Sentences with phrase «against the companies when»

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

It is difficult to remain profitable against these companies when you manage your development, hosting, customer support, database, CRM etc in - hous.

It is worth noting that whether a TOS is enforceable at all depends on quite a few things and in the US the courts have (from what I've seen / read) mostly been siding with customers against companies when TOS disputes had been litigated in cases where the provisions of the TOS were onerous for the customers.

Not exact matches

When conservative firebrand Ann Coulter launched a tirade on Twitter against Delta Air Lines over the weekend, the company pushed back publicly — calling her accusations «slanderous,» «unnecessary» and «unacceptable.»

«When you have a drug company up against a difficult disease that many others have failed to cure, be more skeptical.

Delta's other trade victory came on Friday, when, in a surprise decision, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled against Boeing in a bitter trade battle in which the Chicago - based company said its business was harmed by trade practices of its Canadian rival Bombardier.

In today's world, even a really well - funded startup company will have trouble competing when it's up against a «super-have» company backed by a mega-fund.

I am just one person running one small shop and it's tough to stay afloat when you're competing against big companies, especially when the have super sales.

When he's not pretending to be sneezed on, Holiday is the marketing strategist for American Apparel, the made - in - the - U.S.A. clothing company that has become better known for its racy ads and the sexual harassment lawsuits levied against CEO Dov Charney than its workaday T - shirts.

But Wasson's credibility took another blow when the board opted against an inversion, in which the company would have moved its headquarters to Switzerland and bolstered after - tax earnings by an estimated $ 600 million.

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

However, the company does guard against ads that try to dupe travelers into believing they're booking travel on a hotel's actual website when they are really being sent to an OTA, the representative said.

The first the mayor of Santa Monica heard of Bird's scooters was when VanderZanden sent him a message on LinkedIn after the company launched, The Washington Post previously reported, and the city has since filed a criminal complaint against the startup over its failure to obtain a permit.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

«You can't be afraid to scrap what you've done and do something new, especially when you're competing against a big company.

When Mark Hurd, the recently fired Hewlett - Packard CEO, went to work for Oracle, HP sued him, arguing he would use his knowledge of the company's business strategy against it.

When he joined the company in 2004 it was still struggling against competitor XM, but with his help it dominated the rush for subscribers and wound up absorbing XM in 2008.

The buzz grew louder when the two companies seemed to avoid bidding against each other for distribution rights at the Cannes festival.

My buddy Jim Kane with Retailer Web Services recently made an interesting observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.

What happens when the world's most innovative company goes nose - to - nose against the world's largest repressive regime?

But it suggests the Japanese company might take legal action against Malvinder Singh, an Indian billionaire who was CEO of Ranbaxy in 2008 when he and his brother sold their 34 % share in the company for $ 2 billion.

Druckenmiller, who has been betting against IBM since 2013, cited the buybacks (rather than investment in the business) as a factor when he first made his case publicly against the company.

Most of the time, shareholders vote against a company's pay package when the firm is performing poorly.

When Uber started offering rides in Las Vegas last October, a handful of Uber cars were promptly impounded, and the following month, a judge issued an injunction against the company.

In fact, when Trailer Park is asked to make a promo, it is usually competing against one or two other companies for a contract.

But when your company is trying to manipulate consumers into doing something, human psychology is just as likely to work against you as for you.

«The transcript of the conference call, when compared directly against the actual language the company issued in their 10Q, depict a clear pattern of purposeful intent to deceive investors and the market,» Handley wrote in the Aug. 16 letter.

The anger he and others feel at short sellers» targeting of Chinese companies doubtless played a role when Silvercorp filed suit in New York against the websites China - stockwatch and Alfredlittle, and associated individuals, for defamation back in September.

It's yet another example of companies excusing or overlooking bad behaviour when it's done by star performers — a too - pervasive phenomenon that we Canadians will remember from the CBC's inaction on complaints against disgraced radio host Jian Ghomeshi.

However, readers do value company reviews that demonstrate their products» capabilities and how they stack up against competitors, especially when it comes to making major buying decisions.

Ravikant became something of a celebrity in the Valley when he led a shareholder lawsuit against the firm that had invested in his prior company, Epinions.com.

When Fortune asked if the company applies or plans to apply its stance toward Indiana to other regions that discriminate against or persecute LGBT individuals — such as some countries in the Middle East and Russia — a Salesforce spokeswoman said the company wasn't — at that time — commenting beyond Benioff's tweets.

When these companies go public — Sina Weibo did last week, Alibaba and JD.com will do so soon — they'll have to compete not only against American companies, but a number of established Chinese players that have also been scrapping for market share.

Instead, Coke went with the results of taste tests alone and had to reverse their entire marketing and distribution plan just three months later, when consumers basically revolted against the company.

The case started nearly four years ago, when iLife filed a $ 144 million patent infringement suit against the gaming company.

And when you declare war on a top competitor, any successful strike against it will fuel your company forward.

Jay Simons: When you take a bunch of venture capital — and this is not a screed against taking VC — and you get a board full of VCs, and you have sold so much of your company to them, it is the nature of investing that they are very short - term oriented.

When the allegations against Harvey Weinstein became public in October, the company's board fired him, and Hollywood heavyweights distanced themselves from the studio.

We founded the company in 2004 and then folded it a year later when it failed to make inroads against the major brands.

We've also tracked Exabeam's growth against a number of public security companies and the top - line acceleration is well ahead of most other companies when they were at this stage» said Lightspeed Partner Ravi Mhatre, «Exabeam has moved extremely quickly to establish its leadership position in the market and holds all of the promise of becoming a standalone public company.»

At a later stage when the company has proven out its product, its market, its revenue model and is simply executing against a very well defined plan, the strategic investor can feel confident that what they see is what the entrepreneur is going to do.

The rise in interest rates to 20 percent by 1980 forced most states to revoke their usury laws, and credit card companies played states against each other in a race to the bottom when it came to protecting consumer rights.

The plaintiffs alleged that this practice was revealed to the market when another healthcare company, Tenet Healthcare, filed a suit against Community.

The National Labor Relations Board recently upheld a decision by an administrative law judge against Chipotle that ruled the company violated an employee's right to complain about his job when it required him delete tweets that were critical of the company and then subsequently fired him.

«These 3G guys are really about how can we extract more out of the business, and long term, that tends to not work out well for a brand,» says Horan, who is considering «shorting,» or betting against, the shares of the holding company if and when the deal closes and it hits the market.

There is a third possibility: that Uber broadly and Kalanick specifically are in big trouble when it comes to Waymo's lawsuit against the company, and that Benchmark is making clear that it is not culpable.

So when she bought the Just Crust — formerly the Upper Crust, another company against which she led a class action suit — she was in for a bit of an awakening.

«RBI claims to be a Canadian - based company to avoid U.S. taxes but yet when franchisees attempt to pursue legal claims against its various brands, including Tim Hortons, RBI takes a conflicting position and claims to be a Miami, Florida based company,» the association's lawyer Robert Einhorn said in a statement Thursday.

Opposition against Keystone XL flared most strongly in Nebraska, where the company still did not have a route approved when it pulled its state application after Obama denied the border - crossing permit.

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