Sentences with phrase «driving effort as»

Sure, the Porsche crest is indelibly linked to driving purity and rawness, but some drivers just want a comfortable cruiser that offers up as little driving effort as possible.

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.

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While the discount applies today only with Amazon, small businesses can use Amazon's move to drive business away from local brick and mortar stores as motivation to be creative in their offerings and marketing efforts.

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.

Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

To drive traffic to the stores we direct our efforts in guiding you to implement a variety of marketing tactics and the development of a Local Store Marketing plan which includes proven tactics such as on - site sampling, direct mail campaigns, bounce back coupons, loyalty programs and more.

«Fiscal 2018 was a record year for Xilinx with revenues of $ 2.5 billion as we realized 8 % annual growth driven by broad - based strength across multiple markets, reflecting our concerted efforts to accelerate top line growth,» said Victor Peng, President and Chief Executive Officer.

But some were also concerned it could hinder Europe's biggest carmaker in its efforts to cut costs and improve efficiency, as it embarks on a huge investment in electric vehicles and self - driving technology.

Paul Brody, the man who helped drive the effort to create a new architecture at IBM for connecting devices in the so - called Internet of things, has joined accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young, known as EY, as the Americas strategy leader for the technology sector.

As an example, nearly all CMOs may share a desire for insight into which efforts are driving the best leads.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

Lowe's outperformed the market in late 2017 as hurricanes Harvey and Irma propelled spending on home repairs, while Republican efforts around tax reform likely drove a larger leg up.

As a last - ditch effort to raise cash, Kodak announced last July that it had hired Lazard to sell its digital imaging patents, hoping to cash in on a frenzy for intellectual property that drove Google «s $ 12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility.

While that's a good start, it might take a little extra effort to get your page driving as much engagement and exposure as some of the best pages on the professional network.

Google efforts such as the Calico life - extension effort, self - driving cars and Google Fiber broadband, among others, will each be their own separate operations under one big umbrella:

As part of its effort to bring self - driving vehicles to market, GM has claimed today that their autonomous driving division has produced «the first real self - driving car (really).»

Viacom's efforts to introduce new audience metrics that capture viewing on digital outlets, as well as data - driven, digital advertising technologies, have mitigated those declines but have yet to return the advertising business to growth.

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.

Stroz also found texts between Levandowski and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick about recruitment efforts and working with Uber's self - driving arm dating back to as early as February and March 2016 — just weeks after Levandowski left Alphabet and launched Otto out of stealth.

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

As part of the acquisition, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick put Otto co-founder — and one of the first employees of Google's self - driving car project — Anthony Levandowski at the head of all of its autonomous technology efforts.

The ability to cut your losses where necessary and re-direct your efforts when you see a dead end was deemed important to succeeding and avoiding burnout as was having a solid, diverse and driven team so that responsibilities can be shared.

As we head into 2010, you can no longer count on the wind to drive your growth efforts, and good is no longer good enough.

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.

Levandowski already had stepped down from his position as head of Uber's self - driving car efforts last month and was replaced by Eric Meyhofer.

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.

It also comes at a time when Uber is doubling down on its self - driving efforts with both the soft launch of its UberFreight service and the self - driving pilot in Pittsburgh, as well as the acquisition of artificial intelligence and machine learning research startup Geometric Intelligence.

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

In its complaint, Waymo — now the name for Alphabet's self - driving efforts — alleges Levandowski stole the design of its laser radars, known as lidars.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

Around the same time Otto was formed in February 2016, Uber hired Levandowski as a consultant for its self - driving efforts, Recode first reported.

Prior to Citi, he helped drive sales at Zappedy and was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where he helped build out the India investment effort as well as develop the local commerce and fin tech investment areas in the US.Ramneek started his professional career as a design engineer at PMC Sierra and worked on the hardware design team at TiVo.

That same trust and authority translates well for your link building efforts and helps drive organic web traffic as well.

Last year, GEICO suffered from higher personal auto claims (as a result of more low gas prices and more driving), and this year it accelerated new business efforts.

As Co-Founder and CEO, Trey leads strategy, vision, and drives the overall planning and development efforts for the DEC..

As part of that effort, Ford said it had acquired an Israeli start - up, Saips, that specializes in computer vision, a crucial technology for self - driving cars.

Those are the normative (as opposed to descriptive) interests that must drive a theological school's effort to understand God.

The world as given, and life even when secure («No more floods»), are not yet completed; the best way to live remains hidden and must be revealed by additional human effort, exercised in the face of powerful human drives that lead us astray.

As a result, its counter-terrorism efforts have been largely driven by informants, intelligence reports or specific incidents that direct attention to a particular group or community.

Community organization as a political methodology and the drive for «community control of schools» in large urban areas are further instances of hope in that they strike me as strong efforts at — in Arendt's phrase — constituting or structuring

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.

Mr Clarke has embarked on an advertising blitz as he ramps up the winemaker's marketing effort to drive sales.

We also host canned good drives and prepared meal packing events where we leverage the Harvest program as an extension of our overall hunger relief efforts.

This is the only reason why the players play with no drive, hunger or ambition, because any player in the team realises no matter how badly they need an extra man to compliment the teams effort, its never gonna happen as long as big money is involved.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

Kalinic found himself in space in the box as he looked to get his side back into the game, but Ospina was more than ready to deal with his headed effort, before Granit Xhaka all - but sealed the tie with a driven effort from outside the box.

Home defender Benjamin Henrichs, still to open his account for his boyhood club, drove an effort straight at Dortmund's under - siege Swiss goalkeeper as the half - hour mark loomed.