Sentences with phrase «by arms companies»

«Huge profits will be made by arms companies, but the costs are borne by the UK taxpayer, and millions of people whose lives are blighted by the arms trade.»

Not exact matches

Everyone, including Western Power's separate generating and sales arms, plus the newly emerged private competing generating and electricity selling companies, would have been treated equally by the independent publicly owned networks» (transmission / distribution) arm.

And drug companies, if they had such a medicine, would happily oblige by charging you an arm and a leg for it.

Notable companies include navigation system Zurich Eye and eye - tracking tech startup the Eye Tribe — both of which were acquired by Facebook's virtual reality arm Oculus — and Terraloupe, an aerial image analytics startup.

The scope of the planned tax would cover companies offering services such as advertising or the sale of user data, according to the draft prepared by the EU's executive arm.

Moorhead's post prompted plenty of well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.

It also includes chow: The company's food delivery arm specializes in the higher - quality or specialized diets often prescribed by vets.

Instead, different companies would make pieces of Baxter — the arms here, the electronic controls there, and so forth, with final assembly handled by yet another company.

China's Sinopec plans to cut Saudi crude oil imports loading in May by 40 percent, an official from the company's trading arm Unipec said.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

Both companies seek to make a splash in the nascent wearable technology market, which IMS, the market research arm of IHS, predicts will be worth at least $ 6 billion by 2016.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday that the company will recall 440,000 of its Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarms, which have a feature that allows users to temporarily silence some alerts by waving their arm near the unit.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

By leveraging the power of the cloud - where all your information is up - to - date and in arm's reach - small businesses will have far fewer infrastructure barriers in competing with larger companies.

By partnering with Alibaba's cloud computing arm, HTC said that the two companies will work together to improve the behind - the - scenes data center infrastructure required to deliver virtual reality content to consumers.

China's Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner, plans to cut Saudi crude oil imports loading in May by 40 percent after national oil company Saudi Aramco set higher - than - expected prices, an official from the company's trading arm Unipec said.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

And by taking on so much initial capital, they're basically trying to strong - arm companies like Facebook or Twitter buy them at an inflated price.

Food giant Kraft was dismantled by Peltz in 2012, leaving a weakened company to seek shelter in the arms of Brazil's 3G and combine with venerable HJ Heinz.

Just five months later, the company raised another $ 16 million in a Series A funding round, which included Highland Capital Partners, Fontinalis Partners — the VC firm co-founded by Bill Ford — Signal Ventures, EDBI, the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Samsung Ventures.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

That's the conclusion from a report published in August by Stratasys Direct Manufacturing (SSYS), the service arm of the global 3D - printer manufacturing company Stratasys.

Iconology (Comixology) By 2014, Amazon's one - year - old digital arm, Jet City Comics (part of its Amazon Publishing imprint), was reportedly floundering, so the company purchased the New York City - based e-publisher that had exclusive rights to titles including the Walking Dead series, which already had more than 200 million downloads, and a technology that could boost the Kindle by letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology accountBy 2014, Amazon's one - year - old digital arm, Jet City Comics (part of its Amazon Publishing imprint), was reportedly floundering, so the company purchased the New York City - based e-publisher that had exclusive rights to titles including the Walking Dead series, which already had more than 200 million downloads, and a technology that could boost the Kindle by letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology accountby letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology accounts.

The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.

Armed with an exclusive distribution arrangement with Telus, CI was able to market its product nationally by piggybacking on that telecom company's extensive business services sales force.

The company is battling with the India arm of Amazon.com Inc. and local rival Snapdeal (run by Jasper Infotech Pvt. Ltd) for market share and dominance of India's e-commerce market, estimated to be around $ 38 billion, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Gurgaon - based waste management company ExtraCarbon secured Rs 1.5 crore ($ 225,000) in a round led by Brand Capital, the ad - for - equity investment arm of Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL).

Once armed with these general orders, the NSA is empowered to compel telephone and internet companies to turn over to it the communications of any individual identified by the NSA.

Jeff Danley, director of Maryland region operations for Starbucks, recruited Pappas to join the Armed Forces Network last spring and has been wowed by the contributions she and others from the military community bring to the company, beginning with professionalism and integrity.

Taxi aggregator Ola, operated by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, has made a fresh infusion of Rs 50 crore ($ 7.68 million) into cab - leasing arm Ola Fleet Technologies Pvt. Ltd, filings with the Registrar of Companies show.

Officials have armed a state agency with more than $ 400 billion to purchase stocks, banned selling by major shareholders and told state - owned companies to buy equities.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

Jerusalem - based biotechnology lab - grown meat company Future Meat Technologies has announced a $ 2.2 million seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods.

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Founded in 2011 and backed by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's venture capital arm, Remitly is among a vanguard of financial technology, or fintech, companies targeting what they view as an underserved immigrant market - traditionally disregarded as high - risk and low - margin.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

Not in the manner of Ponzi schemes, but by the even more devilish leaky faucet in which a significant portion of the returns of the capital markets are diverted away from Main Street investors and into the arms of Wall Street and the insurance companies.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

With his theory of disruption Christensen offered a compelling explanation for how it was big company managers, equipped with the best education and aided by the best consultants armed with the latest in best practices, fell prey again and again to upstart competitors with seemingly inferior products; technologists took it as a manual.

In fact, though we loathed the January Financial Times column penned by famed VC Michael Moritz, who suggested U.S. companies follow China's lead, his underlying call to arms was probably, gulp, prescient in its own way.

All transactions between the two companies will be conducted on an arms - length basis and approved by the independent directors of each company.

Luckey has a separate company, Luckey Arms LLC, registered at the same address as the one listed by Wings of Time in the inauguration donation records.

He has also driven many financing deals, including financing for the acquisition of ARM Holdings Plc. (world's largest chip architecture developer), issuing mandatory exchangeable bonds backed by Alibaba Group Holding Limited (largest e-commerce company in the world), hybrid bonds, and more.

In a patent application released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, the credit card company's travel arm — the American Express Travel Related Services Company — describes using the tech to facilitate payments between two parties by using transaction requests as acompany's travel arm — the American Express Travel Related Services Company — describes using the tech to facilitate payments between two parties by using transaction requests as aCompany — describes using the tech to facilitate payments between two parties by using transaction requests as a proxy.

As part of the settlement, the companies agreed that Uber would not use any hardware or software developed by Alphabet's self - driving arm, Waymo.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The homes, created the by company's nonprofit arm Better Shelter, can be fully built in about four hours, and, unlike tents provided by the U.N., hold up for years, even under harsh weather conditions.

The company is also the sole distributor on the island approved by the U.S. Defense Department to serve the Armed Forces.

Dannon, the US arm of French company Danone, has committed to declare its GMO ingredients by December 2017 as it transitions to natural formulations for flagship yogurt brands.