Sentences with phrase «by the biggest companies with»

Breaking into a field dominated by big companies with long government contracts is tough to do.

It offered the menus and languages in over 12 different localizations and was pushed by a big company with extensive retail clout.

Not exact matches

Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest names in Western Australian horticulture.

Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next biggest DDoS attack, which targeted Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.

One entrepreneur grew his niche business by collaborating with bigger companies that didn't consider him competition.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

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 combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.

But whilst bigger companies have legions of finance experts behind them, smaller business owners can often find themselves dealing with accounting responsibilities all by themselves.

I bet that someday I'll come across a big customer problem that's not being solved or well served by the industry, come up with an innovative solution, and start my own company.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

The founder is betting that by associating Earth Angel with big names in the movie industry, the company will find opportunity for growth.

With DocuSign, small businesses can do business faster by creating digital templates for repetitive tasks and obtaining online signatures, and in the process look «bigger» by operating as a fully digital company.

Big biotech and pharma companies are absolutely dependent on being able to successfully innovate by partnering with and acquiring disruptive startups because of the nature of the patent cliff in pharmaceuticals.

Spotify is trying to hammer out new deals with the music industry's biggest record companies to hold on to the rights to play their artists» music for the foreseeable future, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

Among the individual tracks seeing the biggest spikes were 1993's «Linger» and 1994's «Zombie,» with the hit singles seeing their global Spotify streams increase by 664 % and 320 % on Monday compared to the same day a week ago, the company said.

While you can't compete with the volume discounts and loss leaders big companies leverage, you can win by offering unique products and a personalized level of customer service that can't be matched by bigger companies.

The way he saw it, a company stood a better chance of influencing the world by developing leverage in the mainstream marketplace, building strong brands that can compete with the big players.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

Yahoo, now owned by Verizon, and Equifax, are two companies which were hit with some of the biggest data breaches of all time.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

She speculates that the company strengthened its bonds with customers by taking a stand against Big Pharma.

A recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined a number of problems it found with the big three consumer reporting companies along with suggested reforms that could help consumers improve the accuracy of their own credit reports as well as those all - important three - digit scores.

Of course, strong leadership also often goes hand in hand with bold ambition: Polman took a big risk by declaring his — to double the company's size even while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact.

The oil price recovery to more than $ US60 a barrel appears to be accelerating one of the biggest corporate shuffles ever by a Western Australian company, with Seven Group getting ready to consolidate ownership of the oilfields of South Australia.

Adds Buzza, «If you're going to go after the biggest companies in Canada, you can expect that by the time you get to court, you're going to be up against a legal team with a lot of resources at its fingertips.»

«Partnering with a bigger company allows us to address the long - term opportunity, and gets us out of minute - by - minute start - up roller coaster,» he told AllThingsD.

The startup competes with some of the software products sold by older and bigger technology companies like IBM (ibm), NetScout Systems (ntct), and CA Technologies (ca).

Meanwhile, Microsoft (msft) claimed big gains in its cloud business, with CEO Satya Nadella boasting to analysts that the company has an annualized revenue run rate of $ 20.4 billion that is extrapolated from one recent month's sales multiplied by 12.

Connecticut - based Indeed, a job search site with a big Manhattan presence, was acquired by Japanese company Recruit Co. Ltd. for an estimated $ 1 billion.

With the public finely attuned to these issues, finance companies that demonstrate their commitment to doing right by their clients and employees by leading with integrity are seeing big financial rewards in the marketplWith the public finely attuned to these issues, finance companies that demonstrate their commitment to doing right by their clients and employees by leading with integrity are seeing big financial rewards in the marketplwith integrity are seeing big financial rewards in the marketplace.

The company has big plans for cloud computing, however, and is going head - to - head with market leaders like Amazon and Microsoft by beefing up its infrastructure and offering highly competitive pricing.

Many small businesses could save big bucks by taking advantage of a tax credit long popular with larger companies.

While Avon is the fifth - largest beauty company in the world, it's by far the biggest direct - selling enterprise globally, with 6.4 million active representatives marketing its products.

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

Saputo Inc. emerged as the winner of the Australian deal with a $ 450 - million all - cash bid — one of the biggest deals in the history of the company, which was launched in the 1950s as a family venture that made deliveries of homemade fresh mozzarella by bicycle.

Halliburton is unlikely to try another big acquisition despite being relegated to third place by Monday's deal, people familiar with the company said.

The company has been able to attract big - name advertisers like Gatorade and New Balance by offering access to its direct - to - consumer service that boasts a subscriber base full of athletes with clearly - defined interests, who could be more likely to buy athletic equipment and related products from specific sports.

The wholesale colocation data center market share of San Francisco - based Digital Realty Trust, the biggest company in that market, is about equal to the combined market share of the rest of the top - five providers in the category, according to data shared exclusively with Data Center Knowledge by Structure Research.

The first quarter of 2018 was the biggest quarter on record for buyback announcements, with $ 242.1 billion worth of buybacks announced by U.S. companies, according to TrimTabs.

Starting his career in Chicago with Big 4 accounting firm KPMG over ten years ago, he established a solid accounting foundation by working with several Fortune 1000 companies.

XDV, with a current yield of about 3.9 %, holds the 30 biggest companies by market cap that also pay a dividend.

Most mining shares that trade in North America rose during the first four days of the week, helped by higher gold and silver prices, with smaller to intermediate - sized companies being the biggest gainers.

Smaller, independent brands are seen by many consumers, especially younger ones, to be more hip and healthy and rather than compete with them many big food and drink companies have looked to buy into and learn from startup innovation, a leaf straight out of Silicon Valley's playbook.

«With a stellar team of big data and open source veterans from companies including Hortonworks, MongoDB and MapR, Dremio is the first company to solve this challenge by empowering data consumers — business analysts and data scientists — to be independent and self - directed in their use of data, from any source and at any scale, using their favorite tools.

At many big companies, those interests are deemed to be best aligned by linking executive performance to earnings per share, along with measures derived from the company's stock price.