Sentences with phrase «biggest betting company»

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Celgene bet early (and big) on companies like Agios Pharmaceuticals and Bluebird Bio before they went public, Timmerman wrote.

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.

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

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.

I bet that someday I'll come across a big customer problem that's not being solved or well served by the industry, come up with an innovative solution, and start my own company.

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

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.

Last year's class of Inc 500 companies was betting big on the future of E-commerce.

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.

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

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.

Snap Inc. is the latest big U.S. tech company to bet that even post-Brexit, the United Kingdom will continue to be a major global market.

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.

Companies are betting big on self - driving cars, but whether the market will follow suit remains to be seen.

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.

CEO David Crane is betting big on solar with plans to turn his company into an industry leader.

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.»»

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

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.

The technology improves the contrast and colors of images, and Samsung, LG and other large TV companies are betting big on it.

After seeing millions of dollars invested in fantasy eSports and eSports betting sites over the past few months, the first big eSports company acquisition has finally happened.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

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.

Not all of those entrepreneurs will go on to create big, world changing companies, but its a fair bet that some will.

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.

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.

The company, with over $ 41 billion in sales last year, placed a bigger bet on the packaged meats space with the $ 7.7 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands in 2014.

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.

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.

Overall, the company is focusing on bigger bets than in the past.

The owners of Energy Future, which also includes Goldman Sachs, can take some solace in that they were not alone in betting on the biggest utility company in Texas.

A tech hedge fund manager who made a big bet on cloud management company Box says his investment is paying off.

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.

Back then, of course, Apple was a much smaller company, so $ 150 million was a relatively big bet.

Play said its implied market capitalization based on the maximum price would be around 11.2 billion zlotys, with analysts betting it would make it to the WIG20 index, comprising the 20 biggest and most liquid companies listed in Warsaw.

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

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.

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.

Many people had small, very early bets on the company but the question was whether I was going to take the first big bet.

I hope Shopify's success will continue to signal to investors and future entrepreneurs that Canada is a great place to build a tech company and make big bets.

Not only is it a large retail market expected to grow to $ 1.1 trillion by 2021, but it is also a large consumer internet market where companies like Facebook and Google are betting big (see: How Google is priming its Next Billion ambition in India).

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Chinese companies have also been placing big bets on American companies.

Betting big on personalized financial planning, financial services company Northwestern Mutual will acquire startup LearnVest for what sources say is more than $ 250 million in cash.

Betting big on personalized financial planning, financial services company Northwestern Mutual...

Companies in Silicon Valley and Detroit are betting big on self - driving car technology.

The investment would be the latest big bet from SoftBank's Vision Fund, a $ 98 billion pool of cash that is striking massive deals in some of Silicon Valley's flashiest companies.