Sentences with phrase «giant world of»

If an employee were to injury themselves, workers» comp can save your company from crumbling to the ground in a number of ways, but if you like living on the edge and fail to provide adequate coverage you could face a giant world of hurt.

Several games have sold items like this in the past or bundled them free with expansions, including industry giant World of Warcraft which lets players boost characters up to the level cap in order to get straight into the endgame.

But if your 1996 investment thesis had been that ordinary people would adopt Linux en masse over the next decade — which would not have seemed at all crazy — then you would have been in for a giant world of hurt.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Gundlach, one of the world's most closely watched investors, recommended a short position in social media giant Facebook Inc and a long position in the SPDR S&P Oil and Gas Exploration ETF.

Windows, far and away the most common operating system in the corporate world, is such a complicated and ornery thing — «a giant minefield of conflicts and problems,» says Cormier — that hackers are always finding new chinks in its armor to exploit.

Say «Hello» to Robocoin: Bitcoin recently took a giant leap into the realm of legitimacy and real - world application with the debut of its first ATM.

The new data centers underscores how cloud computing giants like Amazon (amzn), Microsoft, Google (goog), and IBM (ibm) are spending billions of dollars building out their infrastructure across the world so they can sell their technologies to non-U.S. customers.

In late March, Tencent, the politically connected technology giant that recently became one of the world's 10 largest publicly traded companies, said it spent $ 1.8 billion buying Tesla stock.

You're looking at one, tiny piece of jeans giant Levi Strauss's (Change the World 2017 list, No. 11) ambitious experiment to improve the lives of the 25 million men and women in the world's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the proWorld 2017 list, No. 11) ambitious experiment to improve the lives of the 25 million men and women in the world's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the proworld's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the process.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Whereas Apple's old logo connoted the free spirit of an upstart that was taking on staid tech giants, its current position as one of the most valuable corporations in the world calls for the sleek, futuristic logo it has now.

McDonald's Golden Arches maybe identifiable the world over, but they weren't always part of the fast food giant's branding.

Thornton is not trying to fulfil Munk's vision of turning Barrick into a diversified, empire - building mining giant with operations around the world.

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

The Business Set amid a spectacular fantasy world of plummeting chandeliers and giant ascending tires, this company provides the technological expertise for large theatrical productions — including set construction, special effects, and production management.

James Cowan's current Canadian Business cover story, on how McDonald's Canada is helping to turn around the ailing global burger giant, is an in - depth look into one of the world's biggest business turnaround stories.

These two Googlers wanted to show the world what it's like working for the technology giant, so they took advantage of Google's 20 percent time policy (ergo the name), which allows employees to work on side projects up to one day a week.

In the meantime, this week brought fresh evidence of China's rising prowess as the country's two tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, reported record quarterly earnings, prompting the New York Times to point out that the two companies now rank alongside Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon as the world's most highly valued companies.

It's all part of the beer giant's push to get Chinese (and the rest of the world) to drink more expensive beer.

AB InBev, the world's biggest beer brewer, has acquired a significant stake in one of China's best known craft brewers, in a move that shakes up the country's tiny but booming craft beer scene and, the slumping beer giant hopes, its own bottom line.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

The legal battle pitches one of the world's richest cities against a tech giant known for its forays into new markets around the world that have prompted bans, restrictions and protests, including by drivers of London's famous black cabs.

Fewer still — maybe none except Ghosn — have done it while also a top executive at a separate industrial giant on the other side of the world.

The price of bitcoin, the world's most well - known virtual currency, lost almost one fifth of its value to $ 15,800 this week after peaking as high as $ 19,666 on Sunday, as feverish demand ebbed slightly after the exchange giant CME Group and its rival Cboe Global Markets listed bitcoin futures.

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.

Jonathan Tisch, also co-owner of the New York Giants, says he's worried Trump is sending a message of exclusivity to the world.

Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants, said Monday he's worried President Donald Trump's immigration policies and tough talk about homeland security send a message of exclusivity to the world.

Jonathan Tisch, also co-owner of the New York Giants, says he's worried President Trump is sending a message of exclusivity to the world.

Even though the social media giant claims to have had consent, many people across the world were shocked by the sheer amount of personal information the site has on every user.

Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.

After 70 years in business, Swedish furniture giant Ikea has established itself as one of the most recognizable retailers in the world.

And like some of the best RPGs to date, every action you have will have affect the giant world around you.

Felten is one of the top executives at Alphabet's research arm, X, formerly known as Google X and birthplace to the tech giant's «moonshots,» ambitious projects that aim to solve major world problems with cutting edge technology.

Saudi Arabia used to be a quiet giant in the Middle East, more than happy to be the world's largest source of oil, minting petrodollars and spreading the wealth, internally, to keep the powers that be in charge and the populace placated.

«At our core, OpenFin is a technology company cut from the same cloth as the giants of Silicon Valley, but with a focus on the world's financial hubs,» he said.

The 116 - year - old Osaka, Japan - based brewing and distilling giant, the world's third largest producer of premium spirits, will send six glass flask - encased samples of the fermented grain mash alcohol into the great beyond on August 16.

Writer Tom Foster, in «Reprogramming Retail,» depicts what is being called a «post-Amazon world,» in which scrappy, inventive retailers use quality, high - touch service and an appeal to customers» hearts to compete with the online giant's massive economies of scale.

To start a conversation about the future of work, consulting giant PwC, led by technology sector people and organization leader, Toni Cusumano, created three different scenarios for the future of work, which they broke down into worlds.

Tsinghua Unigroup, which had revenue last year of about 12.3 billion yuan, was also in talks about cooperating with a «world - class memory chip giant» to build a new chip factory in China, Zhao said, a move that could help his company acquire intellectual property needed to manufacture memory chips.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced noting that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh had said in a recent meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress — an annual mobile industry conference held in Barcelona — that the search giant was pumping the brakes on its line of «Pixel» - branded Chromebooks.

While French beauty retailer Sephora landed squarely at the top of our list of the world's most trusted companies earlier this year, the cosmetic giant is currently in the throes of one of the most vulgar social - media mishaps ever.

In contrast to Ong's product - based approach, Roosegaarde's work has mainly taken the form of large - scale installations, among them a fluorescent bike path that glows like Van Gogh's night skies, giant kites that can supply up to 200 households with green energy, and «the world's largest vacuum cleaner» to suck up air pollution in public spaces.

The company's float is underpinned by a key strategic alliance with gold giant Placer Dome Asia Pacific Limited covering resource projects across South East Asia and Australia — including some world - class targets in the Philippines — plus a suite of gold and diamond projects in WA.

For starters, it's part of a wave of global consolidation in agriculture that will put an increasingly large portion of the world's commercial seed market — roughly 50 % — under the control of a few giant multinationals.

Washing one's hands frequently is the best and simplest way to reduce respiratory infections and diarrhea, the world's two leading causes of child mortality, and the consumer - goods giant Unilever is promoting this habit through its Lifebuoy soap brand.

Tech giants, along with thousands of smaller companies, are chomping at the bit to show off their shiny new wares at the world's largest technology trade show.

The founder of the global ecommerce giant explains his business philosophy at the World Economic Forum.

Talk of a dynasty swept the baseball world recently when the San Francisco Giants won their second World Series in three yworld recently when the San Francisco Giants won their second World Series in three yWorld Series in three years.

In October, the tech giant revealed it had underestimated by billions the number of people affected by a 2013 data breach (already the world's largest), in which thieves stole names, emails, phone numbers, and more.

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.