Sentences with phrase «fiercest rival in»

Ola scored $ 2 billion in new funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., a person familiar with the matter said, helping bankroll Uber Technologies Inc.'s fiercest rival in India.

Privately held Cloudera — one of its fiercest rivals in Hadoop software and backed with more than $ 1.2 billion from the likes of Intel — isn't subject to the same scrutiny.

Chelsea have a good record against their fierce rivals in recent league meetings between the two sides and have won the last two at Stamford Bridge without conceding a goal.

The Catalan giants travel to the Spanish capital to face their fierce rivals in what is a must win fixture for Messi and co. if they are to have any chance of winning this year's La Liga title.

Yet, while the first team labour outside the Champions League qualification places, struggling even to summon up the spirit to compete against our fiercest rivals in what remains of a disastrous European campaign, Warren Joyce's Under 21s go from strength to strength.

A miskick by Hearts of Oak goalkeeper Abdoulaye Soulama gave Kumasi Asante Kotoko a 1 - 0 win over their fiercest rivals in Accra on Monday.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham).

The really interesting angle to this is that Amazon and Google are fierce rivals in the voice assistant battles.

Not exact matches

The club has prided itself, since its founding in 1899, as Catalonia's scrappy counterpoint to its bitter rival in the capital, Real Madrid — a living embodiment of Spain's fierce political tensions.

The technology giant debuted Wednesday several ways that third - party developers can build apps to improve Microsoft's Teams chat service for the workplace, which was introduced in March amid fierce competition from rival chat apps from Google (goog), Slack, and Facebook (fb).

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

BERLIN — Samsung unveiled two smartphones and a virtual - reality headset Wednesday in a bid to draw consumer attention before its fierce rival, Apple, announces its holiday lineup next week.

Best Buy (bby) is making nice with one of its fiercest rivals, Amazon.com (amzn), to bolster its ongoing bid to be the leading retailer in the booming smart - home tech area.

Not only will the combined carrier reach about the same customer base as larger rivals Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t), but reducing the number of competitors in the market to three from four should also reduce competitive pressure that led to a fierce price war over the past year.

With no obvious successor to Lauer in tow, and considering the up - and - down year for Today, NBC undoubtedly want to lock its longtime co-host in for another two - year stretch, especially considering the show's fierce ratings battle with rival ABC's Good Morning America.

Meanwhile, Uber lost $ 2 billion in China in two years before selling its operations in the country to fierce rival Didi Chuxing this summer.

Both companies have cooperated with Korean giant Samsung, which is waging a fierce IP legal battle with Apple and is its main rival for global hegemony in smartphones and tablets.

The earnings report comes months after news surfaced that Samsung teamed up with its fierce rival, Apple, to supply the semiconductors and OLED screens for the iPhone X. And, in November of last year, rumors swirled that Samsung is moving forward with manufacturing a bendable smartphone stem.

But religion and nationalism are now joined in a fierce battle between three rival Patriarchs vying for the leadership of Ukraine's perhaps thirty - five million Orthodox Christians.

Liquor retailers say the new general manager of Accolade Wines» Australian operations, Chris Flaherty, faces a tougher time in charge of a more commercial, lower - end portfolio than when he was in a similar job for fierce rival Treasury Wine Estates four years ago.

Earlier this year, Murray Goulburn ran hard in the fierce $ 500 million takeover battle for listed rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, but Mr Helou lost out to Canada's Saputo.

The Merengues were defeated on aggregate by Juventus this week in the semi-final, and thus will not be able to defend the continental title they won last year against fierce rivals Barcelona in Berlin.

Brazil faced their fierce rivals Argentina in a friendly in Beijing this afternoon, with the Selecao prevailing 2 - 0 thanks to two goals from Diego Tardelli, meaning that they are still yet to concede a goal under new coach Dunga.

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Indeed, as Kluivert points out, United remain fifth in the table, and despite Manchester City's loss to title - chasing Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, they are six points behind their fierce local rivals.

Should Barkley sign for Spurs in January over rivals Chelsea, it'll come as a big boost for the north London side, as they finally look to get one over their fierce London rivals.

