Sentences with phrase «done by a large company»

I don't feel the need to have my own «work» done by a large company who then sends it out to someone else — however with this statement sometimes vanity presses use a distributor like Lighting Source to create a large number of books when I can use this very distributor myself.

Not exact matches

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

But if you already offer health insurance, as do more than 90 percent of large companies, things may look worse than they really are, according to a new study conducted by ADP, a large benefit and payroll processing firm based in Roseland, New Jersey.

Peter Oppenheimer, the CFO of the world's largest company by market capitalization, has been directly in the cross hairs as some investors demand Apple does something with its swollen cash reserves.

The new numbers from the agency show that these companies that outsource IT roles do make up a large portion of the H - 1B visas issued, according to analysis by Quartz.

«By and large, tech companies have moved away from these crazy brainteasers,» she says, «because they don't test anything relevant.»

The company got its start by scraping news sites, mostly independent outlets and social media because it didn't have the rights to larger publications.

By doing so, the company has amassed the world's largest digital health - and - fitness community, with 150 million users.

He did — and also displayed flyers that warned customers of knock - offs sold by a large company at the same trade show.

It also doesn't hurt that larger companies are more trusted by customers and investors, and hence getting bigger makes it easier to get even bigger.

Equities analysts don't doubt that's the case, but point out that for such large, diversified companies, the gaming business remains a junior part of their operations (although they're huge by any stand - alone measure).

Talent is vital to improving the bottom line in an increasingly competitive economy, so you'll do your company a favor by selecting employees from the largest and most diverse set of candidates.

Our in - house ethics blogger (he really does go by @ethicsblogger) Chris MacDonald turned a moment of personal frustration with Keurig's new «2.0» single - cup coffee - brewing system into a larger point about the obligations companies have to serve their best customers, instead of trying to block competitors.

Small Business Saturday — the Saturday after Thanksgiving — was created by American Express in 2010 as a way to drum up more business for small companies who may not benefit from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales boosts like their larger counterparts do.

In 2004, the friends started a natural skin care line because they didn't like the products or the prices being offered by large companies.

A 1993 survey in Wyatt Comparison by benefits consultancy the Wyatt Co. in Washington, D.C., notes that large corporations start flex plans mainly to control costs, but smaller companies do so mainly to offer choices to their workers.

Don't let these recent missteps by these large companies deter you from serving diverse customers in a more meaningful way.

One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by trading volume, it is owned by a British Virgin Islands company and does not have a head office, Reuters reported in September.

It would be interesting to break down the data do find out if that 5 year time period includes businesses that have been aquired by larger companies or merged with other small businesses.

Perhaps a large - scale decision by investors, and large investing companies like Vanguard and Fidelity, could affect change by declaring they will not invest in companies that have anything to do with guns.

The larger issue for Uber is that this could give credence to Waymo's argument that members of the jury be notified that Uber destroyed or did not disclose relevant evidence as the company was required to by the court.

Mr. Cook is also expected to argue that some of Apple's largest subsidiaries do not reduce Apple's tax liability, and to press for a sweeping overhaul of the United States corporate tax code — in particular, by lowering rates on companies moving foreign overseas earnings back to the United States.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

It is decidedly counter-intuitive to be positive about anything to do with fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments, but the strategic thinking behind the company's approach to agricultural investment is sound and has been validated by large institutions.

Within the next five years, any vendor with a large offering of premium products will have to provide this immersive experience or risk being put out of business by companies that do.

For Spectra, they do have some West Coast operations in Canada, but I like the narrower — it's not a narrow focus by any means, because it's one of the largest pipeline companies in North America, but it's a more narrow focus than Kinder Morgan is.

The Wyden - Gregg bill from 2010 does not repeal LIFO, though it does propose a one - time adjustment for large oil companies which reduces the benefit of LIFO by re-valuing their inventory.

