Sentences with phrase «big giants in»

Globally, consumers will likely have three big giants in the form of Amazon, Apple and Google to choose from for e-books, with some other players like Kobo in the mix as well.

Meanwhile, the two big giants in the room — Apple and Google — are offering music merely as a way to keep customers within their mobile ecosystems.

It has had the full marketing weight of two of the biggest giants in the industry behind it since its announcement, with Apple even going so far as to introduce a new notification system to allow players to pre-order it.

As the biggest giants in mobile turn to virtual assistant technology (Google Now, Siri, Cortana), mobile learning will likely follow suit.

It has since become one of the biggest giants in the car insurance industry.

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Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

Many big institutions, though, are too overwhelmed by the need to invest buckets of cash to pay close attention — and so much of that cash, in turn, now goes to giants as well.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

But what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm's history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

Meanwhile Shell is leveraging its experience building giant things in the ocean to develop offshore wind farms, widely seen as wind power's next big thing.

But perhaps the biggest lesson Gould holds for aspiring tech giants — or, in the case of Canada, the governments who hope to foster them — was his belief in creating something that's not only new and different, but eminently worthwhile.

The test reflects the increasing adoption of technology by big retailers as they try to keep up with online retail giant Amazon (amzn), which uses robots in some of its warehouses in addition to other cutting - edge technology.

It is, in short, a giant iceberg of disease that keeps getting bigger.

MOSCOW, May 2 - The chairman of En + Group said on Wednesday he was working on implementing a plan that En + hopes will lead to the United States lifting sanctions on the company, the biggest shareholder in aluminum giant Rusal.

In chemicals, Clariant was one of the biggest talked - about stocks on Monday after the Swiss group announced an all - stock deal to merge with the U.S. - based Huntsman Corp., creating a chemicals giant worth over $ 14 billion.

Rather than skipping in with a nice, light load, I brought along one of those big, battery - powered air mattresses, plus a giant, bulky fleece blanket (with dolphins on it).

James Cowan's current Canadian Business cover story, on how McDonald's Canada is helping to turn around the ailing global burger giant, is an in - depth look into one of the world's biggest business turnaround stories.

Perhaps most noteworthy, September saw the biggest IPO ever when Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) raised $ 25 billion, choosing to list in the United States during a year that has seen favorable performance for Chinese IPOs.

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

This amounts to a threat to Google in two ways: In one sense, it threatens the search giant's advertising base, because web advertising and increasingly mobile advertising are the core of the company's business, and if Facebook vacuums up a big chunk of that then Google sufferin two ways: In one sense, it threatens the search giant's advertising base, because web advertising and increasingly mobile advertising are the core of the company's business, and if Facebook vacuums up a big chunk of that then Google sufferIn one sense, it threatens the search giant's advertising base, because web advertising and increasingly mobile advertising are the core of the company's business, and if Facebook vacuums up a big chunk of that then Google suffers.

The Cupertino, Calif. - based tech giant is getting ready for what should be its biggest launch event since the iPad in 2010.

That kind of budgeting could save Boeing a high - profile deal to keep the U.S. President up in the air, but either way investors have bigger issues with the aerospace giant right now.

But AWS's breakthrough came in 2009, when media - streaming giant Netflix became the first big public company to operate 100 % on AWS infrastructure.

Doing so, says Gartner biotech analyst Stephen Davies, will require forging still closer ties to big pharma firms — the lumbering giants whose inefficiency spurred Wojcicki to action in the first place.

Last year, Softbank invested in more than half of the top 10 biggest investments in VC - backed start - ups, including WeWork, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, and ride - hailing giants Didi Chuxing, Grab and Ola.

In its heyday, it was a popular stopover for people looking to see the Calaveras Big Trees, a recently discovered grove of giant sequoias that attracted tourists from all over.

It's a danger for a startup to say about big, giant companies like a Microsoft or a Google, «Oh, we don't compete in their space.»

The nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in health care by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making moves in the sector.

That collaboration is especially important as big breweries are starting to quietly put out craft - flavored beers like Shock Top, which is brewed by Anheuser - Busch in Saint Louis, Mo., or Blue Moon, which is a MillerCoors product, though many fans of either beer don't realize either is made by the industry giants.

AB InBev, the world's biggest beer brewer, has acquired a significant stake in one of China's best known craft brewers, in a move that shakes up the country's tiny but booming craft beer scene and, the slumping beer giant hopes, its own bottom line.

Somewhat predictably, the majority of the slowdown within manufacturing has been concentrated in transport equipment, which reflects the downturn in the auto industry, and information and computer technologies (ICT), a sector that took a big hit when telecom giant Nortel went belly up.

But Google Ventures, the in - house VC firm of the search giant, has found perhaps the world's least sophisticated fix for the eternal office productivity issue of meeting creep — a big, plastic alarm clock.

After playing for the New York Giants for a decade, offensive lineman Brad Benson retired from the game in 1987, a year after «Big Blue» beat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI.

The social networking giant acquired a small startup called Two Big Ears, which specializes in audio technology that Facebook will incorporate into its own VR projects, according to a Facebook blog post on Monday.

Some other department stores like Giant Tiger, Fields and the NorthWest Company are expanding their influence and do well in smaller towns, but the big four have the lion's share of the market.

Microsoft is already in the big three of public cloud giants, but may try to double up on its position the behind leader of the pack, Amazon Web Services.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

In reality, these giants help even bigger names like Amazon and Netflix save fortunes on hardware, cut overhead and streamline operations.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

Saudi Arabia's state - owned oil giant Saudi Aramco could first issue stock on its home market and privately place shares in the hands of big Asian investors before facing the complexity of listing on an international exchange.

When those companies grow and spend big money in their data centers, Intel stands to benefit — as long as they keep buying from the semiconductor giant and not rivals like Nvidia.

But unless these announcements are 100 % marketing hype, they indicate that much more software power will be concentrated in fewer, albeit bigger, data centers owned and operated by just a handful of cloud computing giants.

In addition to HP Enterprise, Su also collected endorsements on Tuesday from Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft's (msft) Azure cloud data center group, and Chinese search giant Baidu's (bidu) big data team, who all said they would be using the Epyc chip.

These Silicon Valley giants are taking part in the annual expression of hedonism to get creative and discover their next big ideas, according to a story published by Fast Company.

The Internet search and ad giant has invested heavily in the Google Cloud Platform and improved its sales approach to appeal to business customers in bigger companies as well as startups that tend to be cloud - oriented.

Avon CEO Sheri McCoy, who took the helm in 2012 to fix a cosmetics giant left in disarray by her predecessor Andrea Jung, has repeatedly said that because of Avon's heritage, the fixing the U.S. business is her «No. 1 priority», and has pledged to return its second biggest market to profitability in 2015.

A couple of years ago, the Centenaris decided to invest roughly $ 1 million in the corrugator, the giant machine that turns big rolls of brown paper into the corrugated sheets that will eventually become boxes.

Meanwhile, Netflix (nflx) is second to only Time Warner's HBO (twx) in terms of TV category nods (nine to HBO's 12), while the streaming giant also picked up three big nominations in the film categories, including two for its original feature film Mudbound.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast offered to buy Sky for $ 31 billion in an unsolicited approach, taking on Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Bob Iger's Walt Disney in the battle for Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

It is a giant in the field of «big data» as it gathers information about consumers on everything from where they live to what car they drive and what they buy.