Sentences with phrase «by industry giants»

You can now power your online eBook store with Adobe Content Server — the exact same DRM system used by industry giants, and the only DRM trusted by major publishers — for cost - effective, easy selling.

The interspersion of the vignettes of the (one assumes desirable) woman on the Phish blog is distracting, and I could have used a bit more of the ripping off of the Band - Aid that covers the wounds of this industry - Slater just scratches the surface of the deviant acts perpetrated by both individuals and, more importantly, by industry giants with agendas.

There are plenty of categories to choose from, and while the battle for the Best Dating Site will likely be fought by the industry giants, some of the smaller nominations are arguably up for grabs.

Rider - owned companies currently compete for an extremely small slice of the pie: Twin - tips account for some 40,000 of the 600,000 pairs of skis sold annually in North America, and more than half of those 40,000 are produced by industry giants, who, though late to the party, have overwhelmed the market with their production and distribution infrastructure.

The team behind the company has developed some of the most innovative solutions being used by industry giants like Schaeffer, Kardex, WRH Walter Reist Holding, Ferag and Siemens - Dematic.

At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based niche in the photo - processing market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..

And the effort will finally launch this weekend with anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by industry giants like Philip Morris USA owner Altria Group and Reynolds, reports the Associated Press.

That collaboration is especially important as big breweries are starting to quietly put out craft - flavored beers like Shock Top, which is brewed by Anheuser - Busch in Saint Louis, Mo., or Blue Moon, which is a MillerCoors product, though many fans of either beer don't realize either is made by the industry giants.

Axiom Verge is developed solely by Tom Happ, while business development, marketing, and occasional game feedback are handled by industry giant Dan Adelman.

And five recent acquisitions by industry giant NRT Inc. have expanded the No. 1 company's reach in five states and Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

The Chinese government recently announced its intention to catch up to the U.S. by 2020, surpass it by 2025, and dominate the industries of AI by 2030, with the help of its homegrown tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.

Small businesses generally participate in the nuclear industry by supplying parts to the giant multinationals that do the actual construction and processing.

In 2008, when the sub-prime mortgage crisis upended the multi-billion-dollar property valuation industry, Real Matters, a Markham, Ont. - based startup that provides property information to banks and insurance agencies, was in the unique position of being nimble in a market dominated by giants.

In 1986, I pulled the music industry's leg by telling Music Week, a British music publication, that Virgin had set up a giant computer in Britain, on which we had stored every music track we could find.

Some news leaked out of Intel last week by a side channel when industry consultant Patrick Moorhead posted about a recent meeting he'd had with execs at the chip giant.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

McKesson, a pharmaceutical supplier, is a healthcare industry giant with annual sales exceeded by only a handful of U.S. companies.

In a recent interview with ad industry veteran Jay Sears, Pivotal's Wieser said the digital - media industry has effectively become a giant duopoly in which Google and Facebook win almost everything, advertisers have to play by their rules, and other media companies «fight for the scraps.»

Amazon's beef with Google isn't unique in an industry dominated by a small handful of giants.

Media giants across the country have been scrambling to adapt as internet - based content providers drain revenues once thought to be monopolized by a few industry titans.

U.S. rivals Miller and Coors had been acquired by South Africa's SAB and Canada's Molson, respectively, and when those two giants then created the joint venture MillerCoors in 2007, the industry realized that Anheuser - Busch's days as an independent brewer were numbered.

Lor's partners in the latter include three alumni of Veer, yet another Calgary - based digital - image vendor that was bought by yet another industry giant, Corbis.

This 150 - year - old paper - printing giant has navigated the decline and consolidation of the printing industry deftly, by selling itself as a one - stop shop for large, corporate printing needs and by purchasing smaller rivals.

Partnerships with industry giants like Garnier and The Body Shop, and a global list of clients that seems to grow by the day.

With Amazon continuing to keep retailers on edge by its partnerships with assorted venues, the business world is closely watching for what the online giant will do next, what companies it will acquire and what industries it will penetrate.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

Today, the industry is dominated by global giants such as Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart, but their core search business has increasingly been eroded by specialist boutiques.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

HJ Heinz, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A), is to merge with Kraft Foods Group (KRFT), creating a new giant in the food industry and paving the way for Heinz to return to the stock market, the two companies said Wednesday.

His organization runs one of the most visible and high - profile private equity funds in the world — industry observers put it in the same class as those run by legendary buyout giants Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts and Blackstone.

As Chinese internet giants are increasingly blurring the boundaries between sectors, it's getting harder and harder to define them by a single industry.

Earlier this week it also put out a wordy blog post attempting to diffuse this line of attack by pointing the finger of blame at the rest of the tech industry — saying, essentially, that a whole bunch of other tech giants are at it too.

Some game developers hoped Oculus VR could help build a new gaming platform, a small - company alternative to an industry dominated by giants like Sony and Microsoft.

Instead, Zenefits has morphed from a skeletal 15 employees into an army of nearly 500 and counting — its revenue growth outpacing that of many valley software giants — by upending the health insurance industry.

There are a host of companies in different industries that accept payment by bitcoin, including web hosting companies, bitcoin cash gambling sites, travel sites such as Expedia and tech giants Microsoft.

By way of comparison, industry giant Blackstone Group has $ 266 billion of AUM, Carlyle Group has $ 185 billion of AUM, and KKR has $ 94 billion of AUM as of Dec. 31, 2013.

What's more, the beer industry's true giants have been muddling the market further by producing «crafty» beers like Blue Moon and Shock Top.

Not only this, the e-retailing giant which was earlier twitching to acquire Twitch, a game streaming service (dubbed by industry watchers as the «next YouTube»), in which Google had shown interest in August 2014, has gone ahead and acquired the same for an astoundingly huge $ 970 million.

Meanwhile, WPP isn't expecting any revenue growth this year amid pressures on the industry, including spending cutbacks by consumer goods giants and competition from consultancies.

The hectoring of three global giants in the world's largest manufacturing industry by the most powerful politician sent shudders through head offices from Japan to Detroit to Ontario.

Even now in our society most of the innovation and growth occurs in smaller industries that are then bought up by the giants.

So while the giants of the pork industry address the problem of dry, tough pork with enhanced products, small farmers do it by raising fatter hogs.

«In an industry dominated by giants, the best way to stand out is by creating a new experience.»

The Food & Beverage Innovation Forum 2018 (FBIF2018) is set to be attended by numerous FMCG giants, exploring industry trends and packaging innovations.

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.

Bega Cheese executive chairman Barry Irvin believes a successful $ 533 million takeover by Canadian dairy giant Saputo of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory will trigger further mergers in the dairy industry.

Last week a Reuters report that PepsiCo was in talks to acquire Vita Coco maker All Market Inc. had the beverage industry buzzing over what could be yet another billion - dollar acquisition of an entrepreneurial beverage company by a strategic giant.

Last week, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)-- whose membership includes hundreds of consumer brands from a range of industries around the world, including food giants Campbell Soup, Clif Bar, Hershey, Mars and Procter & Gamble — announced a new resolution to mitigate the roughly 40 percent of food wasted globally by agreeing to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer and manufacturer members by 2025, and to support wider UN Goals on the issue.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

As I was writing this column, the beverage industry was still just days away from being roiled by the news that Keurig Green Mountain has agreed to acquire Dr Pepper Snapple Group, in a deal that will create an $ 11 billion (sales) beverage giant.