Sentences with phrase «largest existing company»

«Overstock would be the largest existing company to launch an ICO to date,» said Garrick Hileman, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge who studies cryptocurrency.

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Finally, the fourth conundrum is that as companies grow larger and management falls prey to the fallacy that it only exists to maximize shareholder short - term return on investment, companies become risk averse.

Corporations should use their existing gear to the fullest capacity, a bulwark against startups that are able to more nimbly compete with large companies in this area by aggregating data sources.

The company attracted a record number of new customers, both midmarket and large enterprise companies, and added organic growth opportunities with existing customers.

While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are working on solving the technical issues of the hyperloop, other challenges exist ahead for the transportations system.

The PCAOB's Investors Advisory Group supports mandatory audit firm rotation because of concerns about the «coziness» that exists between audit firms and management, noting that «[m] any of the auditors of the large companies involved in the financial crisis... had long running audit relationships.»

The risks involved in making a corporate acquisition - whether of a large asset, a division of an existing company, or even a competitor - are enormous, in part because there are so many unknowns to consider.

The $ 6.1 billion deal, which would combine Xerox into an existing joint venture with Fuji, drew opposition from prominent shareholders such as Darwin Deason, Xerox's largest individual shareholder, who sued in New York state court saying the deal undervalues the American copier and printing company.

Entrepreneur teamed up with CultureIQ to rank high - performance cultures existing at large companies for our Top Company Cultures list.

The company's large existing services business includes breakthroughs in the concept and delivery of modular services, as well as expertise in infrastructure consulting and software - as - a-service.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

If I had to turn anywhere where... the opportunity for large capital gains exists, and the downside is, in my opinion, limited, it would be the mining sectors, specifically precious metals and mining companies... like Freeport, Newmont, Barrick.

Would the existing corporate processes, procedures and business models crush their innovative talents, or would they steer the large companies into a new renaissance?

If large variances exist between an investor's independent analysis and a company's depiction, further study should be done to either reconcile differences or confirm a company's mischaracterization of its customer base.

In other words, for the most part, the big five tech companies exist at their current size and scale only because they serve a larger underlying economy of profitable companies.

People familiar with the development told VCCircle that the objective behind the exercise is to help the new e-commerce company raise larger investment from its existing investor Alibaba and also, Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp, which owns more than 32 % stake in Alibaba.

A large secondary transaction would likely weaken the pressure from any existing investors for the company to soon go public so that they can finally profit off their bet.

But existing clusters are a wide mix of both really small and large companies participating.

Existing investors, led by Bain Capital Ventures, clamoring for a larger piece of the action - ourselves included - preempted the company's next financing and closed the recent oversubscribed $ 16 million round.

Additionally, they're not big enough to get the attention and service levels needed from the few large travel management companies that exist.

Bloomberg first reported the latest development, which follows months of talks about both a direct investment in the ride - hailing company at the company's last private valuation of nearly $ 70 billion and also a large purchase of the shares of existing shareholders at the lower price.

I'd add that large companies tend to share a common, specific fear: They're afraid that the potential innovation won't cover declining revenues for the existing products / services.

However, for stock market companies, simply creating new shares or issuing stock options by fiat that are given away to employees without the company selling them at full value, existing shareholders would experience an economic dilution in profits (dividends) per share going down because of a larger number of shares and, importantly, in economic value, being given away (shares of the company are literally being simply granted to someone else, namely employees).

Financial and telecommunications companies have the largest amounts of existing data and are typically the most advanced in commercializing it.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The second largest independent ATM deployer in Australia Stargroup has signed a joint venture agreement with blockchain payment solutions company Digitalx to convert their existing ATMs into Bitcoin ATMs (BTMs).

This new CVS will combine its existing pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) and retail pharmacies with the second largest diversified healthcare company via the proposed Aetna acquisition.

IBM and Alphabet are two of the larger players in this space, but other quality companies also exist.

If successful, the two companies that have launched under GFI's influence in the past year are expected to produce commercial plant - based products that will compete with existing animal products within one year.41 If those products reduce the demand for animal products, this could affect a large number of animals.

The company has grown GMV per customer by 20 percent - plus, which shows Shopify is either signing larger customers or existing customers are growing organically, or a combination of both,» the analyst added.

