Sentences with phrase «company fought back»

The company fought back, enlisting prominent investors to drum up support for a petition.

After Kanye West took a stab at Zappos's products, the company fought back and some clever commenters joined in.

Several recent studies have shown that even light and moderate alcohol consumption is linked to higher cancer risk — yet when the California government proposed warning labels, alcohol companies fought back, giving new rise to a decades - long debate on the topic.

Not exact matches

The company also fought back with a counterclaim seeking to have the «froyo» trademark expunged, arguing the term is generic in the same way that «shake» is now short for milkshake.

Company executives and major shareholders inevitably fight back to debunk the allegations.

There's Cyber Shangri - La (all the hackers unplug, pack up their laptops, and head home), Leviathan (governments lock down digital borders and impose state regulations), Clockwork Orange (ransacking runs rampant), and Independent (companies and other entities police the Internet and fight back against their tormentors).

We're back in a frothy market where in stead of being considered that they might be spending tons of money winning shares a company that one day could be worthless (like the stock of many startup companies)-- they always believe they're fighting for millions.

NEW YORK, April 17 - Billionaire investor William Ackman, who lost a proxy contest at Automatic Data Processing last year, said on Tuesday that he wants the human - resources technology company to succeed but said he might be back with a fight if ADP fails to perform.

Patron, facing an onslaught of competition from celebrity - endorsed tequilas, is fighting back this summer with a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

Tech companies, fearful of users defecting from their services, started fighting back.

Whatever happens, it will be interesting to watch the many, many small companies and start - up entrepreneurs in the American marketplace bob, weave, and fight their way back.

And the same thing with Million Dollar Baby you think back and enjoyed the company when they were at their peak and they were enjoying the thing and she was winning fights and he was the manager and they had a great life together.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

The state is the biggest market for the two companies, and DraftKings and FanDuel fought back by filing their own lawsuits against Schneiderman.

Activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz — who took a large stake in DuPont back in 2013 and fought an unsuccessful proxy battle with the company in 2015 — was also pushing for the company to do a deal.

The company is fighting to win back customers, particularly in the United States, after failing to keep up with diners» increasing demand for healthier, fresher food.

Being a data - focused guy, Nixon of course calls for more research, but he also highlights ways companies are already fighting back against the toll smartphones take on productivity.

A bunch of ex-employees of major technology companies — former Facebookers, Apple - AWOLers, Googlers gone rogue — have set up a new non-profit dedicated to fighting back against the technology giants they built.

Now that Spiegel's brainchild is about to issue its first earnings report, Spiegel has a chance to share his vision for the product with the world and lay out how the company plans to fight back against Facebook's attempts to thwart its user growth.

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance.

But these companies would have no problem «fighting back» if they were not over-leveraged to the eyeballs.

The following month, at an ostensibly off - the - record dinner with media power brokers, an Uber business - development lead suggested that Uber should fight back against bad press by investigating the personal lives of those who criticized the company.

One week after Taylor Swift withdrew her entire catalog from Spotify, dismissing the music - streaming service and calling it «a bit like a grand experiment,» the company's founder is fighting back.

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. said it has started selling meal kits at Costco Wholesale Corp. stores as the delivery company seeks to fight rising competition and woo back customers after operational challenges.

It's those kind of big, new ideas, onlookers had said, that the company needs to fight back against the growing number of competitors that have been stealing market share via better food and service, and trendier store designs.

Fighting back from that challenge is what the company was all about at this year's North American International Auto Show.

Stewart Dougherty is back with scathing commentary about the big mining companies — Barrick, Newmont, Goldcorp, etc — and their unwillingness to fight the obvious intervention in the gold and silver markets by western Central Banks and Governments.

Subscription dinner pioneer eyes retail sales as competition picks up

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. said it has started selling meal kits at Costco Wholesale Corp. stores as the food delivery company seeks to fight rising competition and woo back customers after operational challenges.

Well as heard in the news that those arriving to the west are being well trained on sophisticated equipment's and combat training and then sent back to Somalia to fight as opposition to prolong suffering for the area and others sent to lead pirate operations in the area and that is all done to give an excuse for the western Navy to be present in the area as well as to cause the raise of the insurance premium against the ships passing the area raising therefore the costs of commodities as well as an opportunity for private security companies to flourish guarding the passing ships?

This back - to - school season, Welch's ® Fruit Snacks, a brand manufactured and marketed by The Promotion In Motion Companies Inc., has partnered with Feeding America ®, the nation's largest hunger - relief and food rescue organization, to help fight child hunger.

Besides the great food, another awesome factor is that the company has a mission to fight childhood hunger through their «Bite Back» initiative.

That's how cable companies are fighting back against streaming.

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.

Companies that once fought school - lunch standards are backing down now that their whole - grain cinnamon rolls and reduced - fat pizzas are bringing in the profits.

Both companies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars so far this year alone: Uber fought back against a New York City Council proposal the company believed would have hindered its growth in the five boroughs.

The release also includes some helpful back - up for King's statements, including reports on Levy's association with Ethan Ellner, whose title company received $ 85,000 worth of county business even though he is an ex-con, and Lazio's Wall Street bonus and efforts to fight consumer protections while he was a lobbyist at JP Morgan.

The Broadsheets: — New York Times: — 4 col., above the fold: «ISRAELIS KILL DOZENS IN GAZA» — 1 col., above the fold: «IRAQ VOTERS BACK ALLIES OF CLERIC WHO FOUGHT U.S.» — 1 col., above the fold: «Justices Nullify Law that Bans Sports betting» — 2 col., below the fold: «Trump Aides Bristle as Pence Seizes Control of G.O.P. Races» — Wall Street Journal: — 4 col., above the fold: «Chaos as U.S. Embassy Opens» — 1 col., above the fold: «CBS Ups Stakes in Feud with Redstones» — 2 col., below the fold: «High Court Voids Ban On Sports Gambling» — 3 col., below the fold: «Big Companies Fine - Tune The Robot Revolution» — See Them

Anti-big government gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is fighting to hold on to a $ 1.4 million tax break for a company that created only one job and put back into the economy less than it took out.

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.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has vowed to fight the order by US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, saying the feds want his company to «build a back door» that «would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession.»

The de Blasio administration has backed away from its fight with the app company Uber, agreeing on Wednesday to drop for now its plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles Uber operates in New York City.

... But companies worry that little can help make up for defence cuts if the Ministry of Defence keeps its pledge to buy kit «off the shelf» and the government steps back from fighting wars.»

A while back I posted about a handbag company that donates money towards fighting child slavery.

But although these cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to trick online daters, as well as adapting their methods to the latest mobile platforms, dating companies can fight back by implementing tough security measures that can help to lessen their impact.

If any of you have ended up purchasing a membership on this dating service you can fight back by requesting a refund by contacting your credit card company.

So now, Wally West is not only back in the company of old friends from the Arrowverse, he's fighting alongside a former enemy and career arsonist Mick Rory.

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

Author of Warriors of Peace, edited by the Company of the letters in 2012, is also the main character of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which portrays his life and fight against the militias in Africa.