Sentences with phrase «company is in conversations»

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We haven't joined any organization specifically, but we've been involved in many conversations with Airbnb and other companies about joint efforts to support the peer economy, which we believe can be a powerful engine for sustainable economic development.

In a conversation with Term Sheet, Hippeau discussed how New York's landscape has changed, why he thinks Masayoshi Son is not a bubble - maker, and what companies can do about «superstar harassers.»

Although the debates scarcely touched on the economy or business, the conversation was at times a vivid example for business owners, about how to lead people in their own companies.

Fox says enthusiasm has trumped wariness so far in conversations with start - ups and that he's looking forward to seeing companies working across a wide spectrum.

As an entrepreneur in the fashion industry, I've been to networking events and gatherings where some entrepreneurs in technology don't further conversations or ask me questions about my company because they feel that we're on different playing fields.

Kitedesk pulls a lead's email address, phone number, social accounts, past interaction data and company size to give sales reps fast and reliable insights into who the person is and what happened in previous conversations.

The benefit of a small company in an office climate is you can sort of eavesdrop on conversations to see if there's any conflicts and understand the culture that you're in.

«Getting paid through ski racing is very, very difficult,» she said in a conversation with Maverick Carter in an episode of «Kneading Dough,» a series by Chase and digital media company Uninterrupted.

For example, in the future, customer service agents using software from call - center company Genesys may be able to initiate support or telemarketing conversations by simply clicking on contact information within a customer's record.

David Schwabauer, a fourth - generation farmer in the county, said overtures by companies that want to drill new wells amid his avocado and lemon groves are prompting difficult conversations about how to manage the family farm.

In part, the company is taking control of the conversation by proactively introducing new tools.

«We are becoming scared of boredom, scared of solitude, scared of conversations with ourself [sic],» Light's founders wrote in a blog post about how the company got its start.

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

«Of course it is,» said Rorsted, before admitting the company has «not had any conversation with Kanye in the last 24 hours» and had in fact not even discussed the issue internally.

In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

In 2015, Schultz received a lot of attention related to the company's «Race Together» campaign, which was intended to stimulate conversation about race relations in America among its customerIn 2015, Schultz received a lot of attention related to the company's «Race Together» campaign, which was intended to stimulate conversation about race relations in America among its customerin America among its customers.

«AI technology allows us to take an experience that would have required our customers to navigate through several pages on our website, and turn it into a simple conversation in a chat environment,» said Steve Ellis, head of Wells Fargo's Innovation Group, where the company's AI team is based.

Richard Jacobs, a security analyst whom Uber fired in April and now consults for the company, testified Tuesday that up to dozens of employees were trained to used ephemeral messaging systems, including Wickr, to communicate so that their conversations would be clandestine and could not surface in any «anticipated litigation.»

Kobo's town hall space is where visiting authors come to speak as part of the company's ongoing Kobo in Conversation series.

In HP's case, however, members of the board were out defending and explaining the company's changing direction amid the stock fallout — both in a Wall Street Journal op - ed and in conversations with investorIn HP's case, however, members of the board were out defending and explaining the company's changing direction amid the stock fallout — both in a Wall Street Journal op - ed and in conversations with investorin a Wall Street Journal op - ed and in conversations with investorin conversations with investors.

Marcario says that from her initial conversation with Chouinard she was awed both by his commitment to his causes and trueness to himself and by how that was reflected in his company.

So I think part of what's happening both in our conversations and what's happening in the Valley is a bridging between the best of the small companies and the best of the large companies.

While reading the article, I was immediately reminded of a conversation I had with Raphael Van Lierop, who recently founded his own company, Hinterland Studios, in Victoria.

While the company infrequently carries guest posts on its blog, its podcast is all about conversations with people in the industry whose work that Intercom admires.

So we started having conversations, and the more I learned about Pangaea and the types of companies they were looking at investing in and were already invested in, it just really seemed like a great fit.»

«Design is teachable and scalable, and it is an opportunity to include every single person in the company in the conversation,» she said.

In 2014, US Airways was having a routine conversation with one of its frustrated customers, but when a company representative replied a second time, there was a NSFW photo attached to the tweet.

The company uses Radian6 to find out what is being said as it rolls out a new product line, including sentiment analysis and what sources are more influential in conversations around the brand.

Decker says Schultz was a surprise in this year's rankings, but his boldness and vision — helping steer the conversation on U.S. unemployment and heading up his ever - successful coffee company — landed him in the No. 2 spot.

After a year of their implementation, the company leadership reported a decrease in turnover and an increase in productivity, much of which was attributed to managers being committed to 1 - 1 conversations.

A big difference is that we're local, and I think we're coming to a point where a conversation is starting — and it's going to be a long conversation — about the role of companies in the communities where they work and their responsibilities to those communities.

We've found that male managers, despite being well - intentioned, often aren't equipped to handle women in conversations about stress, flextime, remote working, what the company is willing to do, and other issues that they need to approach differently than they would for their male employees.

To allow for a freer flow of ideas through media, in a way that does not degrade quality and that elevates conversation and has impact, requires a new mindset: Business people need to be out there talking about what's happening in their industry without making it about themselves, their companies and their product.

When you engage a reference in a conversation about your culture and values, the way they discuss the candidate fitting in with your company or not gives you a lot of information on whether the reference would be a good fit him or herself.

If the information involves radical changes to the company such as downsizing, a reorganization of management or a merger — it's in the company's best interest to hold open forum conversations to clearly communicate the information and be readily available to answer questions.

Whether your conversation centers around company financials and well - being, or promotions and raises, keep employees in the loop as much as possible.

During this process, AMs facilitate the conversation, expressing clients» agendas to the company and the company's abilities and concerns in meeting those agendas in turn.

Their queries were substantive — the company is plowing ahead with a rapid expansion in a recession, after all — but the tone of the conversation was as supportive as a girlfriends» post-workout lunch.

During the call, the primary focus of conversation in relation to hardware was surrounding Android and the company's ability to bring security and privacy to the platform.

Shortly after that conversation I got an email from Jordan Cooper about a company he was investing in called Soylent that was taking an open - sourced approach to developing science - based food products.

To further the conversation about inclusion in the tech industry, she says companies need to be more specific in the language they use and think about intersectionality in their solutions.

With the NRA and NRA - backed politicians becoming a focal point of the conversation around gun control, people and companies are standing up to say «enough» as they join in the rapidly growing NRA boycott.

While two people familiar with the matter told Reuters that Redstone has had exploratory conversations with CBS directors, the sources said the companies are not in active discussions about recombining.

The company is testing whether people make fewer aggressive and inflammatory statements when they are in conversation with friends and people they know as opposed to strangers, he said.

Her charismatic appearance on stage not only gave the dad - joke peppered event a little more oomph, but it also underscored a bigger conversation we've been having in the tech industry about diversity, strong role models and which companies have been taking a leadership position in that area.

Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

After a series of phone conversations with company officials that began in August 2015, Flaxman came to Starbucks headquarters in December to talk with chairman and ceo Howard Schultz and other leaders about what he and his team considered a wildly ambitious goal: TurboVote would help lift voter participation to 75 percent, at a date to be determined.

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

«I set up this company because I didn't want to see my nieces, who at the time were between 14 and 22, having the same conversations in their 40s about how much money they had left on the table that so many of my friends were having.»