Sentences with phrase «companies peddle»

They've plowed tens of thousands into lobbyists who are trying to get vitamin and supplement use restricred to the low levels drug companies peddle in drug stores - or to require a prescription.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports that according to Vice's Motherboard, Facebook has hosted ads for years that featured companies peddling stolen identities and social security numbers.

Of course this pretty commonplace for all companies peddling crappy products.

Play a computer game, boost your IQ — that's the claim made by some software companies peddling so - called brain - training programs.

It's not just his company peddling Ebola ensembles; evidently, at one costume stores in Dallas, hazmat suits are selling out.

One way to do it: Take a page from the ad campaigns of the companies peddling the unhealthy stuff.

They will be fine, but the bad news is now we have another software company peddling their unproven wares.

We look into the reasons why and how it bodes for similar companies peddling e-textbooks to students.

In addition, the equations typically subtract points when consumers do business with finance companies peddling sub-prime loans.

Maybe you've never heard of the Fair Isaac Corporation, but you probably know of the FICO ® credit score the company peddles.

But when you consider the huge number of questionable companies peddling fraudulent loan products, it can turn a hard situation into a potentially dangerous one.

It's certainly weird to think of the Big N as a company peddling DLC, especially given how long they've gone without it in a general gaming environment that is positively rife with the stuff.

On American Lawyer: Attorneys Howard Nations and Mike Papantonio discuss C.R. Bard, the medical device company peddling a potentially deadly anti-blood clot device.

There are many companies peddling Guaranteed Issued or No Medical Exam policies and they are very convenient to buy and don't require a medical exam.

Not exact matches

To these companies, there's much more to social marketing than peddling their brand story as bait for hollow likes, re-pins and re-tweets.

Professionals can peddle their services, whether it be supply - chain management or legal advice, more easily and independently too, through sites like Elance - oDesk and TrustedPeer, which sometimes cater to big companies.

The company hopes to sell Glass in 2014 and developer versions of the headset are already being peddled for $ 1,500.

Only when an American company began peddling the model in Canada, around the same time Kids & Company launched, did corporations start considering the scompany began peddling the model in Canada, around the same time Kids & Company launched, did corporations start considering the sCompany launched, did corporations start considering the service.

With two - thirds of the company's revenues generated outside the U.S., Avon's 4.4 million sales representatives are peddling a truly global brand.

That's when Peddle instituted quarterly «town halls,» where the company's performance and future plans were, and are, discussed as well as the status of current strategic projects.

Mr. Buffett's companies send people to peddle vacuum cleaners and avocado peelers in homes, and dispatch others to offer egg collectors and pig - breeding crates on farms.

«Historically, they were the domain of «boiler room» frauds that aggressively peddled penny stocks by falsely promising the companies were on the verge of major breakthroughs, releasing groundbreaking products, or merging with blue chip competitors.»

The company that began as a boutique delivery service, peddling craft cannabis grown sustainably under the Northern California sun, now seems poised to be the biggest thing to come out the Green Rush.

McKinsey's Mr Orr tells of a Chinese shoe manufacturer selling through a number of stores on Taobao and Tmall competing with several thousand dodgy operators peddling unauthorised or counterfeit goods, many sourced from within the company's own supply chain.

With the acquisition of Great American Cookies in 1998 by the company that made chewy mall cookies big business, Mrs. Fields is now peddling her baked wares in more than 90 percent of the premier shopping malls in the United States.

She said this from the keynote stage at Natural Products Expo West — an unlikely place for the CEO of a company that's peddled canned soup for decades.

Its Corporate America demographic, funeral atmosphere, and astronomical prices make it a perfect reflection of the New Arsenal Brand that Kroenke and Company have been peddling to the masses over the past 5 years.

The previous owners had sought to peddle it to Bally Manufacturing Company, the world's largest slot machine manufacturer, which has had mob ties in the past.

One could almost think that this justification for formula use is being peddled by the formula companies themselves, but alas, it seems to be women fighting to see their use of formula as equal to breastfeeding.

Prescott himself became involved in accusations of influence peddling when newspapers suggested he had made planning decisions in favour of Minerva plc, a company chaired at various times by two of the lenders involved, Sir David Garrard and Andrew Rosenfeld.

A SARs report by Spitzer's bank had allegedly touched off a federal investigation that revealed the governor patronized hookers peddled by an international criminal ring who laundered payments through shell companies.

Although it remains to be seen whether eBay can effectively police its users, the company does keep a running blotter on eBay.com chronicling its efforts to help law enforcement catch people who use the site for illegal transactions, including selling counterfeit items, peddling illegal drugs or fencing stolen goods.

Dallas - based company Synfuels International peddles a process that converts oil well emissions into the building blocks of plastics or fuel.

Is «cloud computing» enabling the next generation of information accessibility or simply a marketing campaign devised by technology companies to peddle more of what they are already selling?

companies buy ads in these magazines and peddle products that are mostly junk; a scoop of filler powder and

I talk about Lulu all the time - one of my best friends works for the company too, so I am always caught up on the new ranges, I can not peddle this gear enough.

Glengarry Glen Ross takes place during a couple of days in a seedy provincial branch of a national company where desperate salesmen peddle worthless real estate.

Pharmaceutical companies have made billions peddling antidepressants to twentysomething white people who are, like, totally stressin» over people not appreciating them enough.

Years ago, when I was a young lad peddling newspapers for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (MST), the company announced it would hold an auction.

Our discussion covers how these companies bilk the taxpayers while peddling influence at the state and local levels.

Once these new models are in place by 2015 next to the Maserati Gran Tourismo coupe and Maserati Gran Cabrio convertible, we're told the company will be peddling 50,000 cars per annum.

Indeed, the company didn't field a sport - utility until the 1994 model year, when it started peddling Isuzu Rodeos rebadged as Honda Passports.

One could argue its segment domination is simply because the company only makes SUVs, but considering how many CR - Vs and RAV4s Honda and Toyota peddle each year, the more likely explanation is that people just plain enjoy all Jeep's flavors.

In the end, this new initiative from Google may not may not materialize, since the news companies are notoriously fickle from entering the digital world to peddle their content.

Now in retrospect we are always brutally honest in our reviews and sometimes it alienates some of the companies we deal with, aka Aluratek, but lets face it, some companies just peddle crappy devices over and over.

Just as millions of «heavy users» — as the companies refer to their most ardent customers — are addicted to this seductive trio, so too are the companies that peddle them.

Whether you live in the USA or Canada, the Sony Reader WIFI remains the only e-reader the company is peddling due to the discontinuation of the Sony Daily and Sony PRS - 650.

Every year at least one company tries to peddle cheap tablets to the masses.

I know all too well how aggressive credit card companies can be when peddling their cards on college campuses.

It is a sales tool for Broker Dealer Reps lying, cheating, and cutting every corner possible in order to get out of doing the actual hard work clients erroneously think they're performing, as they pretend to be financial planners; desperately trying to meet their BD's sales quotas by peddling commission - based American Funds and scaring investors into buying life insurance company products (e.g., annuities).