Sentences with phrase «company called me about»

never got a call back, when the company called me about another issue and wanted me to go to a service center and I refused, giving them my story..

Loan company called me about a motorcycle loan claiming that I had it in a storage unit that was behind on payments and about to be auctioned.

Not exact matches

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

Netflix's head of programming, Ted Sarandos, did use the call Monday evening to shoot down one frequent rumor about the company, while declining to address another.

In an attempt to solve that problem, the Comcast - owned network announced on Monday that it is partnering with Tivo and a content - analytics company called RealityMine to try and come up with comprehensive data about who watches Olympic programming, when they watch it, and where.

Chief Executive Officer Bruce Broussard was asked several questions about news reports the company had discussed a deal with retailer Wal - Mart Inc during a 45 - minute conference call to discuss better - than - expected first - quarter earnings.

Inflation is a hot topic on earning conference calls with companies complaining about rising costs for materials

She repeated the phrase when a reporter asked for her thoughts about calls for her family to relinquish their influence over the group of companies they control.

The elder Redstone controls about 80 % of the voting shares of both CBS and Viacom through a family holding company called National Amusements Inc., a chain of movie theaters started by his father (Shari Redstone controls the other 20 %).

But it's worth keeping in mind that November 2009 research by Covergys, a Cinncinnati company that provides call - center services, has shown that a bad review on social media can cost a company about 30 customers.

The Wall Street Journal reports Wednesday that a corporate wellness company, called CastLight, has figured out a way to tell that a woman may be about to become pregnant.

The executive told analysts on a conference call on Friday to discuss the sports retailer's abysmal second quarter results that he wasn't concerned about companies like Adidas and Nike (nke) selling on Amazon.com (amzn), saying that quality in - store experience remained a crucial protection against the massive online retailer.

Staut's company is one of about 20 so - called Reg CF portals (others include NextSeed and Sprowtt Crowdfunding), and it has its own twist on crowdfunding.

The campaign undertaken to drive in more attention towards the company's website was a fairly local one with a slogan called «changing lives» and needed people to participate by messaging or emailing friends and letting them know about the campaign and its benefits.

Theranos» lawyer acknowledged to the WSJ that proprietary technology was not used in all of the company's tests, but in a later statement called doubts about Edison's accuracy «baseless» and «erroneous,» claiming that the quoted sources «were never in a position to understand Theranos» technology.»

Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini didn't have a lot to say about his company's potential blockbuster deal with CVS on an earnings call Tuesday.

On Oct. 15, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an investigative report that claims the company does not use its own «revolutionary» blood testing technology, called Edison, for the majority of lab testing, largely because of concerns about accuracy.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suspended trading in the stock of a small business called The Crypto Company, citing concerns about the «accuracy and adequacy» of information it provided about marketing costs and insiders» plans to sell shares.

As anyone who has received a call from their credit card company asking about an unusual charge knows, card issuers have sophisticated fraud detection programs.

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

At IWT, I have a no - meeting Wednesday strategy day: no meetings, no calls, just time to think about strategy and where the company is going.

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

Doyle has never been shy about the role of what he calls «market discipline» in his company's success.

Last week, Planet Labs announced that it would put about 100 satellites into space from the United States and Russia, bringing the total number of «Doves,» as the company calls them, to 131.

More competition in developed markets and a supply shortfall of its Ore - Ida branded potato - based frozen foods are among reasons why the company is cautious about short - term revenue growth, Chief Exectuive Officer Bernardo Hees said on a call with analysts.

«On average, she is shopping our stores about three times a month,» said Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, in company's latest earnings call.

Goldman remembered the idea and called Nalebuff, who had just written a case study about the Tata Tea company in India.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

«Any time an event like Parkland occurs, there is an increase and calls about the products we provide,» says Rozenboom, noting that the Inc. 5000 company's most popular service is custom bulletproofing.

Marchionne spoke plainly about the rationale against splitting Jeep from the rest of Fiat Chrysler on the earnings call, warning that the remainder of the company might not be healthy enough to survive.

Ratings of fictional conference calls supported the conclusion that investors feel better about companies whose bosses employ these five little words more often.

But now, just about two years later, and with Einhorn's stake in the company 40 % larger (excluding call options), shares of GM are 3.5 % lower from when Einhorn first initiated his most recent stake.

And if the bank continues to keep the ratio of its revenue paid as compensation lower than usual, it could result in savings of about $ 300 million for the company in the year, according to an estimate from Autonomous Research's Guy Moskowski in the bank's earnings call.

In a press call Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked mostly about how the company is tweaking the existing Model S vehicle to go faster and further.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Nicole Lapin talks about how you can save big money, simply by calling up your utility, phone and cable companies and asking them to give you a discount.

Most companies probably don't need to be as ruthless as Microsoft is about hiring what it calls the «the top 10 % of the top 10 %.»

Musk cut off analysts» queries about the company's capital requirements and whether it was retaining Model 3 reservation holders, calling the questions «so dry» and «not cool.»

Years before so - called inbound marketing became Communications 101, the company was educating auto dealers about SEO and AdWords.

When I think about that QA testing software company, and he's probably calling a thousand CEOs, and he's probably got a hundred sales reps over there, and they're just destroying their brand.

Saujani also been outspoken about the so - called «brogrammer» culture that has spread in Silicon Valley companies and why getting more girls to code isn't a moral issue, but rather an economic necessity.

I call them secret rules because (based on reader messages that I critique in my free weekly newsletter) very few companies know about them.

In a conference call about the merger, executives indicated they may sell «non-core» assets, such as those the company has limited ability to control.

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

The company does a good job at what the institute calls «enterprise thinking,» meaning that on top of providing customers a great service that they appreciate, consumers have a good feeling about WestJet as a corporation.

The WSJ reports that many investors are growing concerned about Redstone's ability to remain in charge, noting that he is now entirely silent on the company's earnings calls and has suffered several mini-strokes.

During Super Bowl LII last night, a company called Wix sparked more interest for me than any of the Coke ads or the series about Tide detergent (still trying to figure that one out).

It's a cliché about how bad some call centres are, but plenty of companies still don't get it.»

And like the spiraling number of companies that have been debuting artificial intelligence and related data - crunching services, as well as so - called chatbots, Ellison talked about Oracle's own versions of the trendy technologies.

Analysts are also keen on the company because about 77 % of its business is in what's called «administrative services only» products.