Sentences with phrase «conference calls like»

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During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg reiterated much of what he covered during those hearings by explaining recent initiatives like increasing the number of employees who handle reviewing content for security and safety to 20,000.

We've all experienced what I like to call the «conference room shuffle» at some point or another.

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.

«I always feel like I have more to - dos than I have time for, so it's easy to lose connections with my team while focusing on my daily checklist and endless conference calls.

«We don't like it, and we don't accept it,» Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank told an analyst asking about the shoe revenue growth number on the earnings conference call.

«So, we feel like the error bars around the unit volume predictions are getting smaller with each passing week,» Musk said on a conference call on Wednesday.

Perhaps your company tracks Face - to - Face meetings in some sort of sales database and if so every salesperson in the company knows how to juke the stats so that it looks like you are having meetings when you are actually having conference calls or even just an email.

«We would like to hope that all sides will avoid any steps that a) are not provoked by anything and b) could significantly destabilize an already fragile situation in the region,» the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters, according to Reuters.

On the company's fourth quarter conference call in January, Mayer discussed implementing «rigorous hiring protocols» — a phrase unnamed company employees cited by Reuters say is code for a newfound zeal for high grades and degrees from prestigious universities like Stanford.

The company is also experimenting with turning down the volume of music (or as Abercrombie's president mistakenly called it during the conference call, «noise») played in stores, turning up the lighting, and generally making its retail locations feel less like a bizarre form of torture.

«Summon the courage to do something that makes you anxious,» writes Patrick Mathieson, like speaking up during a work conference call or saying «hi» to someone new.

If you would like a more robust phone service, consider RingCentral, which offers complete office phone systems, with conference calling and a host of other convenient features, that run completely through VOIP.

Like any other market, pot now has an industry association, trade publications, women's entrepreneurship conferences, vocational schools (for growers), and a 13 - week startup accelerator program called CanopyBoulder.

«People like Amazon Business are pulling away some business from our core customer base,» CFO Steve Hare conceded on a conference call with investors and Wall Street analysts.

The other participants are more attentive, perhaps because most of them have paid $ 99 (regular $ 247) to become members of the DollarMakers Network, a club with weekly meetings and coaching conference calls, and invested in other workshops like this.

In the fourth - quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Wednesday, expect Musk to elaborate a bit on the problems in China, what's been done to fix them and if sales growth in areas like Europe and North America have made up the difference.

But instead of seeking inspiration from the pages of Dale Carnegie, he went to what he calls «personal growth retreats» and conferences with names like «Business and Consciousness.»

«I just didn't think it had anything like a real conference call.»

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

«A year later,» Arstechnica writes, «Musk himself was touting Tesla's advanced robotics expertise, declaring in a conference call last November, «we are pushing robots to the limit in terms of the speed that they can operate at, and asking our suppliers to make robots go way faster... It's like if you can see the robot move, it's too slow.»

Whereas Silicon Valley start - ups tend to give their conference rooms whimsical, sweet names, like Twinkie and Pong, the main conference room in Uber's swanky new offices on San Francisco's Market Street is called War Room.

«It feels like the big rig is just starting to move along the track now,» Linton told analysts on a conference call Wednesday.

Daiichi Sankyo CFO Manabu Sakai told reporters and analysts on a conference call, «We need to grasp how something like this could occur, how extensive the transgressions were and whether they were the fault of a particular person.»

President Trump, 7,000 miles away from the action but never out of frame, summed up the dynamic in one line during a Tuesday conference call with Senate Democrats — a Trumpian slip, perhaps not quite unintentionally revealing, that the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday: «You're going to like it a whole lot more,» the president said of the forthcoming Senate version.

Just last week, on a rare 45 - minute conference call with reporters, Zuckerberg handled questions with ease, sounding knowledgable and confident, but also like he actually understood that Facebook had screwed up.

As part of my due diligence on Impinj, I started reading conference calls of apparel retailers (Impinj's largest customer base), and I was surprised to find myself liking what a lot of these management teams were saying.

Many analysts expect that banks will discuss plans to raise their deposit rates this week: Giant American banks like Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo are set to hold conference calls Friday to discuss first - quarter earnings results and their outlook for the rest of the year.

