Sentences with phrase «hedge against disruption»

Miners are resorting to using greater amounts of seawater, desalination technology and water recycling to hedge against disruption to operations.

In consumer technology — and increasingly enterprise — the best user experience wins, and it is the best hedge against disruption.

When Comcast initially invested $ 200 million in BuzzFeed in 2015, through its broadcast subsidiary NBCUniversal, it wasn't clear exactly what the cable conglomerate was looking for from its investment in the digital - only startup, except perhaps a hedge against the disruption of television and other forms of traditional media.

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2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.