Sentences with phrase «first companies still»

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The company is still billions of dollars and years away from building its first official tunnel, however.

Executives from all three companies agreed that innovative Canadian startups can still find money, but unlike their American cousins — which often have such funds thrown at them — they have to work at building a proper business first.

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

Still, the company met its sales goals for the first year within three weeks of launch, Blumenthal said.

Of course, it's feasible that hiring managers may still approach Jopwell with biases — by targeting candidates from select universities, for example — similar to those that prevent companies from becoming diverse in the first place.

'» Still, the company will produce more TPU than rubber handrails this year, a first.

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Still, Hyperloop One has probably made the most strides of any company looking to build the low pressure, high speed tubular system first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013.

Tim McCullen: When I first started franchising, we were still running a service company.

While there's no evidence that the ride - hailing company has actually taken advantage of the entitlement, it is still unclear why Apple allowed Uber access in the first place.

While outsourcing can still be a viable solution for some companies looking to cut costs, it's important to first consider whether a function falls within your startup's core competency.

Of course, Samsung is not the first company to patch an unintended workaround — far from it — and it's still possible to disable the Bixby button entirely.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

Because even in 2015 I still see people riffing on ideas and working on business plans, product flows or coding on projects without first forming a company, signing contracts that assign intellectual property to that company and trusting that «friends» would never sue you.

«Even though we're 1,200 people it still feels like it did in the early days when we first founded the company,» co-founder and CEO Jenn Hyman told Business Insider.

It'll be more limited than the Echo, at least to start — HTC exec Nigel Newby - House says that the company is still developing the software with Amazon and that Alexa will be implemented into the U11 through an update in the first month after the phone comes out.

Apple still has loads of cash on hand, about $ 178 billion, according to the company's fiscal first - quarter earnings.

Like many first - time founders still getting a handle on their company's business cycles, Carson had failed to plan for the delay from when she made her products to when she could deliver them — or, more crucially, get paid for them.

Jeff Bezos» rocket company Blue Origin last month announced its first six launch contracts for its still - in - development New Glenn orbital rocket.

This was the first full quarter since SoftBank completed a $ 32 billion acquisition of Britain's most valuable technology company ARM, but SoftBank's earnings are still highly dependent on Sprint and the performance of the domestic telecommunications business.

Still, the stock has done pretty well since the Oracle of Omaha first revealed his stake in the company.

We didn't want to give up any part of our company, but we still wanted to continue to grow at the rate that we had in our first 5 years» — Venue Kings Ticket Brokers, Anthony Beyrouti, CEO

I don't mean this literally: The «from» line might still be your company's name, but the content should feel as if it comes from a human being, speaking in the first person (using «I» or «we» and addressing the recipient as «you»), with natural - sounding language.

The ride - hailing company first introduced its plan for «on - demand aviation» in October last year, but still has some hurdles to face, including inventing the aircrafts.

That said, the company will still have to prove that the co-selling benefit is worth switching platforms, or building an application on top of Azure from a company's first line of code.

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First, Bellemain offers a 10 - year «it's still perfect» warranty, so if the rack warps, bends, or otherwise stops working perfectly, the company will give you a full refund with no questions asked.

My intention here was to see first - hand how O'Leary balanced building a company and working 18 hours a day with still making time for his creative outlets.

The company had previously said that it would be producing 2,500 Model 3s each week by the end of the first quarter, and the company confirmed that it still hopes to make 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of the second quarter.

My seven - company First Round portfolio was strong, and I was early to finding Foursquare (which, at the time, was still a good story).

Despite the company's progress, though, it's still cutting its production target for the Model 3 in half for the first quarter of 2018.

And while Porat bragged about the Google self - driving car project's recent milestone of 2 million miles driven, the company still hasn't brought the cars to market, despite being one of the first companies to embark on the project more than seven years ago.

«We are still a good year away, in our estimation, from seeing the first production - ready instruments where you can imagine a known financial services company using this.

Consequently at the first company you had CFOs who had run businesses or went on to run businesses, at the latter you had the proverbial ink stained wretch capable of turning out the best damned budget package in the world and still chained to a 10 key.

Microsoft was just an OS company for its first 5, and WhatsApp is still just messaging.

The company's sales were down 39 % year - over-year due in part to shuttered lines and in part to fewer project sales, but despite $ 18 million in restructuring and asset impairment charges, First Solar still pulled off a positive operating margin and a net profit of $ 52 million.

There is still no word, however, on which company will be launched by NASA first.

First - quarter sales and earnings at the world's fourth - largest oil company came in better than were generally expected, but were still off significantly from the prior - year's results.

«Mr. Zuckerberg's comments suggest he still doesn't get it: What matters is not whether internet companies «deserve» our private information but why we as consumers do not have meaningful ways to protect that data from being siphoned for sale in the first place,» Tom Wheeler, a former F.C.C. chairman, writes in an NYT op - ed.

He said the company is still positive about its long - term prospects and is even more confident about a fourth quarter launch of its first Windows Phone 7 devices.

Still, it'll be rather hard to catch up to Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Google's parent company Alphabet, which is also planning to roll out its first public ride - hailing service this year.

First taught as electives and now part of core business school curriculums, the field is still struggling to escape from the bounds of the business plan - centric view that startups are «smaller versions of a large company.»

Facebook appears to be bulletproof after stellar earnings report Opinion: Zuckerberg and Co. still face potential backlash in future quarters, but so far seem indestructibleEven as a mature company facing public backlash, Facebook managed to increase its revenue and user growth in the first quarter, an amazing feat.

What is more interesting, though, is the story of Windows» decline in Redmond, culminating with last week's reorganization that, for the first time since 1980, left the company without a division devoted to personal computer operating systems (Windows was split, with the core engineering group placed under Azure, and the rest of the organization effectively under Office 365; there will still be Windows releases, but it is no longer a standalone business).

«People say the customer comes first and all that,» says Falconi, who still advises Lemann's companies, «but actually it's cash.»

Verve is not the first mobile ad tech company to run into trouble this summer: One of its competitors, GroundTruth — long known as xAd — recently ousted its CEO after a breach of company policy, triggering an «investigation» that the company has still declined to publicly explain.

Despite the positive revenue news, the company still reported losses for the first quarter.

UPDATED 1:13 PM: EXCLUSIVE: Aspects of Relativity's first bankruptcy are still before the courts, but as expected the company today filed for Chapter 11 with a promise that «funds will be available for distribution» to its approximately 200 unsecured creditors.

Still, it is the first major hire for Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, who announced the appointment in an email on Friday to staff — a note that also acknowledged the litany of legal challenges facing the company around the world.