Not exact matches
Some news leaked out of Intel
last week by a side channel when
industry consultant Patrick Moorhead posted about a recent meeting he'd had with execs at the chip
giant.
According to Morgan Stanley, the e-commerce
giant will become the top player of the U.S. apparel
industry in 2018, having gained 1.5 percent of market share
last year.
Hartford HealthCare's announcement
last week that the hospital
giant will form a joint venture with a health plan is not as much of a surprise as it may have seemed in an
industry under pressure to control crippling costs.
Canopy's bought deal with BMO is the second time that the cannabis company has managed to blaze a new trail in the
industry: U.S. alcoholic beverage
giant Constellation Brands Inc. purchased a nearly 10 per cent stake in Canopy
last fall, the first time a major out - of - market player bought into the pot business.
Arista
Industries has become a valued vendor for foodservice
giant Sysco in recent years, frequently ranking in the company's top - 100 vendors and
last year reaching as high as third overall.
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,...
Last week a Reuters report that PepsiCo was in talks to acquire Vita Coco maker All Market Inc. had the beverage
industry buzzing over what could be yet another billion - dollar acquisition of an entrepreneurial beverage company by a strategic
giant.
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.
At one point, one of the panelists asked this
giant conference room of hundreds of
industry professionals how many of them had actually gone on five online dates in the
last year.
With six nods in total, it cements the streaming
giant's place at the movie
industry table, with Amazon — which won
last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.
Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played
last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «
industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions,
giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.
As someone who has loved Nintendo from an early age and then spent the
last decade or so entirely befuddled by their contributions to the gaming
industry, there's nothing I'd love more than a return to form for the once proud gaming
giant.
Traditional payments
giant First Data sent a ripple through the bitcoin community
last month when the company announced it had acquired mobile gift card provider and long - time bitcoin
industry advocate Gyft as part of a deal with undisclosed terms.
BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Long estimates that the Cupertino
giant has snatched an impressive 103.6 percent of all smartphone
industry operating profits over the
last quarter, the Investor's Business Daily reports.
Last year, the chip
giant had already partnered with PokitDok to use blockchain in the healthcare
industry, collaborated with Tencent on an IoT blockchain solution, and used Ledger's blockchain platform for cryptocurrency storage.
Robinhood faces competition from
industry giant Coinbase, which achieved more than $ 1 billion in revenue
last year, as well as Square Cash, which recently launched commission - free Bitcoin trading to the majority of its US customers.