Sentences with phrase «big bets in»

It was easy to handwave the clumsy mixed messaging; Microsoft's big bets in online and new game franchises helped them dominate with Xbox 360.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state policy makers looking to revive long - lagging upstate regions are relying on big bets in high - tech sectors.

Peter Thiel is known for his big bets in Facebook, PayPal and Palantir.

They periodically make big bets in new lines of business.

Startups to watch: It's a big bet in a city that wagers more than any other, but startups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurial hub.

«We're going to make a big bet in health and wellness,» Schultz says.

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Toad, Cheol - jong's nemesis, offers a large sum of money for Young - hoon, and Cheol - jong must make the biggest bet in his life.

Our own Magic Pocket infrastructure project — the biggest bet in our company's history — would not have paid off without HPE's and a few other strategic partners» ability to deliver on our server specifications.

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The federal government is betting big on investment in innovation, science and R&D.

CNBC's Kate Kelly reports on hedge - fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller's optimism in the markets, including his tech shopping spree and big bet on the emerging markets last quarter.

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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.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

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

We think about how can we make some big bets on companies in the categories we're interested in.

In nine years at Sequoia (after stints at Morgan Stanley and Google) Schreier has bet on some big winners, including Dropbox, TuneIn, and Trulia.

The founder is betting that by associating Earth Angel with big names in the movie industry, the company will find opportunity for growth.

If it's big in Japan, it could also hit big in the United States — and these entrepreneurs are betting on it.

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.

Only now, thanks to changes in government policy among other factors, the cast of contending princelings is shifting, causing one big name VC to publicly bet on an less - often - mentioned possibility — Canada.

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.

They're also less likely to have the kind of confidence it takes to bet on yourself in a big way.

«The long - term bet is that by enabling people to have good organic interactions with businesses, that will end up being a massive multiplier on the value of the monetization down the road, when we really work on that, and really focus on that in a bigger way,» Zuckerberg said.

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.

Stars Group said the «pivotal» deal will make it a bigger player in the fast - growing business of online sports betting and become the world's largest online gaming company.

And like the Prime Minister, who wagered cases from Beau's and Big Rock breweries in an Olympic hockey bet with President Barack Obama, the neighborhood's inhabitants like their microbrews.

Still, some developers are betting big in retail.

CNBC «Halftime Report» trader Jim Lebenthal, who scored a big win betting on a comeback in J.C. Penney earlier this year, stepped in to buy it again.

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.

But in 2001 to 2003, the airwaves were pretty empty from travel advertising and that was a big bet that we made, and it paid off.

I went to one of the biggest in the dog world, the Global Pet Expo, in Orlando, Florida to see what owners can expect in the years to come — and what companies are betting on.

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.

Investors are betting big on Regeneron: Its market value has jumped by more than a fifth in 2017.

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.

Across sectors, analysts are betting that the market's biggest driver — earnings growth — will be the most impressive in several years.

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.

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.

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

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.

She re-iterates the fact that the working professionals - turned entrepreneurs prefer taking calculated risks rather than resort to jumping in directly to bigger bets.

«While Canadians aren't dissatisfied with their cell phone service, they understand it could be better, and they're betting that a big player like Verizon could really shake out some of the cobwebs in the Canadian mobile market,» said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

(Reuters)-- U.S. casinos must take steps to combat illegal sports gambling, the Treasury Department has told an industry group in a letter that came just weeks before the Super Bowl, one of the biggest betting events of the year.

Combine this with the fact that the biggest provider so far, U.S. - based Gogo, is a publicly listed company that has a responsibility to deliver ever - increasing dividends to shareholders and it's a fair bet that wi - fi in the skies isn't going to be both good and affordable any time soon, despite what French defense contractors might say.

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.

Carlsberg's Russian troubles have become a recurring theme since it placed a bet on the market with its biggest - ever acquisition in 2008.

Valeant has fallen 40 percent this week, and some traders appear to be betting on another big tumble in the next few months.