Sentences with phrase «for niche players»

As more pension funds look for custom - made solutions it could create an opportunity for niche players with the capacity to provide bespoke transactions.

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«I think they are cutting out a terrific niche for themselves in a space where there are no other meaningful players doing anything.»

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

But the decline of cable could be tough for smaller players, such as niche channels which currently get a share of cable fees but might not be able to attract subscribers on their own.

For a year and a half, he worked a hundred hours a week to make his spinoff, GourmetGiftBaskets.com, into the third - largest player in his niche.

When an organization's culture centres around unusually high expectations for performance at a blistering pace (like, say, a ride - sharing platform endeavouring to be the last player standing in a fiercely competitive new niche) a Machiavellian «the ends justify the means» stink can pervade even those departments meant to keep things in balance.

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But VMware's decision to narrow the focus of vCloud Air from what was once characterized as a full - on competitor to Amazon Web Services to a more niche offering is what opened up this opportunity for IBM and other cloud players.

It's doubtful BlackBerry will ever realize its dream of becoming a global handset player again, but it could carve out a profitable niche serving clients for whom security and reliability come first.

His was a niche with no established players, and he saw the chance for a few companies to race ahead of the pack.

The FHA, once a niche player focused on low - income housing, now backs about a third of new mortgages including super-sized ones for wealthy home buyers.

If it decides to seek strategic partners, then the big question is whether IPG Photonics will look to acquire smaller niche players itself, or search for a larger company wanting to buy it out.

A utility player with a knack for getting to the quarterback is a valuable thing — especially if an enterprising defensive coordinator can carve out a niche for a player praised for his leadership.

The industry has a host of small players, including those with extremely niche positioning like secondshaadi.com (for second marriages), idontwantdowry.com (for those against the practice of dowry), h1bmarriages.com (for non-resident Indians and technical professionals), positivesaathi.com (for HIV - positive people) and so on.

From what was in the early 90's mabe 2 - 3 major players, we now have hundreds - thousands of serious Internet singles services that cater for every niche group you can imagine - Christians being one of them!

I think that is one of the reasons why this is such a niche genre for console players.

However, if you're in that specific niche of someone who's looking for a party game where everyone is able to play with their own controller and want either a 3v3 or 4v4 experience with no AI controlled players, the PS4 just can't handle it!

«Rainbow Six: Siege is a niche game, designed for hardcore players who're part of a dedicated multiplayer community, and within that context, the game can be enjoyable» they said.

While Volvo tries to make itself a leading player in the plug - in niche Toyota Motor already has a dominant position in Europe's market for conventional hybrids.

The Q30 is a big deal for Infiniti, the first time they've built a compact car and the first time they've built a car in the UK (the new Q30 is being built in Sunderland), and the Q30 could elevate Infiniti from being a niche player in the Premium market (certainly in the UK and Europe) to a proper force.

«RIM is on a path to becoming a niche player,» said Ted Schadler, an analyst for Forrester Research Inc. «RIM has to essentially retrench its strategy.

If you are paying a self - publishing service to do the digital uploading to ebook sellers for you, you might check to ensure they are uploading to at least the major players and check out the niche booksellers to see if they fit your target market for your book.

The online store quickly gained a critical mass of titles and got out ahead of other niche players as «a one - stop shop» for comics, said Hank Kanalz, who heads up DC's digital operations.

These, of course, are exactly the sort of thing that extremist copyright proposals like SOPA and the TPP work against: by making the companies that serve authors and their audiences bear the liability for infringement, we shrink the number of companies that supply authors and ensure that only big players like Amazon, Paypal, Apple and Google can occupy those niches.

If you want an entrepreneurial business partner or to meet top players in a niche industry, then an MBA may not be right for you.

We also find occasional ideas by doing industry overviews to get to know a number of players in a specific sector or niche that we think may be out of favor or neglected for some reason.

The company has emerged as a major player in the Pacific Northwest, carving out a niche with customers who are looking for a more pleasant, intimate and rewarding experience when shopping for their pet needs, especially natural and solution - oriented products.

Fast - forward a few years and Wal - Mart is now the dominant player in the category and Toys «R Us, after surviving a meltdown several years ago, is looking for its own niche.

