Sentences with phrase «car business like»

However, Terrafugia is not some latecomer to the flying car business like Google's Larry Page or Uber.

Not exact matches

Telematics can offer up business intelligence: Insurance companies like Desjardins, for instance, are offering to adjust rates for consumers who install car - monitoring devices that will analyze their driving habits.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, Alphabet's core business generated $ 26.1 billion in revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same period.

By the end of September, we had about 12 to 15 cars on the ground and 400 members — enough that I could finally see if my business model was working like I thought it would.

While property like cars can be split between business and personal expenses, owners can only deduct the percentage used for work.

Instead of being awed by its car - summoning abilities, Liss - Riordan's brain, like always, was focused on the people powering the business.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

Both companies have outlined future bets beyond their core businesses — advertising, particularly search, provides the bulk of Alphabet's revenue and profit now, but it vaunts YouTube, cloud computing, hardware and experimental projects like self - driving cars as growth areas.

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts — like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self - driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects — while Google's advertising - oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.

Over the past few years, HTC also has been courting businesses and has landed some big - name customers like Volkswagen, which uses the Vive headset to immerse car shoppers in virtual showrooms.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

While cars and healthcare may seem like wildly different businesses, they share many operational similarities.

«If it feels like your smartwatch is turning into a spam box, you will take it off,» said Padden Guy Murphy, who heads business development and public policy at car - sharing service Getaround.

Business Insider talked with Levandowski about what it was like to be at the beginning of the self - driving car industry — and how it's going to change the future as we know it.

Other new businesses, including health care unit Verily, use different compensation systems too, but they have yet to generate huge payouts like the car project.

A spokeswoman for Alphabet, the holding company that owns Google and «Other Bets» like the autonomous car business, declined to comment.

With its sharing - focused business model, users pay hourly or daily rates for user of a communal car, without having to worry about paying for things like gas and insurance.

You can certainly make the case that a «business» has assets and thus value so it SHOULD be included, just like our cars or even homes for that matter (which some people also don't believe should go in there since you need one to live in), but for me it's just too unstable to be accounted for on an ongoing basis.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investocar - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investocar - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCar Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCar Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

To Beasley, the former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, the business of private prisons was simple: «You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers,» he told Inc. magazine in 1988.

As your business starts to come together, think of it like driving a car.

US businesses could also feel the sting because Trump's tariffs on machinery and high - tech components from China would almost certainly mean US manufacturers of things like aircraft and cars have to spend more than they do now.

For example, if you itemize, you'll generally be able to deduct expenses like the cost of using a car for business purposes or maintaining a home office.

It would lower real borrowing costs, and encourage spending on big - ticket items like cars, homes and business equipment.

Instead, look for niche appeal franchises like car wash, laundry, taxi service, food cart business, etc..

That means that each partner is equally responsible if the business falls apart and creditors can take possession of their assets (like their homes and cars) to cover any unpaid debts.

Yet most borrowers borrow, not to add to their money holdings, but to acquire other things, like cars and real estate, or (if they are business borrowers) to pay for labor, raw materials, or other inputs.

While Bloomberg's sources were unidentified due to the secrecy of Google / Alphabet's business plans, they did say that, initially, until self - driving cars become legal, the cars could be deployed to places like college campuses or corporate office parks — contained places that could drive business along swimmingly because, due to the confined or restricted nature of these locations, there would be high demand.

Turo is also battling a lawsuit involving the city of San Francisco that seeks to regulate ride - sharing businesses like rental - car companies and keep Turo out of its airport.

A business is a owned thing like my car or my sneakers.

This time around the car will be bearing a cooler packed with an apple pie for my dad, caramel apple butter for my aunt, and my cousin didn't request it but she has mentioned on several occasions that they plow through boxes of granola like nobody's business, so how could I not make her some homemade?

Chief Executive Officer, Taco Bell Corp. «To think a business like ours that spans 6,000 restaurants around the globe, started with a walk - up window no bigger than a two - car garage is truly inspirational.

A lockout here would like be business partners stabbing each other over the interior options of the new company car.

It would not charge regular vehicles to enter into the central business zone in Manhattan or impose bridge tolls, but add a $ 2.75 - per - trip charge on for - hire vehicles like Uber, Lyft, black cars and limousines for any trips that originate or terminate below 96th St. in Manhattan.

