Sentences with phrase «including industry giants»

Since the biotech industry began in the early 1970s, UCSF ideas and scientists have been responsible for launching over 70 California biotechnology companies, including industry giants Genentech and Chiron.

The role that Fundhost performs for our funds, Mainstream performs for other funds management companies, including industry giant Magellan Financial Group (ASX: MFG).

Several games have sold items like this in the past or bundled them free with expansions, including industry giant World of Warcraft which lets players boost characters up to the level cap in order to get straight into the endgame.

Some of Talcura's customers included industry giants such as CPPIB, Sony, Winners, Hyundai, Grand & Toy, Canadian Medical Association, KFC and Bayer Pharmaceuticals.

Not exact matches

According to the research firm Evercore ISI, the tech industry's giants have allotted more than $ 9 billion toward mergers and acquisitions so far this year — including the MuleSoft deal, valued at $ 6.5 billion alone.

That puts them up against the giants of the beer industry — like Anheuser - Busch and Molson Coors — as well as national craft brewers who are nearly as well known, including Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, and privately held Sierra Nevada.

The online retail giant has been exploring ways to expand into the drug industry, including selling prescription drugs online.

Lor's partners in the latter include three alumni of Veer, yet another Calgary - based digital - image vendor that was bought by yet another industry giant, Corbis.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

The e-commerce giant is plowing money in with its blockbuster Echo home automation device portfolio, its Prime streaming video and music service, and its industry - leading Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, which is under siege from rivals including Microsoft and Google.

With industry giants like Live Nation and Under Armour already included as partners, you know this team is making all the right moves.

Atlanta leads the market in groundbreaking wireless technology through a core of established industry giants and an explosive startup scene, including disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things.

We'll kick off the conference with an array of tech industry luminaries, including Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi; WeWork CTO Shiva Rajaraman and Chief Brand Officer Julie Rice; Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com CEO Richard Liu; Grab Co-founder Hooi Ling Tan; Google Hardware's Head of Design Ivy Ross; and Walmart.com CEO Mark Lore, with Code Eight Co-founder and CEO Jennifer Fleiss.

There are a host of companies in different industries that accept payment by bitcoin, including web hosting companies, bitcoin cash gambling sites, travel sites such as Expedia and tech giants Microsoft.

Meanwhile, WPP isn't expecting any revenue growth this year amid pressures on the industry, including spending cutbacks by consumer goods giants and competition from consultancies.

Last week, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)-- whose membership includes hundreds of consumer brands from a range of industries around the world, including food giants Campbell Soup,...

Mr Baird rejected the industry's alternative proposal, which included funding more recycling bins at beachfront parks, and said in the letter the beverage giants need to make a «far greater commitment» to reduce packaging waste litter and boost recycling.

Last week, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)-- whose membership includes hundreds of consumer brands from a range of industries around the world, including food giants Campbell Soup, Clif Bar, Hershey, Mars and Procter & Gamble — announced a new resolution to mitigate the roughly 40 percent of food wasted globally by agreeing to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer and manufacturer members by 2025, and to support wider UN Goals on the issue.

TECHIES TO HUDDLE WITH FIRST LADY — Melania Trump today is slated to sit down with industry giants including Facebook, Google and Snap as part of a gathering dedicated to combating cyberbullying, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Those companies, prosecutors say, include real estate giant Glenwood Management, AbTech Industries, an environmental technology company, and Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, a medical malpractice firm.

Khashoggi wealth was built after years of forging deals across the globe with giants of the defence industry, including the Lockheed Corporation.

Thanks to the efforts of a few people who believe in the technology, Biggin notes, the Italian HTS industry includes both giants and very small companies.

Leading the charge to protect the plastic bag is the American Chemistry Council, an industry group whose members include petro - chemical giants like ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

Adam has worked with industry giants in a number of verticals including Pandora, MARS and Commbank.

But as some areas see sales shrink, there may be further consolidation in the increasingly smaller book publishing industry, which is now down to a handful of publicly traded giants with book publishing arms, including News Corp., which owns MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.

