Sentences with phrase «home companies like»

Now that Amazon is buying up smart home companies like Ring and Blink in an attempt to take over our connected homes, kicking Nest off the Amazon retail platform makes Google's ability to compete much more difficult.

Alphabet - owned Nest's services can now link with products from other smart home companies like August LIFX, Misfit, WeMo and many more.

Not exact matches

The company has built on the lead with an avalanche of new hardware released in the last year: The tablet - like Echo Show, which has a screen; the Echo Look fashion camera; the Echo Plus home hub; the Echo Spot alarm clock; the redesigned Echo.

But Karl Martin, co-founder of Bionym, the company that makes the Nymi, has his sights on a bigger goal: «persistent identity» — the idea that the Nymi, or something like it, could make the wearer instantly recognizable to wireless devices everywhere, whether at home or at a coffee shop in London.

By that definition, just about every memorable entry on Parker's steadily growing curriculum vitae, from Napster and Facebook to current projects like music - streaming company Spotify and in - home movie service The Screening Room, counts as a hack.

Liu and his partners, like most Canadian companies operating in the health - care space, see their home country as a big opportunity, but they also have eyes on the broader U.S. market, where the pressure for hospitals to smarten up is even greater.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, Alphabet's core business generated $ 26.1 billion in revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same period.

When I was writing my book, Chief Marketing Officers at Work, I interviewed 29 CMOs from companies like Spotify, The Home Depot, GE, PayPal and Target.

Fadell continues to run Nest as a quasi-independent company, and analysts forecast the firm will leverage Google's reach and resources to extend its home invasion to the next wave of smart devices, like appliances and locks.

This San Bruno, California - based company has its mark set on the $ 100 billion - plus in - home care service market which it serves via an online marketplace that connects people who need to find in - home care with nursing assistants, medical assistants, nurses and the like.

Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence at a press event announcing the company's «Roam Like Home» service on November 7.

Today, the company's client list includes several large Canadian financial institutions, as well as multi-nationals like Pfizer, Walmart and Home Depot.

Germany, one of Europe's green superpowers, is home to clean - tech manufacturers like wind turbine maker Siemens and solar - panel producer Solarworld; there's hope such companies might one day rival legends like Volkswagen and BMW.

People can currently do some basics like using their voices to ask Amazon's Echo home speaker to play the Beatles» A Hard Day's Night or navigate automated phone trees when talking to your cable company.

The company provides home care services, like nursing, hospice, and non-medical assistance, and it's widely spread across the country, with franchises in 43 states.

Google (goog), like other big tech companies including Apple (aapl) and Microsoft (msft), has been pushing its digital assistant as a new way for people to interact with their smartphones and other devices like the company's web - connected Google Home speaker.

If you Google «home cleaner,» or «babysitter» or «handyman» in a certain city, you'll either see ads for one (or multiple) of the aforementioned on - demand platforms on the first page of Google; or you'll find directories (like Yelp) listed high up in Google, taking you to a more curated and ratings - based search results page where those same on - demand companies are listed or have ads running.

A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the growth.

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

Closer to home, a pickup in the U.S. economy, combined with renewed calls for greater infrastructure investment, bodes well for companies like Pentair (pnr), a water - equipment maker, says Todd Ahlsten, manager of the $ 14.4 billion Parnassus Core Equity Fund.

Even if you're not buying a home like he was, landlords and management companies in competitive real estate markets like New York are known for requesting your credit score.

Home improvement companies can also give consumers a small taste of what their homes would be like after installing the company's products.

They think the company can pull off a Home Depot - like turnaround.

The company invests a lot of money in these pups, as they need to be healthy and happy and live just like a dog at home (to gather accurate data of a pet's natural routine).

«It's just Justin and I, sitting at home in our sweatpants, eating Nestlé's and Unilever's lunch,» boasts Bouton, who, like Woolverton, had no experience in the grocery business before starting the company.

It's a great tool for purging worry and particularly fitting for No Taste Like Home, an Asheville, North Carolina, company that gives wild food adventure tours in which participants forage for wild mushrooms and other edibles which get cooked up for them at a local restaurant.

Companies like Dell encourage employees to work from wherever they want whenever they want, while other corporate conglomerates like Yahoo! and IBM are eliminating work - from - home benefits and seeing significant increases in employee efficiency.

For this reason, an entire cottage industry of armed cash pick - up and delivery companies has emerged in states like California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington to bring millions in cash to entrepreneur's homes, private vaults, or banks or local federal reserve branches (some banks prefer to bring the cash straight to their federal account) for the ones with bank accounts.

Some tech companies are trying to address this problem by building their own smart home platforms, like Apple with HomeKit (aapl) and Alphabet (googl) through its «Works With Nest» program and its Weave language.

If you're opening a business with low overhead costs — like a consultancy or graphic design company — and all you need to start your business from home is a computer and an Internet connection, business credit cards may be all the capital you need.

Much like NBCUniversal's $ 200 - million investment in Vox Media, and a similarly - sized investment in BuzzFeed, the DreamWorks acquisition provides the company with content it can not only shove down the pipe that it owns into people's homes, but can distribute in other ways as well, especially online and through streaming services.

You can also find work - from - home positions at companies like American Express, the car rental company Enterprise, Xerox, Nielsen, and many others.

Home to 102 Inc. 5000 companies, like data analytics firm AirSage (No. 909), Atlanta boasts a low cost of living, access to the country's busiest airport, and — coming soon — Google Fiber for all.

Austin is home to a diverse array of industries, from tech to advertising, and companies like Double A Events (No. 123).

Companies like Target, General Mills, 3M, UnitedHealth Group, Medtronic and Best Buy all call Minnesota home.

Things like, «I would like a connection to the HR Director at xyz company» or «Do you know a health - conscious mom who has a baby under one year of age and has left her corporate job to be at home with her family?»

In fact, some of the most well - known companies in the world — like Apple, Hershey's and Ford Motor Company — started as home - based businesses.

Companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) are using AI to improve their digital assistants, those voice operated helpers on smartphones and home automation hubs, said Accenture chief technology officer Paul Daugherty during a Wednesday media event.

Today's typical Leon's shopper is a 52 - year - old male, but the company's ideal client is a busy 35 - year - old woman who cares intensely about her home and likes to share photos of her imperfect but real living space on social media.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the terms laid down by Justice Department and the FCC, Charter will have to avoid anything that looks like data rationing and roll out its broadband network to another two million homes, forcing it into competing with other cable companies.

The list includes familiar consumer favorites like Airbnb, Lyft and Glossier as well as companies that want to change how you search for, finance and decorate a home and a number of cybersecurity companies.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

That's good news for companies like Home Depot and Floor & Decor.

Many companies I consult with see this as an issue, they'd like to have some flexibility in home working, but they don't want to give carte blanche to the employees.

It's also been noted that some companies are going to benefit from the storm, especially if (like Home Depot) they sell goods that will be needed for reconstruction.

The company would ultimately like to be home to lots of professionally produced video, which is why it's paying publishers and movie studios to make videos exclusively for the social network.

It is banking on companies wanting to use the emerging technology for tasks like training forklift drivers to transport cargo in warehouses or designing virtual homes that people can scope out in VR prior to construction.

«Companies are now deploying ways to look at traffic at the granular level and looking for irregularities» like binary files that have been sent from home routers.

Mark Graham, the founder of Rightsleeve, a Toronto - based promotional products company that makes custom - branded swag like Red Bull toques and Koodo action figures, started his business in 1997 with $ 3,000, a home office and zero employees.