At the outset, it filed patents like any other company, because it was worried that bigger car manufacturers would simply copy its technology and drive it out of business.

Business secretary Vince Cable announced today that the law is to be changed to allow self - piloting cars, like Google's, on Britain's roads by January 2015

It's happening now, he says, and is disrupting existing businesses — think Airbnb, or car - sharing services found in the USA, like Uber.

You know, you're driving along, minding your business, and suddenly your car smells like a giant french fry.

Psychologists tell us that, at most, 10 % of our happiness comes from stuff like fast cars, big houses, initials after our names or fancy titles on our business cards.

Then later on, he had his own business repairing, restoring... Mainly what would be considered classic cars, Alfas, Astons, stuff like that.

I work about to take over the business I work for in a few months I have a preverded mind most of the time but not all the time I'm sweet caring loving i love to camp fish go mudding I have a truck, i like music car audio having fun I have a 13 year old son I love kids and I'm ready to settle down...

Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.

Designers Yoshihito Akatsuka — «The Left Ear,» «Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale» Kokayi Ampah — «Knight and Day» «Flags of Our Fathers» Jille Azis — «Magic in the Moonlight,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» Hannah E. Beachler — «Miles Ahead,» «Creed» Bert Berry — «Inside Out,» «Cars 2» Celia Bobak — «The Martian,» «Shanghai» Stephanie Carroll — «Elsa & Fred,» «Monsoon Wedding» Sue Chan — «Gone Girl,» «300: Rise of an Empire» Rodolfo Damaggio — «Tomorrowland,» «Terminator Genisys» Rena DeAngelo — «Bridge of Spies,» «The Judge» Warren Drummond — «Straight Outta Compton,» «Nightcrawler» Colin Gibson — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Happy Feet Two» Bernhard Henrich — «Bridge of Spies,» «Unfinished Business» Kalina Ivanov — «Max,» «Little Miss Sunshine» Michael Anthony Jackson — «Gods of Egypt,» «Fantastic Four» Philip Keller — «Jurassic World,» «The Last Witch Hunter» Carolyn A. Loucks — «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» «RoboCop» Chris Lowe — «Spectre,» «Into the Woods» Ina Mayhew — «Barbershop: The Next Cut,» «Tyler Perry's Good Deeds» Alice Normington — «Suffragette,» «Nowhere Boy» Hamish Purdy — «The Revenant,» «Step Up All In» Peter Ramsey * — «Penguins of Madagascar,» «Shrek the Third» Pilar Revuelta — «Exodus: Gods and Kings,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Mark Ricker — «Trumbo,» «Get on Up Dena Roth — «The Wedding Ringer,» «Think Like a Man Too» David Schlesinger — «True Story,» «Annie» Richard Sherman — «The Gift,» «Beautiful Creatures» Michael Standish — «The Danish Girl,» «Victor Frankenstein» Yohei Taneda — «Monster Hunt,» «The Hateful Eight» Lisa Thompson — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «San Andreas» Patrice Vermette — «Sicario,» «The Young Victoria» Frank Walsh — «The Huntsman: Winter's War,» «High - Rise»

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This adaptation of Stephen King's 2009 doorstop of the same name features all the familiar characters: James «Big Jim» Rennie (Dean Norris), a used - car salesman who is second selectman of Chester's Mill and would very much like to be first selectman; Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel), a former Army captain in town on some sort of business; Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez), the kindhearted cop; lovely Angie (Britt Robertson) who has a regrettable fling with not - so - lovely «Junior» (Alexander Koch); intrepid newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre); and so on...

To ignore this and continue producing only performance cars is to risk a fate like that of Kodak, which blithely focused on its profitable film business only to find one day there was no more film business.

The Building Blocks Just like the other cars in Midsize Madness, the Accord has left behind the niche of compact sedans it once occupied and adopted a more American way of doing business, emphasizing spaciousness and comfort.

That's unsurprising, given its roots, but that car - like nature is quite important, especially to businesses attempting to acclimate new drivers to the NV200.

Where the Italians, among others, wear the pain of use like a badge of honor, the R8 Spyder skips the Cub Scout horseplay and cuts straight to the business of being a good car as well as a supercar.