Sentences with phrase «early talks with»

The newspaper said that the retail giant is in early talks with Humana, a major provider of Medicare Advantage coverage for people age 65 and older.

We had some early talks with Microsoft about doing something for the Xbox / 360 around the time of the Lair proposal, but nothing specific ever happened that I was aware of.

According to Deadline, MGM has set Ryan Coogler to direct, and is in early talks with Michael B. Jordan to star as Apollo Creed's grandson.

I'm told the studio is in early talks with David Guggenheim to script Bad Boys 3, which the studio hopes will bring back Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as fast - talking undercover cops who solve crimes with spectacular action, gunplay, and harsh language.

Sony Pictures Television in early talks with Hulu to bring the Dan Harmon comedy to the streaming service.

Variety is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence is early talks with Sony to star as the lead in their sci - fi romance drama Passengers.

Variety also noted that it's not known whether an offer has been made, and that McAdams recently told the LA Times that she was in early talks with the studio.

Following news that director Zack Snyder is in early talks with the network to adapt Watchmen into a series, the actor shared his affinity for playing Daniel Dreiberg aka Nite Owl II.

Sacha Baron Cohen is believed to be in early talks with Disney to star in the planned sequel to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.

The nearly 70 percent drop in Cloverfield «s box office take last weekend has not deterred Paramount Pictures from starting early talks with director Matt Reeves to helm a sequel to the Monster Movie That Ate the Internet.

Disney is already in early talks with Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks to return for The Jungle Book 2, so now Serkis» film runs the risk of retelling a familiar origin story when audiences are already primed and ready for the sequel.

NY TIMES — Jan 4 — The owner of JDate.com, Spark Networks, is in early talks with buyers that include Yahoo, eHarmony, IAC / InterActiveCorp (Match.com), and News Corp. (MySpace).

That project was in the works for years, and in early talks with elected officials in 2014, the developers pushed back against requests to include a school on the site.

However, the same source are now reporting that Arsenal are in early talks with Perez, who is said to prefer a move to the Emirates Stadium because of the chance to play Champions League football.

Per - the - source, Everton have held early talks with Newcastle over the possibility of signing the France international midfielder.

Now he is expanding and is in early talks with supermarket chains about stocking the beverage in health food aisles, differentiating it from sugary carbonated soft drinks such as Coca - Cola, Pepsi and Sprite.

While the wholesale startup had early talks with Amazon, Target and Costco, the source said that only Kroger offered a bid, and that Boxed has a valuation of $ 470 million.

• Eros (NYSE: EROS) is in early talks with Apple, Amazon and Netflix to sell its film and music library, according to Reuters.

«We are in early talks with several news publishers about how we might better support subscription business models on Facebook,» Brown said.

Not long after, Oracle issued press releases describing its earlier talks with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch: «Oracle refused to make an offer because Autonomy's current market value of $ 6 billion was way too high,» one of the releases stated.

Kushner Cos. had earlier talked with a member of Qatar's royal family about investing in the building, 666 Fifth Avenue, Bloomberg has previously reported.

Not exact matches

In Saudi Arabia earlier, Pompeo said that the U.S. would abandon the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, reached under President Donald Trump's predecessor, unless talks with European partners yield improvements to ensure the Islamic Republic never possesses nuclear weapons.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

However, I realized that all of the startup meetups fall into one of three categories: 1 - So early in the morning that no one is awake enough to have a stimulating conversation 2 - At a dark bar with a loud DJ making it impossible to actually talk 3 - Being given junk to eat and drink at someone's office.

Even though we're working with early - stage founders, there's a clear indication very early on of what they've been able to build, not what they're able to talk about.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

You should research potential investors before you talk with them so that your company fits the stage — early, middle or late — and the industry that the investor prefers.

Keir Dullea, actor, talks about the 50th anniversary of the classic movie, «2001, A Space Odyssey,» and his fictional early interaction with artificial intelligence.

• Social Finance Inc, a San Francisco - based student loan refinancing services company, discussed a potential sale earlier this year with Charles Schwab Corp, but the talks fell apart over the $ 8 billion price the online lender sought, according to Reuters.

The world's largest brewer is also thinking much bigger: Earlier this month it confirmed talks of a possible merger with SABMiller.

United (UAL) has refused to appoint Bethune as chairman, ending months of talks with the funds in early March, the source and two other people familiar with the matter said.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

News broke earlier that Boeing was in talks with Embraer — the world's third - largest plane maker — for a 80 to 90 percent stake in a new venture encompassing Embraer's commercial jet business.

More recently, the Google subsidiary made a major move into commissioning content with the announcement earlier this month that it is launching more than 40 TV - style shows on the platform, including some homegrown YouTube stars, as well as traditional Hollywood celebrities such as talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and comedian Kevin Hart.

New global Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi met TfL Commissioner Mike Brown for talks earlier this month, which both sides said were «constructive» as the $ 70 - billion firm tries to repair its relationship with the regulator.

In my book with Travis Wright, Digital Sense, we wrote at length about how any business can easily architect their software solutions to more effectively deliver on customer experience and growth — and talked about it at CES earlier this month:

«Shark Tank» investor Kevin O'Leary sat down with us to talk about entrepreneurship, his career and an important lesson he learned early on that shaped the rest of his life.

Early on, I was on the phone with a vice-president of AT&T in Atlanta, and we were talking through the final terms of an alliance document.

In early 2010, he talked with Kieran Masterton, a website designer and programmer, who was a fan of his film, and together they came up with OpenIndie.com.

He also talked about the potential of the company's commercial graphics business that earlier this year inked a deal with The Coca - Cola Company (ko) to handle custom printing of product labels and cookie packaging for corporate clients.

Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Leigh Gallagher and it features an exclusive interview with Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of virtual assistant startup Zirtual, who talked about flawed financial projections and what caused her company to lay off 400 people earlier this week before announcing that Zirtual will be acquired by Startups.co.

U.N. - led peace talks in Geneva ended earlier this month with no breakthrough.

As Microsoft's Phil Spencer put it earlier this summer, with consoles you're talking more about «inflection points.»

FanDuel and DraftKings are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

• Univision Communications Inc, a New York - based media company, held early - stage talks with John Malone's Liberty Media Corp in the wake of its stalled IPO plans, according to Reuters.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

In a piece he wrote for Medium recently, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz talks about the early days of the company and how he slept little and ate badly, and was hyper - competitive with co-workers.

In early 2013, Zvi Galil, dean of the college of computing at Georgia Tech, met with Stephenson to talk about launching an online master's degree at the college.