Sentences with phrase «giant in would»

While all the focus lately has been on whether, and under what conditions, Verizon should be allowed into the country, few have taken the time to look at whether letting the American giant in would actually result in better prices for consumers.

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As he then told CNBC, he was «too dumb» to have seen the potential in the e-commerce giant.

Other media giants, like ESPN, for example, are also investing in eSports coverage, and tons of smaller publications and blogs have long been dedicated to the industry.

Less than three years after opening an office in Perth, United States grain giant Gavilon Holdings has decided to exit the Western Australian market.

Since joining CNBC's Asia operations, Nancy has also interviewed Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al T; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on stage at the APEC meeting in Danang; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the height of the North Korean crisis in Shanghai and the CEO of Southeast Asia ride hailing and tech giant, Grab, after acquiring Uber's business in the region.

In those days, convergence was the buzzword, but the media giants didn't have much to pump through all those fibre optic networks.

Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

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.

Chinese tech giants Tencent, JD.com, electronics retailer Suning and property developer Sunac have teamed up to invest $ 478m in television maker New Leshi Smart Home, an affliate of troubled technology conglomerate LeEco.

The streaming giant failed to meet its own forecast by adding a net 880,000 domestic subscribers in the quarter, compared to the 1.15 million it had predicted.

Health insurance giant Aetna pulled in more than $ 63 billion in 2016 revenues and $ 2.9 billion in earnings despite a year that would lead to the demise of its planned $ 34 billion merger with rival Humana.

The search giant has moved employees to different roles in the event that the latter does occur.

Accounting giant KPMG has bought mining - focused management consultancy firm Momentum Partners in a transaction estimated to be worth about $ 5 million, adding to the flurry of recent professional servi

The search giant has been testing the Movidius Myriad first generation chips in its Project Tango computer vision and 3D mapping project and has now gone public with an order of the second generation product.

In addition, the regulators have forbidden the cable giant from entering into agreements with program suppliers — for example, TV networks — that restrict those suppliers from providing their content to online or streaming services.

home office, Real Matters has quietly grown into a technology giant that's now involved in 10 % of all U.S. mortgages

In most cases there are two easy ways to tell when Facebook (fb) makes a meaningful change to the algorithm: One is that media companies start to moan about how their traffic from the giant social network has been declining rapidly for no apparent reason.

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

It recently announced that it would launch a ride - hailing service of its own in China to compete against local giant Didi Chuxing.

In 2015, it also had partnered with then New York Giants rookie Odell Beckham Jr. as a spokesperson.

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.

Co-founder Wade Barnes, an agronomist by trade, says advances in geo - mapping and analytics technology have transformed a once cumbersome and unreliable process — early attempts by such ag giants as John Deere and Trimble to market monitors and GPS systems were met with a tepid response — into something intuitive and, crucially, effective.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

Traditional drug giants have caught on to the not - so - dirty little secret that outsourcing drug research (and in - licensing) may be a more effective strategy than trying to create groundbreaking new molecules within the confines of a single lab.

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

The tech giant has launched a new international shopping feature that will allow people in several countries to buy products from its U.S. marketplace.

The giant social network takes the content and makes it load faster and look better on mobile devices, something that has been an issue for many media outlets — and has in turn helped drive the adoption of ad - blocking software.

The software giant is just one among many companies that have included arbitration clauses in their employees contracts.

There have always been doubts about Apple doing a massive, game - changing acquisition, even though rumors regularly emerge that the iPhone - maker may have interest in buying a media giant.

The Chinese e-commerce giant said in a statement Wednesday that it had entered into agreements with investors including Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia China and Tencent.

The sportswear giant updated investors on Wednesday on its plans to hit $ 50 billion in sales by 2020, a target that has been met with some Wall Street skepticism.

For the giant electronics manufacturers, the key to avoiding the down part of that circle doesn't necessarily have to lie in continually thinking up revolutionary technologies and successfully brining them to market.

To prepare for all that traffic, it has just opened a giant new terminal in the New Mexico desert, near the Mexican border just west of El Paso.

Starbucks executives Howard Schultz and Kevin Johnson sat down with CNBC for their first TV interview since the coffee giant announced Schultz would be handing over the reins of the company to Johnson in April.

With online apparel retailer American Giant, Bayard Winthrop is trying to do what few have done in the past several decades: produce high - quality clothing entirely in the United States.

Laurence will still have his work cut out for him, competition-wise, as Rogers continues to compete with fellow telecom giants Telus and Bell in a media world that continues to evolve in different directions.

In a nutshell, BuzzFeed has been building a giant engine for understanding content flows and sharing behavior online, thanks to tools like Pound and The Hive — a kind of huge, real - time database that can ingest and track BuzzFeed content wherever it is shared across multiple platforms.

At the first event in the Steve Jobs Theater, the tech giant is hoping not one — but three — new devices will have consumers digging for their wallets to get their hands on a new smartphone.

With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high - end devices.

The latest clinical trial outsourcing / drug development and manufacturing merger hit on Monday as scientific instrument giant Thermo Fisher announced it would buy drug ingredients maker Patheon for $ 5.2 billion ($ 7.2 billion is you count $ 2 billion in net debt).

The exemption would allow publishers to negotiate collectively with major digital platforms, like Facebook and Google, in order to guarantee a business model in which those digital giants fairly compensate publishers for the content that gets shared on their platforms.

Last month, shares of the publishing giant soared as much as 17 % after reports that it had received an unsolicited acquisition offer from a group including billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr., the former CEO of Warner Music, and Ukrainian - born billionaire Len Blavatnik, who bought Warner Music in 2011.

The now iconic image of an apple with bite taken out of it has been with the company since 1976, but the tech giant ditched the rainbow colors for the current slick chrome shade in 1998.

Like other enterprise tech giants, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe), IBM has been looking to revive its business in areas it calls its «Strategic Imperative,» which include cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Retailers and hospitality operators in the city have cashed in on the tour of The Giants, with 1.4 million people filling City of Perth streets for three days for the opening show of the Perth International Arts Festival.

Resources giant Rio Tinto has reported a 34 per cent drop in its underlying first half profit to $ US5.2 billion ($ A4.9 billion), with lower prices for iron ore and other commodities the main reason fo

Chinese search giant Baidu says customers have tripled their use of its speech interfaces in the past 18 months.

The major indexes have since struggled to hold gains for the year amid worries about rising interest rates, a U.S. - China trade war, prohibitive regulation on technology giants and a peak in earnings growth.

Supermarkets giant Woolworths has placed two supermarket sites in Western Australia on the market, part of a national portfolio of neighbourhood shopping centres collectively valued at $ 180 million.