Sentences with phrase «dozens of companies including»

Amid a pressure campaign, dozens of companies including Google and Walmart dropped out, though not always explaining why, according to USA TODAY.

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He grew up poor in communist China, failed his college entrance exam twice, and was rejected from dozens of jobs, including one at KFC, before finding success with his third internet company, Alibaba.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

His solution: he assembled a working team of about a dozen people — including industry sources and accountants — who created a comprehensive business plan and an attention - grabbing video that focused on the company and its industry's growth potential.

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.»

Some companies even host their own exchanges — Procter & Gamble pioneered the in - house model more than 10 years ago, and credits it for dozens of its «global game - changer» products, including the Swiffer Duster and Tide Pods.

The firm had shared information about the malware, dubbed ModPOS, with clients in October, and briefed dozens of companies, including retailers, hospitality companies and payment - card processors, about its dangers.

Leaders from nearly three dozen tech companies, including Salesforce, Yelp, AT&T, Comcast, and Square, signed off on a letter to local officials last week, urging them to consider a development proposal that would add seven million square feet of commercial space and 4,400 housing units to the small city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Though the company had expanded to a dozen resorts — including beach and golf assets in Florida and Hawaii, part of its strategy to create a «resort club» time - share network — Whistler still represented 40 % of its operations.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

The five - person company has worked on dozens of projects including The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts I and II, where they helped to bring the ethereal Capitol city to life.

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

Lentzsch participated in the company's $ 2.45 million seed round — along with former Orbitz chairman Jeff Clarke — helping lead to dozens of deals with national carriers, including Greyhound.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

Of the dozen companies Fortune included in that ranking, Indiegogo led the way with female employees comprising 43 % of its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % eacOf the dozen companies Fortune included in that ranking, Indiegogo led the way with female employees comprising 43 % of its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % eacof its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % each.

He grew up poor in communist China, failed his university - entrance exam twice, and was rejected from dozens of jobs, including one at KFC, before finding success with his third internet company, Alibaba.

Cohn's campaigns have resulted in the takeouts or buyouts of more than a dozen companies, including BMC Software, Informatica, LifeLock and, biggest of all, EMC, which Dell acquired for $ 67 billion in 2015.

More than a dozen companies, including Microsoft, British price comparison site Foundem and German online mapping company Hotmaps, have accused it of squeezing them out of the market.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

In April, the hotel company that owns a dozen hotel brands including the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza reported that hackers installed malware at 1,200 of its hotel locations in order to swipe credit card data.

One of the most notable celebrity tech investors, Kutcher has invested in more than two dozen companies through his venture capital fund A-Grade Investments, including mattress maker Casper, and e-commerce company Fab.

The source asked whether the paper wanted access to 40 years worth of information from the Panama firm, including the details of holding companies and accounts related to dozens of prominent European politicians.

There are dozens of other companies, including Blue Apron, delivering meal kits to consumers homes.

The rest of his fortune is managed through closely held Cascade Investment, which controls stakes in dozens of publicly traded companies, including Canadian National Railway, Deere and Ecolab.

The fund has invested in dozens of Bitcoin companies, including the Coinbase and BitPesa.

And it gives you the chance to invest in dozens — even hundreds — of stocks for one commission fee (since you're just buying shares in one fund versus buying shares in all the companies it includes).

«The Achilles heel of the industry may be that people are very resistant to construction of necessary infrastructure,» stated the report, which was sponsored by half a dozen oil and gas companies and two law firms representing them and included a list of the type of people opposing pipelines and their motivations.

The «PayPal Mafia,» a term for PayPal founders and prominent multimillionaire executives whose post-PayPal careers include founding and investing in dozens of prominent tech companies, is stacked full of Review alumni, including Ken Howery» 98, David Sacks» 94, and Eric Jackson ’98 (all former Review editors - in - chief) as well as Keith Rabois ’91 (a former Review opinion editor), and Premal Shah ’98 (a former Review staffer).

Dozens of tech companies, including Apple, Google's Waymo and Tesla, have expressed their desire to see some changes in the California Department of Motor Vehicles» self - driving car policies.

In the United States, Great Place to Work ® produces the annual Fortune «100 Best Companies to Work For ®» list and a series of Great Place to Work ® Best Workplaces lists including lists for Millennials, Women, Diversity, Small and Medium Companies and over a half dozen different industry lists.

Steve Dewart is an organizational consultant, strategist, and leadership coach, with over fifteen years of experience providing mentorship and guidance to key leaders of Fortune 500 companies and start - ups, including Google, University of California, University of Colorado, Software.com, as well as dozens of small business and non-profit clients.

Digital First, a Denver company that owns dozens of newspapers including nine serving the greater Los Angeles area, had been thought to be interested in acquiring Freedom's assets since December when it was revealed in court that the company had offered a loan to help fund Freedom's operations during bankruptcy.

The looming legalization of recreational marijuana is helping spur a green rush by more than a dozen companies setting up cannabis production facilities in the greater Edmonton region, including one in Strathcona County.

One of my favourite companies, Clearspring, who you've heard me mention dozens of times before, have just launched a new range of products, including these fabulous gluten - free -LSB-...]

In the decade - plus time that the Columbus, Ohio company has existed, it has become the winning - est hot sauce manufacturer in America, racking up over 350 prestigious awards, which include dozens of Golden Chiles and Scovies.

Some of the organizations and events the company has supported include D.A.R.E., the Boy Scouts of America, Smile Train's World Smile Day, and dozens of others.

Soon, Pat became the King of Curry, ruling over a curry empire that included a membership of 13,000, a quarterly magazine, mail order company with dozens of curry products, a guide to the top 1,000 curry restaurants in the U.K., and numerous curry cookbooks in print.

Submitting to pressure from animal rights groups including Mercy for Animals and the Humane Society of the United States, Walmart joins dozens of other major food companies making the switch.

About Ted Reader Ted Reader is an award - winning chef and food entertainer, who's parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cookbooks, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.

Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan urged jurors to also consider the dozens of other witnesses and evidence presented — mostly emails from any number of state officials, including Percoco — that they say show Percoco and the businessmen engaged in a systemic pattern of bribe - making and receiving and Percoco - driven actions with state officials to try to help their companies.

Some of the dozens of companies established by Singh were put into his wife Ruby's name, including those that still have concessions agreements with the town.

Dozens of companies showed interest in the projects, including some of the real estate industry's biggest names.

Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company's involvement in a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes.

Federal investigators» interest in the former gubernatorial aide came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from Bharara's office seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

Columbia County has only one as of this writing, the Greens in Copake Lake; and the many in Dutchess County include Terrapin in Rhinebeck, the Mill House Brewing Company, the Artist's Palate and Crave in Poughkeepsie, the restaurants at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park (Bocuse, Ristorante Caterina di Medici and American Bounty) and a couple of dozen more.

Federal investigators» interest in Percoco came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

His pushcarts became a summer staple in New York City, supplying kids of all ages with a tasty treat during the hottest months from a selection of dozens of flavors — including the coconut ice that made his company famous.

Many companies, including Genalyte, employ WGM biosensors in diagnostic products that can perform dozens of bioassays in minutes.

Chemicals in toys: An Environmental Health News analysis of thousands of reports from America's largest companies shows that toys and other children's products contain low levels of dozens of industrial chemicals, including some unexpected ingredients.

On 30 January, the European Research Council (ERC), which funds top basic research, issued a joint letter with the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), a group that includes several dozen chief executives of Europe's largest companies.