Sentences with phrase «fire companies which»

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It's the «Ready, Aim, Fire» approach to getting products out the door; versus the «Ready, Fire, Fire, Fire, Go Out of Business» process, which most companies use.

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

When Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was launching a dating service, many eyebrows were raised: after all, this is a company that is currently under fire around the world for the lax way in which it has handled users» personal data.

Now, Soylent wants to change that misconception, which Crowley says was primarily sparked by zealous fans — though he admits the company fueled the fire.

He quickly sold off his company, took his research and in 2010 launched Fire Belly Organic Lawn Care, which sells its four - stage Organic Lawn in a Box system for residential use.

Managers were traveling around the country putting out fires, which cost the company as much as $ 10,000 a month for airline tickets, hotels, and rental cars.

The Cupertino, California - based company is facing new challenges from Samsung Electronics Co., which is quickly recovering from the Galaxy Note 7's recall after fires.

Amazon will start selling Google's Chromecast streaming devices soon, which may help ease tensions between the companies and convince YouTube to bring its service back to the Fire TV and Echo Show.

The social media company has come under fire after it was disclosed that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked...

United Airlines came under fire in March after two girls were barred from boarding a plane for wearing leggings — which did not comply with the company's dress code for special pass travelers.

He added that no Facebook employee has been fired in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which the company said could impact up to 87 million Facebook users — an increase from earlier reports of 50 million.

The end of its business on May 20, which Slide Fire announced in a statement on its website, comes as the company faces litigation related to the Las Vegas attack.

The Counting Crows have fired their record company and struck out on their own, Techcrunch reports, joining bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails which have decided to self - publish their music.

All of this is not to suggest it's a good idea to fire your whole staff every year; a healthy core of engaged employees is something to which all companies should aspire.

The company came under fire in 2015 after a Washington Post investigation found that, on average, one person per week died in incidents in which police used Tasers that year.

The $ 299 device measures brain electrical activity via 16 scalp sensors, which the company claims allow recognition of basic emotions and up to 30 specific thoughts, such as «lift this object,» «fire death ray,» or «fly forward.»

His company, SOT - G, which puts on the Leadership Under Fire series in partnership with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), has three full - time staff members, but will contract with 35 - 40 ex-Navy officers during a session.

Amazon has been shipping the basic versions of Kindle into Canada for years now, but the original Fire tablet — which is tied heavily to the company's movie - and music - selling businesses — has not yet been made available, presumably because of the hassles involving licensing rights.

The chocolatey new drink has a whopping 67 grams of sugar, which comes after the company was under fire in February for the amount of sweeteners in its drinks.

The company had a high - profile failure with its own smartphone, the Fire, which was launched with much fanfare in July 2014, but didn't make a dent in the overall smartphone market.

The data firm, which has garnered significant attention in the political world over the past few years for its work for candidates like Cruz and Donald Trump, has come under fire in recent days since a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie detailed how the company exploited Facebook to collect data from unknowing users.

the preservation among the Jews of «the «haggling» habit which most of the Western world has outgrown,» «the use of shoddy or poor materials,» the fact that «Jews are considered by certain leading insurance companies as a poor fire risk,» etc..

Their appearance before Congress comes at an awkward and difficult time for the company, which is under fire from its shareholders and facing a number of ongoing government investigations into drug pricing and distribution, accounting and disclosures, and antitrust matters.

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Previously, the company only allowed Amazon Fire tablet or smartphone owners to take advantage of the feature, which has now been extended to all Android and iOS users.

39:28 — Jason asks about the closest competition, which is a company using aerial drones to fire seeds into the ground.

Clinton has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, most famously his affair with Monica Lewinsky — which, while consensual in some sense, was nonetheless textbook sexual harassment of a subordinate of a kind that would (or perhaps more accurately, should) get many CEOs fired from their companies.

And Google came under fire for an updated European user consent policy that has open - ended language, which critics said violated a tenet of European privacy rules that requires companies to ask for user consent in specific and explicit ways.

The company did take steps after Fowler went public with her story — including hiring Eric Holder to conduct a company - wide investigation (which Uber said included firing people).

My wife is in advertising, and her first reaction to this proposal was that lots of people at ad companies and tech firms would be fired, which is true.

Bitfinex has come under fire for its relationship with Tether (a company, partially owned by van der Velde through Tether Holdings Limited, which purports to offer a blockchain - based equivalent to the US dollar and has been subpoenaed by the CFTC), but that hasn't stopped its executives from trying to turn over a new leaf.

The company also came under fire for its links to Slate Pharmaceuticals, which was cited by regulators 5 years ago for a misleading advertising campaign for Testopel, a testosterone therapy marketed to improve muscle mass and sexual desire.

These forward - looking companies recognize that using natural gas, efficiency, and renewable energy are more profitable than retrofitting coal - fired plants — which are seen as being obsolete, inefficient, and highly polluting.

It is also considering cutting ties with projects it is working on with the Weinstein Company, which fired its CEO Harvey Weinstein this week.

Thursday's fire overshadowed the company's financial results, which were less affected by large discounts for Canadian heavy oil than other domestic producers.

The unsaid message was that directors also had to stop with their micromanaging of the company and return to their main job, which is largely the hiring and firing of a CEO.

In January, a #DeleteUber social media campaign caught fire after the company was perceived to be on the wrong side of President Trump's controversial immigration ban, which led to Kalanick bowing out of a Trump economic council.

Now Wall Street firms are coming under fire for investing retirement savings and pension funds in companies like American Outdoor Brands, which makes the AR - 15 rifle used in the Parkland shooting.

Ford calls Mayo Schmidt's salary «morally indefensible,» but did not explain how he would carry out the firing at the company, which is no longer under the province's control.

Not all of the ideas have worked and a couple back - fired — in defiance of the company's underlying fundamentals — but many ideas are well below the price at which they were presented either the first time or presented again thereafter.

The Yale Law School graduate is seen as showing genuine concern about others at the company, which raises the question: Why did he stay at a company that has come under fire for its questionable and sometimes illegal practices?

Many companies can deny severance payments to any executive fired «for cause,» which generally means breaching a company's code of ethics or a criminal conviction.

According to sources close to the situation, Uber's full board will meet tomorrow (June 11) morning to consider a series of recommendations — which could include calling for the firing of some top managers — from an investigation that looked at the car - hailing company's toxic culture.

The ride - hail company has recently seen a parade of executives leave the company — either after being fired or resigning — and has suffered through a series of public scandals, the most recent of which involved an executive obtaining the medical records of a rape victim in India.

@ observer: 1) if saying «i disagree with your position» means a group of people are going to attempt to get you fired, it is disingenuous to claim one is «free to speak» — especially when the company for which one works supposedly has NO stance on the issue.

The online coupon company which was once hailed as the future of retail and hasn't really hit the right note ever since, responded by firing their CEO, Andrew Mason.

The fire - roasting started at a flea market at which the company sells its products.