Sentences with phrase «industry giant based»

The park board said it agreed to pay $ 1 million to Gilbane, a construction industry giant based in Providence, R.I., to oversee construction of the recreation center.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

In 2008, when the sub-prime mortgage crisis upended the multi-billion-dollar property valuation industry, Real Matters, a Markham, Ont. - based startup that provides property information to banks and insurance agencies, was in the unique position of being nimble in a market dominated by giants.

The Seattle - based ecommerce giant has made about 130 acquisitions or investments since its debut in 1995, in a wide range of industries from books and music to cloud computing.

Media giants across the country have been scrambling to adapt as internet - based content providers drain revenues once thought to be monopolized by a few industry titans.

But the industry giants are starting to encroach with their own stevia - based desserts.

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.

At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based niche in the photo - processing market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

In the few years since The Yard first opened, the coworking industry has mushroomed, with Manhattan - based WeWork as the industry giant, with more than 110 locations around the world and an estimated valuation of $ 20 billion.

The Auckland - based dairy giant said it wanted to participate in the Australian dairy industry's consolidation.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

Among the games from Slots to Blackjack, Jackpot, Roulette, Card and Table and Video Poker, Paddypower also feature branded individual games and loyalty schemes available from the Dublin - based e-commerce betting industry giants.

He publicly fought with Gov. Andrew Cuomo — which apparently did not help him with voters, based on this poll — and faced a multi-million dollar advertising onslaught from Uber, the e-hail giant which opposed his attempts to regulate the industry.

Flint Hills, a wholly - owned subsidiary of oil giant Koch Industries based in Kansas, has joined with Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro in trying to block California's landmark climate legislation by funding the campaign to pass Proposition 23.

In case you needed more proof that the food industry is going in a healthier, more plant - friendly direction, on Thursday food giant Nestle announced its plans to buy husband - and - wife run startup Sweet Earth, a company that prepares frozen plant - based meals.

Of course, it's been difficult for an independent site to compete with big - name giants in the industry, so Large and Lovely recently became an affiliate of the LargeFriends.com network to offer online daters a far - reaching user base with more opportunities to fall in love.

Casual Kiss, a five - year - old Toronto - based dating site, and Love Match, which was originally a chat site, both outscored a field of industry giants.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

Despite all of this, the Seattle based e-commerce giant is firmly behind the success of Unlimited, as the overall media industry has gravitated towards subscription services.

Description: According to a report by industry insiders, DigiTimes, it appears that the Redmond giant has dropped its Taiwanese partners from the production of upcoming tablets based on its next generation Windows operating system.

Richmond, VA — November 3, 2003 — The ProMagixT digital media system from Richmond - based Velocity Micro today received the Editors» Choice Award from PC Magazine's Buyer's Guide, after being selected by editors of the leading computer technology publication over competing systems from Dell, Gateway, IBM, Compaq, Alienware and other computer industry giants.

- 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

The Seattle Art Fair tends to attract a somewhat tech - inclined collector base due in part to its historical reputation as the home of industry giants like Microsoft and Amazon.

It's obvious that many car companies, tech companies, homebuilders, architects, city planners, airline companies, and many other industry leaders could do more, and we could (and often do) offer plenty of unsolicited advice to them, based on our own perspective, but considering how slowly the wheels of change turn, and how consumers and manufacturers alike are complicit in the creation of our current petro - based economy, the move to a more sustainable economy is more likely to be one full of baby steps, and not giant leaps.

If the public loses all faith in the notion that the fossil fuel industry pays skeptic scientists to participate in a giant denial machine, then there is no reason for anyone to ignore the detailed science - based climate assessments from those skeptics.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

The tech giant arrived at the latest iteration of the Barcelona, Spain - based trade show to unveil its most powerful Android flagships to date and while the new devices don't debut massive visual changes compared to the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, they were introduced with more performance and software improvements than many industry watchers were initially expecting.

Thus, using blockchain - based technology, Tencent, the giant Internet enterprise, is developing the TrustSQL platform to provide «enterprise - class block chain infrastructure, industry solutions, and secure, reliable and flexible blockchain cloud services,» according to Investopedia.

PayPal, the U. S. - based payment industry giant PayPal, has registered a patent with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), released on March 1, to increase the speed of payments in cryptocurrency.

Software giant Microsoft has partnered R3 consortium to prompt the development of blockchain - based solutions for the global financial industry.

Founded by N.G Zhang who is also the current CEO, this giant mining hardware manufacturer based in Beijing, China is leading the front of Bitcoin mining with a team of 100 engineers who make everything possible thanks to their collective experience in the cryptocurrency industry.

Banking industry giants are likewise taking a keen interest in its blockchain - based technology, which they may use for creating their own decentralized financial applications.

The Seoul - based tech giant is the only Android OEM that's still committing significant resources to the enterprise segment which is otherwise almost entirely dominated by Apple in the West, according to most industry trackers.

Acquisitions shook up the lending industry in 2000, as New York giants Chase Manhattan Corp. and J.P. Morgan & Co. joined forces to form J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and New York - based Credit Suisse First Boston gobbled up Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc..

Some giants in the industry — Prudential, RE / MAX, and the Cendant brands Century 21, Coldwell Banker, and ERA — showed solid growth of between 5 percent and 21 percent, based on the survey.

But while Internet - based companies in many fields have dethroned old - school industry giants, Redfin after 10 years still has less than a 3 percent market share on its home turf.