Sentences with phrase «by other large companies»

However, its acquisition of the Chicago - based user design and app building company is a hat - tip to the need for a well - designed customer experience, which has fueled acquisitions completed in recent years by other large companies.

Not exact matches

Either that, or it ends up being acquired by another large multi-platform company that's also looking to hook users into its other products.

The FTC has gone after two other companies in the same field in the past year, and Willms's operation is by far the largest.

The other CEOs in the group saw how Steve could partner with a large digital technology company that generated printable content like Adobe or Microsoft, in a way that would make his business the standard by which people turned their online digital information into hard copy.

There are no large sales forces, brand names, development talent or marketing resources that can be leveraged by one company in the favor of the other.

Perhaps more than any other industry, media companies have long been run by «moguls,» executives whose personality and fame was often larger than the size of the companies they run.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

And that is a trend that keeps snowballing, thanks primarily to the activities of two groups: first, the pension funds, insurers, and other large investors that continue to accelerate their investments in growth companies; and second, the investment - world professionals, who are responding to the deluge of money by continually setting up new funds.

Other important factors include how much the industry is regulated, whether it is dominated by a handful of extremely large companies, and the steepness of the financial barrier to entry.

It would be interesting to break down the data do find out if that 5 year time period includes businesses that have been aquired by larger companies or merged with other small businesses.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

Berkshire owns Geico Corp., the second - largest car insurer in the U.S., which has become ubiquitous by spending far more than any other insurance company in the U.S. — about $ 1 billion in some years — to bring its gecko, its camel, its celebrities and its cavemen to Americans» attention.

By working together, small and large companies can learn from each other, benefit from each other, and provide the economic growth needed for communities to flourish.

At the same time, these founders wind up ceding control of their companies by giving up large chunks of equity in exchange for cash and other resources from their investors.

Think Quarterly includes articles by Google executives, profiles of managers at other companies, bright illustrations, data visualizations and large - font quotations that look like Google search results.

One of main ways that Berkshire has grown over the years is by spending large sums to acquire other companies.

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

Measured by value of its listed companies» securities, the New York Stock Exchange is more than three times larger than any other stock exchange in the world.

Last year, he was outed by security journalist Brian Krebs as a member of the «Lizard Squad,» a hacker collective that claimed credit for hacking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live platforms, and that has also been linked to hacks of Malaysia Airlines and other large companies.

Tesco, Britain's largest grocery company, failed in spectacular fashion when it tried to launch the Fresh & Easy brand throughout the western U.S. Aldi, on the other hand, which has won the U.K.'s Best Supermarket award, sponsored by the consumer watchdog Which?

While there is nothing wrong with operating a large company like Wells in a decentralized fashion, the board said, the structure backfired in this case by allowing Tolstedt and other executives to hide the problems in their organization from senior management and the board of directors.

Similarly, China's second - largest mobile company, China Unicom, was said by analysts and others to have delayed or scrapped the imminent introduction of a cellphone based on Google's Android platform.

You will certainly have area plays; stories associated with cobalt in mafic and ultramafic complexes around the world, including Canada and Australia, but my experience has been that the concentrations of cobalt, particularly in Canada, are never large enough that Canadian companies can be low on the cost curve unless they're producing it as a by - product of nickel or some other ultramafic substances.

Thursday's fire overshadowed the company's financial results, which were less affected by large discounts for Canadian heavy oil than other domestic producers.

But Mr. Lee and others argue that the recent spate of large deals, which also include the $ 16 billion merger of cable companies Liberty Global Inc. and Virgin Media Inc., and the $ 18.1 billion to be spent by Comcast Corp. to buy General Electric Corp. out of broadcaster NBC Universal, are more than coincidental timing.

Australian Stock Exchange — April 21, 2016 and May 4, 2016 The largest and the smallest oil & gas companies in the S&P / ASX 50 by market capitalisation, Woodside Petroleum and Santos, respectively, like about every other oil & gas company in the world been hit hard by the slump and continued volatility in oil prices.

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The building would be the first major development to take advantage of the Midtown East rezoning plan adopted by the city last year, which allows companies to buy air rights from other properties in the area to build larger, modern offices.

