Sentences with phrase «by bigger companies for»

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Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their shareholders, are a big deal: Over the past century, they've accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by stock investors.

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.

And lastly, the company also warranted special mention in a report this week by the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services for having the biggest decline in consumer complaints.

Hint: It's about the people, for the people, and by the people — and you can translate the big ideas to your much smaller company.

Cuts to Chinese production and inaction by some big mining companies could present an opportunity for WA resources players.

• Valor Water Analytics, a big data company providing financial and conservation solutions for water utilities, has been acquired by Xylem (NYSE: XYL).

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

TD's new acquisition had become the largest trust company in Canada largely by selling itself as the anti — big bank, offering its 3.7 million customers revolutionary (for the time) services like 24 - hour telephone banking and extended branch hours.

The company broke into the U.S. in a big way by handling the master plan for Universal Studios in Orlando, followed by a Six Flags amusement park in Texas.

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

Among other things, it could reduce turnover, which is expensive for small companies, by giving employees a bigger incentive to stay at their jobs.

With DocuSign, small businesses can do business faster by creating digital templates for repetitive tasks and obtaining online signatures, and in the process look «bigger» by operating as a fully digital company.

Spotify is trying to hammer out new deals with the music industry's biggest record companies to hold on to the rights to play their artists» music for the foreseeable future, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Salaries for its staff of 64, including base pay and payroll taxes, are by far the company's biggest monthly expense (69 percent).

Similarly, Avigilon founder Fernandes's previous startup, QImaging, was snapped up by a large New York Stock Exchange??? listed conglomerate for $ 20 million in 2002, enabling him to become «the biggest and major shareholder of the company» this time around.

Luckily, Gilbert has elaborated on the idea, sharing more details in a Fast Company article that discusses her new book, a sort of self - help guide for those bitten by the creativity bug titled Big Magic.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

A recent study conducted by Glassdoor found that among employees who said they are thinking of leaving their current job, 45 percent (a plurality) cited salary as the single biggest motivating factor for leaving their current company.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

ZeroUV, an eyewear boutique based in Huntington Beach, California, recently made a bigger push for the U.K. market by selling its sunglasses through Amazon Prime U.K. Brian Fujita, a co-founder of the Inc. 5000 honoree, says about 5 percent of the company's global online traffic (60,000 unique viewers) comes from that market.

Big companies including American Express and Sony have also lined up, and it's gotten a strong boost in China by processing a chunk of payments for Alibaba's Alipay.

Hari has been able to convince big chains to make system - wide changes in the past by isolating one or two ingredients, such as the «yoga mat chemical» or corn syrup, that she feels are especially dangerous for customers and would be feasible for the company to cut.

If the company loses it's biggest customer, for instance, you might be tempted to prop up the troops by saying something like, «It's not a big deal, we'll find another customer to take their place.»

For a company that's struggled to expand its user base and whose advertising revenues have been left in the dust by Facebook, its much bigger rival, it's a very attractive strategy.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

The CEO has made AI a big priority for his company by hiring one of the pioneers of deep learning, Yann LeCun, as its AI research chief.

Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy of a bug?

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

If Twitter can successfully pivot to broadcast network, it wouldn't be surprising for an acquisition by one of the big six media companies.

Telus has tried to acquire the small provider on two occasions but was denied both times by the government, meaning there's zero chance the company can sell out for relative big bucks to an incumbent.

Now, unsurprisingly, EMC's (EMC) Information Infrastructure group (EMC II for short) will focus on helping Virtustream sell into big companies running mission - critical applications, according to an internal memo from EMC II Chief Executive David Goulden viewed by Fortune.

Connecticut - based Indeed, a job search site with a big Manhattan presence, was acquired by Japanese company Recruit Co. Ltd. for an estimated $ 1 billion.

The company has big plans for cloud computing, however, and is going head - to - head with market leaders like Amazon and Microsoft by beefing up its infrastructure and offering highly competitive pricing.

The deal is the latest takeover by a large Big Beer company for a smaller, but faster growing rival.

The industry, dominated by the big S companies — Simmons, Serta and Sealy — was an unlikely target for two digital entrepreneurs.

We are a country that excels at producing small businesses, but those companies will inevitably get swallowed up by bigger concerns and our best and brightest will depart for greener pastures down south.

For the moment, the company's big move, seen by some in the industry as a gamble, seems to be working out.

Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyone expected — they turned to one another for help.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

The state is the biggest market for the two companies, and DraftKings and FanDuel fought back by filing their own lawsuits against Schneiderman.

The company's overstated political influence was noted by the New York Times political reporter Ken Vogel, who tweeted on Monday that the company's «BIGGEST SECRET» was that it was «an overpriced service that delivered little value to the TRUMP campaign, & the other campaigns & PACs that retained it» and that most people hired it because it was seen as a «prerequisite» for receiving cash from the Mercer family.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

That's because many of the so - called nonbank banks — some of the big credit - card companies and brokerage houses, for instance — have based their own business plans on growth within the entrepreneurial marketplace, in large part because that segment of the economy has been ignored by much of the banking community for years.

Gannett, the biggest U.S. newspaper publisher by circulation, made an unsolicited $ 12.25 per share takeover offer for Tronc — formerly Tribune Publishing — in April, valuing the company at about $ 815 million.

Developed in the company's secretive Skunk Works division, SPIDER (Self - Propelled Instrument for Damage Evaluation and Repair) solves a big challenge faced by the airship industry: pinholes.

The first quarter of 2018 was the biggest quarter on record for buyback announcements, with $ 242.1 billion worth of buybacks announced by U.S. companies, according to TrimTabs.

It also paves the way for the creation of the world's biggest film company by revenue, Wang said in the statement.