'' We have been working with the travel trade for more than 15 years and during this time, our web - based technology has reached levels of sophistication that are unprecedented in the travel tech sphere, so much so that we can transform a niche company like Across Australia into a major global player,» he said.

We are stuck in a constant flux of «Will they, Won't they» with Crytek, which usually ends with them citing that they are unsure on the possible player base / audience reach for what is now, a niche shooter.

«Little League baseball fans, players and families simply haven't had a videogame made just for them, so our goal is to fill this niche,» said Activision's Dave Oxford.

As far as i'm aware, survive games are a rather niche genre, and with a preexisting installed player base it doesn't look to be a welcoming place for new comers.

I also can imagine how much this is going to help CCP as the nature of EVE Online always meant it's going to be a niche game, so trying to open that up to more players like this can only really survey to make the game worse for its existing player base.

For hectic match - making, players will feel like they have a legitimate niche and fulfil a role.

Even though the Web Player is a niche in itself and is mostly used for game jams, demos etc. it's still a big loss in my opinion.

Losing Pro Clubs probably isn't a big deal for most players as it is a niche game mode to begin with.

Not a major change, and not one I will mourn, but Sign gave players the choice between JP and EN voice overs — the fact that Revelator lacks this clearly implies that the cost and hassle involved with full voiced localization doesn't make sense for this admittedly niche series.

World of Tanks on PC firmly established itself in the niche of the strategic shooter genre, providing entertainment for millions of Chinese players.

Equally unsurprising is that the bulk of these titles seem designed for a market that does not exist, or at the very least is decidedly niche: players young enough to appreciate the source material but old enough not to become easily frustrated by the title's unforgiving gameplay.

So, besides accepting the fact that true MMOs (defined as non-instanced, persistent worlds for players be apart of, rather than worlds primarily filled with tasks to be completed) are a niche product, what options are left?

In just a few short months, the audience for commentated professional - level matches and tournaments has exploded from a small and dedicated niche to a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of viewers who regularly tune in to view games on YouTube, GOMtv.net or Major League Gaming, and follow their favorite players.

While the series kept on chugging, for years it would end up in its own little niche, popular only among its hardcore fans, with «professional» fighting game players scoffing at each new release.

It's growing, to be sure, and has cultivated a strong brand image as a publisher of grindhouse action games and other niche genres — but for a commercial event at the scale of E3, Devolver is not a major player.

While not garnering nearly the same attention as previous releases PaRappa the Rapper and UmJammer Lammy, it carved a niche for itself thanks to its unique approach to rhythm gaming - giving players obstacles timed to music to navigate via a semi-intuitive control scheme.

There has been recent speculation regarding what will be offered, and for me the first add - on pack will heavily influence my decision as to whether or not I think this game will make it in the long run as a blockbuster franchise or if future sales will be limited to a smaller niche of players.

Still, that was as a career technical niche player — no need for details.

Photo: Michael Graham Richard The Little Car that Could The Toyota Prius hybrid has been sold in the U.S. for 10 years (even longer in Japan, where it was first introduced in 1997), and during that decade this car went from a small niche player

Whether it be the insatiable consumer drive for the adoption of digital services, like mobile banking and biometric security, the emergence of smaller niche fintech players like Monzo and Atom Bank, who are quicker to adapt to new demands, or the ever - present threat of cyber-attacks that dominate international headlines; financial services organisations need to ensure they can attract and retain the best IT talent in order to respond to these changing market conditions.

«For us on this side of the pond, the lessons are clear: You can be part of law - firm - land's equivalent of the New York - based «bulge bracket» of investment banks (roughly, that would probably include Cleary - Gottlieb, Cravath, Davis - Polk, Milbank, Shearman & Sterling, Simpson - Thacher, and Sullivan & Cromwell), or you can be a newly bulked - up global player (Jones - Day, Latham & Watkins, Orrick, many emulators) or you can find your own niche.»

Insurance Brokers Group has found that being a niche player as an insurance broker gives them an advantage by being a one stop shop for multiple types of insurance coverage, and multiple A + rated carriers.