after the game.

Think first, say game players, about whether you're prepared to reveal the numbers that make games into something more than trivial exercises in employee manipulation.

«ESports is all about creating an even playing field where a player's skills determine the outcome versus their opponent, and we feel Pro Am in NBA 2K16 delivers that unlike any other sports simulation game,» Argent says.

Writing about video games isn't all about sitting on the couch in your underwear and staring at a TV for hours on end.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

Spectators are dispassionate about who wins in the end, as long as the game, the ads and the halftime show combine into a big enough spectacle.

For me personally, my Twitter and Facebook are wide open for fans to get in touch and talk about the games.

It's no secret that game publishers hate the used market, estimated at about $ 2 billion in the U.S. alone, because they don't get a penny of it.

If you're guilty of poor social cell phone etiquette, if you Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Periscope or whatever while interacting IRL with other human beings — and if you know it's wrong, yet there's no shame in your game about it — sadly, you're far from alone.

All I knew about was whatever was in PC Gamer.

Arguing about how to fix Twitter has been a popular parlor game in tech and media circles pretty much since the company went public in 2013 and promptly started missing its growth targets.

This is what Air Canada needs to worry about if they want to succeed in the discount game.

The latter is the «keep some skin in the game» principle, the idea that if you can't dump all the risk on someone else, you'll be more careful about the quality of the financial products you're selling.

That's right — way back in 1981, Gates co-wrote a game about... donkeys.

There are about 223 million game - console owners in the world right now — but there are 500 million smartphone owners walking around, and that's expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2015.

«Marriott Rewards is all about empowering our members to pursue their passions, so we're excited to help Nick as he travels to Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Tokyo in search of the last remaining Pokemon while connecting with travelers around the world who share his passion for the game,» says a Marriott Rewards spokesperson.

Nintendo has also faced questions about the health of its president, Satoru Iwata, after he was a no - show at the E3 video - game event in Los Angeles last month.

Recent revelations about phony Twitter followers are the latest twist in an old game of audience amplification.

The Sullivan's have been in the coffee business for about 15 years, they are most certainly caffeine experts and on their game.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

Lots of people talk a good game about supporting mom - and - pop retail and wanting their communities to stay the way they once were, but in practice, they're busy and they like having products cheaply and reliably delivered to their door.

They'll still be talking about how gorgeous it is, how smart and funny its main character is, how it succeeded commercially in the shadow of a new Nintendo console and a new «Legend of Zelda» game.

Marketing used to be an educated guessing game based on experience and instinct, but advances in tools and technology now empower us to profile and predict behaviors about prospects in real time.

I was in that frame of mind a few months back when I wrote about how video game consoles were just one example of technological regression.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

This is one of the hardest of the three game changers to grasp since it's still very much in its formative stages, but stick with me for a minute or two because this applies to just about every industry.

One winter day in 2010, the Montreal couple were watching hockey and chatting with friends on Facebook about the game, when suddenly Maisonnave had an epiphany.

At the same time, investors, analysts and consulting firms have engaged in an elaborate guessing game about which targets might be on the radar of Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos now that the king of US ecommerce has shown himself interested in bricks and mortar stores.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

Between the whimsical art direction and the game's infinite procedural universe, which guarantees no two adventures are alike for any gamer, «No Man's Sky» is all about exploration and survival in a massive universe you've never seen before.

As was obvious in my Gears of War post last week, I've been doing a lot of soul searching about video games lately.

While it's not exactly a conspiracy, where trade press give good reviews to games in exchange for lucre, there is something to be said about fans of a product reviewing the product.

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.