Sentences with phrase «foreign companies like»

We also offer ADRs (American depositary receipts), which allows you to own shares in foreign companies like Porsche.

This process makes it easier for investors to gain access to foreign companies like: BP, Toyota (TM), or Nokia (NOK).

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

The question now is whether Germany's auto industry — which is behind on the electric trend and has been upended by Volkswagen's emissions scandal — can build an e-vehicle that the nation's drivers actually want to buy, or whether the incentive will end up lining the pockets of foreign companies like Tesla and the Renault - Nissan Alliance.

Not exact matches

The H - 1B program, which allows US companies to bring in foreign workers in specialized fields like math, science and engineering, has long been a magnet for controversy.

Like all foreign companies, Tmall partners must establish a Chinese - licensed business unit and a Chinese bank account.

That is based not on U.S. companies like Lavabit shutting down, but rather on customer loss, mostly at foreign companies who don't want their data subject to American search.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

She has run her family's diversified holding company, whose activities span 12 sectors and range from investing and real estate to the manufacture and distribution of foreign beverages (like Coca - Cola), cookies (like Nabisco's Oreos) and heavy equipment (like Cummins» engines), since 1986.

As STAT News points out, foreign bribery charges are pretty common among large biopharma companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol - Myers Squibb.

FWD.us also fired back against proposals to limit programs like the H - 1B visa that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers, calling any plan to «radically restrict pathways» for skilled immigrants to come to the U.S. «just wrong.»

If people at local companies went about their own city like expats in foreign countries, how many more friends could they have?

For Alibaba, the e-commerce company has been trying to make its cloud computing unit the dominant cloud provider in China, where it's more difficult for foreign cloud computing companies like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft) to operate due to the country's tough data sovereignty and cybersecurity laws.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

Mr. Trump's announcement came despite months of heavy pushback from American companies that use metals in their products, like automakers and food packagers, and foreign officials, who warned that tariffs would strain relations and could prompt retaliatory trade actions.

Chinese law, meanwhile, offers enough leeway regarding use of foreign brands» and celebrities» names that companies routinely try to cash in — whether those whose names are used like it or not.

Due to B.C.'s Wild West donation laws, companies — even foreign - owned ones like Kinder Morgan — can literally buy influence with their corporate chequebook.

The San Francisco - based social media network remains blocked on within mainland China, though tools like Twitter have become an important medium for Chinese companies seeking to reach out to foreign markets.

Many of these investments involve buying companies in foreign currencies, like the Australian dollar or British pound, that are trading near multi-year lows against the US dollar, and far below their historic averages.

There are occasionally Canadian companies listed on other foreign exchanges, like the London Stock Exchange, but the vast majority are on either TSX or one of the American exchanges.

Today, American aerospace companies are at a huge disadvantage because foreign airplane makers like Canada's Bombardier and Europe's Airbus are intentionally skirting international trade laws — which will only end up hurting American workers.

Business leaders of companies like Amer - con are fighting an uphill battle against foreign companies and it's costing Americans jobs and billions of dollars.

Trump would also submit legislation on currency manipulation, review whether our trading partners engage in «harmful» practices, and would order the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to review food security in trade and reciprocity in international corporate takeovers (i.e. whether a US company would be able to buy a Chinese company like a Chinese company would be able to be buy a US company).

Companies like Google have tried and failed to push into China, which is notoriously hostile toward foreign competitors.

This divide was perhaps most apparent when Alex Stamos, Yahoo! Inc.'s chief information security officer, asked Rogers if he believes companies like Yahoo! should grant foreign governments access to customers» encrypted data in the manner the US government wants.

Furthermore, many foreign companies do not pay a consistent quarterly dividend like US companies; therefore, foreign company dividend policies are not always suitable to building a consistent passive income stream

The company published a blog post on Thursday outlining some of the steps it's taking to prevent foreign governments from using Facebook to try and manipulate an election, like Russian actors did on Facebook during the 2016 campaign.

«With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the reality of the current business environment in Canada, which presents real challenges to a company like ours,» the engineering giant's chief executive, Neil Bruce, said in prepared comments he made to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday.

In an interview with the New York Times this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is expecting that foreign governments like Russia will continue to meddle if they can.

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The latter means that foreign companies should be treated like national firms.

One of the major challenges for companies like C.F. Gollott & Sons is foreign competition.

Impressed with the sales of what had been almost exclusively American hot and spicy products, foreign companies have launched competing lines, like Cholula Hot Sauce, made in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

I like this answer better because it explains the actual leverage the EU has over a foreign company.

Also, foreign companies owned by Nigerians, Indians and Lebanese treat Nigerian workers like slaves and they are making huge profits.

It is increasingly clear that social media has become a key medium for dangerous foreign influence in our elections, and social media companies like Facebook have a responsibility to do everything they can to stop it.»

Companies like Kiss.com (previously known as Foreign Relations), A Foreign Affair and Cherry Blossoms had marriage agency contacts abroad in Russia, Eastern Europe, Philippines and South America.

I am from Texas, U.S.A. and executive general manager for big company foreign in xihua; i go to zhengzhou to relax would like you to come to xihua for visit.

Since then, Poland has become something of a gateway to Eastern Europe and enjoyed foreign capital investments for publishers from international companies like Sanoma, Wolters Kluwer and Pearson, and, in the distribution sector, by the investment fund Penta from the Czech Republic.

Readers have been delighted by both companies that make foreign translations of English language books available, as well as companies like Le French Book that operate in reverse, taking modern - day bestselling French titles and making them available in English to US and UK audiences via ebook.

Companies like Le French Book and Spanish Publishers have made it possible for translations of contemporary bestsellers to be published in foreign languages and sold through major ebook retailers.

But when they're on the other side of the deal, licensing things like paperback reprints or foreign rights to other companies, publishers typically don't make agreements that continue for the life of a book's copyright.

Legislation is in place in India that blocks foreign companies from selling multiple brands within the country, which has prevented giants like Walmart from having a sales channel within the country.

The banning of foreign media in China will be a hard blow to companies like Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the New York Times who have collectively invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build up the Chinese publishing industry and do reports in Chinese, for a Chinese audience.

An easy way to see what that looks like is just to go on a foreign website, and have Google translate the whole site... this is basically what you end up with while using companies that charge extremely low prices.»

Does the release of a mediocre phone made by a foreign company just confirm the idea that the company has dug its own grave and feels fine flopping into it, like a failed character in a Martin Scorsese film?

They also offer many opportunities to independent authors in areas like foreign rights sales with partner companies that have been thoroughly vetted, enabling them to grow and develop their work in foreign language territories.

It's hard to get answers from companies like Lulu with foreign - based call centers.

I predict start - up companies will form in the publishing world offering a wide range of services to indie authors like all forms of editing, cover design, social media coaching and other coaching, formatting, marketing and promotion, legal help when it comes to film rights, foreign translations and help with foreign rights, etc..