Sentences with phrase «based companies failing»

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Oscar, which offers health insurance policies that are easier to understand within a user - friendly app - based interface, has raised a reported $ 727 million in funding since 2013, though the company has failed to generate a profit and faces a murky future thanks to the uncertainty surrounding Obamacare.

Moorhead's post prompted plenty of well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.

The supervisor of Dianella - based building company Frayson has been fined $ 15,000 for failing in his duties as a manager and supervisor on work carried out at 20 Perth properties over a 10 - year period.

Subiaco - based gold company Indochine Mining has fallen into the hands of administrators after it failed to attract a party willing to fund its Mt Kare project in Papua New Guinea.

Perth - based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.

In early January, Ant Financial, the electronics payment affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, and MoneyGram, a Texas - based money transfer company, announced that it had been forced to abandon a proposed deal after failing to win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a congressional panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

A company can succeed or fail based on its customer service, as shown by Virgin America's story.

Ford's (F) miracle worker saved the company without resorting to bankruptcy or bailouts by doing what previous leaders had tried and failed to do: change Ford's risk - averse, reality - denying, CYA - based culture.

If Humana fails to effectively implement its operational and strategic initiatives, particularly its Medicare initiatives and state - based contract strategy, the company's business may be materially adversely affected, which is of particular importance given the concentration of the company's revenues in these products.

Omada negotiates prices for its program directly with them and has a «bill - based - on - results» policy, so anyone who starts the program but fails won't cost the company or insurer.

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.

«We're here trying to «manufacture fail» on a regular basis, and we think that's how you learn,» he recently told Fast Company.

Applecross - based financial services company Questus Capital Group Pty Ltd is seeking a backdoor listing on the Australian Securities Exchange through failed Belmont - based company Financial Resources Ltd..

Despite a history of failed satellite ventures, wealthy individuals and companies are pouring fresh funds into exploring satellite - based communications.

-LSB-(Version 2, which is not quite as aggressive): If any holder of Series A Preferred Stock fails to participate in the next Qualified Financing, (as defined below), on a pro rata basis (according to its total equity ownership immediately before such financing) of their Series A Preferred investment, then such holder will have the Series A Preferred Stock it owns converted into Common Stock of the Company.

In another case at the Villa, a resident awoke one day last October to find her bed soaked in urine, after staff failed to wake her for a bathroom visit.The Villa is owned by Retirement Concepts, a privately - held Vancouver - based company.

But last week, Thinx, the «period - proof» underwear and feminine hygiene company based in New York, entered the growing canon of employers that have been accused of failing to live up to their socially conscious branding.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Talks about the deal have happened as recently as this month, but these discussions are said to be failed as the Redmond based company was quite apprehensive by Nokia's slumping market position and high price tag for the buy - out.

The second floor of a two - story building with a failed cooling system would almost always be hotter than the lower floor, especially in Florida, said Todd Washam, director of industry and external relations at the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, a group based in Arlington, Va., that represents 4,000 companies nationwide.

Having originally disputed the change on the basis of failings of the consultation required in the 2013 enterprise agreement, the coal union eventually agreed the company was free to alter shifts.

We have allowed a six - year news narrative around «Christian persecution'to be based around a worker who failed to comply with clothing regulations — and even then when the company changed the regulation in her favour.

The $ 47,272 fine a Menasha - based company must pay after failing to safely remove asbestos from a former paper plant is proof, a state inspector contends, that there is a need for local oversight of salvaging operations.

Baez has always had an explanation for her attendance... what you fail to realize is that even with the attendence record she has brought so much resources to her district... do your your homework... cabrera knows the system cause he worked in it... ha what a joke what about maria understand her district cause she was one of us... a single mom struggling to raise her daughter... 1199... working families... Bronx Democratic County Committee... all those organization & company based their decision on political moves not on her track record... cabrera is an outsider... Mujers For Baez!

Mr Clegg will argue that such companies play an integral part in the economic recovery, that they bring diversity and are statistically less likely to fail that companies not based on this model.

These smaller companies would over time grow or fail based on their ability to fill the market need, avoid the mistakes of the predecessors, and develop better policies than those that brought down the behemoths in the first place.

