Sentences with phrase «little companies doing»

Sony and Microsoft came ready to do battle, Nintendo showed up, and we were up to our armpits in little companies doing amazing things with virtual reality.

It is absolutely flabbergasting how little these companies do to inform customers of all the things these devices can do and how to operate them.

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In the public arena, the company did little right.

And the parent company's 2017 forecast suggested little relief was coming for a brand that not long ago could do no wrong.

The gains mostly were from companies selling more stuff; changes in prices had little to do with the increase, the agency said.

With the possible exception of social media company Snap, these companies — a carmaker, a phone maker and a music streaming app — have little to do with WeChat and video games, all part of Tencent's core businesses.

The company employs 64 full timers and casuals, runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is the only «trade - only» printer in WA.Founder Chris King concedes his company's success has had little to do with business plans.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

«It does little to help the company ship more devices,» he says.

As hard as companies work to solicit and serve customers, I'm always surprised by how little most businesses do to stay in touch with those they once served so well.

I have worked with several companies whose owners had a supportive friends and family network that required very little equity and didn't stress about the financial outlay.

That suggests that, for people who do own Sony, don't dump it yet — the few dollar gains S&P Capital IQ is predicting could give your portfolio a little boost in this still volatile market environment — but new buyers may want to seek out a better performing tech company.

It's really important for a company to be able to stay current, and sometimes the cost of technology, of innovating, could be a bit prohibitive if they don't get a little help.

What looked like a surprising and abrupt departure by a rising star executive had little to do with the company, Fortune has learned.

«If you do a little research ahead of time on what companies are going to be there and then you go in with specific questions, it shows them that you're not just the average conference attendee.

Gone are the days when executives would shy away from sharing their views on matters that had little to do with their company's day - to - day activities.

Munoz: Every little thing the company was doing was being received negatively.

Schmelzer and his GeoPalz co-founders — his wife, Sheri, and Alexandra O'Leary — represent a new wave of entrepreneurs launching ventures with a little help from companies who've done it before.

There are also those do stay on a little longer do so because they see their purpose aligned with the company goals.

«The tech companies will have little say and the government say explicitly they have the power to bring legal action against them if they do not comply.»

Many companies just do the bare minimum when it comes to HR — a little bit of onboarding, a little bit of employee relations and the necessary documentation of employee and labor information.

Moreover, there's little the media companies can do to pressure Facebook — if one of them decides to quit, Facebook can simply replace them with someone else; it already has the Guardian, National Geographic on board, and others are no doubt waiting in the wings.

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

Although some technologists think Twitter could one day be a billion - dollar company, many others say it represents the worst of Web 2.0: a company that is built to flip, that does little of value and has no long - term prospects as a standalone enterprise.

Sure, it will require a little more work, but done properly, you can show your appreciation, differentiate your company and, hopefully, drum up new business.

«A lot of companies that are successful in the long term try to do things a little differently [and] get a lot of criticism,» Pearson said in an interview in August.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

Shareholders were hoping the return of co-founder Jack Dorsey as CEO last summer would give Twitter the lift it needs, but a year later, Dorsey has done little to change the company's trajectory.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

Or a company that is basically claims they're doing R&D but there is very little evidence of R&D and that's the development part and that's advertising perhaps.

But then again, there's notoriously little any company can do to guarantee that its subcontractors won't break the law, whether it operates on the other side of the planet or just down the street.

Meanwhile, despite much talk about change, Congress and the Trump administration have done little to control drug prices or threaten drug - company profits.

I would go out of my way to paint company achievements in ways that would make me look better, even if I had little or nothing to do with said accomplishment.

So if you worry that your little company is doomed by poverty, don't.

When you're between news moments, there are ways for you and your business to earn a little coverage that don't rely on hard news or that elusive glowing company feature.

Trump doesn't care; he built a nice little landing pad for his friend Roger Ailes, the disgraced chairman of Fox News who left the company because of his habitual mistreatment of female employees and landed on his feet in the Trump campaign.

«Setting the targets is a little hard to do in a young company, because there is no long - term historical trend you can refer to,» says Jeffrey Wojcik, who was part of the team that designed the goals and who may not receive a bonus this year.

Today, the company's biggest challenge has little to do with the competition — it's the business of recycling itself that's the problem.

But often a company's physical environment does little to promote health and productivity.

«If we could get one person hired at one great company that is going to change the world in some way,» Groesbeck says, «then we could play a little role in doing something great in the world.»

Initially, P2P was a valuable onboarding tool for companies, and when it was still a small segment, taking it on at little value or a loss didn't have major implications.

Looking back, McManus says he was haunted by this thought: «What a shame to leave the company with so little to show for it because you didn't set up the management.»

And little Jeff Bezos didn't hope to run an e-commerce company one day.

Jane's Medium post, in which she said she ate little more than rice at her apartment 30 miles from work, didn't make surprising new claims about wage distribution by tech companies.

He's struck a deal with Stein Roe to resell that company's mutual funds at www.youngmoney.com and is transforming his site — now just an online face for the magazine — into a transaction - oriented one that he describes as «E * Trade for kids,» where they can do online trading with very little money.

The SEC, the top securities regulator in the United States, has little authority over privately held companies, which unlike publicly traded companies do not have to register or file financial information with the agency regularly.

But as your company grows, you may find that the do - it - yourself site that you built for little or no cost on a platform like Wix or Squarespace no longer meets your needs.

That doesn't mean that every time customers call or send E-mail, they should get a «little five - point questionnaire,» adds Seybold, who recommends that companies start slowly by polling a percentage of their customers each week.

As KFC was scrambling to get its supplier issue under control, its PR team went to work and did something spectacular that might just give the company a little breathing room with the public.