It will mean that not only can Aegg offer our existing bespoke jar packaging solution from developing a product from initial design concept right through to managing manufacturing and setting up the supply chain; Aegg can now also offer a capping referral solution through Tecnocap's know - how in metal closing systems, making the company the «go - to» brand for complete jar packaging for both large and small projects.

L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics company, and Switzerland - based Barry Callebaut, the global leading supplier of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, have joined existing POIG members like Ferrero and Danone in their commitments to drive truly responsible palm oil production.

The large volume of new commitments from existing franchisees follows the company's 2016 convention, during which Cicis leadership laid out the strategy to contemporize its restaurants with its new MAVERICK reimage package; focus on driving guest frequencies by highlighting the brand's unique ability for every guest to get what they want from the variety available on its unlimited buffet; and to streamline its operations with more efficient and effective systems.

To move from isolated examples toward a fully generative economy, we may need a global movement of citizens, investors, and businesses, both profit and nonprofit, working together to create a pincer strategy — one arm aimed at reforming existing large companies, another aimed at promoting generative alternatives.

While Chinese and Russian companies are now worried about the security of their existing contracts, European oil firms expect to benefit with new business and a larger share of the Libyan oil market.

Even large employers are gonna have positions whose work needs to be done and whether that's done through additional hours from existing workers, i.e. overtime, or not doing something else that had been important to the company, or hiring new staff, the bottom line is that if it's a vital function, someone's gonna have to do it, and that's gonna have to be picked up.

He will also say that eight large private companies such as Hewlett Packard, Amey, Balfour Beatty, Capita and Serco, have agreed to publish government subcontract work on the free Contract Finder website rather than simply through their existing procurement portals.

It consolidates five existing SFI research centers but brings onboard more than 40 different industry partners, including Abbott pharmaceuticals, the consulting firm Accenture, sportswear company Adidas, large multinational companies such as Intel and Microsoft, and media companies such as The Irish Times and Storyful.

Recently we have heard that big portfolios of large companies pose a threat to small inventors, «patent trolls» who exist solely to sue real companies have hijacked the marketplace for new ideas and colossal lawsuits prove that America's patent system is broken.

The largest acquisition in the dating industry is also one of the biggest exists ever for a bootstrapped company.

Customers of one of Britain's largest online dating companies have voiced concerns that they may have been lured into paying subscriptions by potential dates who did not exist.

For all types of businesses out there - large and small, startups and companies that have existed for generations, customer - facing and technology - based -, one fact always remains unchanged: Staff training and development is a cornerstone of the company's success.

They visited: Sonny's Enterprises, largest car wash manufacturer in the United States; City Furniture, one million square foot corporate headquarters and distribution center; Sprout Loud and Rex 3, largest commercial printer in South Florida - high growth internet company; Marine Association of South Florida (MASF), 7 billion dollar industry in South Florida - Tour of Roscioli and Water Taxi on New River (view existing working Marinas); Mario Portillo - Actavis (soon to be Teva), largest generic drug manufacturer in the world; and Broward Health - Cora E. Braynon Family Center, health care professions.

Roden hopes that other universities and perhaps large companies will follow suit and support existing schools.

According to Autoweek sources at parent company BMW, the existing four - door Clubman will be succeeded by an even larger model previewed in lightly veiled form by the Clubman concept at the Geneva motor show last March.

One of the largest new trends of 2016 and 2017 will be existing companies including audiobooks in their portfolio and leveraging their existing customer base to try out a new format and generate more sales.

Publishers» desperate attempts to maintain their existing profit margins on print books could be preventing them from seeing the larger opportunity in e-books, just as a fear of Apple and digital music caused record companies to miss the boat when the MP3 revolution came along.

Government is Paterson's single largest employer, followed by healthcare and the textile industry that still exists in Paterson, but there are many private companies and smaller industries that keep the city running and contribute to its low unemployment rate.

Of the research tools and websites that do exist, many are based on technical indicators, «black box» systems or only offer coverage on larger, better - known companies.

Wall Street does not exist to make the buyers of the securities rich, rather, Wall Street exists to help companies get financing; the large profits of Wall Street come from the creation of stocks, bonds, and other securities to institutions and individuals.