Sentences with phrase «interesting company when»

You have to admit that Valve is a pretty interesting company when it comes to the world of gaming.

Nintendo has remained an interesting company when you look at their stance over the past couple of years regarding bringing some of their popular franchises over to mobile device for mobile gamers to enjoy.

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.

This week, Apple's Qualcomm battle took a rather interesting turn, when a host of the company's competitors, including Google and Samsung, announced that they back the iPhone maker in its chip battle.

Firstly, because it means higher interest rates — so when companies try to borrow money, that money will become more expensive and as a result they will have less room to give returns to investors.

But just because a company has the technical ability to use facial recognition — as an example — it's not necessarily something that's in their best interest when it comes to building trust with consumers.

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

But when they broached the idea of developing such a vaccine with drug companies, nearly all of them said, «No, thank you very much, but we're not interested,» recalls Schiller in a Lasker Foundation interview.

When a jewelry company offered Mogul less than its minimum price for a project, Pham replied that she wasn't interested.

But sh e said that she was interested in getting back to the kind of early - stage company that eBay was when she began a decade - long stint as its CEO in 1998.

Unicorns were created in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when the low interest rate environment prompted investments in riskier assets, such as the stock of privately held companies.

When the supervisor sued for wrongful dismissal, Linamar argued that the supervisor had violated his duty to protect the company's interests through his involvement in child pornography, despite the fact that it was done on his own time.

Being relatively new to the industry myself, I have become acutely aware of new cosmetics & hair launches (Cosmoprof North America is my happy place) so when I found out Lawless was all natural and started by an entrepreneur whose business I was already familiar with, Suja Juice, the largest organic juice company in the US, I was immediately interested in the story.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

When we get asked to help post-acquisition with the integration / implementation phase, those competing low - level and mid-level interests are still there, still undermining the acquisition, even if the deal was and is the right move for the company overall.

When conceiving a content marketing strategy, it's easiest to stay on track by thinking of the overarching purpose of content marketing: to create interesting, sharable content that reflects the product or service that the company pedals.

When asked, «If your credit card company increases your interest rate, can you do anything about it?»

When Match Group discovered that several companies were interested in investing in or acquiring Bumble, it filed the March lawsuit to make the company less attractive;

Verizon showed interest in Yahoo's core business as early as December, when Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said the company would «see if there is a strategic fit» for Yahoo's holdings, which include mail, news, sports and advertising technology.

Despite being an America - only study, it's still an interesting barometer of consumer sentiment, particularly when so much coverage features headlines like «America's most hated companies.»

(In the interest of full disclosure, Lamstein notes that his company did have one item assembled in Mexico but stopped producing that product altogether when it was underpriced by competitors manufacturing in China.)

When we see products or developments or large companies that are solving a problem in a new way, that drives M&A interest.

Minshew explains that the company didn't need the funding, which is a great way to say «I've got this under control, but when an investor of strong caliber and aligned values showed interest, it made sense to join forces.»

There will be times when you have to decide whether filling a customer's request is in your company's best interests.

My buddy Jim Kane with Retailer Web Services recently made an interesting observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.

Christensen shows that when leaders act in their company's best short - term financial interests — when they do exactly what they're supposed to do — they tend to reject innovation and succumb to disruptive competitors.

The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental measure of our operating performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.

When Tripping.com's customer base wasn't interested in buying what it planned to sell, the company had to find a new model — and let go of the past.

It's interesting to see how diligent some companies are when it comes to keeping track of institutional history.

What he ended up with was what he calls a «qualified pipeline» — people who would both be assets to the company and have already expressed an interest in investing in DraftKings, a company that's had buckets of trouble when it comes to regulation and may not be an investment target for everyone.

Goldberg admits that back when Fab was aggressively expanding into Europe, he allowed employees to forge ahead on the plan even though he knew it wasn't in the best interests of the company.

«My office will continue to fight for victims» best interests throughout the bankruptcy proceedings, and engage with all parties, including The Weinstein Company and Lantern, in an ongoing effort to advance the principles we set forward when we filed our complaint: ensuring that victims are compensated, employees are protected moving forward, and perpetrators and enablers of abuse are not unjustly enriched,» he said.

It was early 2003 when Ken Austin, executive vice president of Marquis Jet, a New York City company that leases time in corporate jets, got a call from the producers of The Apprentice asking if he would be interested in a barter deal.

When we find a company that looks interesting, we analyze the market and, most importantly, get to know the team.

Another former classmate invited me to a networking event at a company I was interested in, and when I was there, introduced me to a recruiter who ended up following up with me to learn more about my background.

When I launched my company back in 2009, I hired several capable friends and former colleagues who showed interest in my idea.

MetalsTech have flown under the radar up until now but with some samples at their projects showing amazing direct shipping type Lithium grades of up to 7 %, the company is sure to attract the interest of the Lithium bulls when it floats.

Shortly after day 92, when the site brought in that first $ 1 million in sales, Utah - based VC firm Clarke Capital came calling, interested in adding Chapman's e-commerce company to its portfolio.

And herein lies the ethical question, posed to me by a director today: «When does hanging on or digging in breach a fiduciary duty by the director to act in the company's best interest, rather than the director's?»

So, when should the board know that the CEO is in talks or has heard expressions of interest related to selling the company?

«The thing that's been interesting to me about tech is that when I talk to other companies, people talk about where other people went to college,» she says.

A downgrade by a credit rating agency usually means investors will demand a higher interest rate when a company goes to raise cash by issuing bonds or other debt.

But what about when management has an interest in selling the company?

Now, one of the sometimes - legitimate reasons for firing an employee over their off - the - job behaviour is when the employee's behaviour stands to damage the company's legitimate business interests.

But Ford stressed it would bring him no advantage because he plans to put the company in a blind trust, a step meant to avoid conflicts of interests when business leaders are elected to office.

This raises interesting problems related to the amount of control that corporations have over everyday activities like storing computer files, especially when — as is the case with many tech companies — their services become part of the infrastructure of our lives, woven into everything we do.

Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed - wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.

When Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

When Cambridge Advisors» Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

Imagine their surprise when investors in a small business I once worked for received the company's internal loan repayment spreadsheet, showing that the business owner was pulling out bucks by paying his family exorbitant interest on loans while investor loans were repaid at rock - bottom rates over as long a time period as possible.