Chancellor notes that Forest Laboratories, based in New York, reported in January that its candidate antidepressant, levomilnacipran, had failed in a phase III trial, yet in July the company announced that the drug had significantly improved symptoms in another phase III trial.

Scientists say that the new design may eliminate the problems with the failed 2002 vaccine (manufactured by Elan Corporation, an Ireland - based drug company).

That company, started by the late Dr. Tihiro Ohkawa, a fusion pioneer, raised private capital to advance a plasma - based centrifuge concept to clean up the legacy waste at Hanford, but ceased operation in 2006 after failing to receive federal funding.

Raising a ton of money is often a very bad thing for companies, what people fail to realize is when you bring in a lot of people each one of them impacts the product because of things they do on a day to day basis.

• Pueblo City Schools has a three - year, $ 7.4 million contract with a New York - based school - turnaround company to fix six failing schools.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

Although officials from the highest level of the Relay School of Education have been lobbying top officials of the Malloy administration, the New York based company has failed to register with the State Ethics Office, as required by state law.

He has already outlined plans to do away with teacher tenure and set up a performance - based review system for teachers, create a merit pay system and allow private, for - profit companies to take over failing schools.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Lakeville, Minn. - based On Eagles Wings Charters, Inc., USDOT No. 1100785, to immediately cease all passenger transportation operations after finding that the company was endangering the traveling public by failing to ensure the safety of its vehicles and drivers.

about FMCSA Shuts Down Georgia - based Bus Company for Failing to Ensure Vehicle and Driver Safety, Endangering the Traveling Public

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Atlanta - based STSC Transportation Services, Inc., USDOT No. 2350604, to immediately cease all passenger transportation operations after finding that the company was endangering the traveling public by failing to ensure the safety of its vehicles and drivers.

None of these failed companies ever considered this, even though they are based in or have satellite offices in the USA.

The OnePlus 2 failed to reach the dizzy sales heights of its predecessor the One and despite that fact (and the fact that the OnePlus 3 is expected to be announced imminently) the Shenzen based company are still trying to offload the older stock of these handsets.

While not exactly a new concept, the Barcelona - based company is doing something that some of the startups failed to do, which is acknowledge that not every book needs to become a Hollywood production.

HTC has already tasted tablet waters with its Flyer though its no secret the 7 incher failed to make the kind of splash that the Taiwan based company had hoped for, leaving it to its bigger 10 inch brethren, the Puccini to do it this time.

After negotiating all through last night, creditors and Najafi failed to reach an agreement that would have forced the Phoenix - based firm to keep the company operating as a going concern, Borders» lawyers said.

It has remote wipe, certificate - based authentication, and an assortment of password controls (such as requiring a strong password or disabling access after so many failed attempts to log in) that are manageable through Microsoft Exchange and, soon, through iOS 4 - enabled management tools from companies such as Good Technology and MobileIron.

Seattle - based Amazon is said to be retrenching its consumer electronics strategy after the company's failed efforts to break into the smartphone space with its Fire handset last year.

Meanwhile, the company has hired several outside people for this same position, simply based on the degree, and they've all failed within six months.

If your business is ever sued, a smart lawyer will immediately seek to sue you, the person, alongside your company on the basis that you co-mingled funds and otherwise failed to keep business and personal assets separate.

I failed to appreciate that in a market where Internet stocks with little or even no earnings and minuscule revenues could magically levitate to stratospheric levels based on silly metrics like sales per engineer, there was no telling how high a «real company» like Newport could go.

However, these assessments are only based on the information provided; ASIC may not know if a company has failed to disclose negative information.

This company's survived for an incredible 30 + years now, draining shareholders pockets on a regular basis, as it serially abandons failed projects & moves on to the next sexy project / country.

Frankly I found the TASC testimony that contained a regurgitation of the same old failed strategy of asking for more to be be vile, repugnant and an insult to both consumers and debt settlement companies that work hard every day to do the right thing and provide an excellent service under performance based pricing models and who focus on enrolling consumers that are the most suitable for the service.