Sentences with phrase «major companies recently»

If you haven't compared your rates to other major companies recently, you might want to consider going online to look at car insurance quotes.

Some major companies recently dropped their membership over controversy over the Stand Your Ground law cited in the Florida death of Travon Martin.

Not exact matches

Martin joined Nike in 1997 and most recently oversaw several of the company's major business units, including women's, running, training and basketball.

Looking ahead: Moveline recently raised a $ 1.5 million seed round of funding, which it will use to expand the company to other major cities, add more staff and enhance the product.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

While the company failed to return a request for comment, in its S - 1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it recently cited Brexit as a major risk factor.

Elon Musk and SpaceX recently hit a major milestone, when one of the company's reusable rockets had a successful launch on the first try.

It's even what the oil companies want, for heaven's sake: Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa - based think - tank, recently surveyed 10 major energy companies, including Shell and Suncor, and found all of them were already incorporating a «shadow carbon price» into their decision - making, under the assumption they will contend with such regimes in the near future.

Displaymasters recently received a letter from a large client that credited the entire company for the client's success at a major trade show.

Indeed, Protosphere has recently gained serious traction among major companies.

The company's Cancet Lithium Project recently reported 1.71 %, 1.85 %, 1.94 % and 3.79 % Lithium from surface assays and the Terre des Montagnes Project is contiguous with and along strike to Nemaska Lithium's Whabouchi project, which is on track to become a major world producer in 2018.

Both businesses and consumers need to be aware of this Internet scam that has recently affected some major Australian companies.

More recently, it's struggled to strike a deal for its consumer healthcare business, with major potential bidders like GlaxoSmithKline pulling out and Procter & Gamble deciding to buy German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA's consumer unit instead.

Major theater chains won't run movies backed by Netflix and the company was recently banned from competition at the Cannes Film Festival ostensibly because it lacked theatrical distribution in France.

More recently, the company has pivoted to mobile phones and mobile games (they sold their phone division to Microsoft in 2014 for $ 7.2 B), working to become a major player in the telecom industry and producing network equipment.

According to a recent study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company, the value menus recently launched by three major U.S. quick service restaurant chains (QSR) are working.

Two major telecom companies considered as threats to the national security — ZTE and Huawei — were recently told that they would not be able to enter the US market.

Uber recently earned praise from the head of a major Chinese Internet industry group for behaving more like a Chinese company than like an eBay or an Amazon.

Until recently the vertical deal - which in theory should not reduce competition among the two companies» direct rivals - was considered by antitrust experts as likely to be approved with no major concessions.

More than 60 % of shareholders of one major energy company recently voted — against management's recommendation — in favor of the company reporting on its climate progress.

The company, which specializes in English and Chinese translations, has signed major contracts with big brands and recently returned from a trip to China.

Pacific Crest analyst Rob Owens recently took a close look at how the current software M&A cycle compares to the previous one, which companies are the most likely buyout targets and which companies will be the major buyers...

Veros Real Estate Solutions, a California - based company that specializes in property valuations and analytics, recently published a real estate market forecast for major metro areas across the U.S..

YES indeed, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently appointed a woman as one of the board members of its major company and the world's top oil company «Aramco», the oil fields of...

Cryptsy, a bitcoin trading company, recently revealed that it suffered some major losses in the past two years.

NeuStar has recently indicated an interest toward big data initiatives to drive company marketing efforts, and has recently undergone a major telecom system migration initiative.

The company recently hired a major Hollywood executive to develop big films in - house.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Martel lists major milestones recently achieved that bode well for the company: «This year, we celebrated our 100th international operating coffeehouse location, we're expanding the number of coffeehouses overall by 10 to 12 percent this year, we recently announced a new partnership with Jewel - Osco, the market - leading grocery chain in the Chicago area, and we're continuing to grow our [consumer products] offerings.»

The restaurant group recently implemented a major back - of - the - house training program aimed at increasing consistency across locations and ensuring each dish meets the company's highest quality standards.

The company had recently initiated a major investment programme, in line with its «cost leadership» strategy pillar, across all areas -LSB-...]

The activities of the Niger Delta Avengers which have taken an upward trend recently have however been a major source of concern to the country as oil companies had resorted to declaring a force majeure on their operations in the region.

The state has recently been the beneficiary of a windfall from major lawsuit settlements with several banks and insurance companies.

New York's Public Service Commission is currently considering allowing Time Warner Cable (recently voted America's least favorite company) to merge with major competitor Comcast.

Maloney, a longtime champion of 9/11 workers» rights to health care, recently scored a major coup, winning passage of consumer legislation to curb abuses by credit card companies.

One general manager I recently worked for insisted that this was a major requirement for a scientist - hire in his company's bioanalytical services group.

Ecuador, which owns the islands, recently installed three wind turbines, in cooperation with the UN and major energy companies.

The company's thermal cyclers were used by every major genome centre during the sequencing of the human genome and were most recently used by the BC Cancer Agency during the sequencing of the SARS virus.

His positions have included senior communications manager at Amgen, a major biopharmaceutical company; senior manager for worldwide R&D and medical communications at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.; and most recently senior communications director at a national health care policy think tank.

Just recently a major drug company got busted for «funding» research and deliberately keeping their involvement a secret from the publishers of the scientific journals the articles were being presented in.

Our # 1 - ranked major two years ago only to drop into the mid-sized group the following year, Sega returned to the majors this year with a larger slate of releases (even without including games published by the recently acquired Atlus, which continues to be run as a separate company).

It's 1995, and the heads of the seven major tobacco companies — «the Seven Dwarves,» as Wigand dubs them — have recently made their infamous appearance on Capitol Hill to swear that nicotine is not an addictive drug.

Is this because DVD only recently began supporting DTS sound mixes, which are supervised by a company in which Spielberg has a major financial stake?

Legendary recently went into business with a Chinese company that bought a major stake in the studio, which allows them a lot more access into both the Chinese exhibitor market along with incentives / tax breaks the government gives to films made by Chinese studios in the country.

He penned the post-apocalyptic young adult adaptation «Blood Red Road,» and a TV movie of Stephen Kelman «s «Pigeon English» for Ridley Scott, a version of the novel «Major Pettigrew's Last Stand» for Warner Bros, and most recently, was hired for magician movie «Mortimer Wintergreen» by Johnny Depp «s company, with Depp likely to star.

We recently worked with a major financial services company to create online compliance training for its sales division.

More recently, founder and designer Henrik Fisker unexpectedly left his namesake company in March over, ««major disagreements» with management on business strategy.»

Just recently the popular Smashwords eBook distributor partnered with the company ScrollMotion to open up a new distribution channel delivering eBooks to major mobile devices.

The book lending niche has around 6 major players with most recently Lendle got served its walking papers with Amazon axing the company from its affiliate program.

Just recently the popular Smashwords eBook distributor partnered with the company ScrollMotion to open up a new distribution channel delivering eBooks to Major Mobile devices.