Sentences with phrase «at industry giant»

However, they had already built up strong reputations at industry giants, such as iBOX PAY, GF Securities, Jianbang Communication, Ant Financial, and Youling.

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On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

According to the research firm Evercore ISI, the tech industry's giants have allotted more than $ 9 billion toward mergers and acquisitions so far this year — including the MuleSoft deal, valued at $ 6.5 billion alone.

Some news leaked out of Intel last week by a side channel when industry consultant Patrick Moorhead posted about a recent meeting he'd had with execs at the chip giant.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced noting that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh had said in a recent meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress — an annual mobile industry conference held in Barcelona — that the search giant was pumping the brakes on its line of «Pixel» - branded Chromebooks.

At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based niche in the photo - processing market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..

Technology giant Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

However, our small, enthusiastic team at Virgin Live beat competition from giants within the industry and won the right to promote the Rolling Stones» 50 & Counting series of shows.

High - definition camera manufacturer, GoPro has been blazing a trail with content marketing in the action sports industry in a similar fashion to the power house marketing giants over at Red Bull.

The cutbacks at Pfizer follow one of the biggest restructurings in the industry, as the pharma giant carved billions of dollars out of its research budget.

At the China Gaming Industry Annual Conference in January, gaming giants like Tencent, Netease and Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd all reported 2010 was their most difficult year, according to the CBN.

Industry players said the two firms together will boost KKR's portfolio and create a stronger brand, making it easier for the private equity giant to then offload them at a higher value.

FRANKFURT / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

Earlier this week it also put out a wordy blog post attempting to diffuse this line of attack by pointing the finger of blame at the rest of the tech industry — saying, essentially, that a whole bunch of other tech giants are at it too.

At this point, monthly installment plans are fairly standard in the industry — even fellow wireless giant AT&T has been increasingly pushing them on customers.

And the ad industry already has an action force: an anonymous group called Sleeping Giants, which has been effective at getting advertisers to step away from Breitbart News and other outlets the group accuses of racist or sexist content.

The online giant (whose stock is at more than $ 1,000 a share) disrupted the industry years ago and has continued to

Other major donors giving at lower levels run the gamut of industries and interests, such as the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, beverage giant Coca - Cola, and the governments of Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The oil and gas industry may not be in the best shape at the moment, but a company with clear - cut advantages within the industry is midstream giant Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI).

Hodge expects the company will keep growing at a consistent pace as foodservice industry giants continue to consume independent competitors.

Helou made a series of blunders during his five years at the helm of the milk processing giant, but on industry consolidation he was spot on.

Mr Baird rejected the industry's alternative proposal, which included funding more recycling bins at beachfront parks, and said in the letter the beverage giants need to make a «far greater commitment» to reduce packaging waste litter and boost recycling.

There also tends to be a reason why certain national industry giants pour money into the careers of their respective drivers - they want their logo on a fast car, preferably at the hands of someone who can deliver.

With over 25 years» experience in the retail industry, Neal has held Board Level appointments at MFI and UK supermarket giants Asda and Morrisons.

However, when he launched his three - day, six - event State of the State tour in New York City on Monday morning, just a few blocks from Wall Street, home to the country's financial industry giants, Cuomo made no mention of the proposal, which his Sunday press release said would» better help prevent situations like the one seen recently at Wells Fargo.»

«This could have potentially big implications for the agricultural industry,» says Dr Pullen, «Our model plant is in the same family as cabbages, so it's easy to imagine creating giant cabbages or growing them to the desired market size faster than at present.»

Glen Buckley, an industry consultant at NPK Fertilizer Advisory Services (and former chief economist at U.S. fertilizer giant CF Industries), estimates that only about six million tons of the proposed U.S. capacity will actually get funding and get built — still, that's a more than 50 percent increase in total ammonia capacity nationwide.

Tech industry giants unveil their latest plans at the annual CES in Las Vegas, as upstart companies try to make their mark

Researchers in my lab at the Gladstone Institutes are embracing this challenge: we have developed innovative statistical methods to examine our «big data,» and, in collaboration with engineers from a giant in the tech industry, we are applying machine learning technology to extract even more information from the images we collect.

At one point, one of the panelists asked this giant conference room of hundreds of industry professionals how many of them had actually gone on five online dates in the last year.

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

Instead of a typical flashy presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the Japanese gaming giant opted to showcase several games for its Wii U system during a brief Tuesday presentation at its booth on the show floor of the gaming industry's annual trade show.

Amazon may be hogging the spotlight on the red carpet at Cannes this year, with five films premiering at the festival, but Netflix is no less busy: away from the crowds and cameras, the streaming giant has snapped up its first film at the Cannes industry market: Wheelman.

Virtual Heart - free Virtual Heart lets you explore multiple real - time views of the human heart, using the same highly realistic visual elements as the iconic Giant Heart at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

The grandson of the tobacco - industry giant R.J. Reynolds spoke at Washington High School in Phoenix recently, bringing a message his grandfather likely would not have welcomed.

At Auto & General, we regard ourselves as a true giant in the insurance industry with decades of experience behind us.

Then, as Amazon Publishing — the bookselling and self - publishing giant's strictly traditional publishing imprint — gained a foothold in the publishing industry by wooing even some of the most stalwart naysayers, it seemed as though the literary world is now ready to let the start - up publisher join them at the grown - ups» table.

Thomas Nelson is a giant in the Christian Publishing Industry and the chance to at all be associated with them is definitely something I would pay for.

Oyster, at one point an industry giant, has just announced its complete closure.

At the recent Pet Industry Leadership Conference, key executives from Amazon provided insight on the internet retail giant's strategy for growing its pet business.

The fact that the online retail giant is encroaching further into the pet sphere with its own food brand is unsurprising, given the company's announcement at February's Pet Industry Leadership Conference that it intends to drastically increase its share of the $ 69 billion pet care category.

Commenting on the deal Kevin Rolfe, group editorial director at VENDS, said: «Following the merger between the two giants of the hotel industry, Starwood and Marriott, one of the biggest challenges facing Marriott will be connecting with travellers and the promotion of the new combined loyalty program which will have to be rolled out over the coming months.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

«From Activision's point of view the relatively slow burn of this generations console market and the transition towards increasingly digital delivery is major risk for their business — like any traditional publisher — so it makes sense to consolidate their position by acquiring one of the giants of mobile gaming,» says smartphone industry veteran Oscar Clark, now at Unity.

One - man teams and giant 200 - strong studios will battle it out for 21 accolades at July's Develop Industry Excellence Awards.

«Now You're Playing With Power» by Ian Williams at Giant Bomb, an intro to what unions are and what they could do for the game industry: https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/guest-column-now-youre-working-with-power/1100-5422/

Everybody has their issues at this point, and at some point, we're bound to see a big drop in public interest within the giants of the industry.

Microsoft decided to not hold an official press conference at Gamescom this week, but the industry giant made sure to release some

Assembled there will be a panel of game - media giants and industry experts including Will Freeman, Video Games Journalist & Editor of Develop Magazine, Richard Eddy, Director of Communications at Codemasters, Natalie Griffith, Head of PR & Marketing at Blitz Games Studios, Matt Martin, Editor of GamesIndustry.biz and Keith Stuart Games Correspondent at the Guardian.