Sentences with phrase «earlier companies used»

Apple wasn't the first smartphone maker to add a dual - lens rear camera to a handset, but earlier companies used the dual - lens setup in different ways.

Earlier company used to sell OnePlus One using invite only system but recently company had moved to pre-order system.

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Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Earlier this year, the company revealed a product called Dash, which allowed users to order everyday groceries by scanning barcodes using a wi - fi wand.

In early stage deals investors used to commonly ask for a provision preventing the company from going public for less than a certain price.

The phrase was used by a former Shell CEO to describe the company's experimental strategy in an earlier round of investments in renewable energy.

A few months into construction, in early 2009, a person Nevsun describes as «a European or South African banking syndicate official» visiting Bisha told the company Segen might be using conscripts there.

Traditional lab companies like Quest have also started talking about using blood tests for a personalized medicine approach to the early detection of diseases.

Early on at NYX, she discovered that sales of one of her eye pencils took off after YouTubers — totally unprompted by the company — started posting tutorials using the product.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

Fortune noted earlier this year that the service is looking to grow that revenue through an expanded targeted network that will focus more on «programmatic» ads, where companies use software to buy and sell ads automatically based on algorithms.

For my company, I successfully raised money from a handful of early investors who purchased stock using self - directed IRAs.

The company said in a blog post that news articles using the AMP technology would begin appearing in search results as early as late February.

Indeed, Josh Bersin, an analyst at Bersin by Deloitte who tracks workplace technology, believes that the rise of VR as a training tool mimics the early stages of how companies first used YouTube to show training videos.

These companies are very early stage and the techniques they're using are not proven yet.

Zuckerberg, in Facebook posts last month, disclosed a series of steps he said the company would take to prevent governments from manipulating it and said he had earlier been wrong to dismiss the possibility of Facebook being used in such a way.

We've noticed that our involvement has value with the VC community as a de-risking factor, so early - stage companies can use our name to raise money.

The company has used the platform in Australia earlier this year, and is also looking at using platforms like Spotify and Hulu to reach job seekers.

In the early days, the company's products were used mainly by mining and exploration firms in Canada's north, offering workers respite from extreme temperatures and conditions.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

The investigation is in its early stages, and is focused on how the company used Greyball.

They sent a sample to Rare Whisky 101, a company in Dunfermline, Fife, who used carbon dating technology to discover that the whisky was almost certainly made in the early 1970s.

On Thursday, the company announced it is raising $ 100 million through the sale of common stock, which it will use to repurchase shares from one of its founders and to provide liquidity for early employees.

«Our advice to early stage hardware companies is focus on five things — validating and articulating the pain they eliminate or problem they solve, benefits versus features and being laser focused on tech product development, cultivating a community of believers and early customers, efficiently using their cash by leveraging experts and community hubs like makerspaces and reflecting great leadership and a community mindset.»

«FedEx and IBM are well - known examples of companies where numerous early analytics successes produced a senior management culture where analytics was regularly used to inform important decisions,» Bell writes.

Earlier this year, the brand collaborated with luxury fashion store MyTheresa.com to reissue items from the collection that launched Kate Moss» modeling career in 1994; the new denim pieces and sweats were crafted from the same fabrics the company used 20 years ago.

Trump called for a boycott of Apple products earlier this year after the company declined to provide the FBI with security - weakened software to help crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

When Workplace officially launched in October, Facebook claimed some 1,000 companies including the Royal Bank of Scotland and Club Med were already using an early version of the product.

Aside from technology, the company is also expected to benefit from a contract it landed with the Ontario government, which said earlier this week that it would use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.

It's using a «direct listing» on the New York Stock Exchange that will allow the company's early investors and employees to sell as many shares as they want whenever they want.

We're seeing diagnostics companies use AI to create new tests that have much higher accuracy, much lower cost, and typically diagnose things much earlier.

The company has been using medium - range LiDAR, which is located on top of the car, since the early days of its project.

In 2007, for example, Nooyi announced the company would cut water use by 20 %, a target the company met three years early.

I've used it with founders of companies I'm looking at investing in, TechStars founders, and execs for early stage companies.

The company is deep in what Musk describes as «Model 3 production hell», a term he has used during earlier ramp - ups of the Model X and Model S.

A study done earlier in the year by the same company revealed that finding top - notch people is even harder than it used to be.

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

And in the early days of Mint.com, they used their company leadership to write blog posts, and share details about how they manage their finances.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

In the early 2000s, junior exploration company Mitchell Energy and Development used newly available directional drilling rigs to plumb a slab of rock nearly a mile underground called the Barnett Shale.

Earlier this year, it also acquired OpTerra Energy Services, helps companies finds ways to use less energy.

Pilbara Minerals has signed a farm - in deal with Atlas Iron over its Mt Francisco lithium project, and the two companies have also struck a preliminary agreement allowing Pilbara to use Atlas Iron's existing infrastructure to support early shipments from the Pilgangoora project.

(It is worth noting that ESPN parent Disney does own a large stake in the MLB's popular streaming video arm, BAMTech, but it's still to early to say how the company will use that asset and whether it will be successful in doing so.)

The same committee member, Paul Farrelly, who earlier pressed Kogan about why he hadn't bothered to find out which political candidates stood to be the beneficiary of his data harvesting and processing activities for Cambridge Analytica, put it to Schroepfer that Facebook's own actions in how it manages its business activities — and specifically because it embeds its own staff with political campaigns to help them use its tools — amounts to the company being «Dr Kogan writ large».

Earlier this year, Waymo accused Uber of using stolen tech to kick - start its autonomous car program after Uber acquired Otto, another self - driving car company, that was founded by a former Google employee.

That created a schism: Companies like Pebble, a smartwatch maker, and Oculus, a virtual reality headset developer, raised millions on crowdfunding sites from eager early customers and used that surge to prove that buyers wanted their fledgling products.

Given the dynamics of early - stage companies, venture capital investors use a hybrid funding mechanism, convertible debt.

Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil.

The company said the number of people in the United States and Canada who use Facebook on a daily basis fell for the first time ever in last year's fourth quarter, dropping to 184 million from 185 million a year earlier.