Sentences with phrase «by firms like»

This is what the Realty industry is being forced into by firms like Rea ***** s and others that use the ambiguous rules to get their share of the listings and leave Co-operarting Realtors in a state where they have to beg to be paid.

He noted that a recent surge in transactions on the bitcoin network increased verification times to as high as 43 minutes, which he suggested was a sign that blockchains more broadly would perhaps struggle to accommodate the volume of existing technologies used by firms like DTCC.

Severstal, the Russian mining giant, leads the list of coal companies, followed by firms like BHP Billiton and Peabody.

Terry Ritchie, co-author of The Canadian Snowbird in America and a cross-border financial expert with Cardinal Point Wealth Management Inc., also recommends specialized currency exchange services provided by firms like Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange, Canadian Forex, Western Union Business Solutions and AFEX.

However, research by firms like ID Analytics suggests there is high demand for card accounts among populations that wouldn't necessarily default on their loans.

That was soon made up for by firms like Mountune however, and the Ford's chassis was as good as we'd come to expect.

Developed by Mark Wilson and colleagues at Cambridge Consultants Limited (CCL), the wireless bike is based on electric gear shifts made by firms like Shimano Inc of Japan.

The Tax Commission, which decides the certiorari cases brought by firms like Goldberg & Iryami, consists of «a president and six Commissioners appointed by the Mayor, with advice and consent of the City Council.»

In fact, there's a risingmarket in low - cost tailoring, fuelled by firms like Dress2kill and King andAllen making bespoke suits for a sum in the low hundreds rather than inthousands.

On top of that, Facebook offers marketers the option to target ads according to data compiled by firms like Experian, Acxiom and Epsilon, which have historically fueled mailing lists and other sorts of offline efforts.

Led by firms like Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp., the industry has argued that costlier regulations would take away options for smaller investors, who would lose access to advice as well as investment choices.

Like paper - only shells, which enable the secrecy - minded to hide real ownership of assets, shelf companies are set up by firms like Wyoming Corporate Services, then left «on the shelf» to season for years.

Rizkalla insists that his defence - oriented training products don't compete with the full - scale cockpit simulators built by firms like CAE, which is a customer of Bluedrop's.

«When content provided by firms like Netflix reaches the consumer's network provider, it would be commercially unreasonable to charge the content provider to use that bandwidth, for which the consumer has already paid, and therefore [would be] prohibited,» Wheeler said.

If it were rated triple - A by a firm like Moody's, then the investor could forget about the underlying mortgages.

1 / Value stocks as defined by a firm like Fidelity: any stock that is not a growth stock https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/investment-products/mutual-funds/growth-vs-value-investing

Not exact matches

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

Interns at this nerdy Shangri - La earn more than $ 7,000 a month, according to a study by salary - tracking firm Glassdoor — and that's not counting perks like flexible schedules, on - site haircuts and a company retreat known as «HobbitCon.»

Launched by the Los Angeles venture - capital firm Science's mobile studio, Wishbone shows you two options and lets you vote on which one you like more — a spin on the popular «Would you rather?»

The rise of companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent Research.

Founded by David Tedman, Ryan Holmes and Dario Meli as a design and development agency, Invoke evolved into a startup generation engine, spawning one of the country's most promising tech firms in Hootsuite (of which Holmes is CEO), as well as other buzzy names in the sector, like Foodee, Quietly (of which Meli is CEO) and Memelabs.

The most recent Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemistry.

Fitness tracker firms like Fitbit and Xiaomi may be losing some sales to the Apple Watch, according to a new analysis by Canalys.

In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

In 2017, Getaway closed a $ 15 million funding round backed by L Catterton, a firm that's invested in start - ups like Pure Barre, Snap Kitchen and Bliss.

Latino - owned companies continue to boom, and firms owned by people from South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries) are also expanding like never before.

But several wallets, like Apple Pay, Starbucks» app, and Samsung Pay, are outperforming their peers, and by delving into why, firms can begin to develop best practices and see better results.

But those are often supplemented by a myriad of options from other players, ranging from tech firms like PayPal, to banks and card issuers, to major retailers and restaurants.

In a recent study by PR and marketing firm Cone Communications, 46 percent of respondents said they'd like to be able to solve problems and receive product or service information via new media, but only 14 percent said they're «very satisfied» with their experiences with companies or brands online.

By contrast, companies like PR firms, yoga studios and pet - grooming businesses that enter a market without an existing reseller channel often struggle to survive, alternating between feast and famine.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

This price differential is largely due to a law that forbids firms from calling cellphones like they would a landline — i.e. using an «autodialer» — and which requires an interviewer to punch out each number by hand.

He joined the firm as part of a careful succession plan, in which the founding parents are transitioning control to their sons, aided by professional managers like McArthur as needed.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

The water - purification firm has found success by targeting regions with new or tightened environmental regulations — like China and Mexico — and offering its services to mining, power generation, and oil and gas companies.

«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.

His new firm may be dwarfed by powerhouses like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital in terms of capital and manpower.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

The data used to serve the ads was gleaned from user behavior on apps and via IP addresses, information that is regularly harvested by data brokers who repackage it to marketing firms who use it to serve ads with laser - like precision based on interest, location, age and many other markers.

Another manager at the firm liked and replied to a Facebook post by one of Mr. Greenberg's ex-wives in which she described his abuse.

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

Elite MBA talent is being heavily recruited by tech firms, especially at a few target schools, like Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business and MIT's Sloan School of Management, according to new analysis from Poets and Quants, a news website that covers business schools.

«The key is not to trap gains in a C corporation,» says Steve Wiltse, partner at accounting firm Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, in McLean, Va. «You want some flexibility by doing the deals in a pass - through entity like an S corporation or an LLC.»

But a nasty question foams up from the brewing brouhaha: How could a respected, albeit highly aggressive, firm like Bain have left itself open to being tainted by the scandalous behavior of a client?

Instead of taking on the risk of hiring full - time workers, firms are turning to staffing companies like Manpower to fill their labor needs on a project - by - project basis.

Dickon Pinner, a McKinsey director who heads up the consulting firm's clean - tech practice, says, «The utilities for the first time are feeling that their business model is being threatened by distributed - power systems like solar and are starting to respond.»

Research firm Cognetics» ranking of regions by start - ups and company growth shows the Mountain states; the South Atlantic states, like Maryland; and West South Central states, like Texas; in the top slots.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

Firms like Svigals» see themselves as collaborators with clients, mirroring a trend that's shaping the office of the future by deconstructing relationships and reinventing them.

That gloomy question was behind Thinking the Unthinkable, a study of British public policy options by noted British financial firm Tullett Prebon — which was brave enough to ask the question that U.K. politicians have been avoiding like the plague: «Might there be no way out for Britain?»