Brazil face fierce rivals Argentina in Beijing this afternoon, as Dunga takes his side into their biggest test since he took over from Luiz Felipe Scolari at the end of this summer's disastrous World Cup campaign.

Not only is it a local derby against their fierce rivals, but it is an opportunity to retake top spot in the table.

As the midfielder had already been farmed out to Benfica's fierce rivals it could well be that he decides to stay in the country - where he managed seven goals in 27 appearances in the Portuguese top flight - and the Metro have already considered the prospect that he could be used as a makeweight in a deal for Gaitan.

And I remember perfectly well when moving to the Emirates, Wenger said the move is to unable us to compete in the highest level with the best teams like Barca and Madrid, but since then Spurs has been out fierce rival and 4th became our only EPL cup

In their sights are the reigning Premier League champions and fierce rivals Manchester City.

The Red Devils have spent over # 200million on the likes of Angel Di Maria and Ander Herrera since the Dutch boss replaced David Moyes at the helm last summer in an attempt to restore the club as genuine title challengers to the likes of Chelsea and fierce rivals Manchester City.

They may have watched fierce rivals Real Madrid eviscerate minnows Eibar earlier in the evening, but Barcelona sent out a message of their own to La Liga this evening after dominating a good Sevilla side at the Nou Camp and earning a fantastic 5 - 1 victory.

With only six matches to play, United will both need to improve their form and hope that City slip up in order to wrest the final UCL qualifying position away from their fierce rivals.

This scissor - kick strike from the playmaker proved to not only be his finest highlight of the campaign; it also sealed three crucial points over fierce rivals Liverpool in their search for a place in next season's Champions League.

The Gunners don't have a good recent record in the league against their fierce rivals, but they can take confidence from the 1 - 0 win when the two teams met at Wembley in the Community Shield clash last month.

We may have beaten them in the Community Shield, when Wenger finally got the better of his fierce rival Jose Mourinho, but we have not won one of the last nine Premier League meetings and that needs to change.

According to the Telegraph, the Premier League champions are in pole position to secure the signature of the Ghanian, ahead of their fierce London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.

Brendan Rodgers» side have been catching up with their fierce Old Trafford rivals in recent weeks...

Real Madrid suffered a humiliating 3 - 0 at the hands of fierce rivals Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday in a match that effectively ended Los Blancos» title hopes.

I do feel, however, that we are less likely to lose players to our EPL rivals than we are to the really big teams around Europe and two of the biggest in the business and also perhaps the most enticing to players are the two fierce rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Going into Sunday, therefore, Norwich City in particular will be looking at their game with their mouths watering as the game which they are undoubtedly favourites for gives them the opportunity, not only to take 3 points against their most fierce rivals, but also to close the gap to just 4 points on promotion placed Sheffield Wednesday.

However, the reigning European giants have demonstrated their fallibility in recent weeks, losing back - to - back matches against fierce rivals Real Madrid, before being defeated 1 - 0 by Real Sociedad on Saturday.

Arriving from fierce rivals Sunderland in the summer, the «Ginger Pirlo» as the fans have taken to calling him has been playing well.

However, they face one of their sternest tests on Sunday when they meet fierce local rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the North London Derby.

The Belgian was part of the Atleti side that beat the Blues in the semi finals of the competition last time round, but then went on to suffer defeat at the hands of their fierce rivals Real Madrid in the final.

This despite having played for fierce rivals Roma in the past, with what is believed to be an affordable price tag a major draw in the interest.

With rivals Man City moving away at the top of the Premier League and with competition fierce in the Champions League, the FA Cup is arguably now United's best shot at silverware this season.

There was a lot of talk in the football media last week about Arsenal, or more specifically about our manager Arsene Wenger after the serialisation of a book about his fierce managerial rival Jose Mourinho contained some controversial statements about Wenger and Mourinho's thoughts about him.

Former England manager Terry Venables has no reason to want Arsenal to do well, having played for and been manager of our fierce north London rivals Tottenham, but even he is desperate for Arsene Wenger to see sense and see that the squad needs some top quality players bringing in to allow us to fight for major honours, as an Evening Standard report reveals.