Sentences with phrase «by global firms»

A busy month of major investments by global firms in the African tech space that suggests the potential of the continent is finally coming to fruition.

The report has prompted a stern response from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is wary over the possible exploitation of data analytics by global firms during the upcoming General Elections.

A busy month of major investments by global firms in the African tech space that suggests the potential of the continent...

s vote to leave the European Union has put at risk decades» worth of investment in London by global firms.

Moreover, the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union has put at risk decades» worth of investment in London by global firms.

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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.

The global market for voice AI speakers is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 43 per cent to reach US$ 2.1 billion by 2020, according to analysis firm Gartner.

In March, the company announced a $ 35 million Series B round led by VC firm Playground Global, which brings the company's total funding to $ 45 million.

The Global Family Business Index, published by the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and EY, ranks the world's 500 largest family - controlled firms by revenue.

«It will be hard for a club owned by 150,000 members to either keep this ownership model, or if it keeps it, to continue competing at the very top level,» says Victor Font, CEO of Delta Partners, a global telecom advisory and investment firm, who is considered one possible successor to Bartomeu in 2021.

Global Science Research, the firm created by Kogan, had one day of access to «a random sample of public tweets from a five - month period from December 2014 to April 2015,» but not any private data, Twitter said.

China is the world's largest gaming market by revenue, and is expected to account for roughly 25 percent of global game sales in 2017, according to research firm NewZoo.

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.

With Sequoia Global Growth Fund III, the firm aims to buck the hot venture market trend of aggressive management fees set by managers of some megafunds.

(Retalix was purchased in 2012 by NCR Corp., the American global payment transaction firm.)

According to a recent survey of 49 Canadian CEOs by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, 31 % believe the global economy will become weaker in 2016.

Complete video of hedge funder David Ganek's keynote at the 2016 Delivering Alpha conference, his first appearance since his firm Level Global was raided by the FBI and shuttered in 2011.

The global smart transportation sector is expected to grow to US$ 138 billion by 2020, up from US$ 46 billion this year, at a compound annual growth rate of 24 %, according to analysis firm Markets and Markets.

More recently, in late January of this year, Magnetar received another settlement of about $ 11 million, according to regulatory filings, from CEC Entertainment — the operator of Chuck E. Cheese kid - friendly restaurants — which it had sued seeking additional shareholder compensation in CEC's 2014 buyout by private equity firm Apollo Global Management (apo).

Global spending on digital commerce platforms is expected to grow over 14 percent annually to about $ 8.5 billion by 2020, Salesforce said, citing research firm Gartner.

Moscow - based cyber security firm Group IB said hackers had exploited code developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) which was leaked and then used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that caused global disruption in May.

According to an annual CEO turnover report by global management consulting firm Booz & Co., the average CEO tenure was 6.6 years in 2010, 18 months shorter than in 2000.

Global investment banks are going to see their revenues in Europe chopped by $ 4.4 billion from the new financial reforms, according to a recent report from industry analytics and consulting firm Coalition.

A new survey of oil companies published by global accountancy firm Grant Thornton puts the size of the shift in perspective.

The ability to produce «must have» products is the subject of Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business) by Adrian Slywotzky — a partner at global management consulting firm Oliver Wyman — and co-writer Karl Weber.

So far, the Moodhacker program is being distributed to workplaces by Illinois - based employee assistance firm Chestnut Global Partners.

The country ranked as the world's 13th most hospitable destination for foreign direct investment in 2012, according to the A.T. Kearney FDI Confidence Index, a regular survey of global executives conducted by consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

Investors in these start - ups run the gamut, but leading the pack are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, DST Global (the VC firm led by Yuri Milner, the Moscow - based tech entrepreneur) and Andreessen Horowitz.

MF Global was admitted to an exclusive club in February, when the brokerage firm run by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine was handed primary dealer status.

Market research firm IDC has forecast the shift will produce as many as seven million global positions by the end of 2015.

-- By Pashupati Advani, founder of India - based cross-border business consulting firm Global Foray and member of the CNBC - YPO Chief Executive Network.

Banks lag behind credit unions in customer satisfaction, according to yearly surveys by global market research firm Synovate.

This year, the annual trust and credibility survey conducted by global PR firm Edelman showed that people place more trust in their peers and company employees than CEOs and government officials.

Research released recently by Edelman, a global communications and public relations firm, shows that trust in the media among all Americans is at an all - time low, falling to just 35 %.

Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

• UniTek Global Services, which is backed by Littlejohn & Co and New Mountain Finance Corp, acquired GW Communications, a Coppell, Texas - based broadband infrastructure services firm.

LONDON and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Permira, the global private equity firm, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), today announced that a company backed by the Permira Funds has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business.

The global consulting firm estimates that more than 45 percent of the Fortune Global 500 could be based in emerging regions by just 2025, up from 5 percent in 1990 and 17 percent inglobal consulting firm estimates that more than 45 percent of the Fortune Global 500 could be based in emerging regions by just 2025, up from 5 percent in 1990 and 17 percent inGlobal 500 could be based in emerging regions by just 2025, up from 5 percent in 1990 and 17 percent in 2010.

LONDON, March 27 - Global oil traders Vitol and Glencore are in talks to financially back Nigerian firms racing to buy assets owned by Brazil's Petrobras valued at up to $ 2 billion, several sources familiar with the matter said.

«Banks hope to lend early to get early returns... private investment and manufacturing investment are picking up due to firmer global demand (and) household loans could be boosted by property demand,» said Nie Wen, an economist at Hwabao Trust in Shanghai.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

The documents, which cover more than 40 years worth of offshore companies created by the Mossack Fonseca firm, also exposed the holdings of a dozen other global leaders.

Hiring of permanent staff via British recruitment firms increased at the slowest pace in six months in March, with employers perturbed by Britain's approaching European Union referendum and the global economy, a survey showed on Friday.

The firm's likely hoping to capitalize on a significant opportunity — the global direct - to - consumer genetic testing market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 %, from $ 117 million in 2017 $ 611 million by 2026, according to Credence Research.

The following is based on a five - year study of key entrepreneurial strengths by Gallup, a global research and consulting firm, which studied more than 4,000 founders to understand the talents that foster business creation and growth.

In fact, «member communities» are now visited by more than two - thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, including social networks and blogs, according to The Nielsen Company, a global research firm.

Manufacturing remains underpinned by a firming global economy as well as a weakening U.S. dollar, which is boosting the competitiveness of American - made goods on the global market.

Gartner reckoned Apple's global market share held firm at 7.1 %, although its shipments fell by 4.9 %.