Sentences with phrase «industry giants on»

It can be worthwhile to take on weak competitors out of the gate, but you'll be in no shape to compete against industry giants on day one

He outbid industry giants on land parcels (which, starting at $ 2 an acre, were adjacent to national treasures like Canyonlands National Park), winning 22,000 acres of land worth $ 1.7 million before the auction was halted.

Allwork.Space: So your barbell model for coworking, where there are industry giants on one side, and small companies and independents on the other side, with few mid-size companies in - between, is holding up.

Not exact matches

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

But such a service could also present the risk of publishers becoming even more dependent on social networking platforms like Facebook for readers and revenue, thus giving the tech giants an uncomfortable amount of control over the news industry's fate.

So while the debate rages about whether Canada should be welcoming foreign ownership of companies or fearing and rejecting it on the grounds that it will «hollow out» the country, the video game industry has cast a giant «who cares?»

In 1986, I pulled the music industry's leg by telling Music Week, a British music publication, that Virgin had set up a giant computer in Britain, on which we had stored every music track we could find.

Irma is a «major event for Florida and also a major event for the insurance industry», Torsten Jeworrek, member of the board of the German reinsurance giant Munich Re (murgy), told journalists on Sunday.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

Our strategy is listen to the customer and be the advocate for the customer, and be on their side in this giant industry that provides one of the most important parts of their lives.

When Musk entered the space and aeronautics industry, many industry giants considered him as one of the many millionaires who spend some good money on their hobby to fail only.

The electric carmaker's valuation has been an eyesore for some on Wall Street who compare it to profitable giants in the auto industry like General Motors.

Australia «s Tatts Group and Tabcorp Holdings (tabcf) on Tuesday said they are in talks to create a A$ 9.34 billion ($ 7.1 billion) betting industry giant, hoping to join forces to fend off popular online rivals.

The consumer market will benefit as a result, but industries will become much more competitive as innovative startups take on corporate giants.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced noting that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh had said in a recent meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress — an annual mobile industry conference held in Barcelona — that the search giant was pumping the brakes on its line of «Pixel» - branded Chromebooks.

«While this is common industry practice, we believe this step, winding down over the next six months, will help improve people's privacy on Facebook,» the social media giant said in a statement Wednesday.

With Amazon continuing to keep retailers on edge by its partnerships with assorted venues, the business world is closely watching for what the online giant will do next, what companies it will acquire and what industries it will penetrate.

In response to these questions, as well as the discrepancies raised in the Bloomberg article, Rubicon again painted itself as an underdog taking on the trash industry's giants.

To stop the shortages, Congress would have to take on a powerful industry: giant hospital purchasing organizations.

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.

Technology giant Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

«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.

Imagine an industry convention where every hashtagged tweet shows up on a giant monitor in real time.

All the industry giants have been criticized for continuing to have such low numbers of women on the board, in management positions or even in the workforce in general.

CVS Health said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $ 69 billion in a deal that would combine the drugstore giant with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States and has the potential to reshape the nation's health care industry.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday moved to approve Charter Communications» $ 65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, enabling the creation of a new cable giant as the industry focuses more on broadband as traditional TV declines.

FRANKFURT / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

To start out the new year, we want to take the time to circle back to two of our previous long ideas on some of the giants in the retail industry.

At this point, monthly installment plans are fairly standard in the industry — even fellow wireless giant AT&T has been increasingly pushing them on customers.

The move is designed to take on Amazon, the internet e-commerce giant that also dominates the U.S. voice - controlled device industry with a 72 % market share thanks to its Echo range of smart speakers.

U.S. industry groups representing Apple, IBM and other tech giants have blamed China's rules on inbound investment for infringing the intellectual property rights of U.S. companies.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

President Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

The Washington Post's Tony Romm: «Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

There are financial services firms on the Fortune list like Wells Fargo, Visa, and Charles Schwab, healthcare - focused companies (Health Net, McKesson, Molina Healthcare), energy giants like PG&E and Chevron, and more companies operating in industries outside of technology like Walt Disney and Gap.

Search engine giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Social media titan Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), in spite of being fierce competitors on social media front, have joined hands in advertising section to dominate the Digital Advertising industry.

Most people remember Ian as a witty writer and speaker — he coached me on my public speaking — and as a regular contributor to Barron's Roundtable, the Contrary Opinion Forum, «Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street» and other well - regarded investment publications and associations, along with industry giants such as Gary Shilling, Ned Davis and Ray Dalio.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

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.

The buyer also bags a big tax break, but barely gains ground on industry giants.

The e-commerce giant has continued displacing brick - and - mortar retailers and has expanded its grip on the retail industry generally, forcing even its largest counterparts to respond on the digital front.

Helou made a series of blunders during his five years at the helm of the milk processing giant, but on industry consolidation he was spot on.

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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.

Hilligoss spent much of his early career in the music industry and show business in Nashville where he sang on the Grand Ole Opry, toured with headline artists like Alan Jackson and Louise Mandrell, and worked as a producer / director for entertainment attractions giant Opryland U.S.A.

There also tends to be a reason why certain national industry giants pour money into the careers of their respective drivers - they want their logo on a fast car, preferably at the hands of someone who can deliver.

A MilkPEP representative also sits on the SNA's «Industry Advisory Board,» along with representatives from corporate food giants such as Tyson, Sysco and General Mills.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).