Sentences with phrase «from giant business»

We went from giant business interests fighting for no taxes in NYS to the Democratic Party fighting for it.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Not exact matches

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

The cable giant may be doing better than the rest of its competitors when it comes to hanging on to TV subscribers, and its Internet access business also provides plenty of cash flow from cord - cutters and streaming fans.

Third quarter earnings from corporate giants have been skidding downward, and business owners are concerned that we might be heading into another recession.

You're sitting across from a giant customer who could drastically improve your business.

This can take place in many different forums, but blogging and using other forms of social media are becoming more and more common for all types of businesses — from the small start - up to the giant conglomerate.

It said it raked in US$ 13.4 million in sales to Toys «R» Us's U.S. business in its first quarter and that it had US$ 17.2 million in trade accounts receivable from the toy giant's U.S. operations.

Excerpted from Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion - Dollar Businesses by E. Freya Williams © 2015 E. Freya Williams.

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

The technology giant announced a business reorganization on Monday that CEO Meg Whitman said would «simplify» the company and make it «easier to buy from and partner with.»

No matter how much data you try to pull or how many anecdotes you take into consideration, one big hurdle remains to prevent us from making a final call between these two giants: the fact that every business client is different.

Not only did an entire delegation from the Turkish government, including high - profile diplomats, travel to the U.S. Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week event in Washington, D.C., last year; tech giant Dell chose to host its Women's Entrepreneur Network event in the nation's most populous city, Istanbul, this month.

«Every business, from successful startups to well - established corporate giants, hits a rough patch or two.

But Canada hasn't seen much drying up of investment; despite the headlines surrounding Chinese businesses in Canada, foreign direct investment from the Asian giant is still relatively low.

Google's plans to be a big business technology giant involves everything from spreadsheets and laptops to data centers and computer chips.

More businesses are buying computing resources on demand from tech giants like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft), which has hurt big data center hardware companies like Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe).

Geared toward marketing professionals and academics, expect to hear from high - level speakers including giants the likes of Google, Mercedes - Benz USA, Time Inc., Columbia Business School.

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).

It has actually encouraged foreign participation from oil giants like Exxon Mobil (XOM), Shell, Chevron and BP in its offshore oil business as a way of quickly ramping up production as Petrobras (PBR) had neither the money nor the expertise in doing it alone.

Investors are wary that Costco's business model, which mainly generates revenue through a niche membership club, faces increased competition from online giant Amazon.com, which has begun to shake up the grocery space with its acquisition of Whole Foods.

Netflix, which was co-founded by Hastings and Marc Randolph, has transformed from an online movie rental business into a giant content generator since it was launched in 1997.

Workflow is a word that makes a lot of people fall asleep at their desks (or click away from an article), but it's actually a vital part of many giant businesses.

The telecommunications giant improved its revenues in 2016 and posted a record $ 39.3 billion in cash from operations as it invested heavily in the wireless, fiber, and Internet Protocol networks that make up its business.

Nearly 60 percent of business owners report feeling optimistic about the U.S. economy, according to the latest outlook survey from professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Journalist Robert Zimmer with The Atlantic says, «An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.»

From filtering email to collaborating with colleagues to hosting video conferences, the search giant's budding social network offers features some business owners might not be aware of.

Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) owns everything from ice cream parlors to railroads but there's only one business Warren Buffett describes as «the company that set my heart afire 66 years ago (and for which the flame still burns)» — car insurance giant Geico.

Concerns surrounding economically sensitive «big data» gleaned from user transactions on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's businesses may delay the company's planned U.S. listing, banking sources told CNBC this past week, leading some to speculate that Beijing may even exert pressure on the company to list in Hong Kong.

Late Monday, the cloud giant announced Chime, cloud - based software designed to let business customers make voice or video calls, converse in chat rooms, and hold web conferences from their mobile or desktop devices..

A New York man is accusing the retail giant of deceptive business practices after the company's» 100 % Grated Parmesan Cheese» is found to contain almost 10 percent of a filler derived from wood chips.

Cybersecurity is a booming business with dozens of giant companies selling «solutions» that promise to shield organizations — like so many of the victims of the current ransomware epidemic — stay safe from attacks.

These are mainstream business systems from the tech giants — tools you may want to consider adopting or you could get left behind.

While most banks were cutting down on staffing in 2015, the Wall Street giant hired 2,800 employees, up 8 % from a year earlier, according to Business Insider.

Or the 13.4 % return it got from its retailing and services businesses, including See's Candy and ice cream giant Dairy Queen.

Facebook and Google, however, are theoretically more reliant on the advertising revenue that they would be able to generate from their video shows, although they both obviously have giant businesses that spin off huge amounts of cash.

«Amazon has algorithms and crawlers that go out and find the lowest prices and create this giant sucking sound, and they've taken it offline and effectively created a transfer in value from taxpayers to Amazon,» said Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business told CNBC on Thursday.

Google's core business still comes from search advertising, and if more companies decide to concentrate on mobile apps instead of mobile websites, the search giant could see a slowdown in search advertising revenue.

Much older and wiser businesses have died at Amazon's hand, and Jet will need to prove that it can fend off attacks from the Seattle giant while building a sustainable business model.

Angling to be the go - to marketplace for these gene - based businesses, Helix, the spin out from genetic testing research and technology giant Illumina, has held a first close on a planned $ 200 million funding round led by new investor DFJ Growth.

As we learned from ex-Regus employee Susan Smith, the global business center giant has decided to shift its traditional Senior Client Service Representative role to one of a Community Manager.

The authors said Kalanick had become «a giant liability to the car - hailing company for a growing number of reasons, from sketchy business practices to troubling lawsuits to a basic management situation that was akin to really toxic goat rodeo.

The world's leading businesses — from Fortune 500 giants to disruptive startups — are discovering the transformative power of design.

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon has introduced free, two - hour delivery from Whole Foods stores to its Prime members in four cities, offering a taste of how the e-commerce giant could upend the traditional grocery business now that it owns a national chain.

From executive search at the Caldwell Partners to leading a product team at job board giant Monster.com, to delivering career and outplacement services (both individually and corporately sponsored) since 2002 and more recently, acting as Director of Graduate Career Services at UBC Sauder School of Business which entailed engaging with hundreds of companies.

One major feature that would distinguish the business practices of Amazon's «streaming data marketplace» from those of actors such as Facebook: The social media giant, while admitting that it has allowed direct access to user data for academic purposes, claims to prohibit the sale of these data «to any ad network, data broker or other advertising or monetization - related service.»

The Trump administration's decision to ban U.S. companies from selling to the Chinese telecom giant is seriously hurting the company's business.

That's a lucrative market in which HP hopes to take more business away from commercial tech giants like IBM and Oracle (ORCL).

An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.

Of course, one of the reasons their declared impairments were so massive was simply due to the giant size of these corporations, but the fact of the matter is that diversification of their business segments into many different commodities didn't help these companies from suffering massive losses in 2015 and diversification didn't prevent US stock portfolios from crashing in 2008.