Sentences with phrase «big bets as»

A lot of them find that at least right now, we can take really big bets as a private company.

And as big a bet as the 10 $ 10 million grants may appear, the contest may only be the beginning of what the XQ project aspires to accomplish.

The Skoda Kodiaq is the Czech carmaker's big bet as it aims at rapidly increasing volumes in existing and new markets worldwide.

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Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Katie Rae, The Engine CEO talks about «taking bets» and opportunities in big areas of tech innovation such as aerospace, advanced materials and biotech.

Under Armour, which generated nearly $ 4 billion in sales last year, has reported consistent double - digit sales growth as it expands into new product categories, places a bigger bet on the women's market, and sees stronger brand interest with key athlete endorsement deals including NBA star Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.

IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan and several other big banks are among those making a big bet on blockchain, the distributed transaction processing engine behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

The euro fell to a two - week low versus the dollar, for its biggest weekly drop in two months, as investors trimmed record high bets before a European Central Bank meeting next week where policymakers are largely expected to signal no change in policy.

Just as the Home Hardware and Ace Hardware brands rolled up all the independent stores in the»80s and»90s, the big money is betting it can do the same thing with collision repair.

As Fortune reported in December, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), JP Morgan (JPM), and several other big banks are betting on the blockchain's ledger system.

Standard annual or monthly goals, as opposed to big - bet BHAGs, should have three main elements: 1.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

AT&T is betting big on mobile video to tap new revenue as the U.S. wireless market stagnates.

Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out by their first initials, were due for a fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

And that's the big bet right now, that markets are «all - in» as well.»

Since then, commodities trading has come under pressure at big banks as funding costs have risen and regulators have clamped on their ability to make bets with their own money.

As other coffee chains edge into its lane in popular product areas like cold - brew coffee (see: Peet's, Chick - fil - A, and Le Pain Quotidien), CEO Howard Schultz is betting big on better tech.

It's not where our big bets are as a company for pursuing digital transformation — the basic areas where we're focused, either on driving top - line revenue or reducing bottom - line cost — we don't see Microsoft enabling that.»»

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Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Expect bigger bets on juices, energy drinks, and plant - based / dairy offerings as Coke aims to remake itself to align with the healthier options consumers are gulping.

Odgers Canada, now focused in Montreal and Toronto, is making a big bet on interim management, for which Lovas sees growing demand as senior executives increasingly retire.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

Making an all - or - nothing bet on one anticipated outcome, such as a housing crash, could pay off big but also lose big.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has not been shy about making big bets to fuel future growth as the carrier's two traditional markets — wired and wireless telephone service — have stagnated.

Before the split, Porat recalls, «research analysts were coming out with their range of estimates as to how big the operating loss would be in «other bets.»

«And you can bet we play this up as a big benefit when we're interviewing a job candidate we really want to hire.»

To explain why this big gap in valuations isn't a sign of over-valuation, the CAPE's critics cite lots of individual issues in these nations that make them riskier bets than the U.S., such as looming Brexit in the U.K. and Germany's uncertainty regarding future leadership.

Once the biggest startups begin to struggle, the work - arounds will proliferate — only with sellers dominating as investors flee bad bets.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

«I look forward to learning from Ruth as we continue to innovate in our core — from search and ads, to Android, Chrome and YouTube — as well as invest in a thoughtful, disciplined way in our next generation of big bets.

As Adam Lashinsky noted in this morning's Data Sheet, a $ 200 billion bet on a single investment theme around Big Data could be entirely crazy... or brilliant.

While Alphabet CEO Larry Page can lean on his reputation as a tech visionary to make the case for big bets, Porat's arguments stand up only when underpinned with solid economic logic.

International growth: As CEO Hastings noted in his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company is now in over 130 countries, and that expansion is one of its big bets for the future.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

Besides establishing UnitedHealth as the leading insurer for big companies, Hemsley made big bets on what he considered the future for growth and profits, healthcare services.

As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs are pairing up to make big bets on China's film industry.»

A fund that started out as an experimental bet on minority - owned small businesses in Detroit is about to get almost three times as big.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

Kalla points out that as the ranks of hedge funds investing in crypto offerings have grown, the opportunity to place big bets has shrunk.

The deal will come as a blow to rival Tabcorp, which has TAB outlets in pubs and clubs across the country and still relies heavily on bets placed by customers in retail outlets despite a big improvement in its digital wagering revenue in recent years.

As HNA and other conglomerates make ever bigger bets, Chinese policy makers, economists and investors are wondering if the debt is sustainable.

The airline, one of Asia's biggest full - service carriers, has been battered by its bets on fuel prices as intense competition from low - cost carriers has risen.

Acquisitions would get harder, as smaller bets would become much bigger relative to Yahoo's market capitalization.

Most notably, the company made a big bet on its Shape - Ups fitness shoes a few years ago, going so far as to air a Super Bowl ad featuring Kim Kardashian in 2011 to promote the shoes.

He also sits on the boards of Facebook and Hewlett - Packard and has spent decades as a technology practitioner, innovator, investor and advisor, triangulating the future of the web and betting big on what he sees coming next.

Pressure from platforms has forced big media conglomerates to make massive bets, such as Disney's deal with 21st Century Fox.

For every investor that hitched their wagons to Amazon.com back in the late 90's there were several others who made big bets on companies such as Pets.com.