While its very large e-commerce has been a strong driver of the rise of alternative payment providers in the country, Citi points at a number of other factors that have facilitated the rise of those third - party payment companies, among which an under - developed banking system viewed by the public as quite unreliable (unsurprising given how tightly controlled banking is in China, which has stifled customer - oriented innovation), and «relaxed regulation.»

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, however, announce that the company is looking at whether to end discounts with other «politically divisive» organizations after Georgia lawmakers punished the airline by removing the jet fuel tax exemption from a larger bill.

The company markets to four segments: the largest is Caucasian, followed by Hispanic, and two categories of Asians — Koreans and all other Asians.

The facilities that bought and processed his apples and those of other Sonoma County farmers went under as national produce companies turned increasingly to the cheap concentrate from China, and by 2004, Manzana Products Company, a large gray aerodrome - like facility, was the last processor in town.

I'd also like to see some sort of additional fee paid by these large companies, for as long as their certified supply remains under a particular level, that would help subsidize the fees of other farmers.

A bigger fear about the NBN Co bill held by Telstra, Optus and the opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull is that the banks, government departments and other large companies will become licensed telco carriers and deal directly with NBN Co..

With the YummySnack Bar having resonated with moms and other waistline - watchers in the marketplace, the bars have become part of a larger line of products offered by Goldbaum's YummyHealth company, which also now offers healthfully - engineered chips available in pizza, nacho and cheddar flavors.

Today, the global premium spirits company is run by the fifth generation of his family and distils some of the world's leading brands of Scotch whisky, including the world's most awarded single malt Glenfiddich ®, The Balvenie ® range of handcrafted single malts and the world's third largest blended Scotch, Grant's ®, as well as other iconic spirits brands such as Hendrick's ® Gin, Sailor Jerry ®, Tullamore D.E.W. ® Irish Whiskey, Monkey Shoulder ® triple malt whisky and Drambuie ®.

Rep. Chris Collins has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.

There is a limitation to the model: the WAS data underpinning it does not capture the value of residential properties that are owned by entities other than private individuals and households, which HMRC statistics suggest are a relatively large share of high - value properties (for example, two - thirds of properties built for more than # 2 million in the UK were purchased by companies or trusts).

Rep. Chris Collins (R - N.Y.) has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.

Cuomo spun the news that the Genting talks had fallen apart by saying he's broadening the negotiations to build a casino and convention center somewhere in New York City to other large companies.

Spinola, who served as the powerful Real Estate Board of New York's president for nearly three decades, remarked that Litwin's company, Glenwood Management, had defied convention by building larger apartments than most other developers.

«If it wasn't bad enough that Chris Collins was pushing legislation to benefit a company that he's the largest stockholder of, now we find out that he doubled down on this egregious offense by urging other members of Congress to join his money - making scheme,» said Basil A. Smikle Jr., executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.

In a speech delivered by Jereh Group's Chairman and Co-founder, Mr. Sun Weijie stated that, «as one of China's largest independent oil and gas companies, Jereh Group will harness its resources and capabilities into numerous other opportunities within the Ghanaian energy sector.

Although networking opportunities with other scientists might be fewer in large pharmaceutical companies than they are in academia, the opportunity to publish postdoctoral research results is offered by some, but not all pharmaceutical companies.

According to the Wine Group, the third largest wine company in the world by volume and a big advocate for switching away from glass bottles, there are other advantages to boxed wine (which typically includes a plastic bag within a cardboard box).

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

A 2003 white paper commissioned by the EPA notes that because companies have for decades conducted these kinds of tests on Sprague Dawley, there is a large database of information on them that is lacking for other strains.

These methods strongly resemble those used by Facebook, Amazon and other large tech companies who collect vast amounts of data from users.

This is partially explained by increases in truck share for all four, however other companies such as Mazda and Kia also had large increases in truck share while improving overall fuel economy.

A recent report by the Center for American Progress found that over the past decade, five of the world's top 10 oil companies — ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell Group, and ConocoPhillips Co. — and other large traditional energy companies with a direct commercial stake in future energy markets have forged dozens of multi-year, multi-million-dollar alliances with top U.S. universities and scientists to carry out energy - related research.