Sentences with phrase «just big companies»

It's not just big companies and big - box retailers, though.

As Shelia says it isn't just big companies.

And it's not just big companies.

We need to stand up in arms and take back our world from Big Pharma, Big Tobbacco, Big Insurance and really just big companies.

But it's not just big companies that need to be on guard — small businesses and anyone handling sensitiv...

Browning expects more mergers and acquisitions among retailers, and not just the bigger companies.

Not exact matches

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank spoke to graduates of his realization that he wanted to do more than just be a «cog» after leaving the military as a youth and joining a big tech company.

A small, scrappy company in Burlingame, California, is quietly rethinking the way the car sharing industry will function in the years to come — and it just got a big boost from one of Silicon Valley's premier VC firms.

No. 2, you must also consider the biggest and most consistent competitor around, a guy who affects all companies of all sizes in all markets — his name is «I just want to keep my money,» and he does particularly well in a tough economy.

These questions don't just apply to big companies.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

It's a brave or foolish man prepared to criticise, however mildly, a company that has just reported the biggest profit in Australian business history.

Just like it's subscription - based big brother, free Zoho aggregates and displays all the critical information a company needs to make business decisions.

In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.

Perhaps companies are motivated by a trend that is just as rooted in the Internet age as big data: fear of missing out.

Instead of just startups, we'll open the competition to any company, small or big, tech or non-tech, that is using technology to make the world a better place as part of their normal business operations.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystBig brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystbig growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

They suggested weighting companies in an index by metrics that tell you more about how good the business is rather than just how big it is.

Long - recognized as a business hub in the Bay Area, companies in this city — just south of the reigning tech capital of San Francisco — have made big strides.

I've never seen them just give a big opportunity to a Chinese company or Russian company.»

I am just one person running one small shop and it's tough to stay afloat when you're competing against big companies, especially when the have super sales.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

But leaders of many small companies believe innovation is just for big companies that employ scientists and have large research and development departments.

McDonald's executives apparently read Entrepreneur — or just looked at the company's sales figures — and realized it was time to make some big changes.

Of course, it includes a lot of assets that an average investor can't easily buy — including big stakes in privately held companies and infrastructure facilities like toll roads and airports, to name just a couple.

The company has moved slowly since 2011, and its recent lawsuits — which involve just about every major player in mobile — represent its biggest gambit yet.

Or is Sprint just too big of a company to care?

I don't have the experience to be a CEO of a big company just yet.

But I've heard CEOs of start - ups as well as big companies talking about how some board member or supplier or somebody is just treating them like shit.

Twitter's earnings just came out and the company posted a big miss on revenue and slashed its outlook.

On selling a company: «If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same,» he said, referring to the rejected Yahoo bid in 2006.

A big part of Intuitive's playbook is to evangelize that message not just with potential hospital customers, but — more important — with young surgeons who, the company hopes, will represent the next generation of its users.

Big investors are losing patience with IBM chief Ginni Rometty, who remains one of the highest - paid CEOs in not just the tech industry, but among all S&P 500 companies, despite IBM's relatively poor performance under her lead.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.

When the company decided to target Miami, it decided to focus just on one big contractor, Thyssen.

But the big change from last year is that 81 % cited «artificial intelligence and machine learning» as either «very important» or «extremely important» to their company's future, up from just 54 % in 2016.

The Snap IPO just delivered a huge payday to the company's two biggest outside investors, Benchmark and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In addition to cultivating home - grown talent, «we also have to make sure we remain the place people want to come — not just to get an education but to start a company, so that the next big companies and the next big industries are here,» Case said.

After being turned down by big companies such as TD and Scotiabank, Schaefer started work as an independent broker just two months after arriving in Canada.

Index has investments in fashion companies such as Net - A-Porter, and ASOS, a large European brand, and Rimer thought that Nasty Gal had the potential to be just as big.

The way that the company is run is by understanding the importance of the individual: You clearly can run a business just focusing on delivering a task or you can run a business while you focus on delivering a purpose, and the purpose being a little bit bigger than the task.

And while you may not be able to afford the pre-roll program they have, just the mere fact that these big brands and media companies have signed on should tell you something.

Indeed, the fact that Fluid Life has designed its offices to keep everyone thinking big is just one reason the firm — along with 44 others — joined the ranks of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the first time this year.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

Critics also routinely say that mandated wholesale arrangements discourage network owners from investing in upgrades, which is indeed what we've heard in just about every dispute between big companies and small ISPs in Canada.

These 16 companies aren't just spinning out big ideas.

When Daniel McCarthy cofounded the music - licensing company Musicbed, he had a big idea: «I don't want customers to just think about Musicbed when they think about music licensing.