Sentences with phrase «firms moving in»

For firms moving in that direction, this issue will provide some guidance.

The alacrity with which firms move in the direction of becoming or aspiring towards the legal publishing route will depend to a large extent on the lawyers proclivity towards engaging in the process.

The setting up of a 100 - person, multiple staff department center in Tallahassee was driven partly by a firm move in Manhattan and an effort to reduce real estate cost.

Google Street View showed a different law firm at the address because the photos were from before the old law firm moved out and the new law firm moved in.

Not exact matches

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

The San Francisco - based start - up moved to store its Chinese data locally in 2016 but China further introduced a strict cybersecurity law last year that requires foreign and local tech firms to offer technical support to authorities who wish to access it.

With younger employees pushing for more mobility and flexibility, and companies seeing productivity gains from teams working while on the move, it's no wonder that 71 % of Canadian firms in a recent ICT Council survey said boosting mobile adoption was a priority.

The question is — despite MacMillan's conversion on the road to the Internet — can his upstart firm genuinely move beyond the comfortable verities of the 1,000 - channel broadcast industry and become a company that competes in the deep space of the online world?

The move made plenty of sense, too: Since 2009, two - thirds of Benchmark's investments have been in start - ups within San Francisco, and the firm believes the number may only get higher.

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

The firm says the option market is pricing in an earnings - related move of 3.6 %, above its three - year average realized move of 2.5 %.

An Israeli firm was making better software with cheaper implementation, so we bought it in late 2000, restructured, and moved all our customers onto that platform and our tech operations to Israel.

«If somebody moves to us with these funds [in their portfolio], we're looking for an immediate maturity date to get out,» says a Vancouver investment adviser with a nationwide wealth management firm who asked not to be named.

Wall Street also moved lower in anticipation of a series of earnings from big tech firms this week, including Alphabet on Monday.

After years of internal development, Baidu in April decided to open its autonomous driving technology to third parties, a move it hopes will accelerate development and help it compete with U.S. firms Tesla Inc and Google project Waymo.

Dow Jones first reported the hedge fund manager's move, saying his firm made around $ 100 million in profit from its investment in the athletic apparel and shoe company.

Avivah Wittenberg - Cox, CEO of the gender consulting firm 20 - first, wishes the conversations about women in the workplace could move beyond gender stereotypes — «I think it's suicidal to talk about women being better or men being better» — and even beyond mention of gender itself.

Setup: Huh was a 22 - year - old journalism major when he moved to Chicago and founded software analytics firm Raydium in January 2000.

With its $ 28.1 billion in revenue — the average McDonald's restaurant brings in $ 2.6 million in sales, compared to Burger King's $ 1.2 million, according to research firm Technomic — the company's scale makes it harder to move the needle.

«Market moves within a 10 percent band [don't] impact small businesses at all,» John Backus, founder and managing partner of New Atlantic Ventures, a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says.

Regarding the Federal Reserve specifically, the firm writes that Trump could appoint a «personal ally» as the next Fed chair, after Janet Yellen leaves in January 2018, in «a move that would undermine the Fed's reputation for years.»

The move positions Goldman Sachs to become the first large Wall Street firm to make markets in cryptocurrencies, whose wild price swings and surging values have captured the public's imagination but given pause to established institutions.

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

Circle, a cryptocurrency - focused financial - services firm, will announce today that it is buying crypto exchange Poloniex — a move that immediately makes Circle one of the largest and most influential companies in the industry.

It was he who convinced Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to join in 1984, a move that bolstered the firm's reputation and forever associated it with the country's political establishment.

The proposal kicked off a bidding war for Warrnambool, however, and another Australian dairy company stated it would be in the «national interest» for its own proposal to be given full consideration before the Montreal firm's offer moves ahead.

This firm offers a jewelry design service in which customers team up with an on - staff designer and move through the design process in a step - by - step fashion.

China Oceanwide Holdings Group has agreed to buy U.S. insurer Genworth Financial for $ 2.7 billion in cash, the latest in a series of moves by Chinese firms to buy overseas assets as their domestic economy slows and the yuan weakens.

«We're on our second or third generation of entrepreneurial executives now,» says Charley Polachi, managing partner of the recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles / Fenwick Partners in Lexington, Mass. «They've been moving around for a few years.

Since moving to this country in 1967 to study history at the University of Manitoba, the former Scottish platoon commander has worked as a stock broker and an investment firm manager.

He says it was a shrewd strategic move for the firm once known as Biovail to stake its claim as a leader in the dermatology industry.

The company moved into the large facility in 2012, helping transform San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood into a tech hub that now houses other promising tech firms such as Uber and Square, as well as a variety of smaller startups.

When Oracle announced it was gunning for the software firm with an unwelcome $ 5.1 - billion offer, observers were stunned at the audacity of the move, which came as PeopleSoft was in the midst of inking its own $ 1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller software firm J.D. Edwards & Co..

The move may alleviate concerns over Chinese tampering; Taiwanese firm Foxconn, in comparison, makes both iPhones and the new BlackBerry Z3.

Chevron said two of its executives were arrested in Venezuela, a rare move likely to spook foreign energy firms still operating in the OPEC nation stricken by hyperinflation, shortages and crime.

The move rattled investors because the sanctions require that U.S. citizens must divest of any stocks, bonds or other holdings in the targeted firms by May 7.

The only way oil and gas firms can regain their social licence in the long term, she argues, is to become diversified energy companies and move toward renewable assets.

Five major Uber investors — like the venture capital firm Benchmark, for example — pressured Kalanick to step down in a letter titled «Moving Uber Forward,» according to the New York Times.

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Finally, the firm has been moving to divest itself of assets in places like Egypt and the Gulf of Mexico, to focus more on its onshore North American holdings.

Indeed, in the years following the end of the tech boom, SEP (No. 93 on the PROFIT 500, with $ 11.4 million in revenue) had ridden a wave of expansion as a growing number of firms moved to search advertising and other forms of digital brand promotion.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

Besides encouraging local companies to publish updates in English, the government has also moved to privatize state - owned firms.

Cameron Sr. was one of thousands of people named in the «Panama Papers» leak last week, that documented in exhaustive detail how a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, had helped wealthy people around the world move their assets offshore.

The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg is very moving, says Tamsyn Fricker, director of luxury travel consulting firm Travel Artistry Africa.

The gains will largely be driven by millennials moving dollars away from bricks and mortar, the firm said in a new report.

Under this scheme, firms would be able to move funds in and out of China for capital account transactions.

McDonnell, who has years of experience in senior executive posts in the tech world, stepped into the top job four years ago and moved quickly to create a sales - oriented ethos at the firm.

And as Fortune contributor Joshua Brown pointed out when the rule was passed, many big firms are already moving in that direction.

Qualcomm is likely to make aggressive moves to keep shareholders happy in the next two quarters while the company faces a possible hostile takeover attempt from Broadcom, research firm Nomura said Tuesday.