Sentences with phrase «companies take hold of»

But, again, it's also letting other companies take hold of the tech, which will likely result in a variety of different looking headsets.

Not exact matches

A lot of U.S. housing stocks have skyrocketed as the American recovery has taken hold, but there are still some companies in this sector that will continue to climb.

Cagnetta holds up the example of someone who started a franchise for home health care because of a negative experience hiring a company to take care of an aging parent.

While there's no question that it will take sales growth to turn this company around, the majority of analysts do have a hold or neutral weighting on the stock.

Even before the added revenue from their numerous acquisitions is taken into account, the company boasted 24 % revenue growth in the first half of 2011, outpacing every other agency holding company in the world.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

The good news for investors is the promise held out by a growing cadre of companies working to take on that infrastructure upgrade, turning unusable water into something we can drink and making water consumption more efficient.

Phoenix Gold has taken a planned vote on an alliance with Evolution Mining off the agenda of its general meeting, being held today, after Zijin Mining Group made a play to take ownership of the company in a cash deal worth $ 47 million.

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

As these innovations take hold, the automobile manufacturer will become more of a personal mobility company, constantly innovating how vehicles interact with the world around them.

It recently received seed funding from J. Hunt Holdings, but the company's model is based on taking a percentage of the money players pay their coaches.

Even though Neometals is now holding less than 15 % of Mt Marion, company management had the exceptional foresight to insist on the right to purchase a sizeable percentage the lithium off - take after about three years of operation.

There have been numerous times when Musk's endeavors would have benefited by having more capital, yet he has resisted the urge to take SpaceX public because the board of directors of a publicly - held firm would undoubtedly force him to make changes in the company that would improve its profitability at the expense of its chances for reaching Mars.

Of course, Nadella took over a position that was once held by the company's founder and world's wealthiest man Bill Gates.

Take ARM Holdings, for example, the British semiconductor and software design company based in the university city of Cambridge manufactures components for Apple.

That means Cloth & Company holds no inventory, and can take more design risks and spin up partnerships with retailers like Target (tgt) and Amazon in a matter of a month, says co-founder Meganne Wecker.

Startups that want to take advantage of the co-selling support will need to build their products on Microsoft Azure, not one of the company's competitors, like AWS, which currently holds the lead in the cloud market.

He did buy some stock in January 2016, when markets corrected, and he's holding about 20 % of his portfolio in cash that he intends to deploy when the companies he wants to own take a dive.

The chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took on «unicorns,» tech startups and other privately held companies on Thursday, admonishing Silicon Valley firms to be fair and honest with their investors.

The company's president, Chris Burns, took Red Bull to task for «holding us hostage,» «stepping on our American dream» and «giving us one hell of a corporate wedgie.»

It takes in - depth analysis to decide which type of policy — and how much coverage — fits the needs of the owner of a privately held company.

QC Holdings» payday loan stores dot that state, but just a year after the law, the president of the company told analysts that installment loans had «taken the place of payday loans» in that state.

On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?»

After the IPO has taken place, Facebook will have to follow disclosure rules, including holdings and transactions of insiders or the officers and directors of the company.

United Technologies» CEO Gregory Hayes, the company's former finance chief who took the helm in late 2014, holds the distinction of being the first chief exec to strike a deal with now - President Trump after the November 2016 vote.

Aside from hiding from the public the fact that Cambridge Analytica took hold of a treasure trove of user data from Facebook accounts sans their permission, new scathing discoveries now show that the company was collecting other stuff as well.

As the monetary policy tightens and the central bankers sponsored punch bowl is taken away, I have been looking very closely at some of the fundamentals of my company holdings.

His next project: SpaceX, a closely held rocket company that was tapped by NASA to take over space shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space Station.

While he didn't invent the agency holding company model, he made it an unstoppable force, building the planet's largest ad agency company from an ownership stake he took in a British maker of baskets and household wares in 1985.

In order to avoid potentially running afoul of the new rules, many companies are holding back from taking advantage of the opportunity that Title II is designed to provide: the opportunity to advertise investments.

The company spread out the losses to all customers — even those who were not holding bitcoin at the time of the hacking — by forcing customers to take a 36 - per - cent haircut or loss on any money at the exchange.

You either have to wait for the stocks of the companies you own to drop or take advantage and buy stocks from companies you don't hold.

He began buying shares of distressed textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, ultimately taking over as chairman and using it as a holding company.

It owns a large part of the debt of a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings Corp., a private company in Texas that took refuge in bankruptcy protection last year.

The Pensions Regulator confirmed discussions with the company were taking place, as control of the retailer shifts to Hamleys toy shop owner C.banner International Holdings.

Because most ESOPs in closely held companies take place in situations where the founding owner wants to retire and cash out of the business, the issue of diluting profit per share and diluting the ownership and governance rights of majority shareholders is not a material issue in these cases.

