Sentences with phrase «by upstart companies»

It probably has something to do with cornered markets with no chance of future competition by upstart companies..........

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Hackett has focused on streamlining Ford's core vehicle business while also recasting the company's message for investors who are captivated by self - driving cars and the arrival of upstart competitors such as Tesla.

These are some of the tweet - friendly products unleashed by San Francisco - based online fashion upstart Betabrand, whose founder, Chris Lindland, is on a mission to create the world's first truly social clothing company.

GM never came right out and said it, but the company's goal was to prove that it could out - Tesla Tesla and beat the upstart electric - car maker's Model 3 to market by months.

The only Chinese social - media company to build a major network outside China will be taken over by a Chinese upstart, NYT DealBook reports.

Although upstart mattress companies are challenging brick - and - mortar incumbents like Sleep Country by offering lower prices and a hassle - free experience, the company plans to open up to 12 locations annually for the next five to seven years.

The upstart trading and exchange company, backed by financial heavyweights like the Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays, is now accepting applications from companies and issuers of investment products, offering an alternative to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The only Chinese social - media company to build a major network outside China will be taken over by a fast - growing Chinese upstart.

The theory, popularized by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, warns that successful companies are inherently vulnerable to being «disrupted» by new entrants, and the only way to avoid such a fate is to replicate the risk - taking, pizza - devouring culture of upstart firms.

That shift has created an opening for upstarts like Cloth & Company, co-founded by DwellStudio's Christiane Lemieux, and which launched in October 2016.

To determine this list, LinkedIn's data team analyzed billions of searches by the site's more than 500 million members, considering employee growth, job seeker interest and engagement with the company on the platform, as well as how well these upstarts were able to attract talent away from the established players on LinkedIn's Top Companies list.

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

This tactic has been recommended by previous blue ribbon panels, but is opposed by the CRTC and big industry players, since it gives small upstarts a chance to get easy financing and shake up the wireless sector, where three companies control about 95 per cent of the market.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick unveiled the company's 14 values on stage at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, dressed in a white laboratory coat, according to The Upstarts, a recent book by technology reporter Brad Stone.

With his theory of disruption Christensen offered a compelling explanation for how it was big company managers, equipped with the best education and aided by the best consultants armed with the latest in best practices, fell prey again and again to upstart competitors with seemingly inferior products; technologists took it as a manual.

An industry may seek to capture a regulatory agency in order to entrench incumbent companies in the industry and raise barriers to entry by upstart competitors.

The merger between Mittal Steel, the upstart steel conglomerate cobbled together by Indian entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal, and Arcelor, the pan-European steel firm that was the world's largest steel company at the time, was troubled from the very start.

Economists are rightly skeptical of moral arguments about market abuse, as such arguments are usually followed by legislation that protects companies of the old, stodgy type from young upstarts or that just feathers a nonmarket or quasi-market nest.

While upstart, fly - by - night companies are trying to jump on the hemp bandwagon by offering cheap prices and questionable hemp sources, we've been quietly sticking to our mission and building our Hempire.

Now, upstart commercial companies like World View are launching smaller balloons that can remain in place by surfing stratospheric winds.

The upstart service boasts the largest user base — 9 million registered users, 154,000 paying subscribers at $ 29.99 a month — of any of the 28 sites owned by its parent company, Spark Networks.

A film in which a young financial upstart at a big company is blackmailed to spy on them by a competitive company.

By chance, he happens upon a flyer advertising a senior internship program at About the Fit, an upstart e-commerce fashion company run by founder and CEO Jules Ostin (Anne HathawayBy chance, he happens upon a flyer advertising a senior internship program at About the Fit, an upstart e-commerce fashion company run by founder and CEO Jules Ostin (Anne Hathawayby founder and CEO Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).

Upstart is a P2P lending company launched in April of 2012 by former president of Google Enterprises, David Girouard.

Often those big companies exerted their influence in the creation of industry regulation, often to their own ends by stifling competition from upstarts.

It's not often you see an upstart device stand side by side with something as revolutionary as Google's seminal video streamer, but the Chromecast Audio has been positioned as the keystone for the company's plans to delve into the world of multiroom audio.

The manufacturing base once represented by such legendary firms as Analog Devices, Polaroid and Lotus is being replaced by smaller software and biotech upstart companies, including ITA Software and Akamai.