Sentences with phrase «deals company called»

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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.

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.

Predictably, more big deals means more companies with so - called unicorn valuations of at least $ 1 billion.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

Brand equity: The Yahoo - Verizon deal hasn't closed yet, but if you needed a clearer sign that its executives have full faith it will actually, really, truly happen, see Tim Armstrong's announcement yesterday, via Twitter: Upon closing, Yahoo and Aol will merge into one company called Oath.

The company called this deal a «platform,» meaning it plans to seek out add - on deals.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition down a company's supply chain rather than «horizontal» — an acquisition of a direct competitor.

But these deals, called tax - equity deals, are relatively expensive to structure and only a small number of companies appear interested.

If the company indeed hushed it up, it would likely provide grounds for Verizon to demand a lower price for Yahoo or to call off the deal entirely.

Clek Media brokered a deal that few people believed was real: The URL was purchased by a company called Fund.com in an all - cash deal in 2008.

But the company's stock price plummeted when the government called for the deal to be suspended, while offering no clear explanation for its decision.

With sales of recorded music withering, the hot idea among record labels was to sign artists to so - called 360 deals, where a company didn't just release a band's recordings, but promoted the concerts, sold the merchandise, and shared in profits from websites, fan clubs and film deals.

Lawmakers are calling for a deeper look into of HNA Group's pending and past takeovers of American companies, which could result in repealing the approval of earlier deals.

A distributor's lifeline are so - called output deals, which give it regional rights to all of a production company's releases over several years.

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 also reported second - quarter profit and revenue largely in line with estimates, and said it had canceled its post-earnings conference call in light of the KKR deal.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition along a company's supply chain — rather than a horizontal acquisition of a direct competitor.

Aside from falling affiliate and ad sales, Viacom investors also fretted on Thursday about a snag in the company's Chinese movie financing deal, which executives disclosed on the call, noting that Chinese studio Huahua Media delayed a payment to the company in June.

Enderwick called it «a done deal»; the company was already shooting promotional videos.

Cook's remarks, made on CBS's 60 Minutes, come amid a debate in the U.S. over corporations avoiding taxes through techniques such as so - called inversion deals, where a company re-domiciles its tax base to another country.

So when Daren Metropoulos bought the 12 - bedroom house in 2016, it was the private equity firm Rizvi — through a shell company called «Mansion Holdings» — on the other side of the $ 100 million deal, according to the public records.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

Pre-Microsoft deal - making A company called the Computer Center Corporation realized that sharing their machines with Gates and his fellow teen computer enthusiasts could be a boon, rather than a burden.

The Obama administration has been gunning for so called «inversions», in which a U.S. company buys a smaller foreign company and then locates the merged company outside the U.S. for tax purposes, for over a year, but that hasn't stopped the flow of deals.

On a 7:45 a.m. EDT call announcing EMC results, VMware chief executive Pat Gelsinger said the deal «is a positive for VMware» and should help that company sell more mobile and desktop products due to Dell's PC business.

It was early 2003 when Ken Austin, executive vice president of Marquis Jet, a New York City company that leases time in corporate jets, got a call from the producers of The Apprentice asking if he would be interested in a barter deal.

The company is moving from an e-commerce model towards an open platform called Home Marketplace, which enables buyers and suppliers of construction materials to deal with each other directly.

But in 1982, Congress let the military organization off the hook when it came to dealing with citizens» boneheaded behavior, handing nonemergency calls over to private companies.

VANCOUVER — Louisiana - Pacific Corp. has called off its US$ 1.1 - billion deal to buy Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. (TSX: ANS) after regulators required significant asset sales, the companies said Wednesday.

Business software company Salesforce is calling on European regulators to investigate possible antitrust issues with the acquisition, suggesting the deal threatens innovation and competition.

I did a deal with David Chilton three years ago with a company called Steeped Tea.

During Thursday's call, Goldman Sachs (gs) analyst Jami Rubin pressed Frazier on the possibility of upcoming deals, including the type of investigational drug candidates and companies that Merck may be interested in purchasing.

The company has dealt with a few high profile customer service complaints in recent years, most notably from a car owner who sued the company after he says it stopped responding to his emails and calls about repairs.

Serving as CEO of a public company typically involves a lot more work than running a private startup, such as dealing with quarterly earnings calls, ramping up sales and marketing teams, while being transparent with shareholders.

«Cyber insurance policies started to evolve to pick up those expenses, as well as providing what I call «crisis management coverage» — helping companies deal with the moving parts of dealing with a breach.»

If your company was hiring one person who could add millions of dollars to your company, the right person who will work on deals that would effect many, many millions of dollars, would you call them?

But the deal also marks yet another small but significant step towards greater regulation of Airbnb, Uber, and other companies in the so - called sharing economy, whose competitive advantage arguably hinges on its ability to operate with little oversight.

Indigo CEO Heather Reisman — whose company had retained 44 % ownership of Kobo — called the deal a «win - win - win» situation for all companies involved.

When the company raised an early round of funding, it was called «the hottest deal in Silicon Valley.»

And in a major blow to Minnesota's business reputation, medical device manufacturer Medtronic, an iconic Minnesota company that was founded in a Minneapolis garage 65 years ago, is moving its headquarters to Ireland in a so - called «tax inversion» deal.

Sanofi CFO Jérôme Contamine said the company would benefit from «the new tax environment in the U.S.» as part of the Bioverativ deal in an analyst call Monday.

If the hacks cause a user backlash against Yahoo, the company's services wouldn't be as valuable to Verizon, raising the possibility that the sale price might be re-negotiated or the deal may be called off.

Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which now works out of space in the gritty but fashionable South of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market neighborhood — on a section of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.

Orbital Sciences Corp. and Alliant Techsystems Inc. said Tuesday that they plan to merge in a $ 5 billion deal, creating a new aerospace and defense company called Orbital ATK Inc. that will employ 4,000 people in Maryland and Northern Virginia.The top...

The deal creates a new type of company that combines a health insurer, a retail pharmacy, and a company that negotiates prescription drug prices with drugmakers called a pharmacy benefits manager.

Still, antitrust concerns facing the two Europe - centered companies could be an obstacle to the deal, according to Invest Securities SA analyst Jean - Louis Sempe, who called the potential combination «logical.»

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

It called for expressions of interest in sub-leasing 266,000 - hectare Hamersley Station last year and came close to reaching a deal with a private company controlled by Kerry Stokes before the process stalled.

The deal ends Yahoo as an operating company and leaves it with its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, its cash, convertible notes, certain minority investments, and a noncore portfolio of patents called Excalibur.