Sentences with phrase «global ambitions»

When a Chinese tech company with global ambitions began to run short of cash last year, it sought billions of dollars from new investors.

There appears to be no concerted international government action to integrate the global priorities of reducing energy poverty and supporting economic competitiveness through affordable energy with global ambitions on climate change.

His goal is to build a world class legal department to support and reflect a growing technology company with global ambitions.

Second, the seemingly impulsive global ambitions of Masayoshi Son's SoftBank are coming into focus.

Want proof that General Motors has increased global ambitions for its 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray?

The NDC Partnership builds in - country capacity and increases knowledge sharing so that climate policies have meaningful and enduring impacts, and drive increasing global ambition over time.

But today, Chinese tech companies have become innovation leaders in some key areas in technology, with truly global ambitions — and Silicon Valley is either too internally focused or complacent to realize it.

At ProWein 2014, Andy Morton sat down with Constellation's international general manager Philip Kingston to talk about its expanding global ambitions including a new tie - up in China for its Robert Mondavi brand.

Private bodies with global ambitions include OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) and the Kantara Initiative.

The novel element is its backing for potentially greater global ambition in 2050, along with complete decarbonisation by the end of this century.

Developing countries have put forward concrete proposals, and have painstakingly worked on arriving at a common ground on many issues, including the ambition mechanism, carry - over of surplus aaus, eligibility, provisional application, and numbers, in the earnest endeavor to make the 2nd commitment period a meaningful one, a 2nd commitment period that can provide the crucial basis for further enhancing global ambition.

Fulfilling global ambitions may be costly for Nippon.

In fact, ING's own ill - conceived global ambitions played right into Waugh's hands.

In many respects, it's the biggest development in the Atlanta - based carrier's global ambitions since early the 1990s — when it acquired Pan American World Airways» international network for $ 260 million.

This week brought the clearest demonstration yet of Chinese tech firms» global ambitions as Didi Chuxing raised $ 4 billion in new venture funding and signaled its interest in acquiring control of the largest taxi - on - demand service in Brazil.

Barrick Gold Corp.'s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

The aim of the current war is to demonstrate decisively that the murderous global ambition of the political ideology called Islamism has no future whatsoever.

As well as initiatives from retailers such as Iceland and Waitrose, Coca - Cola, for example, has announced a «massive global ambition» to recycle a used bottle or a can for each one that it sells by 2030, and pledged to make all of its packaging recyclable.

«In the short - term there is little that can be done to stop such warming events, but limiting future CO2 emissions should be a critical global ambition in terms of protecting these unique marine ecosystems, while effectively protecting isolated systems such as Chagos from local impacts is essential to instil any capacity for future recovery,» added Professor Perry.

Official Olympic Report 1932 Local arena, global ambitions Dorothy.

Barnes & Noble, whose launch of Nook over the past two years has been a startling success story, is the only one of these companies that has no stated global ambitions, but they should still be of great interest to the world's publishing community for two reasons.

The investment in Supercell, the developer of Hay Day and Clash of Clans, reflects the growing global ambitions of Asian companies like SoftBank in mobile gaming, the fastest - growing part of the game business.

Tencent's global ambition does not stop at Riot.

But only if the still unfinished negotiations yield a solid global ambition ratcheting mechanism.

The mergers announced Wednesday will likely spark a round of soul - searching among Australian firms about their own global ambitions.

We can be flexible and adaptable, we're not ruled by management dogma and we are not pursuing global ambitions — we just want to serve our clients by delivering them the best quality advice, efficiently and effectively — and to enjoy ourselves in doing so.

One of our trends to watch in 2015 is the continued growth of Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi and Huawei, which are huge in their home market but which also have strong global ambitions.

Speaking to the BBC, former Googler and current VP of International at Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, said that the company has «insane global ambitions» but that it will be a few years before we see Xiaomi phones for Europe or the United States (and presumably Canada) because of market saturation and high demands within countries in those regions.

The company hired former VP of Android product management, Hugo Barra, in late 2013, suggesting it has wider global ambitions.

While European and North American markets in particular will remain a key source of revenue requiring extensive brand presence, forward - thinking law firms with truly global ambitions will want to be ahead of the curve in embracing new opportunities.

Frank Bainimarama, President of the UN Climate Conference COP23 and Prime Minster of Fiji, has called everyone to take part in the so - called «Talanoa Dialgoue», an important international conversation in which countries will check progress and seek to increase global ambition to meet the goals of...

The Seoul Mayors Forum culminated with a presentation of the Seoul Communiqué, presented by Mayor Park Won Soon of Seoul on behalf of the nearly 40 attending cities and towns that came together to state their commitments as local governments and push for greater global ambition.

We are likewise worried in terms of how we move progress in the work under the various negotiating fronts, most importantly on how we ensure that we pursue high level of ambition for the second commitment period of KP, and ensure means of implementation to enhance global ambition, both for mitigation and adaptation.

Yuzo, the CEO of bitFlyer announced, «When I set up bitFlyer in 2014, I did so with global ambitions and the belief that approved regulatory status is fundamental to the long - term future of Bitcoin and the virtual currency industry.»

«If you're a winner in China, that means you can be a winner in the world,» he said, alluding to his global ambitions.

The Montreal - based company that runs all those music channels at the top of your cable dial has global ambitions

From top CEOs and companies, to entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Hadley Gamble profiles the men and women shaping the Middle East's global ambitions.

Cofounder Gregory Levey talks about building a user base the right way, and the company's global ambitions

Analysts said the pricing of the deal, at a 31.1 percent premium to OOIL's previous close, was high given the global container shipping industry is only just beginning to emerge from a prolonged slump and underlined COSCO's global ambitions.

Speaking with CNBC's «Managing Asia» on the sidelines of Fosun's earnings announcement for 2016, Chairman Guo Guangchang said his company has enough offshore capital to meet its global ambitions.

Fosun International Chairman Guo Guangchang said his firm has enough offshore capital to meet its global ambitions.

And that could be exactly what Reynolds needs to achieve what he calls «Canaccord's global ambitions.»

Didi has been outspoken about its global ambitions, but the Mexico expansion marks a turning point.

According to Toronto economist Bruce Little, a lack of «global ambition» could be to blame: «There's a lot of Canadian business people that start a company and as they grow, instead of saying,??? Damn, I want to be Bill Gates,» they sell it and enjoy their wealth.»

For one, big pharma's supply chain is a global enterprise with global ambitions, and manufacturing is cheaper in countries like India and China.

In 2004, Brito became Ambev's CEO and quickly showed his global ambitions: Only three months later Ambev announced a merger with Belgian beer giant Interbrew, which boasted Stella Artois and Beck's, to form InBev.