Sentences with phrase «economy service on»

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In the on - demand economy, that means the cleaning services, such as Handy and Homejoy (both of which are already being sued), probably have the most to worry about.

Their impact on the economy is far ranging, from innovative products to essential services.

While many IoT scenarios involving huge industrial companies around the world center on business - to - business transactions, the subscription economy is also giving birth to new consumer services, Tzuo told me when we met for an informal chat over the summer.

There is also a presumption that Ontario's predominantly service - based economy is on stable ground.

In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

With the sharing economy expanding and on - demand services booming, there are more rating and review systems being established to help people decide whom to do business with, said Karissa Sparks, the vice president of marketing at the reputation management firm Reputation.com.

Why your business needs to do this: Recession proofing your business is a challenge, but if you want to prevent the economy from impacting your business, you should focus on selling an essential product or service and tighten your budget so that you don't spend money on items that aren't needed.

The candidates distinguished «Main Street» — small, local companies that produce real goods or services — from «Wall Street» giants that buy or sell wagers on what will happen in the real economy.

But it does demonstrate the downside to the so - called sharing economy and on - demand services.

Rather than «competing on making shoelaces or cheap shirts,» Englander says, a shift to a more service - oriented economy could play better to Canada's strengths.

This will further entrench the on - demand economy in society, as large companies change the ways in which they conduct business, looking to on - demand providers for services that traditionally took place in - house.

Consumer interest in on - demand services is meanwhile disrupting the world's economy.

Dropbox on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its popular cloud storage and file sharing service that specifically freelancers and contractors of the gig economy.

Yet much of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid end of the marketplace, where physicians, lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.

From delivery, transportation and household errands, to professional services and consulting, the on - demand economy has been broadly adopted, especially in urban centers.

On Thursday, professional services firm Deloitte teamed up with the Council on Competitiveness to release its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, showing that the United States is the second most competitive manufacturing economy after ChinOn Thursday, professional services firm Deloitte teamed up with the Council on Competitiveness to release its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, showing that the United States is the second most competitive manufacturing economy after Chinon Competitiveness to release its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, showing that the United States is the second most competitive manufacturing economy after China.

Her testimony before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee will include the Fed's semi-annual Monetary Policy Report, as Yellen is expected to shed some light on how the Fed views the prospects of the U.S. economy while outlining how the central bank intends to proceed over the next few months.

While the country's economy has shifted inward over the last few years, relying on its own citizens to fuel growth, it still exports billions of dollars in goods and services every year.

Keycafe is one of many startups providing services to participants in the so - called on - demand economy.

The social media - enabled open feedback loop that's built into the sharing economy is raising the bar on service standards.

Entrepreneurs might want to consider servicing the on - demand economy first, and then diversifying.

San Francisco - based Breeze, founded this year, offers customers week - by - week access to vehicles they can use to support jobs as drivers for Uber, Lyft and other sharing - economy platforms; co-founder Jeffrey Pang describes the service as an «equalizer» for those who want to get in on the action but don't have cars of their own.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

The on - demand delivery service — offering rides, food, beauticians and more — has jolted the economies of even famously gridlocked cities like Jakarta, where small businesses have seen their sales soar once they've registered on the company's platform.

The evangelists of a services economy don't talk much about the fact that Canada spends considerably more on other countries» services than those countries spend on ours.

The basic problem is that during each recession, governments increase their debt load to stimulate the economy and maintain (or even increase) services, but rarely cut back on their debt loads or services during the prosperous times — creating a long - term upward trend in indebtedness that Tony Boeckh of The Boeckh Investment Letter calls the «debt supercycle.»

The slowdown in the British economy in the quarter was largely driven by a drop - off in the dominant services sector, the ONS said.

But the fact remains: the more our economy depends on intellectual rather than physical capital — that is, the more it depends on information and new products and specialized services rather than on warehouses and big factories and centralized paper processing — the stronger will be the centrifugal forces impelling people toward small companies.

An unintended consequence of the regulation is that it provided a boost to London's financial economy, as secondary share trading businesses set up in the capital to service clients across the EU, rather than being based locally or shares trading on national exchanges.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

But the further one scratches beneath the service, the more it becomes apparent that GDP is at best an educated guess as to what's going on in the economy, as opposed to a hard - and - fast signal of how it's actually faring.

While Anderson focuses on building drones, there are a slew of other drone - focused startups that see big potential in developing the software and services for the coming drone economy, said Jeremy Conrad, founder of the hardware startup incubator Lemnos Labs.

Entrepreneurship and new ventures have the most significant impact on the economy, driving job growth, shaping the future of work, and creating entirely new products and services.

«Any time you see softness in the economy, you see some mode shift where customers reevaluate their supply chains and look to see if they could rely on a slower mode of transportation in some cases or the lack of a timedefinite service.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

There are no better examples of the impact of the on - demand sharing economy than services like Uber and Airbnb.

Like demand for toothpaste and other necessities, demand for health services isn't dependent on a strong economy.

The health care sector, with some promising green shoots, is emblematic of China's economy as a whole as it slogs toward one based on consumption and services.

Nashville's tourism economy depends heavily on low - wage service workers.

Although plentiful and vital to the service economy, these jobs seldom command a high enough salary to appear on our Best Jobs Ranking.

But the old formula relying on manufacturing and exports is giving way to a more mature economy driven by consumption and services.

In today's global economy, particularly online, you can't rely on being the only company in an area performing a service.

Japan's recovering economy is facing a labor crunch, which is particularly serious for small and midsize companies, as well as service industries like retail, restaurants and transport, which are pinning their hopes on female and older workers.

Airlines for America (A4A) vigorously advocates on behalf of the American airline industry as a model of safety, customer service and environmental responsibility and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global competitiveness.

The main issue continues to be the potential for the Chinese economy to run too hot, putting upward pressures on the prices of goods and services and on housing prices.

The more credit creation takes the form of inflating asset prices — rather than financing purchases of goods and services or direct investment employing labor — the more deflationary its effects are on the «real» economy of production and consumption.

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The Obama Administration is working through TPP to ensure competitive access for Internet and telecommunications companies, and the huge swathe of the economy that relies on their services.

See Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy, Testimony before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, February 26, 2008.

For a good brief sense of Florida's views on Ontario's creative class service economy, see Ontario in the Creative Age (Martin Prosperity Institute, 2009), the report that he and Roger Martin wrote.