Sentences with phrase «handful of companies»

Only a small handful of companies are responsible for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions causing global warming.

A shrinking handful of companies still provide free lunches.

Still there are a large handful of companies that pay dividends and those companies usually aim for increasing those dividends when they can.

In fact, if you are a private recreational pilot, there are only a small handful of companies they may offer you the best rates for life insurance.

This is because you can have quotes from handfuls of companies within minutes.

Research and understand the issues surrounding the top 50 companies operating in the space and lock it down to the top handful of companies you really want to go after.

Every movie begins with a small handful of company logos, and...

As bad as it is to have a publishing world with only five major publishers in it — a monoposony in which a tiny handful of companies converge on terms and practices that are ultimately more to their benefit than those of authors, it's even worse to have a world in which a single company controls the entire market.

I began with handful of companies run by great leaders — Apple, Amazon, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Bidu, Intuitive Surgical to name a few.

The last decade has brought a frenzied pace of mergers in the space, reducing the industry to a mere handful of companies.

Sometimes, one's a little sad that the same handful of companies are being held up again and again — Interface, for example — because it sort of implies others aren't moving as fast as one might want.

They're one of a surprisingly small handful of companies focuses specifically on solar power solutions here at CES.

When Apple came to the market with the original iPhone, there were already a handful of companies making «smartphones,» although they weren't really called that yet.

It's something that we are seeing as a big growth vector for the future and we think we're one of a handful of companies that really have the scale to do it.

At the time, «there were a handful of companies who hired role players for this purpose,» says Latshaw, «but many weren't hiring native Iraqis and Afghanis who could speak the language and teach the culture.»

A handful of companies specialize in this and maintain websites with educational resources, webinars and blogs to get you the latest information on the topic.

Not only is he chairman of Futurpreneur Canada, a non-profit group that provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18 to 39, but he also directly mentors and invests in a handful of companies he's particularly passionate about.

Here are a handful of companies expecting to profit from the largest generation ever advancing toward old age.

The times they are a-changin» Chances are, when you hear the term socially responsible business, a handful of companies — and their founders — leap to mind: Ben & Jerry's Homemade (Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield).

With massive consolidation in the semiconductor industry, only a handful of companies can even compete to make the most advanced chips, down from 13 ten years ago.

Canada's cable market is significantly less complicated than the U.S., with a handful of companies controlling the vast majority of subscriptions.

Short of getting you a date, here are a handful of companies that think they know how to fill an empty heart.

Per usual, though, there's a handful of companies aiming to expand its abilities through their own lens attachments.

In June, Beijing's banking regulators ordered a group of lenders to assess their exposure to offshore acquisitions by a handful of companies that have been on overseas buying sprees, including HNA Group, Wanda Group, Anbang Insurance Group and Fosun International Ltd..

Plus, a handful of companies will typically all get approved to make a generic at once, which ideally creates competition in the marketplace and can sometimes result in even lower prices for those drugs.

Nadella's positioning of Microsoft «democratizing A.I.» may sound more appealing to an apprehensive consumer worried that only a handful of companies are determining the overall direction of A.I..

A handful of these companies have grabbed headlines, such as daily - deals website Groupon, which had a near - $ 17 billion IPO in 2011; and online - payments platform Braintree, which eBay acquired for $ 800 million in 2013.

Since then, researchers and a handful of companies have been trying to figure out how to actually create such a system that would create an entirely new form of transportation.

«The millennials are inheriting it as we speak, and the handful of companies that they like — and they really only like a handful — are the only ones that really benefit from any kind of brand loyalty here.

While the average Fortune 500 stock returned 14.2 % in 2014 (the year on which the new list is based), a handful of companies lost more than a third of their market value throughout the year — and some lost more than half.

«There's a handful of companies that could go this route,» this person said.

A handful of companies manufacture adjustable - height desks, offered at a wide range of prices, that allow for both sitting and standing.

The fingerprint sensor business has a handful of companies supplying significant volumes today, with an equal number planning to enter the market.

Ireland offers low taxes and a lower cost of living than the U.K., and since it's small, «all you need is a handful of companies to move... to have a big impact,» Kennedy notes.

That's just a handful of companies expected to continue to demonstrate the onslaught of the strong dollar.

Intel has acquired a handful of companies over the past few years like chip maker Altera for $ 16.7 billion and automotive component and sensor provider Mobileye for roughly $ 15 billion, but a possible acquisition of Broadcom would dwarf those deals.

If your only claim to fame is starting a handful of companies, yet you've had success with none of them, it's probably time to take a closer look at what you're learning.

For many years the industry moved slowly, reliant on the decisions of just a handful of companies.

The board members» other directorships include a handful of companies that have recently come under scrutiny — Goldman Sachs (gs), News Corporation (nws), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (gmcr)-- which, ideally, should give the group a decent sense of how they should navigate the turbulence that's ahead.

GE was also one of a handful of companies involved in computing in the early 60s, continuing their evolution as a business.

At the moment, a handful of companies such as Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries and Kepler Energy and Space Engineering have announced various strategies to reach asteroids in the inner solar system.

The fact that Johnson & Johnson is one of only a handful of companies that have flourished through more than a century of change is proof of that.

A handful of companies, including AT&T, which is seeking government approval of a major acquisition of Time Warner, have announced that they would give bonuses to workers.

Note that Shepard is talking about the entire U.S. stock market — not just the handful of companies we may have in our portfolios.

Bloomberg noted that SoundHound is one of a handful of companies that build AI technology from scratch that can listen to and interpret sound.

The problem with allowing companies a voice in the political process is that all it really does is give a handful of company executives the authority to finance their personal political views at the expense of their shareholders.

A handful of companies in the data services sector are on deck to report earnings.