Sentences with phrase «giant corporations as»

It's an ideal currency for investors and giant corporations as well.

Despite its interesting ideas and visuals, Upside Down relies on dubious storytelling, as it casts a giant corporation as villain and asks «What if love was stronger than gravity?»

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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.

It shows why, if given the chance, we'd never build the Internet we have now: As a centralized advertising economy that strips wealth from creators, and feeds personal data to giant corporations.

The argument is the same in places such as India as it is in North America: that Facebook, a giant, rich corporation, is skewing the equality of the Internet in its favour by giving users some parts of it for free while the rest remains «for pay.»

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted — over and over.

,» Robert Hackett mints his own currency, Petsdotcoin, as a way to explain everything you need to know about crypto, from the ICO craze to the way giant corporations are using the blockchain to track mango shipments:

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

Starting with video conferencing pioneer, PictureTel Corporation and audio conferencing giant, Polycom, Hinman was a leader in the DSL industry as a founder of 2Wire.

Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) was a guest on CNBC Friday morning to talk about his company's role as a manufacturing giant in 2017 and beyond.

Donald Trump's promise that corporations will use his giant new tax cut to make new investments and raise workers» wages is proving to be about as truthful as his promise to release his tax returns.

On Monday May 5th, Target Corporation removed Gregg Steinhafel from his role as CEO as a result of his unsatisfactory response to a cyber security threat that compromised millions of user accounts at the retail giant.

As a small business, you don't need all the bells and whistles of a giant corporation.

The recent tax cut gimmick passed by Congress is being exposed as a giant fraud benefiting corporations and the wealthy.

This is manifested in the economic life as the giant economic corporation, in the political life as the state bureaucracy and modern military organization, in the cultural life as the information and knowledge industry such as the universities and coqunication media.

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

: A young girl has this pet, which is sort of a pig / cow / hippo hybrid, but it's going to be experimented on by this giant corporation to use as livestock, so she has to save it.

Modern Western science and technology has dominated the world, functioning as an essential part of the giant transnational corporations, modern war machines, government organizations and communications media.

Now we have the threat from Chemical weapons, neutrons and, the bacteria, as well as giant multi-national and trans - national corporations.

As a partner to clients like Taco Bell, Burger King, Johnny Rockets, Wingstop and even entertainment giant Redbox, Tukaiz has proven the balance of a small business attitude and global corporation size capabilities delivers a unique, best - in - class experience.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

Because Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal - mart are living proof that is possible for giant corporations to make and sell kid - friendly, family - friendly, and healthy processed foods so that we can give our kids some special treats — like the U.K. versions of Starburst and Skittles, for example — without necessarily exposing them to a chemical cocktail that might also give them brain tumors, or leukemia, or the symptoms of ADHD, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest recently highlighted in their report «Rainbow of Risks».

But what makes Andy unique amongst his peers isn't so much his pro-plant bias as it is his passion for calling out the inextricable link between giant food corporations and how we innately come to think and feel about the foods we (often unconsciously choose to) eat.

«From his work as a trial attorney taking on giant corporations like Wal - Mart on behalf of working people, as well the hundreds of hours he's done in pro-bono work for women who were victims of sexual harassment and abuse.

Our legal giants confused citizens rights to free speech with a corporations right to make unlimited donations as «free speech.»

As Americans huddled around the Philco Corporation's popular television sets in the late 1950s, it was only natural that the transistor - manufacturing giant would take a flier at the computing business.

Most cereals are promoted as «health foods» by the giant food corporations.

Some are even deceptively marketed to you as «healthy» by giant food corporations.

Even though Google reportedly were not involved in the conception of the film, and aren't in line to directly profit from ticket sales, because the film obviously got the full cooperation of Google in the making of it, whatever satirical material could have been mined from poking fun at the giant corporation's branding and image has been declawed to the point of the enterprise doubling as a recruitment film.

Jia's films often deal with politics in China, specifically the country's newfound materialism after the Cultural Revolution, as well as the threat that government and giant corporations pose to the lifestyles of regular, working - class people.

That's because it's easy to use a giant, greedy, faceless corporation as a symbol for evil.

In one of the film's earliest scenes, Pryce breaks down at a congressional hearing as he speaks of the damage done to his hometown, and voices the outrage and moral certitude of a lone voice demanding justice from the giant corporation responsible.

And I don't mean that as just the Obama Administration... These guys who are involved in Common Core are enslaving you to giant corporations and the state.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

As you may remember, the US giant had been trying to gain control of the Amazon.com.br domain for years, and recently managed to do so by settling its long legal battle with the domain's previous owner, a Brazilian company called Amazon Corporation.

If we as flyers are expected to notice our mistakes within a 24 hour period shouldn't giant corporations like airlines also have to work to the same rules?

While American Express is the giant in the corporate rewards program space, MasterCard has increased its business offering in recent years, with corporate credit cards for executives at major corporations as well as small business credit cards for entrepreneurs.

Resident Evil: Code: Veronica X HD (XBLA, PSN)-- Regarded as one of the finest of the original Resident Evil games (AKA pre-Resident Evil 4), Code: Veronica follows Claire and Chris Redfield as they continue to unravel the secrets of the Umbrella Corporation, all while dealing with pesky zombies and giant spiders.

Her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions have cemented her reputation as a giant of identity design.

Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.

Take energy giant Enbridge, ranked by Corporate Knights as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

As CMD recently reported, the giant utility American Electric Power this week became the 107th corporation to abandon ALEC since CMD launched the ALEC Exposed project in 2011, joining BP, Shell, Google and others in ceasing financial support.

Life is hard enough without a giant, faceless corporation denying your status as a living human being.

PlayPower will be acquired by Apollo Investment Corporation, a publicly traded affiliate of private equity giant Apollo Management, as part of the restructuring.

India's insurance giant, The LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), is another obstacle as there would be a high possibility of speedy tie - ups with it.

Large scale corporations and conglomerates such as Genentech and Pfizer, which are pharmaceutical giants having a combined market capitalisation of a whopping $ 300 Billion are employing centralized or permissioned Blockchains for ushering in flexibility and settling numerous data points per second.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted - over and over.

After extensive logistical coordination with the United States Military as well as a major retail giant, I am seeking new and stimulating opportunities within a corporation that offers an opportunity to utilize my logistical support and customer service expertise.