Sentences with phrase «by giant firms»

Since then, I have been the expert witness in seven cases, twice retained by giant firms, and we have won all seven (touch wood)(they should make keyboards out of wood, don't you think?).

Groupe Harnois is now the biggest independent distributor in Quebec, supplying two billion litres of petrol per year for a total of 11 % retail - market share in a market dominated by giant firms like Couche - Tard.

Not exact matches

Gillam, though still a young firm, is constructing a solid reputation for itself in the roiling Greater Golden Horseshoe development game, long ruled by engineering and construction giants.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

According to a leaked memo obtained by BuzzFeed, an Australian agency owned by the global advertising giant Omnicom — which handles advertising and marketing campaigns for all of the major Fortune 500 brands including McDonalds and Apple — has advised its staff that many of the firm's clients are asking that their ads not appear on Breitbart.

But what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm's history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

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

That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

His own firm is currently in the process of merging with domestic rival Standard Life to create an # 11 billion asset management giant, described by Gilbert as a «financial powerhouse».

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.

The deal will see the U.S. grocery giant swap its Yihaodian platform for a 5 percent stake in JD.com Inc., worth about $ 1.5 billion by the firm's latest market value.

A search and advertising expert for Yahoo for many years, Kumar left the internet giant to join Dapper, an advertising firm that was later acquired by the internet giant.

Domestic firms Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache, backed by tech giants Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings respectively, have 90 percent of the market sewn up.

Europe has no doubts that tech firms other than Facebook are affected by privacy and data protection issues similar to the social media giant, European Commissioner Vera Jourova told CNBC.

Wealth giant AMP accepts it repeatedly lied to the corporate regulator and says it has been too slow in refunding fees to clients who have been charged despite receiving no service, but has defended a report produced by law firm Clayton Utz into the issue.

The building had already been rescued by a number of prominent firms, including the private equity giant Carlyle Group, and Zara, the Spanish fashion retailer founded and owned by Amancio Ortega, one of the world's wealthiest men.

A federal judge has rejected a trademark complaint by e-commerce giant Alibaba against cryptocurrency firm Alibabacoin Foundation over the similarity of their names.

Although Uber faces stiff competition from Chinese market leader Didi Kuaidi, a firm valued at $ 16 billion and backed by Chinese Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd, Kalanick said he relishes the challenge.

U.S. retail giant Wal - Mart (WMT) on Tuesday reported a second - quarter profit roughly in line with what analysts were expecting, as the firm's bottom line got a boost by strong overseas sales and cost controls.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

While the secretive giant doesn't release Apple Watch sales figures, a report issued last week by the British research firm Juniper claims Apple accounted for over half of the 17 million or so smartwatches it says were sold last year, even though it was only in the market for three - quarters of the year.

Public anger over how tech giants stockpile and cash in on users» information exploded last month with the revelation that the data firm hired by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign — Cambridge Analytica — was able to access and evaluate the...

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.

Hewlett - Packard, a giant US office equipment and computer firm, had five hundred such groups meeting regularly by mid-1981 (Newland 1982).

Chocolate giant Barry Callebaut has taken over a factory in America, which will help the firm boost output by more than 50,000 tons over the next three years.

Based in Bohemia, N.Y., the firm produces high - quality, premium bagels that are sold by such retailers as Stop & Shop, Giant Food Supermarkets, Albertsons, H - E-B and Jewel - Osco.

The program followed workers hired by KC Fresh Choice, a labour hire firm subcontracted by chicken giant Baiada, which turned over $ 1.3 billion in 2013 and whose family owners were valued at $ 523 million in last year's BRW Rich List.

However, sources close to the situation said New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, tended to by Rothschild, was firming as the frontrunner.

Yili has announced an ambitious plan to become the one of the world's top five dairy firms and transform itself into a 10 billion yuan health food giant by 2020.

According to retail consultancy Conlumino, the top three US food companies in 2014 by sales were drinks firm Pepsico, food giant Nestle's North American division, and Coca - Cola.

A similar case was recently filed in California (by the same class action firm - Milberg) against Frito - Lay — the snacks division of food and beverage giant PepsiCo.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced the retirement of its top legal expert, as he apologised for payments made by the firm to Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Wednesday announced the retirement of its top legal expert, as he apologised for payments made by the firm to Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

David Hansell, who held top jobs with the city, state and federal governments before going to work for the giant accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has been tapped by de Blasio to take over the embattled NYC Administration for Children's Services.

Glenwood Management, the giant real - estate firm that was once the biggest political donor in New York, is being sued by US Attorney Preet Bharara for not making one of its properties disability - friendly, new court papers charge.

For this, a giant Schramm mine rig made in Pennsylvania drove an innovative pneumatic hammer - driven drill bit (made by Pennsylvania drilling technology firm Center Rock Inc.), which chipped away at the rock like a giant jackhammer.

Seaman is represented by a North Carolina law firm and also by Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (no relation to this reporter), the San Francisco - based legal powerhouse that won a $ 415 million settlement against tech giants Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for colluding to keep wages down by not hiring each other's workers.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today asked public prosecutors to investigate a possible criminal violation of drug marketing laws by the Japan subsidiary of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis.

TOKYO — Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today asked public prosecutors to investigate a possible criminal violation of drug marketing laws by the Japanese subsidiary of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis.

The giant firms are counting on this class of drugs to bolster profits that will be hurt by the imminent expiration of patents on many small - molecule blockbusters.

Yoakam will play Wendell Corey, who heads the giant aerospace company defended by powerful law firm Cooperman McBride, Borns Tech.

Domhnall Gleeson is Caleb, the geeky coder working for a software giant called Bluebook (like Google, but bigger and more important); imagine Caleb's excitement and fear when he wins an in - house competition to spend a week alone with the firm's reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island — it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

Meanwhile in the US the e-commerce giant watched the entry level fire tablet fly out the door all holiday weekend — so much so, says receipts data firm InfoScout, that it was the top seller by units not only on Amazon.com but at Best Buy.

While Microsoft and Nokia, two connected players in the smartphone world, had reportedly explored a possibility of a buy - out, only to be shot down by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, and e-reader and retail giant Amazon flirting with the possibility of buying the Canadian firm, there is one likely contender.

«Investing with the Stars» is your first - ever opportunity to learn directly from six real - life superstars of investing, including billionaire Howard Marks, whose Oaktree Capital is among the most highly respected firms in the world, value investor and philanthropist Mohnish Pabrai, whose flagship fund has beaten the market indices by a wide margin over the long term, Holocaust survivor Arnold Van Den Berg, whose firm has earned the respect of investors for decades, and other fund managers who are giants in their field.

Indeed, the S&P 500 is currently dominated by some stupendously huge firms like oil giant Exxon Mobil (XOM) and high - tech Apple (AAPL).