Sentences with phrase «by giant corporations»

That's fine if the popular servers are all run by giant corporations.

On the other hand, our concern for equality will prompt us to check very carefully whether the tax breaks are producing their desired effect, or whether they are being used by the rich to purchase yachts and by giant corporations to gobble up smaller companies.

: A young girl has this pet, which is sort of a pig / cow / hippo hybrid, but it's going to be experimented on by this giant corporation to use as livestock, so she has to save it.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

To Rodriguez, he uses a simple test not for being indie, per se, but for being independent, seeing if the developer is owned by a giant corporation.

Owned by a giant corporation now, I am doubtful about that, but for the moment, it's interesting.

Not exact matches

Driven by machine - learning systems, even the smallest of businesses can do the work of giant corporations, leveraging reams of untapped data to boost performance.

The argument is the same in places such as India as it is in North America: that Facebook, a giant, rich corporation, is skewing the equality of the Internet in its favour by giving users some parts of it for free while the rest remains «for pay.»

While monolithic corporations like AT&T may be looking to grow by snapping up other giants like Time Warner, some longstanding Internet brands are winning by taking the exact opposite approach.

Most ethanol plants are owned by small businesspeople, not giant corporations.

There is at least some good news: The FDA in May approved Radicava, the first ALS drug greenlighted in 22 years on an application by the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, a subsidiary of the tech giant.

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

Japanese technology giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google with the latest cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, Vusirikala said.

Most cities and states have accepted that getting these giant corporations to (mostly) play by the rules is enough.

Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.

The recent tax cut gimmick passed by Congress is being exposed as a giant fraud benefiting corporations and the wealthy.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation accused Facebook and Google of «anti-competitive practices» in one of dozens of submissions to a probe of the tech giants released Thursday by Australia's competition watchdog.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

Actually America was founded by refugees running away from two giant god - corporations, the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

Coopers is the largest Australian - owned beer company and commands almost 5 per cent of the national beer market, behind industry giants Carlton & United Breweries, owned by international conglomerate AB InBev, and Lion, owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation.

A2 Milk and Lion Dairy & Drinks did not provide details about whether Lion — which is owned by Japanese brewing giant Kirin Corporation — will continue to use A2 on its Pura and Dairy Farmers milk labels.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

The wide disbursement of capital can not only help to correct the undue political influence of giant corporations and the rich, but it can also create a society in which there are more Amy's Pup - in - the - Tubs and more people have enough to make their own way in the world without being dependent simply on labor income or constrained by the circumstances of birth.

Giant vertically - integrated food and agricultural corporations stand in the middle of marketing, processing, wholesaling, distributing, and retailing to make monopolistic profits by squeezing both farmers and consumers.

The giant banks and major corporations must be transformed into publicly - owned entities, controlled democratically by working people.

Owned by the broadcasting and manufacturing giant Radio Corporation of America, RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, for example, concentrated on radio and television.

In December, the state of California approved a deal in which utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric would purchase 200 megawatts of power from a space - based system that will be deployed by Solaren Corporation by 2016.

Critics like Greenpeace say not enough is known about how the strain will mutate and fear that the technology — largely funded by agribusiness giant Syngenta — will be monopolised by profiteering corporations.

Most cereals are promoted as «health foods» by the giant food corporations.

Some are even deceptively marketed to you as «healthy» by giant food corporations.

This unique adventure film depicts a young girl named Mija willing to do anything to save her best friend — a giant animal named Okja — from being kidnapped by an influential, multinational corporation (led by a transcendent Tilda Swinton).

The latest from cinematic mastermind Bong Joon Ho stars Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, and a stunning all - star cast and follows a young girl who is willing to risk everything to save her best friend — a giant animal named Okja — from being kidnapped by a powerful, multinational corporation.

Okja, the latest experimental offering from lauded director Bong Joon Ho, started off with a controversial bang, but ended up winning over critics thanks to its big - hearted plot about a little girl whose giant pet pig is kidnapped by a meat corporation.

Only a cartoon character without a soul could actually defend large corporations and the wealthy who avoid more than $ 100 billion in taxes every year by setting up offshore tax shelters in places like the Cayman Islands (home to more than 18,000 corporations), Bermuda and the Bahamas that help giant multinationals like General Electric avoid billions of dollars in corporate income taxes.

These are the types of challenges met by tech giants and globe - spanning corporations, with budgets and teams of experts and professionals to help meet the demand.

As you may remember, the US giant had been trying to gain control of the Amazon.com.br domain for years, and recently managed to do so by settling its long legal battle with the domain's previous owner, a Brazilian company called Amazon Corporation.

About Baidu (BIDU) Baidu (BIDU), commonly called «the Google of China,» is a giant corporation by any standard, boasting a market cap of over $ 82 billion.

For instance, giant gaming corporations are acquiring more momentum and resources by the minute.

King of the Monsters is a series of video games created by SNK Corporation (the predecessor of the current SNK Playmore) for the Neo-Geo, featuring giant monsters reminiscent of kaiju and tokusatsu.

What I love is that the giant, behemoth corporations created by the right - wing ideas of free market, laissez faire capitalism is what is going to free us from the strangle hold of their omnipotent, overbearing politics and monopolies.

And given that Toyota is by no means the only corporation aiming for 100 % renewable energy in its manufacturing operations, the coal giants are likely fretting too.

What has more truthiness is that a giant corporation employing world - class IP law firms can get just about anything rubber - stamped by the US PTO if they obfuscate it sufficiently.

Speakers appeared in front of a giant «We the People» replica of the Preamble of the Constitution while nearby, a satirical «We the Corporations» rewrite of the Preamble hinted at the corporate interests that are actually served by the trade deal.

Thaisarco, based in Thailand, is owned by British metals giant Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) Group.

The authors of the proposal did not demand the immediate cessation of all hydraulic fracturing activities by the oil and gas giant, but rather requested that the corporation provide better disclosures regarding its fracking activities.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, a private group set up for corporations and other interest groups to ghostwrite legislation that is sponsored by legislators in state capitals around the country.

Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.

Take energy giant Enbridge, ranked by Corporate Knights as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations.

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