Sentences with phrase «into rival companies»

Playing a spy, the object of the campaign is to sneak into rival companies and steal secrets using a variety of high tech gadgetry.

Not exact matches

Media watchers note that the company is diving into a crowded field, facing deep - pocketed rivals like Google's YouTube TV, Sony's PlayStation Vue, and AT&T's DirecTV Now.

The company's closest rival is Medtronic and analysts expect the entry of Boston Scientific's valve into the market by late 2018 to further heat up the competition.

Outspent by rival Apple more than three - to - one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV, billboards, the Internet and print media that moved the Korean company into the pole position last year.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

That drew the company deeper into the lethal spiral of discounting: Macy's and its rivals created a «sea of sameness» that left shoppers bored and forced the retailers to resort to discounts to lure them back.

Tough competition from Apple, Samsung and other rivals has eaten into BlackBerry's once dominant market share, hurting revenue and profitability in both the unit and company.

FRANKFURT, May 1 - The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

FRANKFURT, May 1 (Reuters)- The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

The companies, founded by two of the world's wealthiest and most outspoken businessmen, have become unlikely rivals since Amazon jumped into the computing services market and Oracle later started migrating to the cloud.

Elon Musk's SpaceX and rival companies Hyperloop Technologies and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. now all have a glowing regulatory co-signer into the construction of a hyperloop and it's coming from United States Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

FRANKFURT The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

The payouts contributed to a talent exodus at a time when the company was trying to turn the project into a real business and emerging rivals were recruiting heavily.

Worse, to get it linked into solar, customers would have to turn to an entirely different company, such as SolarCity or one of its rivals.

Now it's putting a big chunk of money into Uber's chief U.S. rival, Lyft, leading a $ 1 billion financing round in the ride - hail company via its growth investment arm, CapitalG.

SANTIAGO / VANCOUVER South America's lithium triangle is the lowest - cost place to produce the vital battery ingredient, but political hurdles will require Japanese and South Korean companies to make big investments to crack into the region as they chase Chinese rivals who have tied up resources in other parts of the world.

The technology shows how far Facebook is willing to go as part of its aggressive strategy to reach into new areas beyond social networking, often by rapidly acting to mimic the most successful features of rival companies» apps.

Saputo's entry into the battle for control of Warrnambool was noteworthy because it was up against rival offers from in - market companies, Bega Cheese and Murray Goulburn.

After China announced the investigation into infant formula, Swiss food company Nestle and French rival Danone said they will cut the price of the milk powder in China.

The film will see Gary Oldman as a ruthless CEO who blackmails his new employee Liam Hemsworth into spying on a rival company.

Wyatt blackmails Adam into infiltrating a rival company, Eikon, run by Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford).

But an individual with knowledge of the company said that Microsoft would introduce a Microsoft - manufactured tablet at the event, marking a foray into a new hardware category that would put the company in direct competition with giant rival Apple.

Many people around the industry agree that Microsoft most promising research never made its way into the company's products until a rival built something similar.

By sinking money and resources into a smartphone, the company had hoped to gain a significant piece of the huge smartphone market long dominated by rivals like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Samsung.

Apple introduced the slimmed - down iPad mini tablet — with a 7.9 - inch screen, it can be held in one hand — starting at $ 329, which will eat into sales of its higher - priced, 9.7 - inch models but give the company a more competitive offering against rivals, according to industry analysts.

It's pretty obvious the company has seen what their rival, the Call of Duty series, from Activision, and they have experienced nothing but a lucrative bank account since they decided to take the game into the modern times.

However, it is still unclear if the VR functionality indicated in the patent filings is an actual feature that Nintendo is working on and incorporating into the Nintendo Switch or if the company merely patented the technology to keep rivals from implementing the same concept.

The idea itself isn't so bad, but it just smacks of a company trying to cash in on a rival franchise by turning their own ones into clones of it.

In December, Reuters reported that China's Didi Chuxing ride - hailing company would be expanding its business into Mexico, taking on rival Uber, which has the largest foothold in the country.

Microsoft hasn't shared much more info than what you can see in the clip above, but it's a clear sign that the company is intent on baking Cortana into more hardware products in the future (it's already got a smart speaker to rival Amazon Echo and Google Home).

Rivalling the Google Home is the Amazon Echo speaker range that is driven by Alexa, the company's voice assistant that recently began making its way into smartphones.

At CES 2017, the company announced a new - and - improved version that adds in HDR support, refines gaming and entertainment options, and even transforms the Android TV device into a voice - controlled rival of the Amazon Echo.

Launching late into a new market is seen as a problem for most companies, but it's a tried - and - tested model for Apple: let others establish the market and make mistakes, and then swoop in with a premium product that fixes the problems rivals couldn't solve.

The chip will reportedly go into full production in June.While TSMC's 10 - nanometer process is one reason the company was awarded with a deal over rival Samsung, another likely has to do with the company's more advanced device packaging techniques, which allow for better power performance and efficiency.

The shakeup is an attempt to integrate Apple's voice assistant more deeply into the company's other devices amid mounting competition from rivals such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Previously, it was reported that Samsung's biggest rival opted to launch the handset either in October or November due to some development and production setbacks such as the company's failed attempt at embedding the fingerprint sensor into the device's display.

The company is pushing its way into video to boost Apple Music above other rival streaming services, including Spotify, Tidal and Pandora.

Samsung extended its volume lead over other companies by such an incredible margin that it now sells more smartphones into channels each quarter than all of its top rivals combined.

Analysts said Apple's move into the smaller - tablet market is a sign that the company doesn't want to cede ground to rivals amid a rapidly growing industry for portable touch - screen devices.