Sentences with phrase «major piece of the company»

The daughter of late Walmart founder Sam Walton, Alice Walton holds a major piece of the company fortune, making her the richest woman on earth.

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The company announced plans last week to buy a major piece of IBM Corp.'s computer server business for $ 2.3 billion.

Even the stuff the various companies that Terry Matthews creates are all for some miniscule piece of somebody's operation that makes a major difference and that becomes a company that then can use that application.

It seems like every quarter there's a new story about how hackers breached a major company's cyber-defenses and stole millions of pieces of highly sensitive data.

Major baby - clothing brands avoid these types of decorations, but homemade items, hand - me - downs, and pieces from small companies may have them.

«I was just talking to a colleague the other day from a major drug company who came in with a piece of paper with 15 bioinformatics jobs that they're ready to hire tomorrow,» he says.

By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry.

A few weeks ago, a major fire broke out at one of the company's rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, due to the mishandling of a piece of equipment.

Apple is not the only company to develop and release a major new font that was designed for multiple pieces of hardware.

For some time there, though, it seemed Nintendo was partially alien to that trading of ideas and concepts: while their titles were influential to many, the valuable pieces of the major works of those that did not reside within the company's Kyoto headquarters were never utilized in any significant way to boost Nintendo's own franchises.

«We are excited to partner with OZ Minerals in this key initiative that brings together two private companies to develop a major piece of infrastructure for South Australia, resulting in a well - thought out project that will meet today's needs and enable tomorrow's opportunities,» said SolarReserve's Chief Executive Officer Kevin Smith.

For me the best confirmation that rapid production decline will not be a big problem is that a number of major oil companies (not just one but many with highly competent research and engineering staffs) have paid big bucks to purchase a piece of the action.

Given that nearly all the major US coal companies are now bankrupt, and that coal - fired electricity is declining rapidly, I'd have expected a lot of «wrecking ball» pieces on the supposed damage to the economy (in reality, the effects are small and mostly offset by the expansion of renewables) now that mitigation policies of various kinds are taking effect.

There are some of the usual outrageous statements in there, but most of the piece provides insight on the position of the major Aussie companies.

There are cases in which the driver and trucking company handled everything correctly, yet a major defect in a piece of equipment or a design flaw is to blame for the accident.

CAMPBELL: The difficulty in talking about the big cases, I look at the little cases, and part of my concern is that where you may see some of the court decisions that become problematic for the areas in which you are involved because, think of the companies, and they may be reasonable size but not huge, that don't have an in - house IT person, don't have an in - house counsel and maybe cloud computing for servers, and they have got a major piece of litigation and they don't have a policy.

«For us, one of the major challenges we have is determining when a particular event or a piece of information is material and when it must be disclosed, and we often find that there's sort of an interesting intersection between the approach of the regulator and our needs as a publicly traded company to disclose information,» she says.

«By buying ARM, Softbank has a piece of the growth segments in the semiconductor business — IoT, smartphones, automotive and servers — because ARM's IP is licensed by every major company in these markets,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

The company's two major 2016 handset releases — the Huawei P9 and Honor 8 — were both fantastic pieces of hardware with attractive price tags to boot.

Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference keynote kicks off in just over 10 hours, and the company itself may have let slip a major piece of news.

What started as an off - the - record statement to Fast Company turned into a major piece of news that has now been reinterpreted by Samsung to say that the company is still committed to the plCompany turned into a major piece of news that has now been reinterpreted by Samsung to say that the company is still committed to the plcompany is still committed to the platform.

As the first woman to head a major real estate network (formerly RELO), Pam O'Connor helped independent brokerage companies get their pieces of the relocation pie.