If a billionaire has pledged as collateral shares he or she holds in a public company, the value of those shares or the value of a loan taken against them is removed from the net worth calculation.

However, Lake took pains to remind analysts that the operative word when it came to the «deemed repatriation of foreign earnings» - a measure in the reforms that sees liquid assets held overseas by US companies subject to a one - off charge of 15.5 % - was «deemed».

In other news, the founder of a company that reportedly took in $ 50 million from an initial coin offering (ICO) posted a photo of himself at the airport and then holding a drink at a beach, TechCrunch reported.

Still, the famous long - termist did take a measured look at the scandal, and has only sold the bank's stock of late so that Berkshire could get below 10 % ownership, the threshold that would turn Berkshire into a bank holding company.

In a conference call with Tribune Publishing employees, held the day the investment was announced, Ferro, who is also part owner of the Chicago Sun - Times, promised to take an active role with the company, saying he was putting his reputation on the line.

Action to Take — > If you'd like to follow Buffett's approach but find it challenging to find the right companies that meet his criteria, you can buy shares of exchange - traded funds (ETFs) that tend to hold stocks with strong cash flow.

It can often take a large proportion of your businesses cash to hold the required stock and working capital, and a loan can be used to cover these costs and provide you with the extra capital you need to grow your company

Under the measure, owners of a company would be held responsible if they knew about sexual harassment and failed to take corrective action.

The company takes advantage of every opportunity to share information about the ESOP, holds regular meetings to talk about the ESOP internally, hosts events for employee owners to share information, and offers educational information to nurture the company's employee ownership culture.

So take a look at the kinds of companies that are held in the funds you're interested in before you put your money into them.

He has also served as Delaware counsel for directors and board committees for such corporations as ABB, Ltd., Adelphia Communications Corporation, Airgas, Inc., Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., AMF Holdings, Inc., Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc., Applied Materials, Inc., Ashworth, Inc., Bank of America Corporation, BarnesandNoble.com, Biosite, Inc., Cablevision Systems Corporation, Caterpillar, Inc., Citigroup, Inc., Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., Coeur Mining, Inc., Computer Associates International, Inc., Cornerstone Therapeutics, Inc., Countrywide Financial Corporation, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Cysive, Inc., Danfoss A / S, Dreamworks Animation SKG, Duncan Energy Partners, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., EON Labs, Inc., Epicor Software Corporation, Erickson Air Crane Inc., Fairfield Communities, Inc., FEDEX Corporation, First Franklin Financial Corporation, Fox & Hound Restaurant Group, FTI Consulting Inc., G.P. Strategies Inc., Gemstar International Group Ltd., Genencor International, Inc., Golden Telecom, Inc., Goldman Sachs, Google Inc., Health Management Associates, Inc., Hewlett - Packard Company, Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc., Houlihan's Restaurants, Inc., Huntsman Corporation, IGEN, Inc., ImClone Systems Incorporated, infoUSA, Inc., Insituform East, Inc., Intel Corporation, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., iPass, Inc., Kenetech Corporation, Levi Strauss Associates, Inc., Liberty Media Corporation, Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc., Lorillard, Inc., Maytag Corporation, Micro General Corporation, Motorola, Inc., National Amusements, Inc. (majority stockholder of Viacom), National Steel Corporation, Net2Phone, News Corporation, NRG Energy, Inc., OEC Corporation, Online - City Search, Inc., PeopleSoft, Inc., Pharmacia Corporation, Phonefree.com, PLM International Inc., Printcafe Software, Inc., Pure Resources, Inc., Quest Software, Rent - A-Center, Inc., Rental Service Corporation, Republic Industries, Inc., Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc., Siliconix Incorporated, Simon Property Group Inc., Softbank Corp., Sotheby's, Space Imaging, Inc., Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc., Suntory Holdings Limited, Take Two Interactive Software, Inc., Teppco Partners, L.P., The Hertz Corporation, The Talbots, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., The Vanguard Group, Inc., The Walt Disney Company, TicketMaster, Todd A-O Corporation, Triad Hospitals, Inc., Unico Corporation, UTStarcom, Inc., Utz Quality Foods, Inc., Venoco, Inc., Veterinary Centers of America, Inc., VMWare, Inc., Walmart Stores, Inc., Walter Industries, Inc., Wheeling - Pittsburgh Corporation, Whistlepig, LLC, Wynn Resorts, Ltd., Zynga, Inc..

Moreover, we may see an increased efficiency in the use of C corporations to act as holding companies, particularly in businesses that can not take full advantage of the 20 percent deduction for qualified business income (QBI) from pass - through businesses, discussed below.

«Maintaining a cold chain, and keeping fresh produce held at a given temperature from the time of harvest to the time of consumption is something we take very seriously,» the company says.