Sentences with phrase «like bad company»

As always, there's tons of DLC for games like Bad Company 2, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Dragon Age, Split / Second, and Record of Agarest War.

EA Sports has seen its entire line - up take advantage of the system that only grants new copies of games access to multiplayer, but other titles / genres from the publisher like Bad Company 2 don't completely block online content.

If you didn't like Bad Company 2, stay away.

If you liked bad company, you'll like this.

Not exact matches

Like most cable companies, Comcast also seems to be doing not a bad job of shifting customers to lower - priced «skinny bundles» so that it doesn't lose them completely.

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»

Oh, and they also created the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, using it to record outside the traditional studio environment and also hiring it out to bands like Zeppelin, Deep Purple (who immortalized it in «Smoke on the Water»), Fleetwood Mac, Bad Company, Wishbone Ash, and Iron Maiden.

In other words, even good news can be bad news for a company like Ecolibrium, which, despite the industry tumult, has racked up a three - year growth rate of 988.7 percent.

Meddling in the wrong ways or too often can either produce a culture where people don't like to take actions because they know you'll eventually just step in anyways, or — equally badly — the company gets unfocused from the constant interventions.

Companies are like people; neither all good or all bad.

Take the example of a new class of cholesterol - busting treatments called PCSK9 inhibitors, from companies like Sanofi / Regeneron and Amgen, which decimate levels of «bad» cholesterol in patients.

Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

As Agnieszka notes, although having a high valuation doesn't sound like the worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.

And yet, various players in the recorded - music industry — record labels, publishing companies, music distributors and even individual artists — routinely argue that services like Spotify aren't paying enough, and that advertising - supported services like YouTube are even worse.

Feldstein especially liked to point out the trucks belonging to ServiceMaster Restore, a multinational company that received bad press after workers with one of its subcontractors in Fort Mac went to the news media with health and safety concerns.

Great leaders, like the ones we are celebrating in this issue, are building companies for the long haul: companies that can weather storms and anchor the nation in good times and in bad.

This is bad news if your company depends on immigrant labor, or frequently hires H - 1B visa holders — and look, in particular, for tech companies like Facebook, which have lobbied furiously for more H - 1B visas, to howl in response.

There's no denying that 2017 was a bad year for many major retailers, with companies like Sears, Gymboree, Payless, RadioShack and Foot Locker either filing for bankruptcy or shuttering stores completely.

Startups based around a new idea sometimes get too sure of themselves, neglecting to keep a watch on the markets — competition isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you need to make sure you differentiate yourself in a way that makes your company seem like the more appealing service.

Focusing on elite schools to the exclusion of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea for a technology company that needs a steady supply of cutting - edge ideas.

One of the worst mistakes companies make is ignoring complaints like this.

So while a firm like NEA may not have a woman at the table when the big decisions are being made, there is an argument that it can afford the infrastructure needed to stem bad behavior, both at its portfolio companies and within its own ranks.

Additionally, a majority of employees say being a micromanager is the worst trait a boss can have, according to a recent Comparably survey of over 2,000 employees at tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Uber.

Long - term, a multi-day setback like a bad case of the flu or bad back pain likely won't affect your position at the company, especially if you've worked there for many years and it doesn't occur often.

For instance, they'll be less happy and more stressed (which affects things like their productivity and creativity); they may quit on you (which will cost you and your company time and money); they may give you bad reviews or complain to HR (which puts your job in jeopardy); and you'll have trouble earning their respect, being viewed as credible, and getting them to listen to your opinions.

When your company culture goes bad — just like when your car breaks down — it can be embarrassing.

Joe, like a lot of sales - oriented entrepreneurs, believed that revenue could solve all problems but he would learn that bad business models remain bad no matter how much cash flows through the company.

Granted, there are other factors that play into why you may or may not like your current job, such as coworkers, company culture, or bad management.

With hard work, good cyberslething and a bit of luck companies like ours will keep pace with the bad guys» attacks — but companies need to do their part and get smart about the potential threats.

To be fair, Thompson inherited plenty of the company's issues, like menu bloat, but he certainly didn't make them better and made some of them, like issues involving pricing, he made worse.

Sandberg told CNBC that A.I. can catch «99 percent» of the «bad actors» in some content areas, but internet watchdogs are less sure, and after a week that was the worst for Facebook shares since 2012 — and saw tens of billions in Facebook market capitalization erased daily — it seems like the «responsibility» of companies merits more spending on human talent.

I had a pretty bad customer service interaction with jlab recently and I'd like to write about my experience with the company to make sure people know what they are getting to when they buy a pair of these earbuds.

If you hold yourself to the standard of making a product that is so good people spontaneously recommend it to their friends, and you have an easy - to - understand business model where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you'll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

If your workers feel like they'll never be able to move up in the company — and, even worse, that you don't care — they'll start looking elsewhere for growth opportunities.

Still not a bad deal, compared to the monthly rates companies like Verizon charge for their contacts.

Or to counter state capitalism like China's, they may engage in explicit subsidies or tax breaks or subsides or preferences or soft loans to promote domestic business's ability to compete overseas against state supported or state owned companies — trade promotion ideas which teeter between reasonable competitive measures and bad crony - capitalism.

That's not necessarily a bad thing — there's a graveyard of online music companies and other than Pandora, few that look like winners.

Looks like poor guidance from Sanmina (SANM) has analysts worried that Q1 will be bad for other companies that provide communications components.

The tariffs are great for US steelmakers — but they're bad for a large part of the US economy that relies on steel, like construction companies, automakers, and appliance manufacturers.

And worse, the «boss» at your client's company who knows the most about their industry is not available to ask questions — you might picture him or her all like;

Wharton professor Jonah Berger says negative publicity is like playing Russian roulette, so unless Amy's Baking Company plans to take the «reality show» idea all the way, it's safe to say that this example of bad press definitely blew up in the company'Company plans to take the «reality show» idea all the way, it's safe to say that this example of bad press definitely blew up in the company'company's face.

Kind of like when financial companies say they have a temporary liquidity problem, not a solvency problem, and all the bad news stories and nasty rumors are to blame.

But something about that prized demographic makes the uncoolest of tech companies lose its head and become even uncooler — and, even worse, act like the Donald Trump of the tech world.

That puts the company on very solid footing during the downturn, enabling it to wait out the storm as opposed to being forced to address its issues at the worst possible moment, like Freeport.

«Rather than rejoicing that a bad actor has met its just reward, we should recognize that many more Cambridge Analytica - like companies are operating in the conjoined commercial and political marketplace,» Chester said in a statement.

The time to invest in a cyclical company like FCA is when orders and falling and everyone's looking to even a worse future.

To some economists, offering technology companies like Apple and Microsoft and pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Pfizer a discount on the corporate taxes they would normally owe simply rewards bad behavior.

Those drivers were expected to pay more attention to little details, often taking control to prevent a «bad experience» like hard braking, according to a company document.

Managing your company's accounting may seem like one of the easier things that you do, so you may not notice how much time you lose keeping track of income and expenses in an old spreadsheet — or worse, with pen and paper.