Sentences with phrase «for big giants»

Starting off the day, crowds of people gathered around our new office and the surrounding blocks waiting for the big Giants Parade to march down Market Street.

That, my friend, is the price you pay for big giants.

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Saudi Arabia is walking back plans for a massive public share offering for state oil giant Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, on a big international stock exchange.

A bit of stolen merchandise is no big deal for Amazon — it recently hit a market value of $ 500 billion — but the snafu may serve as a rather embarrassing wake - up call for the retail giant.

Sure, it's an online giant grabbing for a big slice of the $ 2.7 billion a day — that's $ 1.9 million per minute — that travelers spend on trips to and within America alone, according to the U.S. Travel Association.

It's always been challenging for small businesses to compete with big - box chains and giant corporations.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

To understand why, and why allowing T - Mobile to acquire Sprint would be a big problem for consumers, we need to understand what makes it so hard to for even giant, well - funded companies with recognized brand names to break into the wireless market.

But perhaps the biggest lesson Gould holds for aspiring tech giants — or, in the case of Canada, the governments who hope to foster them — was his belief in creating something that's not only new and different, but eminently worthwhile.

Perhaps most noteworthy, September saw the biggest IPO ever when Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) raised $ 25 billion, choosing to list in the United States during a year that has seen favorable performance for Chinese IPOs.

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

The Cupertino, Calif. - based tech giant is getting ready for what should be its biggest launch event since the iPad in 2010.

In its heyday, it was a popular stopover for people looking to see the Calaveras Big Trees, a recently discovered grove of giant sequoias that attracted tourists from all over.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

It's a danger for a startup to say about big, giant companies like a Microsoft or a Google, «Oh, we don't compete in their space.»

Kim Truter, CEO of the Canadian arm of the South African diamond giant, says Alberta's biggest city was a natural choice for a new HQ

The e-commerce giant is approaching the market following mega bond deals from AT&T ($ 22.5 billion) and British American Tobacco Plc ($ 17.25 billion), and this deal is good for the year's fourth biggest following a $ 17 billion offering from Microsoft Corp..

Globally, consumers will likely have three big giants in the form of Amazon, Apple and Google to choose from for e-books, with some other players like Kobo in the mix as well.

But Google Ventures, the in - house VC firm of the search giant, has found perhaps the world's least sophisticated fix for the eternal office productivity issue of meeting creep — a big, plastic alarm clock.

After playing for the New York Giants for a decade, offensive lineman Brad Benson retired from the game in 1987, a year after «Big Blue» beat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI.

David Winters is gunning for big changes at the beverage giant, particularly to the company's approach to executive pay.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

The deal creates a bigger competitor for chipmaking giants Intel and Broadcom, reports «Squawk Box's» Becky Quick.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

However, no proposed regulations for an open internet address the existing power of either the service providers or the «Big Five» internet giants: Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

This is a big move for the giant drugstore chain (only second to Walgreens).

Meanwhile, Netflix (nflx) is second to only Time Warner's HBO (twx) in terms of TV category nods (nine to HBO's 12), while the streaming giant also picked up three big nominations in the film categories, including two for its original feature film Mudbound.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast offered to buy Sky for $ 31 billion in an unsolicited approach, taking on Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Bob Iger's Walt Disney in the battle for Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast Corp has offered $ 31 billion for Sky Plc, threatening a plan hatched by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc and Walt Disney Co to seize control of Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

Big spending and lower - than - expected forecast for the holiday season put a cloud over the e-commerce giant's shares.

Groupe Harnois is now the biggest independent distributor in Quebec, supplying two billion litres of petrol per year for a total of 11 % retail - market share in a market dominated by giant firms like Couche - Tard.

If you need to print brochures, giant spreadsheets or other presentations that are too big for your standard printer to handle, the HP Officejet 7000 offers big, low - cost prints — up to 13 by 19 inches — for less than the cost of an all - in - one printer.

The multifaceted Japanese tech giant is not letting a failed bid for T - Mobile stand in the way of its quest to become the biggest company in the world.

Ryanair, Europe's biggest airline, is attacking Google for its «misleading» search ads and is calling on the search giant to enforce advertising transparency.»

Big data has opened up giant opportunities for Dan Siroker.

Tech giant Nokia took a big step into the digital health space when it snapped up France's Withings, which has a product suite encompassing everything from activity trackers to smart watches to sleek, high - tech scales, for $ 191 million last year.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

But after the last reveller left the giant outdoor party one big question lingered for the NHL.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

CVS Health said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $ 69 billion in a deal that would combine the drugstore giant with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States and has the potential to reshape the nation's health care industry.

Samsung is commonly known as one of the world's biggest smartphone and TV producers, yet this aspect doesn't stop the South Korean giant from actively looking into blockchain technology, and how they can leverage it both for its inner operations and customer base.

The Peach State's Lt. Governor hoisted a big red flag for the e-commerce giant.

With his $ 98 billion Vision Fund, he has barged into Silicon Valley, paying top dollar for big stakes in the ride - sharing giant Uber and the office - space company WeWork.

Another big shareholder of the microblog service is Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, which invested $ 586 million for an 18 % stake in Weibo one year earlier.

The e-commerce giant is celebrated by many in Seattle for being the city's biggest employer and adding tremendous wealth to the area.

Giant Chinese smart phone maker Xiaomi has filed documents that put it on course for the world's biggest IPO this year.

Despite having no expertise in the space, two years ago the ride - hailing giant decided it would take on tech companies and automakers alike in the complex quest for autonomous vehicles, a goal that would eliminate a big cost to Uber rides — the driver.

Munster is predicting Amazon's Whole Foods acquisition in 2017 was just a warm up to the real show, and that a takeover of big - box retailer Target is in store for the eCommerce giant in 2018.

In simple terms, the EVM could be viewed as one giant environment conducive for building bigger, better, and powerful smart contracts.