Sentences with phrase «companies fighting over you»

When there were candidate shortages, you could have multiple companies fighting over you, without much effort on your part.

But damages, and the injuries to the accident victim always are an issue which insurance companies fight over.

So when Haseeb Qureshi wrote a blog post not only about his salary but about how tech companies fought over him, giving him a cushy six - figure paycheck, most people got a little defensive.

Waymo has dropped all but one of the patent infringement claims it's challenging Uber over in court, as the two companies fight over self - driving car tech.

Both companies fought over a YouTube app for Windows Phone, Microsoft targeted Google with «Scroogled» commercials, and Microsoft has also criticized Chrome's battery usage.

Not exact matches

They were so busy fighting over who was going to pay for what that they couldn't make decisions that were good for the customers or the company as a whole.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

Sega stuck to its guns as the cooler game company and fought hard to win over third - party developers to attract more games, and thus, more gamers, to its hardware.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

«I spent three weeks alternating between the fetal position and the whiteboard trying to figure out how strongly I wanted to fight for the existing company vs. how prepared I was to strike out and do it over.»

Governments and tech companies have ramped up their fight against fake news over the past few months.

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

This fight over ownership and control pits entrepreneur against investor the minute talk of a company's valuation begins.

The company flirted with selling over the summer but decided to stay independent and stick out the fight with Uber.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Venture capitalists are ramping up their fight against President Donald Trump over a decision to delay an immigration program that would have allowed experienced foreign - born entrepreneurs to stay in the U.S. to build new companies.

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf compared the dispute with Apple over potentially billions of dollars in royalties on mobile chipsets to earlier fights Qualcomm has had over the years with other tech companies that were settled out of court.

The fight has become a lightening rod over encryption, with tech companies saying any attempt to weaken security opens the door to hackers and government espionage.

Drug companies including Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson & Johnson have been fighting lawsuits by two California counties, the city of Chicago, four counties in New York and the state of Mississippi over their opioid marketing practices.

«This fight is for the people and their right to choice and control over their own entertainment — and it will continue,» said the company in a statement.

And the bruising fight over the measure that could directly affect 5 million Californians, and possibly millions more, turned even nastier this week with a scathing series of social media ads targeting pharmaceutical company CEOs.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

I hope they'll fight over who gets credit for governance improvements at companies where neither of them is involved.

He has fought depression (and MMA), spearheaded his own multi-million dollar company turnaround, and writes a popular blog that over 30 million people around the world read.

The company had already been facing growth and revenue challenges, but CEO Adora Cheung said the «deciding factor» was the four lawsuits it was fighting over whether its workers should be classified as employees or contractors.

Some investors, notably the Starboard Value hedge fund, disagreed with the board's belief that the company would have won a tax fight over the original plan.

Get Me also largely stayed out of the Prop 1 fight because the essence of the fight was over ride - hailing companies» ability to effectively set their own rules over what local governments may prefer, which isn't how the firm's leadership believes that relationship should work.

As of March, the company was fighting a class action lawsuit over the allegation.

The fight over aluminum between industrial companies and Wall Street transpires alongside increasing Fed worries about banks» storage and transportation of physical commodities.

Those complaints are settled if a company agrees to change its practices, or they're fought over in court if a company disputes the government's charges.

He suggests that the tech world is focused on high margin, low volume businesses in which companies fight it out to win over customers and sell high margin software or hardware to a relatively smaller numbers of customers.

Take away: Kia's parent company Hyundai has already been in a tough fight with its Chinese partner BAIC Group over supply issues.

Rob Woolley has stepped down as chairman of TasFoods, days after quitting the board of Bellamy's Australia, following threats by major shareholder Jan Cameron of another requisition, as their bitter months» long fight over control of organic baby formula maker spills over to the agricultural company.

These qualities of conflict resolution apply whether two children are fighting over a dodge ball game or two CEO's are discussing the next step in the million - dollar company merger.

The nation's second - largest hamburger chain is the latest company to join the public relations war over so - called «pink slime» — an ammonia - treated beef filler product that the meat industry calls «finely textured beef» — that is at the center of one of the biggest U.S. food fights in recent history.

Although the food industry has taken a back seat in the bitter political fight over reauthorizing the law, many companies continue to be concerned about its sodium standards.

«While I've been working long hours to pass key measures like Ian's Law (which prohibits insurance companies from dropping sick patients) and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (which is the strongest tool in the nation to fight taxpayer fraud and corruption), other candidates have been getting a head start on their fundraising, holding events and carrying over millions from previous campaigns,» the senator wrote.

There's a major shakeup at Xerox in the wake of the recent fight over the control and direction of the company by two major investors.

The race has become something of a proxy war for the fight over the online rental site Airbnb, with the company funding advertising against Serino and an independent expenditure campaign backed by the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York running commercials critical of Gipson.

As GE seeks to close the books on a $ 1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River, a new fight is simmering over the company's legacy of toxic pollution in the region.

A fight over the ice rink at Buffalo's Canalside involves state officials, the project's designer and a local construction company, and has escalated to lawsuits and accusations that political donations influenced the award of a state contract worth millions of dollars.

A new fight is simmering over General Electric's legacy of toxic pollution as the company seeks to close the books on a $ 1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River.

He denied allegations that the EFCC raided the media company because the acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, was fighting the newspaper over a March publication accusing him of corruption.

Enck has also been involved in Albany's South End community, where community members have been fighting over the past three years against Global Partners oil company in the Port of Albany.

Companies like Uber and Lyft were prepared to fight legislators over fingerprinting, background checks and mounting opposition from the yellow cab industry, as they seek to expand statewide.

Breslin counters that his legislative record shows he's consistently fought for the public's interests over those of insurance companies.

Funders over the years have included Soros's Open Society Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation and, since 2004, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which gave the local health authorities a five - year, $ 10.7 - million grant.

The University of Sheffield and a research radiologist there are fighting over whether the scientist had permission from her bosses and a drug company to submit her osteoporosis work to a conference this summer.

Examples include: concerns about where cloud computing companies are storing their data, fights over who should be in charge of Internet policy, questions about how the less - developed world can provide Internet access to all and help them cross the «digital divide,» cyberwarfare, the right to be forgotten, and many more.

(ISTOCKPHOTO / HEALTH) The last thing anyone suffering from a long - term health condition needs is to become embroiled in a drawn - out fight with an insurance company over treatment payments.