Check out Bobbi L. Newman's comprehensive post, «Publishing Industry Forces OverDrive and Other Library eBook Vendors to Take a Giant Step Back,» for the whole story, including an amazing variety of links to other posts and articles, many from other extremely thoughtful librarians.

One of the benefits of Adobe's DRM solution is that it is used by several industry giants, including Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Sony.

The retirement industry has become a «multi-billion-dollar annual business» that encompasses the mutual fund giants, banks, insurance companies, independent financial advisers, brokers, market researchers, academics and yes, the media, including magazines.

Our clients include such industry giants as Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Ubisoft.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Assembled there will be a panel of game - media giants and industry experts including Will Freeman, Video Games Journalist & Editor of Develop Magazine, Richard Eddy, Director of Communications at Codemasters, Natalie Griffith, Head of PR & Marketing at Blitz Games Studios, Matt Martin, Editor of GamesIndustry.biz and Keith Stuart Games Correspondent at the Guardian.

A March 2011 version of the O'Brien's Response Management website shows a client list including ExxonMobil, BP and Transocean (of Deepwater Horizon infamy), ConocoPhillips and pipeline industry giant Kinder Morgan.

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars» worth of food and drink throughout 2017, according to lobbying records obtained by DeSmog.

The companies involved include some of the old - fashioned pollution - generating industries normally associated with anti-environmental policies and politicians — the chemical giant DuPont, the bulldozer company Caterpillar, the aluminium producer Alcoa and the US subsidiary of BP.

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

Even if, by some miracle, some such policy were to come to pass, the long - term necessity for us to accept a lower overall standard of living, especially when that will require far more economic equality (perhaps including the confiscation of giant fortunes) and far less economic «freedom» (virtual destruction of the «free trade» system, a great deal more regulation of both financial markets and manufacturing industries).

Indian companies likely to benefit from the focus on solar energy include Tata BP Solar — a tie - up between Tata Power and BP Solar, a subsidiary of the British oil giant — and Reliance Solar, part of the country's largest private sector firm, Reliance Industries.

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).

She has worked in the petroleum, milling, steel and fertiliser industries, among others, and has represented clients including financial services group Old Mutual, First Rand Banking Group, British American Tobacco and the South African subsidiary of steel giant ArcelorMittal.

Some industry watchers are predicting the company is under a high risk of being hit with heavy - handed regulations in the near future, with such a turn of events having the potential to impact the rest of the tech industry relying on data harvesting, including giants like Google.

The e-commerce giant is plowing money in with its blockbuster Echo home automation device portfolio, its Prime streaming video and music service, and its industry - leading Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, which is under siege from rivals including Microsoft and Google.

Other participants included Korea Investment Partners, World Wide Invest, and Japanese giant SBI Group, the latter itself already making inroads into the cryptocurrency industry.

The smartphone would fit in the mid-range category and could launch in India later this summer as part of the Internet search giant's efforts to establish a retail foothold in the region and compete with industry juggernauts including Samsung and Apple.

With backing from computer giant Microsoft as well as some of the Bitcoin industry's best - known names, it was with little surprise that Lightning Labs also revealed participants in its new funding round included Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, Tesla and SpaceX angel investor Bill Lee, Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, with lnd likewise supporting Litecoin.

With backing from computer giant Microsoft as well as some of the Bitcoin industry's best - known names, it was with little surprise that Lightning Labs also revealed participants in its new funding round included Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, with lnd likewise supporting Litecoin.

No longer the manufacturing giant it once was, this dynamic city has expanded its economy to include the medical, technology and service industries.

«Led teams lean and large (50 to 200 sales reps) for startups and industry giants including Medtronics and Stryker.»

In addition to recognizing those brokers showcased in RISMedia's 2015 Power Broker Report & Survey, the invitation - only event, sponsored by many industry - leading companies, including Platinum Sponsors Quicken Loans and Xome, will also recognize several individuals with four esteemed awards: RISMedia's National Homeownership Award; the «On the Shoulders of Giants» Award, sponsored by RE / MAX; the Real Estate Leadership Award, sponsored by Buffini & Company; and the Tech Titan Award, sponsored by Homes.com.