Sentences with phrase «by companies»

This world is run by companies that are broken down into collaborative networks of smaller organizations.

Shapiro got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.

Even though FanDuel has been around since 2009 and DraftKings launched in 2012, the regulatory scrutiny did not explode until this year, sparked both by the companies» aggressive advertising assault and by a September scandal around a DraftKings employee winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in a FanDuel contest.

-- Didier Elzinga, CEO of Culture Amp, an employee feedback platform used by companies like Airbnb, Nike, Lyft, Estée Lauder, and McDonald's, with over 65 million survey questions answered by 1.8 million employees

It's a multi-billion dollar industry populated by companies like Google's Cloud Services, Microsoft's Azure and until recently HP's Helion Cloud.

In a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump wrote, «Tremendous investment by companies from all over the world being made in America.

Frustrated by companies that don't cater to them, 81 percent of respondents said they'd be willing to pay more for a company that offered a better experience.

The new Alzheimer's framework may not be much of a surprise given numerous, high - profile, late - stage clinical trial failures in the field by companies like Eli Lilly and Merck, and the decision by other companies (such as Pfizer) to back away from the risk - prone field.

Still, it's not the only time his work has been sponsored by companies that likely share his positions.

Now, these increasingly powerful customer groups see that it is possible to be served well by companies who want them as customers.

The hearing was part of a «study on corporate practices by companies supplying and manufacturing products in developing countries for Canadian consumers.»

Liability issues raised by companies and privacy concerns of civil liberties groups contributed to the failure to implement such laws.

Those services, along with Apple News, represent an attempt by the companies to keep users engaged with their platforms.

In 2014, 70 prominent scientists published an open letter pushing back against the marketing claims made by companies like Lumosity.

At the same time, new technology offered by companies such as SurveyMonkey, based in Portland, Oreg., and WebSurveyor, based in Herndon, Va., is making it easier for companies to conduct online polls.

It also comes after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed widespread intrusion by US intelligence agencies, who claimed that they could readily access personal data stored by companies such as Facebook and Google.

For one thing, the boycott is so diffuse — targeted as it is at dozens of companies — that little real impact can be expected to be felt by those companies, in terms of the bottom line.

«Indicators for 2003 point toward a better year, with a lot of movement by companies expected,» Mrs Kusinski said.

The information we have, such as Boeing's $ 1 million gift, comes from voluntary disclosures by the companies themselves.

«I don't think Canadian companies should be taken over by companies that can't themselves be taken over,» says Ian Telfer, chairman of Vancouver - based Goldcorp.

In this guide, we will describe why setting an employee policy is imperative, the most common legal issues faced by companies utilizing social media and provide tips to help you avoid costly lawsuits.

The decision to speed customer access to archived data was due to increased demand by companies to quickly analyze all their old data instead of having it sit in a repository, explained Dominic Preuss, Google's lead product manager for storage and databases.

McDonald's Corp has begun testing its long - awaited U.S. mobile ordering app, with the goal of avoiding the kinds of service hiccups that have haunted digital debuts by companies such as Starbucks.

-- Scott Scherr, CEO and founder of Ultimate Software, an HR tech platform on track to hit $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year and used by companies such as Subway, First Horizon, MLB, the Phoenix Suns, Yamaha, and Nikon

The ensuing years have seen more and more internal business applications leaving companies» data centers to live in the ether, followed by the companies» own products.

In order for these methods to be effective, the data being by companies like Snapchat and Facebook must be reliable enough to target consumers effectively.

Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of investment advisory Hightower San Diego, says the tepid GDP growth in the first half of the year has already dampened IT spending by companies of all sizes.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that whistleblower protections in a federal law passed in response to the Enron financial scandal apply broadly to employees of publicly traded companies and contractors hired by the companies.

The scope of data being collected by companies today is mind - boggling.

Training skilled craftspeople requires programs that combine classroom training and on - the - job experience, and are most successful when led or supported by companies invested in training their workforce.

In the past few months, he's warned that some big startups will start to die off and that the free - spending by some companies is unsustainable.

I think we may soon see increasing efforts by companies to keep experienced workers on staff.

The holding company's cash flow comes from dividends paid out by the companies they own.

The creator of mobile gaming phenomenon Pokemon Go is exploring more sponsorships by companies that want to attract character - hunting players to their businesses, the chief executive of developer Niantic Labs said on Tuesday.

David Schwabauer, a fourth - generation farmer in the county, said overtures by companies that want to drill new wells amid his avocado and lemon groves are prompting difficult conversations about how to manage the family farm.

Arbitration disputes are frequently presided over by arbitrators who are hired by the companies involved — and tend to favor those companies.

And it's dominated by companies you'd expect: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and SAS Institute.

As mentioned above, financial statements are produced by companies for the benefit of shareholders, and are prepared in accordance to sets of accounting rules (i.e. International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS, in Canada, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, in the U.S.) These rules differ greatly from those used to calculate corporate income taxes owing.

Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

Today, mega-rounds of late - stage capital are common, driven by companies that are choosing to stay private longer.

Today, streaming is dominated by companies like Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix.

A recent report from WalletHub finds that the average corporate rate paid by companies is roughly 27 percent, so the new bill could represent potentially hundreds of millions (even billions) in savings.

That in turn evolved into Guardtime, a Tallinn - based data security firm, used by companies such as European mobile giant Ericsson.

Various strategies are adopted and tailored by companies looking to attract, retain, and engage talent, and of course, to foster diversity, especially gender diversity.

On average, around 60 % of those levies are value - added taxes, or VATs, which resemble a sales tax but are actually paid by companies as goods go through each stage of production.

But I have bad news for you, this is probably only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to personal secrets stored up and poorly guarded by companies you interact with every day.

SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.

Chameleon was No. 140 on Inc.'s 2016 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S., and was joined by companies including Kohana Coffee (225), Runa (598), and Hiball Energy (844).

Namely, the social media company plans to prohibit initial coin offerings and token sales, and it plans to only show ads of exchanges or wallets provided by companies listed on major stock exchanges.

By one account, eight of North America's top 10 agencies are now owned by companies like this.