Bottom line: Enbridge Inc. (ENB) is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, with most of its cash flow supported by long - term commercial agreements that don't depend on commodity pricing.

Hard rock deposits by and large are not economic at current spot (or term) uranium prices, so if you see uranium at $ 75 or $ 80 per pound in the coming years (I don't), purchasing shares in hard rock uranium development companies could lead to gains.

«Regulatory approval from the NYDFS allows us to serve as a custodian for our clients» assets and expand our services to U.S. customers — the largest market of bitcoin traders in the world — and allows us to do so with the highest standard of care afforded by any Bitcoin company.»

From a capital - appreciation perspective, I would think it makes sense to invest in some small niche food companies that are doing good and you believe in - assuming they're publicly traded - in hopes that they would be bought by a larger one eventually, and one can make a nice profit!?

We applaud what the BA is doing to help truly independent craft brewers differentiate themselves from those brewers owned by large industrial companies who face none of the same challenges that we face yet want consumers to think of them as «craft.»

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, however, announce that the company is looking at whether to end discounts with other «politically divisive» organizations after Georgia lawmakers punished the airline by removing the jet fuel tax exemption from a larger bill.

I've posted a scientific study done in Spain which hasn't been affected by large companies paying them to say what they want them to say.

In recent years, however, some smaller players in the natural or organic food market have been snatched up by larger CPG companies, many of which don't share their values or at least are not thought of by consumers as trustworthy sources for natural products.

A Hudson Valley health care company that received millions in state funding after its executives contributed large sums to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has acknowledged being subpoenaed by investigators - but says it did...

Bharara has been focusing his attention on Percoco and Howe — who were paid by major companies doing state business — and large state - hired construction firms that contributed to Cuomo's re-election.

The question by and large doesn't make sense as you are asking if the particular structure of what is in essence a company fits into a description of a type of governmental system.

There is a limitation to the model: the WAS data underpinning it does not capture the value of residential properties that are owned by entities other than private individuals and households, which HMRC statistics suggest are a relatively large share of high - value properties (for example, two - thirds of properties built for more than # 2 million in the UK were purchased by companies or trusts).

But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much electricity per computation as the more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

So many companies that are doing good are also owned by a larger company that may not be doing good.

Customers of one of Britain's largest online dating companies have voiced concerns that they may have been lured into paying subscriptions by potential dates who did not exist.

By and large, the business model doesn't model leadership of the line workers — Toyota, Saturn, a few companies have tried — but mostly the job of the line worker is, know what's expected of you and do it fast and well.

concludes his account of Alexander Winton — unsung pioneer of the American motor car industry / Smiths Instruments — Kevin Desmond traces the history of the company that for / VSCC of Australia Diamond Jubilee of the Australian Grand Prix — a report by Bernie Jacobson / Australian Bicentennial Rally — Six pages of photographs and reports on this largest ever gathering of pre-war cars in Australia / French Champagne Rally Malcolm tells how he enjoyed himself on the Route du Champagne / Casting a new block for a bus — Who says you can't cast a new engine block using the old one as a pattern?

While contributing to post-article discussions, I stumbled on a fascinating article by David Vinjamuri (contributor to Forbes Magazine) that attempted to provide an even - handed approach to the state of the publishing industry — and didn't do a too bad job of it, although by its very nature, left out some elements, like the small and middle sized publishing houses, and their topology being different from the larger companies.

It's not a problem for larger publishing markets of course and I don't see any real way of addressing it until figures for digital sales begin to be shared more freely by the large companies like Apple, Amazon and Google who are not really minded to share it.

Given that Kobo has seen tremendous success with larger screens and 13.3 inch readers are made by mainstream companies like Sony, should Amazon do a second generation Kindle DX?

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I clearly remember how excited I was in the early 1990s when I realized that what I had been doing (designing printing materials as an art director of a large commercial printing company) with a team of forty highly skilled people and millions of dollars of equipment could now be done by a single person working at their desk.