It started a couple of days ago when I popped off on my Facebook page about how much I wished there was a really great marriage conference for people whose marriages are more like our own — theologians call it «egalitarian» meaning that we believe in a marriage of equals, that we are co-leaders and our marriage is more about lifting each other up and following Jesus together as one.

After two days» debate and a subsequent telephone conference call, a majority of the panel voted not to nominate the film, and the silence was like a rifle report across the industry.

We read an attack site (discernment blog, as they like to call themselves), and find that the kingdom is crumbling because Joel Osteen's book is being carried in some LifeWay store somewhere, or because a guy in our camp invited a guy in their camp to speak at a conference.

Richard Sherman has made it known in the past that he doesn't like Thursday Night Football, and he spoke similar sentiments on Tuesday afternoon during his press conference, calling it an «absolute poopfest.»

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich had some choice words for President Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the ex-reality TV star's actions game - show like before his team's opening Western Conference Finals matchup against the Golden State Warriors.

Fernando Torres (or Fernando Llorente as he likes to be called to differentiate himself from his namesake) is supposedly announcing at a press conference tonight, that he will join Arsenal.

If this sounds like a familiar scenario then have you tried using conference calls to keep in touch with whoever you need to keep in touch with without needing to leave the comfort of your own home?

In January, I had like 4 photo shoots for various folks, a host of online events, and conference calls.

Called the United We Parent Conference, it will take place in Southern California and will include great speakers (like me!)

If you're at the conference, be sure to come by our 9 AM session tomorrow morning — we'll be talking about applying 2012 lessons moving forward, in a session called «How to Act Like Obama Online When You Don't Have a Billion in the Bank.»

The new revenue bill introduced late last night has four major changes from the original deal struck by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, including a carve out of the so - called «Bloomberg penalty» for extremely rich residents (like the billionaire mayor) in NYC.

Below are resources for a little presention I like to call, Cheap, Quick and (Sometimes) Dirty: Creating Integrated Online Campaigns Using Off - The - Shelf Parts (Delivered at the DemocracyInAction Conference on June 26, 2008)...

The back of Sliwa's flyer lists 10 questions he would like Cuomo to answer, starting with: «Why do you do every press conference by conference call?»

At 10 a.m., Sen. David Carlucci and the state Psychological Association's President - Elect, Alan Hack, PhD will be holding a press conference calling on state lawmakers to amend the mental health law to keep the public safe from a harmful attack, like a mass shooting, 20 South Main St., New City.

The Cuomo administration will consider scrapping its plan to delay promised Medicaid reform for children, telling advocates on a conference call Friday that the reform is one of the top items the governor would like to restore in final budget negotiations with legislators.

During his conference call, Cuomo repeated his attacks, and said the whole state will suffer because high - income taxpayers — who provide 40 percent of state revenues — will be driven to lower - tax states like Florida.

[358] Immediately ahead of the party conference, noting a second Johnson speech setting out terms for Brexit even before determination by the Cabinet, Ruth Davidson called for «serious people» to take over his role, criticised his overoptimism and predicted that Britain would «look very much like it looks now» after the transitional period.

A shutdown of the federal government is preferable to Congress passing bad policy like the tax overhaul legislation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday told reporters in a conference call.

After the initial conference call, Wilson clarified his position, saying he was «committed to establishing a state - of - the - art system of checks to insure that pension dollars are not invested in companies doing business in states that sponsor terror, like Iran.»

In a conference call with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver this morning, Governor David Paterson outlined the cuts he'd like to make in the state budget to help close the projected $ 6.4 billion budget gap.

He would be taking the initiative like he did when Brown got the election bug after the good labour conference and then Brown would have to put up or shut up and be faced with calling a risky election before he's sure he could win or looking like Chicken little again.

At the Welsh Liberal Democrat conference in Newport in April the party passed a motion calling for «an individual's free right to use electronic cigarettes where they like to be protected, unless there is evidence to suggest harm is being done to others.»

«I'd like to the see the national Democrats put a real gun bill on the table,» Cuomo said on a conference call with reporters.