Sentences with phrase «dollar companies like»

Not to mention billion - dollar companies like Zillow that are now taking part of the commission dollar.

Some are large, multi-million dollar companies like Alexion Pharmaceuticals and Sterling Piano Company, while most are small, privately owned businesses.

Some are large multi-million dollar companies like Netflix and J.D. Power and Associates, while most are small privately owned businesses like Rasta Taco.

Some are large multimillion - dollar companies like First Interstate BancSystem and Great Harvest Bread Company, although most are small privately owned businesses like Image Labs International.

«We can not let the progress we have made together and the promise of a decent life for all those who work hard, be undermined by pressure from multi-billion dollar companies like Uber who are taking a page out of the Trump playbook and turning good jobs into bad jobs,» the letter states.

That job is now obsolete, replaced by Internet - based services from billion - dollar companies like Priceline (PCLN), TripAdvisor (TRIP), and Expedia (EXPE).

If Snap spawns something like the» PayPal mafia» — PayPal alumni have gone on to launch billion - dollar companies like Palantir, LinkedIn, and Yelp — the Los Angeles startup community could give Silicon Valley a run for its money.

i can't believe a billion dollar company like arsenal would not have contingency plans for things like this.

Not exact matches

Made by companies like Gilead, AbbVie, Merck, and others, drugs that treat the disease are listed at tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S..

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

The commercial drone market is nascent today — roughly a billion dollars in sales globally — but it's growing like mad, with many companies, Aeryon included, increasing sales by 100 % each year.

Digital advertising giants like Alphabet's Google (googl) and Facebook (fb) are gobbling up a lion's share of digital ad dollars, and eMarketer forecasts the two companies will make up 60 % of the U.S. digital ad market this year.

Like Holmes, Booth says he wants to build a billion - dollar Canadian company.

The polar ice caps are melting, world leaders are taunting each other like schoolyard bullies, and billion dollar companies are revealing themselves to be clueless about important matters.

Its token, which the company says will initially be pegged to the value of one U.S. dollar, strives to become a legitimate medium of exchange, a true crypto - currency as opposed to a crypto - commodity, like Bitcoin.

«Like for many companies, that was a wake - up call that says you can't rely on the Canadian dollar going down 2 % to 3 % a year to keep competitive.

It's easy to make fun of revenue - challenged companies like Twitter and Facebook — until they're multi-billion dollar monoliths.

Nevertheless, the potential money IBM and other companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon can make by selling AI is likely to be in the billions of dollars, especially if they can convince customers to store their corporate data with them.

Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix Inc (nflx).

Venture capitalists have tended to like this model, as it keeps the companies nimble and scalable, and have ponied up billions of dollars in funding for such enterprises.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

Since then it's been a powerful journey for me — building up a multi-million dollar online media company, speaking all over the world, helping authors reach the New York Times bestsellers list, advising for billion - dollar brands, receiving media praise from places like Details magazine and much more.

Companies like Google, Facebook (fb), and IBM (ibm) are investing millions of dollars in AI - related technologies like deep learning that have made it possible for computers to more quickly perform data - heavy tasks like translating text into multiple languages.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

These are multi-billion dollar companies, but the profit has come from using and abusing our data like it is a treasure chest they found on a sunken ship.

It's a hot topic that companies like Facebook and Google have all been pouring millions of dollars into to improve their services» image - recognition and speech translation, among other things.

It's a multi-billion dollar industry populated by companies like Google's Cloud Services, Microsoft's Azure and until recently HP's Helion Cloud.

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

«They can invest at least a couple million dollars into companies like that.

In a Pitchbook survey of the schools with the most billion - dollar companies, Berkeley beat out legends like MIT and Michigan and placed third behind Harvard and Stanford.

In a year when companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat became a part of the exclusive Billion - Dollar Startup Club, it's obvious that founders like Travis Kalanik, Brian Chesky, and Evan Spiegel have officially become inspiring success stories.

The company started spending millions of dollars to develop a slate of documentaries and TV - like series.

Big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have invested millions of dollars in their respective digital assistants, which they believe will be a major way that consumers will interact with computers — joining the standard keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen.

While a minor player in social networking, Google competes with Facebook for advertising dollars and consumers» time, as do other social media companies like Twitter.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

The company hopes its «Squarescription» will tap into the same market for having personal care products delivered to the door that has proved so profitable for the likes of Dollar Shave Club.

Sanders could make her investment dollars stretch a lot further if, for instance, she took the amount she has invested in a VALIC annuity — valued at roughly between $ 75,000 and $ 427,000 — and rolled it over into an IRA managed by a low - fee company like Vanguard, says Murrieta, Calif., financial planner Scott Dauenhauer.

«If you incentivize a company like Lockheed Martin [with] billions of dollars in sales to invest in Canadian companies — for example, to give a virtual - reality company its first big sale — it could have a really positive effect,» Verkindt says.

The billion - user milestone is an achievement that lots of tech companies dream of, like billion - dollar valuations or hiring in - house DJs.

Answering her own question, she talks of disrupting the convenient - and processed - food industries, before dropping the words every investor likes to hear: «to be a billion - dollar company by 2020.»

Sticking with our recent articles on Amazon private label selling and market traction, I thought I would talk with an actual million dollar private label brand, who is finding success, through methods like developing original products, and share that with you.I talked with Raj Jana, the Founder of JavaPresse Coffee Company, who is building a brand that creates meaningful products and experiences that help people make the most of the moments they love, which starts with the ritual of making and drinking one perfect cup of coffee every single day.

Equity may sound great at first, but the allure of owning part of the next billion - dollar company loses its luster when that unicorn starts to look more like a starving pony.

The promotion is just one of several companies are making on Equal Pay Day, as firms like Adidas (addyy), Reebok and Procter & Gamble (pg) push awareness campaigns about women earning 20 % less on the dollar than their male counterparts.

The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money.

Most of these global staffing firms are based in India, they've become multibillion dollar enterprises supplying American companies with H - 1B workers, like Rajesh, to replace American workers.

With the two eating up the lion's share of online advertising dollars, the pressure for internet companies to start acting like responsible media entities is increasing.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

The company, which produces $ 100 billion in annual revenue, has made multibillion - dollar deals in the United States, Europe and the rest of Asia, amassing big stakes in multinationals like Deutsche Bank and Hilton Hotels.

By repeating this like a mantra, tech companies have been able to amass hundreds of billions of dollars, as they pick and choose which laws they follow.