Sentences with phrase «at rival companies»

Cook said Wednesday in an interview with tech news site Recode and MSNBC that Apple is «not going to traffic in your personal life,» a dig at rival companies that collect and share vast troves of personal information that he called «an invasion of privacy.»

When they realize they've been hired at rival companies, however, they need to keep their romantic relationship a secret or risk losing everything they have.

This «peer benchmarking» was done by pegging a CEO's pay to 50th, 75th or 90th percentile at rival companies.

Ride - sharing company Lyft has expanded its operations in the United States by more than 50 % in the past eight months, taking advantage of problems at rival company Uber to capture new market share.

Not exact matches

The news of two rival chip companies working together comes at an interesting time, as chip maker Broadcom has put forward a $ 130 billion offer to buy its rival, Qualcomm.

And the company pays staffers more than rivals do: Experienced cashiers earn more than $ 40,000, while full - time clerks receive salaries that start above the minimum wage at $ 12 an hour, according to the Globe.

Sarepta Therapeutics, which won a pioneering Food and Drug Administration approval for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug last year, has settled a patent dispute with rival BioMarin over the «exon - skipping» technology at heart of the companies» muscular dystrophy treatments.

Failing to adapt may not always lead to failure, that is an important thing to acknowledge, but at the same time you could be losing vital ground to the rival companies around you.

For example, young companies that target big business customers are increasingly checking out rival Microsoft (msft) Azure, while those wanting extensive analytics take a good hard look at Google Cloud Platform.

Yu was speaking after Huawei unveiled its Huawei Matebook, a two - in - one tablet and detachable keyboard aimed at the business market, and pitting the company against rivals Apple, Samsung and Lenovo.

The German sportswear company made the uniforms for both countries, keeping rivals Nike and Puma out of the spotlight for the final game at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

But at a SXSW keynote Monday afternoon in Austin, Green tried to claim some bragging rights over his company's larger, better - funded rival.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital teamed up with Valeant to mount a failed hostile takeover of rival pharmaceutical company Allergan, and at the time, the famed fund manager credited Pearson for being able to spot opportunities where others couldn't, much like business legend Warren Buffett.

Fishing and hunting equipment chain Cabela's said it agreed to be bought by rival Bass Pro Shops in a deal valued at $ 5.5 billion that will help the privately held company nearly double its store count in North America.

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

At its helm is a skinny, contemplative student of the world who revels in asking questions and couldn't be bothered by so trivial a pursuit as warring with the company's rivals.

The company's basic idea of selling goods at a low price with great service has remained constant for two decades but it keeps investing in new technology and improving operations to stay ahead of rivals.

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

European politicians and some competing companies have complained that Google's dominance allows it to promote its own services at rivals» expense, and attacked it on a range of issues including its tax and privacy policies.

On Wednesday, Hulu named Joel Stillerman as its chief content officer, a newly - created role that will oversee the streaming company's overall content strategy at a time when Hulu is looking to expand its original series and film offerings to better compete with rivals such as Netflix and Amazon.

Online food delivery company GrubHub forecast current - quarter revenue above estimates and said it would look at buying smaller rivals to reach more customers and add restaurants to its network.

& # 9650 ExxonMobil Every time the laundry list of operational lapses at BP got trotted out this year, the obvious point of contrast was rival ExxonMobil, the biggest of Big Oil companies.

FRANKFURT, May 1 - The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

FRANKFURT, May 1 (Reuters)- The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

Unfortunately, those well - paid employees were also the most effective at making sales, and the company quickly lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy that had better - trained employees.

This is 10 % higher than the bid of rival Xstrata, which had proposed to buy LionOre at C$ 25 ($ 23) a share, equal to C$ 6.2 billion ($ 5.7 billion) for the whole company.

Amazon is also paying a 15 % premium above what rival supermarket company Albertsons reportedly offered to pay to acquire Whole Foods less than two months ago, a deal that would have valued the health food store at about $ 11.7 billion, or $ 36.50 per share, according to Bloomberg data.

Snapchat released a filter that poked fun at its rival Facebook as that company struggles with data privacy issues and Russian interference during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

Despite stabilization efforts at the company (including a huge cash infusion from SoftBank), Uber will keep losing ground to its smaller rivals.

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.

Instead, the company makes an effort to go where their customers are, even at the risk of being seen to endorse a rival product.

Apple also gave better projections for the third quarter than expected, giving investors more confidence in the company's long - term health at a time when its top smartphone rival, Samsung, said it expects demand for its high - end phones to soften.

FRANKFURT The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

(Reuters)- Spanish office buildings owner Inmobiliaria Colonial (COL.MC) said on Monday it has launched a takeover bid for Axiare Patrimonio (AXIA.MC), valuing the rival company at 1.46 billion euros ($ 1.70 billion).

His efforts have at least stopped his company's steady decline in a highly competitive battle with low - price rival T - Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS), as well as bigger players Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T).

The payouts contributed to a talent exodus at a time when the company was trying to turn the project into a real business and emerging rivals were recruiting heavily.

When she first appeared on the ride - sharing scene in 2014, after 12 years at Goldman Sachs, her task was to hammer out a deal merging her company, Didi Dache, with its chief rival in the local market, Kuaidi Dache.

The company also builds the processors typically used to build mining rigs, and its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster said at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference its product compete with bigger rival Intel Corp..

While the company is moving forward with innovations, its arch rival Faraday Future just unveiled the FF91 at CES 2017.

Chief Executive Feike Sijbesma said that the company is growing ahead of the market but also benefited from higher vitamin prices after a fire at one of its rival's plants.

Not only is Grab keen to fill at least some of the nearly 500 vacancies within the company, but it was particularly eager to avoid a migration of Uber staff moving en masse to direct rivals like Go - Jek in the ride - hailing space or food delivery services Deliveroo and FoodPanda.

When Oracle chairman Larry Ellison announced his company's new autonomous database product at the Oracle OpenWorld conference keynote, he took several minutes to disparage AWS, one of his chief rivals in the cloud market.

These companies, and all its other rivals have major initiatives underway aimed at getting more customers in the doors.

Tabcorps earnings per share should be up at least 11 per cent in coming financial years, if it secures rival wagering company Tatts Group.

As industry job cuts top 200,000 worldwide, Exxon has kept its 75,300 - strong workforce intact with none of the sweeping layoffs seen at other oil companies, including its biggest U.S. rival Chevron Corp. «Exxon is just stronger financially than anyone else out there,» Brian Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.

Nick Sampson, the head of research and development at Faraday Future — Tesla's purported rival — talked about exploring a «subscription model» when the company unveiled their concept car at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2015.

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

«We are, as a company, going through a massive transformation, just like our customers, and just like our rivals,» he says at the UK headquarters in Reading.

News that international credit cards can be integrated with the WeChat Pay mobile app comes at a time when the company is growing, aiming to overtake rival Alibaba's Alipay.

DraftKings and FanDuel have defended the integrity of the one - day fantasy industry after news broke that a mid-level content manager at DraftKings won $ 350,000 on his company's rival site.