Sentences with phrase «by similar companies»

While some corporations have been eliminating middle management through mergers and acquisitions by similar companies, other firms have been buying out / retiring older executives and replacing them with college grad whiz kids for half the salary.

Not exact matches

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

Assuming that other sites car brands advertise on are plagued by a similar rate of fraudulent web traffic, Solve Media calculated car companies would waste $ 541 million out of the $ 2.5 billion eMarketer estimates the auto industry will spend this year on digital branding in the U.S.

The company describes itself as an e-broker similar to Uber: Owners can share their jets with travelers in exchange for fees, with the transaction handled by Jettly.

Most recently, social marketing company Buddy Media was bought for $ 689 million by Salesforce.com, which also snatched up a similar, New Brunswick — based firm called Radian6 for $ 326 million in 2011.

Of course, it's feasible that hiring managers may still approach Jopwell with biases — by targeting candidates from select universities, for example — similar to those that prevent companies from becoming diverse in the first place.

By empowering its supporters through the company's social mission, it can create a strong and loyal following of people who share similar values.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

There are only so many ways to attach a foot to a snowboard, Anderson says, so whether by a company's design or not, many systems are similar.

These non-GAAP measures are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similar measures presented by other companies.

These non-GAAP measures may not be defined and calculated the same as similar measures used by other companies.

Similar disdain followed January layoff announcements from Pfizer, Walmart, Microsoft, Coca - Cola, and many less prominent employers, coalescing into an angry narrative: Greedy companies are firing workers just days after getting a historically giant tax cut that will save them billions — a tax cut that was promoted by President Trump and Republicans as a job creator.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

Uber Canada's general manager Rob Khazzam said the introduction of the feature follows similar moves made by the company in other countries, as part of an effort to curb driver drowsiness and make the platform safer.

Similar to meal kits, the company now offers travel packages called Times Journeys, where travelers can go on far - flung tours led by the Times» foreign correspondents.

Porn companies are able to get away with strikingly similar parodies of existing IP either by cutting secret deals with the original producers or by convincing courts that their films can't possibly be confused with said content.

Heron Resources is the latest company to announce plans to spin - out its non-core assets into a new company, following similar recent movements by Metals X, TNG and Indiana Resources.

The last time the company did something similar was in 2008, when the then struggling chain shut down all U.S. locations to retrain employees on improving the «Starbucks Experience» by boosting technical abilities and customer service.

It was bought by a Chinese company because the number signifies «information» and can be used to call in restaurant and hotel reservations, according to DN Journal (similar to 411 in the US).

These projects are so efficient in their conservation of heat in the steam that they have a similar life - cycle carbon output to the average of crudes sold in North America, and thus would almost certainly meet the standards to be unveiled by the California Air Resources Board next year, the company told The Calgary Herald recently.

Similar kinds of complaints have been coming from some media companies who are partners in Facebook's Instant Articles program — which allows media companies to upload entire stories that are hosted by the social platform, in order to make them faster - loading for mobile users (Time Inc. is a partner on Instant Articles).

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

Alnylam in court papers filed in Middlesex County Superior Court said the scheme allowed Dicerna to develop «strikingly similar» technologies within a year and unjustly enriched the company by up to $ 325 million.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

In a followup statement to the press, a MoviePass spokesperson said the company was «exploring utilizing location based marketing as a way to help enhance the overall experience,» including by using data «to better inform how to market potential customer benefits including discounts on transportation, coupons for nearby restaurants, and other similar opportunities.»

Grail didn't invent the tests — they were first developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and in Hong Kong, and controversial company Pathway Genomics offers a similar liquid biopsy.

By pitching its revamped enterprise chat service, Facebook joins the list of companies like Google, Cisco, Microsoft, and others that have recently debuted similar chatting features in light of the popularity of the startup Slack.

Last year, more than 30,000 PCs at South Korean banks and broadcasting companies were hit by a similar attack that cybersecurity researchers widely believe was launched from North Korea.

Price: The price of an opportunity can be measured by the expected ROI and the relative valuation of the company compared to similar alternatives.

In a news conference that followed the committee meeting, Silvester told reporters his company creates software for clients that's similar to tools designed for and used by Canada's three major political parties.

It seems to be the new norm for OnePlus phone releases, as the company made a similar move in 2016 by releasing its OnePlus 3T smartphone just six months after it released the OnePlus 3 in 2016.

It could also lead more companies to add similar three - dimensional facial - recognition technology into their phones, either by trying to cram all the hardware for it into their own phones, or by using software - based facial recognition from a company like FaceTec (which is something that individual app developers could add to their apps, too).

Billion - dollar fortunes are typically built by launching hugely successful companies (think Google, Facebook, and Amazon), and women entrepreneurs have had a harder time finding similar success as men in this arena.

A similar study conducted by the Guardian Insurance Company offered even more marked results, with 35 % of small business owners surveyed reporting that they actually started their businesses to fund their retirements.

They also use a $ 20,000 Lucky Cremas Bonmac 105 siphon bar manufactured by another Japanese company that is similar to the $ 11,000 Clover machine that Stumptown Coffee and select Starbucks location uses.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

MEC doesn't sell guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass shooting in Florida.

The policy shift at the world's largest software company follows similar moves since October by Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo.

Then there's a recommended article about career - related topics, followed by a company that often recruits from their college, and then a few suggestions of jobs that alumni with similar majors from their college have pursued.

Seedrs makes money by taking roughly 6 per cent commission on funds raised, and then a share of any increase in value when the company is sold — similar to the «carry» earned by private equity firms.

In the same interview, Sandberg acknowledged that Facebook should have notified as many as 87 million users impacted by the improper access of data by Cambridge Analytica and its partners, and that the company may discover other, similar breaches.

Many technology companies like Facebook (fb) and Google have similar programs under the theory that it's better to be hacked by a trusted party as a preventative measure rather than being unknowingly breached by criminals.

A similar bid by Chinese national oil company CNOOC in 2012 for Canadian oilsands company Nexen was successful but was controversial.

So I think the playbook is somewhat similar to Netflix, where they're doing all the things — blocking and tackling within the domestic market — and also aggressively expand internationally, where you have markets like India having huge upside and barely even tapped by any of these companies.

I also require every new employee, no matter his or her position or seniority, to start their tenure with the company by undergoing training that includes something similar.

But even the tiny cars use software and sensors that is similar to the technology used by big tech companies and well - funded startups road - testing full - sized cars, he said.

A company called OneWeb, backed by Virgin's Branson and founded by Greg Wyler, has similar ambitions: «OneWeb's mission is to bring the entire world online to improve quality of life and spur economic and national development where it's needed most,» Wyler has said.

It would also be a 3,400 % increase from what the company had in similar profits last year, based on numbers provided by those sources.

In the mid-1990s, Teledesic, a company funded by Gates, legendary wireless executive Craig McCaw and a Saudi prince, tried to employ a similar plan to use low - Earth - orbiting satellites to provide Internet access.