Sentences with phrase «drive company efforts»

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Before it created BuzzFeed Product Lab, BuzzFeed's commerce efforts revolved around affiliate links, where the media company gets paid for driving sales to third party sites.

Earlier this year the DMV proposed new restrictions on self - driving car tests, but companies like Apple, Tesla, Ford, and GM resisted this effort.

«This is both a response to everything you are seeing in the world, this DOD regulation, but also an effort by not just the DOD, but by the administration to drive companies in the private sector generally towards greater cybersecurity and more disclosure with the government,» Lee said.

Third, the business community must approach these efforts with the same long - term investor mindset and management rigor they apply in their own companies, making data - driven investments and evaluating, learning, and adjusting as they go.

If the purpose of all the effort and time (and money) you're putting into content creation is to drive sales, improve your company's reputation and ultimately build your business, you need a brilliant content marketing strategy to guide your efforts.

Founder Travis Kalanick has much bigger ambitions and is growing the company's food delivery and self - driving - car efforts.

Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts — like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self - driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects — while Google's advertising - oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.

Develop the strategy the company should have had from the start: a results - driven effort across many social - media platforms, connected to other marketing campaigns.

Friendliness, extra effort and a team - first attitude are traits that drive a company toward success.

Kalanick hired Levandowski as a consultant to Uber's fledgling self - driving effort as early as February 2016, six months before Levandowski publicly got his company off the ground, according to three sources.

Ask your AEs to focus their efforts on accounts that are most likely to drive growth at your company.

Presumably, if initial efforts work, Uber will continue to buy cars and retrofit them with its own self - driving technology as the company ramps up its fleet of driverless cars.

It's former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, characterized by Waymo's attorneys as a rapacious executive whose win - at - all - costs attitude and frustration with his company's self - driving efforts led him to conspire with Levandowski to steal the «sauce» that catapulted Alphabet's self - driving development to be the leader of the pack.

Susanne leads Novo Nordisk's efforts to be a sustainable business and is charged with management of corporate sustainability - driven programmes, the integrated Annual Report, stakeholder engagements and communication on the value of the company's Triple Bottom Line (TBL) business principle.

In an effort to reposition itself as a mobility company, Ford is launching a new partnership with Postmates to test its self - driving...

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

And two of the top engineers at the effort, Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, left at the same time as Urmson and started Nuro.ai, their own artificial intelligence company that will work with self - driving cars.

In an effort to be more insight - driven, companies are investing significant resources in extracting information from customers as effectively as possible.

The moves come following Uber's acquisition of self - driving trucking company Otto in August, which put co-founder Anthony Levandowski in charge of the company's autonomous efforts above existing directors Raffi Krikorian — who was previously at Twitter and joined Uber in March 2015 — and John Bares — who was poached from Carnegie Robotics in January 2015.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphones; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

Despite the concerns over autonomous driving, it's not preventing companies from pushing forward in their efforts.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the Company's BlackBerry 7 and 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

On March 3, the security expert Charlie Miller — famed for hacking into a Jeep remotely — announced he was leaving the company to join Didi's self - driving effort.

Sah is representative of a growing contingent of small business owners who, in an effort to drive customer traffic and pique interest in their respective companies, are thinking beyond the traditional payment methods.

Google and four other companies are leading efforts to form a coalition to urge federal action for the adoption of self - driving cars.

Uber has officially asked Anthony Levandowski — the former head of the company's self - driving efforts and the executive at the center of the Alphabet lawsuit — to waive his Fifth Amendment rights and cooperate with a court's order to turn over any files he may have downloaded, including those on his personal device.

SUPERVALU's board, however, rejected those recommendations, saying in a statement that they're «confident that their ongoing efforts to transform the Company are driving growth and enhancing SUPERVALU's unique competitive position,» which includes primarily pivoting to a wholesale business through acquisitions.

NeuStar has recently indicated an interest toward big data initiatives to drive company marketing efforts, and has recently undergone a major telecom system migration initiative.

Mr. Levandowski leads Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, the epicenter of the company's testing and self - driving efforts.

Alphabet claims Anthony Levandowski, who was a key executive in the company's early self - driving efforts, stole 14,000 proprietary files before leaving to start a company called Otto that Uber later acquired.

Even Alphabet's self - driving company Waymo, which says it's possible it will supply its self - driving tech to automakers but in the meantime is working on its own cars in partnership with those automakers, brought their hardware efforts in - house in an attempt to edge out traditional suppliers.

It's why, many sources say, few carmakers were initially willing to partner with Google or even Uber on the companies» respective self - driving efforts.

The company maintains these relationships through a concerted effort to be a culinary - driven company especially as demand for new products, trends and ideas changes constantly.

Also helping drive awareness of the brand as well as goodwill in the community is the company's charitable efforts.

One major development that has driven much of that growth and become the center of the company's research and development efforts came in 2002, when it first produced pellet - fired smokers.

Bottling systems across the country have their own associations to help drive their company initiatives and advocacy efforts.

The acquisition will also further Carrington Farms» efforts to drive innovation in the health and well - being space within the protein powder set, while giving the company even more access to supplement purchasing customers and channels.

HEINEKEN USA announced that Andrews Distributing of Dallas, TX received the organization's Red Star Award for its efforts in driving the success of the HEINEKEN USA portfolio at the company's annual National Distributor Conference last week.

It's one of the reasons parents worry about the company their children keep because we know that we can drive all our efforts to instil good values but the association that our children forge with groups of their choice will often have a very powerful influence on their own attitude and outlook.

With all of the effort that these companies are going through to make a product more like breast milk, it should drive home the message about how important breastfeeding is to your baby.

SNA industry members have a broad range of sponsorship opportunities to choose from with price points that allow every company to drive awareness of their latest innovation and support school nutrition professionals in their efforts to serve healthy school meals across this nation.

* Create patient - driven grassroots movements and organizations to advocate effectively for the interests of patients with cancer to balance advocacy efforts of pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, pharmacy outlets and hospitals.

The expense and effort are increased by the FDA requirement that any company applying for approval of a drug targeted against a specific gene - driven abnormality must also produce a diagnostic test for that abnormality.

Mr. Dyke most recently served as vice president for sales at NAC International, where he drove the company's business development and international sales efforts.

Through SunShot, the Energy Department supports efforts by private companies, universities, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $.0.05 per kilowatt - hour.

In an effort to drive change in India, See - Saw Films and The Weinstein Company have launched the #LionHeart Campaign.

The dynamic gains don't seem to reflect the engineering effort that the company has put into the chassis; this isn't a car that will tempt those wedded to a great driving experience.

Google Inc is building cars that don't have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company's efforts to develop self - driving cars.

BlackBerry and Baidu agreed to a new collaboration meant to facilitate their efforts to advance, develop, and commercialize self - driving vehicles, the two companies announced Wednesday.

Sometimes, a company's marketing efforts are so successful that they drive the stock up too high in relation to the size of their findings.