Sentences with phrase «littler companies means»

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That means the company has to rely on the Wii U a little while longer.

For one, they typically look for larger opportunities that are a little bit more stable, meaning the company would need a strong team of people and a even few million dollars.

He added that the legislation was meant to fix an «obvious market failure» that left connected device companies with little incentive to build with security in mind.

Fan and his associates stated that overage charges for data and roaming contribute little to the revenues of major service providers, and the caps will be more of an effective means of limiting bill shock for consumers rather than restricting a company's average revenue per user.

As Gawker's Trotter points out in his own article this week, Hogan's lawsuit and the media company's resulting bankruptcy mean that there would likely be little financial compensation available for any plaintiffs suing Gawker Media.

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.

Running any company requires the entrepreneurial spirit, but joining the game when things are already off the ground can mean a little less initial bootstrapping.

This is an unusual way for a company to conduct an earnings call, and an unusual role for a journalist, so let me give you a little context: For the past couple of years, Netflix has been allowing outsiders — usually Wall Street analysts who cover the company, though CNBC's Julia Boorstin has also participated — to conduct its earnings calls, which means they are essentially conducting live interviews.

They view brand as an overused term that means very little to the world outside the company.

The entity that pays for the drugs, the insurance company, only has a say in how much it will pay to the distributor of the drugs, meaning it has little power with the drug manufacturers.

With some companies accepting investments of as little as $ 100, crowdfunding makes it easier for those of limited means to participate in the exciting world of venture capital.

And so, I think there is very little risk in that regard but I mean, if there was something fully unanticipated that would happen, I would say that as a company, we would be fully prepared to do what was ever necessary and in the best interest of our company and our shareholders.

It will mean that financial advisors will have a place where they have a stake in the company and can sleep a little bit better at night.»

Unlike most of our typical investment reports which focus on free cash flow utilization, net asset value investing, mean reversion of margins or special situations, this report will look at the investment merits of a company that generates little free cash flow at the moment and is somewhat of a growth investment if company management is successful in achieving its objectives.

The fact that you can operate your bitcoin exchange and trading business from your home does not mean that locations have little influence on the success of a bitcoin exchange and trading company.

Moreover, with increasing competition from other young cloud companies as well as giants like Oracle, IBM, and HP means DWRE has little room to raise prices or cut back on its marketing efforts if it wants to retain market share.

Yet when I now reflect on all 52 interviews in my podcast, this makes complete sense; the grit and hustle that comes from moving to a foreign country - often with very little means - and persevering through hardship lends itself to starting a company and overcoming the unexpected bumps of early startup life.

Most of them were well meant and carefully prepared, but they showed little indication that the preachers had been face to face with death in the company of men to whom the Bible was an utterly foreign world.

«Simple operation and maintenance means no daily operator requirements and very little annual plant maintenance, says Mr Bambridge, whose company's installations of the FAST system have been proven in Australian applications including: Alcoa, BHP - Billiton, Bechtel Pacific, Blair Athol Coal, Blue Circle Southern Cement, Cadia Gold, Dampier Salt and Wakefield Colliery.

Falling to # 1 Team DKE SR 56 - 39, Captain Jason and company will need to get back to the drawing board and fix the little things that can mean the difference between winning and losing.

Getting that message out, she said, means battling the influence of well - financed formula companies, brief maternity leaves that allow little time for mother and baby to get in sync, workplaces with no place or time for working mothers to pump, and an American society squeamish about a woman's breasts providing a child's food.

This cute little diaper made by a BC - based company (Kamloops) is a love affair meant to happen.

Interest rates could rise if this happens and the terms and conditions of a sell off mean the public would likely lose out while the companies involved take very little risk.

It does this by buying all its coffee from the company's Swiss operation at a mark - up of 20 % - effectively wiping out the profit of its UK arm, meaning it pays little or no tax here.

MPs on the Common's public finance committee last month tore into the company's global chief financial officer Troy Alstead for their large purchases within the company - meaning they paid little or no corporation tax in every year they have operated in the UK.

It's written in a language pretty close to English, with very little finance - speak, and is meant to be something close to what the president of the company would say as an introductory speech at the company's annual shareholders meeting.

The material is costly, but companies can recoup some expenses because it shrinks far less than conventional metals as it solidifies, which means little or no postforming processing is needed.

Those tight controls mean that little of the company's intellectual property finds its way into China.

Adapted from Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir by arrangement with Time Books, and imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC (North America), and Allen Lane (UK).

That means companies have to spell it out S - O - Y and not hide behind confusing and little - understood terms like «hydrolyzed plant protein» or «textured vegetable protein.»

The paper explains that these pills were provided by the National Cancer Institute, but i also did a little more reading on the internet and found that it's made by a japanese company that makes these pills available to institutions for research (apparently Polyphenon E is the preferred means of studying standardized quantities of tea catechins, as opposed to extracting the substances from tea leaves oneself).

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Cool little factoids abound early on (the company's name, for instance, derives from the Danish phrase «Lee goot,» meaning «play well»), with much animated fun driving the film.

You know, even though we can emphasize with these companies and their economic difficulties in today's industry, it still holds true this means little to the Wii U owner that receives a late to market product, no doubt at full price and what is only at this point in time a «promise» of game enhancing gamepad integration's.

No, not the little pictures that represent companies — «logos» here means appealing to logic and reason.

Although most people wouldn't give a Mégane a second glance in the company of new Aston Martins and Range Rover Sports, those in the know - by which I mean keen evo readers - knew that this particular example was a little more special than most.

The new platform means the little car is almost as safe as a Mercedes C - Class in the unfortunate event of a head - on collision, the company says.

If you've ever doubted that working at a small company really means doing a little bit of everything, wonder no longer.

This could mean the company's «Mod» platform, which is little more than a generic app store, or it could mean trying to monetize some of the apps that ship with CyanogenMod or Cyanogen OS.

If you are frustrated with your lack of success finding a publisher... if you've looked into companies that will publish your book for you and been appalled at what they charge... if you wish you better understood what the new printing and ebook technologies meant in terms of your options... then this little book can help.

Overseas, it appears to be a company that (to me, which means little in the scheme of things) looks a lot like Harlequin - Mills & Boon.

That, in turn, means locking down the device to prevent transactions outside of Amazon; otherwise, the business model falls apart and Amazon begins selling easily - rooted tablets which bring the company little (if any) after - sale revenue.Sorry you're so short - changed on such fundamental business strategy, something King Gillette championed about a century ago.

Also they've been a little worried lately as rumors about a new tablet spread which could mean that the company would leave previous customers in the cold.

Too little debt might mean that the company is not taking steps for expanding itself.

Valuation metrics alone hold little meaning without a deep understanding of the company that you are valuing, the industry in which it competes, and the competitive advantage (or lack thereof) that it possesses.

This means DeVos and her family own very little of the company.

Cardinal's 10 - year average P / E ratio has been 16 instead of 15, meaning that the market has tended to value CAH a little higher than its historic valuation of all the companies.

However, it turns out to be a little more complicated than that because companies do not share the same valuation, meaning that some companies allow you to buy more future profits than others when you take into account the current price of the stock in question.

«I suspect the actual service, because it wasn't owned by one large company that was able to do with the service whatever it wanted, it was always owned half and half, that that meant it was a little harder — if not a lot harder — to get the actual service to work in terms of scheduling and in terms of spending.»

A small difference may mean the company has little debt.