Google just unveiled its progress with Google Assistant, the AI voice assistant the company introduced last year and revealed what's next for Google's next
big bets for search.
These communities are willing to make
big bets for the sake of business activity — in 2014, Nevada approved $ 1.25 billion in incentives for Tesla's battery plant near Reno — but they are also wary of a double whammy to taxpayers if the big plans don't pan out.
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.
At the time of the launch, Facebook told Inc. that Workplace was
a big bet for the company, on par in importance with other efforts like Instagram and Oculus.
It's
a big bet for the administration, based on the idea that the city can build the best community schools sector in the country, proving that community schools can be a vehicle for school improvement.
This is
a big bet for THQ: be sure to be watching at 4 pm UK time today for a spine - tingling live - action teaser.
Driver: San Francisco is
a big bet for Ubisoft, who're being more than a little bit bold with their reinvention of the series, nay, even the genre itself.
But as grand as Pandora may be, Disney is reserving
its biggest bets for its own properties.
Not exact matches
For IBM, Watson Jr. was making
big bets, shifting the company from mechanical tabulating devices to a new thing called a computer.
Options traders appear to be
betting on a
big jump
for Nike once the company reports its quarterly earnings Tuesday afternoon.
The founder is
betting that by associating Earth Angel with
big names in the movie industry, the company will find opportunity
for growth.
«Amazon's been signaling
for about one or two years that they're going to make
big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.
Arkadium was scrambling to fill in
for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of
big bets on new games that had vastly underperformed.
These men are
betting that fusion done on a small scale will be cheaper, less complex, and ready
for market sooner than the
big government projects.
Ottawa's
big bet on government - designated superclusters was designed to encourage academia, not -
for - profit organizations and companies of all sizes to work together on strategies to boost high - growth sectors.
Salesforce,
for one, is
betting big on wearables.
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.
Customers of B2B software or services,
for example, are often making
big bets that can impact their careers.
Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to
bet on the next
big thing, but to add users
for its payment system.
The new product is «one of the
biggest bets across Kraft Heinz,» says Greg Guidotti, head of marketing
for Oscar Mayer at Kraft Heinz, who is leading the launch.
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...
Fitbit CEO James Park had
bet big on a new $ 300 smartwatch, dubbed the Ionic, to make up
for shrinking sales of cheaper fitness trackers, but it did not attract enough customers.
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.
Chanos, known
for his
big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.
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.»»
Some people,
for instance,
bet their businesses that Google Glass was the Next
Big Thing.
Denmark's central bank is reaching
for bigger bazookas to battle the speculators
betting it will be forced to abandon its currency's peg to the euro.
The company is also making a
big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure
for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.
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.
Big games that are fairly likely to be released this year include Destiny, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Battlefield: Hardline and Assassin's Creed: Unity (I'm willing to
bet Far Cry 4, currently scheduled
for a fall launch, gets delayed).
Kalanick walked her through «the
big - ball
bets for the future, through the controversies, through the cultural values,» she said, adding the final meeting to get her on the board was last week.
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.
Nevada makes some
big claims about its
bet on Tesla's battery plant paying off
for the state and its workforce.
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.
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.
For TPUB, the move has amounted to a
bigger bet than we thought it might be even 10 days ago.
The deal signals Crown Resorts» latest
big push into the online
betting market, which Mr Packer told The Australian Financial Review was one of his main priorities
for the year when he re-joined the Crown board in January.
Theodore J. Forstmann, the financier who has said that he will not raise a new last investment fund, made what was likely to be his last
big bet yesterday by acquiring a private fitness company
for $ 1.6 billion.
A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future
for connected consumers, which constituted the basis
for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4
Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.
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.
«The
bigger the vision you have, the more important it is
for you [to think] on what type of a team you're going to put around you,»
Bet - David says.
Its
big bet on live video is a
big challenge to smaller players like Twitter and Snapchat, which should absolutely be afraid by Facebook's effort to replace others as the go - to place
for real - time reaction and content.
The move in implied odds of a rate cut
for the upcoming meeting was... well, I'm not sure, but would be willing to
bet it's one of the
biggest ever (excluding days on which rate decisions have been made).
This tech play debuted with a healthy pop — here's how to play the stock Shares in German health - care technology juggernaut Siemens Healthineers may be driven by one key product's performanceWhile shares in Siemens Healthineers have danced higher so far since debuting last month, investors might not want to
bet that
big gains will continue
for the medical - technology stock.
As
for Disney, Juenger observed that the Fox deal is an enormous
bet by Disney CEO Bob Iger that getting significantly
bigger as a content producer will help it battle the larger issues facing traditional media.
The gun industry
bet big on Donald Trump over fears that a President Hillary Clinton would negatively affect it, but have been even worse
for firearm sales.
It's not a
big surprise that Wall Street money managers, aware that the economy might be due
for a downturn, are hedging their
bets.
Peter Thiel is known
for his
big bets in Facebook, PayPal and Palantir.
Disney has agreed to buy most of 21st Century Fox
for $ 52.4 billion in a
big bet on streaming services over traditional TV.
Someone with a
big pocket,
for sure a professional, made a huge Gold bullish option
bet during the last trading session.