Sentences with phrase «by the large companies like»

Stocks of the aforementioned drug companies should be researched for both their takeover potential (specifically INHX, IDIX, and ACHN) by larger companies like Merck, Bristol Myers (BMY) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - Free Johnson & Johnson Stock Report).

It's not a problem for larger publishing markets of course and I don't see any real way of addressing it until figures for digital sales begin to be shared more freely by the large companies like Apple, Amazon and Google who are not really minded to share it.

The partnership is also supported by large companies like Microsoft, Fujitsu, and 20 others.

Not exact matches

Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, you likely kicked off your career like many of us by taking a job, maybe at a large company, to gain some experience.

The rise of companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent Research.

TD's new acquisition had become the largest trust company in Canada largely by selling itself as the anti — big bank, offering its 3.7 million customers revolutionary (for the time) services like 24 - hour telephone banking and extended branch hours.

So when the company announced in February that it was giving up payday lending in Ontario — by far its largest market — some were understandably confused; this would be like McDonald's giving up not just hamburgers, but food.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Though startups have innovated around sleep recently, larger companies like Under Armor have begun with their «Athlete Recovery Sleepwear,» using fabric that helps recovery by converting body heat into far infrared energy and reflecting it back into the body.

The company has recovered 333 million pounds of food by working with large retailers like Walmart and Starbucks.

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.

Shapiro got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.

An analysis by New York HR consultant Nat Stoddard pegs the price of a CEO mis - hire at a large - cap company at more than US$ 50 million, based not only on salary and severance outlay but also factors like lost productivity and opportunities.

And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

The new Cloud Auto ML (machine learning) service is part of a larger push by Google (goog) to convince companies to use its cloud computing and business - related services, like online storage or workplace software.

Being owned by a large company with deep pockets like eBay gives Venmo breathing room to focus on growth without having to worry so much about profits.

Small Business Saturday — the Saturday after Thanksgiving — was created by American Express in 2010 as a way to drum up more business for small companies who may not benefit from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales boosts like their larger counterparts do.

In 2004, the friends started a natural skin care line because they didn't like the products or the prices being offered by large companies.

«Most medium - sized companies won't have a defined benefit pension plan, like those offered by very large companies or the public sector, so they would want to look at a defined contribution plan,» she explains.

This differs from donation - based crowdfunding — made popular by sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo — whereby a company collects small donations from a large number of people and, in exchange, gives each donor some sort of non-monetary reward.

Perhaps a large - scale decision by investors, and large investing companies like Vanguard and Fidelity, could affect change by declaring they will not invest in companies that have anything to do with guns.

Still, there are some notable larger and highly sought - after venture funding rounds — like the yet - to - be-closed but widely reported bidding war for Foursquare, and competitive deals closed by former Facebook employees» companies Asana and Quora.

By Amy Au Just before World Food Day, Tyson Foods Inc., the largest meat company in the U.S., announced its investment in Beyond Meat, a startup we featured in the Global Opportunity Report 2016 which produces plant - based meat that claims to cook and taste like the real deal.

Uber, a five - year - old company that operates in more than 310 cities and 58 countries worldwide, faces homegrown Chinese rivals like Didi Kuaidi, which has more than 90 percent of the market and is backed by two of the largest Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent.

Salesforce soon became the largest maker of so - called customer relationship management, or C.R.M., software sold over the cloud, which is used by salespeople and marketers at companies like American Express and General Electric.

The book provides dozens of examples of companies large and small that have succeeded by putting people first: familiar names like Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Southwest Airlines as well as numerous entrepreneurs who are successful in their own niches, even if not widely known.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

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.

Generally, a bear market happens when major indexes like the S&P 500, which tracks the performance of 500 companies» stocks, and the Dow Jones industrial average, which follows 30 of the largest stocks, drop by 20 percent or more from a peak and stay that low for at least two months.

A company insider told TTG Asia while it's true that smaller companies like Movenpick would benefit from a larger chain's distribution, clustering, procurement, HR strategies, customer retention, loyalty programmes, cash for key money to secure a trophy hotel in a key destination and so on, the source believed the sale was triggered by Kingdom Holding, which holds 33.3 per cent in Movenpick, not Swiss - based Movenpick Holding.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

The new funding and deal highs in 2015 were bolstered by several large mega-rounds to well - funded companies like Tanium, Cloudflare, and Tenable.

For Spectra, they do have some West Coast operations in Canada, but I like the narrower — it's not a narrow focus by any means, because it's one of the largest pipeline companies in North America, but it's a more narrow focus than Kinder Morgan is.

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.

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.

Not only is it a large retail market expected to grow to $ 1.1 trillion by 2021, but it is also a large consumer internet market where companies like Facebook and Google are betting big (see: How Google is priming its Next Billion ambition in India).

«Achieving this mission requires participation by companies of all sizes, including supply - chain leaders like Cargill that can provide large - scale availability of non-GMO food ingredients.»

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.

This is a marketplace website a little bit like Amazon, but instead of buying stocked products from companies and large - scale sellers, you're buying from individuals who make everything by hand instead.

This brand name, which is owned by the larger Close Parent company, produces unique baby carriers that are worn more or less like a t - shirt that can be used to safely carry your baby for hands - free babywearing.

If Amy and people like her are exemplars of the moral good that can come from markets, then there needs to be regulation and intervention to prevent them being systematically put out of work by much larger companies that can afford to underprice local markets.

Like many large companies, they promote disruptive innovation in an effort to avoid being overtaken by smaller, more creative companies.

«The program is supported by a broad partnership — a global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest multidisciplinary science society, community - based organizations like libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs, and the K - 12 educators who deliver the curriculum,» said Betty Calinger, AAAS Education and Human Resources project director.

Centralized servers, provided by large Internet companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, plus scores of smaller ones worldwide, let people access data and applications over the Internet instead of storing them on personal hard drives.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

The company is often viewed as a sort of apparel - industry savior, not only because it's supplanting the decrease in retail jobs by hiring more than 3,000 «stylists» as W - 2 employees — meaning that Stitch Fix deducts payroll taxes from each pay check and offers benefits like 401K and health insurance to those who work a certain number of hours a week — but also by emerging as one of the largest wholesale partners in the US.

The result is a long, sad all - nighter of ever - larger board meetings with ever - escalating management teams (played by the likes of Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Simon Baker and Jeremy Irons) as the company debates the finer points of dumping the securities, destroying the company's rep and tanking the economy the very next day.

The day that car batteries get there, the demand will be so large that traditional companies like Ford and Toyota will be challenged by nontraditionals.»

By announcing these initiatives at SXSW, an arts and technology event, rather than waiting for Comic - Con or the debut of one of Marvel's big crossover movie properties like the Avengers, the company is clearly attempting to stake its claim to a larger chunk of cultural real estate than the niche market accorded to superhero comics in recent times.