Sentences with phrase «making big bets»

Once such futures get launched, investors and investment funds are expected to swarm in for making big bets weighing on this volatile cryptocurrency.

Since Google introduced its deceptively simpleCardboard headset back at its 2014 conference, virtual reality has turned into the next big battleground, with Facebook and Samsung all making big bets on the technology.

CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors were making huge claims about the promise of algae - based biofuels; the U.S. Department of Energy was also making big bets through its bioenergy technologies office; industry advocates claimed that commercial algae fuels were within near - term reach.

Making big bets on tired old franchises like Hitman and Tomb Raider will be the death of Square Enix, no matter how you shuffle the staff around.

«The folks that are innovating need to be rewarded so that the folks that are making big bets can take that risk.

Most sophisticated institutions are investing on margin, making big bets on certain investments and leveraging up when they believe they are very right.

Not to mention how little performance can actually be tracked, or who has any real skin in the game — don't we all start out as great traders / investors, making big bets on paper, much like gamblers always start lucky!?

I wouldn't feel particularly good about making any big bets on any tech companies, but I think placing a few small, well - placed bets with some of the cash cows should allow me to gain exposure, increase my growing dividend income, and limit my risk.

Just like bankers, publishers need to be wary of making big bets based on shaky financial fundamentals.

Tull broke away in 2013 and has expanded in television while making big bets on his own films, including «Pacific Rim» and «Godzilla.»

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has not been shy about making big bets to fuel future growth as the carrier's two traditional markets — wired and wireless telephone service — have stagnated.

Though relatively new to the scene, OMERS has been making some big bets on Canada's limping tech sector.

Customers of B2B software or services, for example, are often making big bets that can impact their careers.

We have really, really big global investment funds making big bets on Calgary, and it would be a shame if Canadian financial institutions miss that boat because they're too nervous about the future of the community.

For IBM, Watson Jr. was making big bets, shifting the company from mechanical tabulating devices to a new thing called a computer.

I think it gives us lattitude to go out and make big bets.»

«I've made some big bets this year on gold, and I'm obviously not winning and I'm getting very annoyed.

Then you begin to realize, «Well, $ 300 million probably makes a lot of sense if someone wants to dominate that particular market and they're making a big bet.»

We think about how can we make some big bets on companies in the categories we're interested in.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year made a big bet on Oculus Rift, purchasing the Irvine, Cali.

IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan and several other big banks are among those making a big bet on blockchain, the distributed transaction processing engine behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Though Amazon is far and away making the biggest bet on AI talent, there were some surprises too.

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The main culprit is that the TSA made a big bet on its PreCheck program and enrollment is moving slowly.

They periodically make big bets in new lines of business.

«When we had a couple hundred customers, it wasn't a big enough base to tell us where they wanted to go, so we made big bets,» Levie says.

«We're going to make a big bet in health and wellness,» Schultz says.

The company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Odgers Canada, now focused in Montreal and Toronto, is making a big bet on interim management, for which Lovas sees growing demand as senior executives increasingly retire.

After watching the American Giant inventory get «sucked through» in December, Winthrop was forced to make big bets on a supply chain that wasn't completely proven.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

To be clear, great enterprises do make big bets, but they avoid big bets that could blow holes below the waterline.

Besides establishing UnitedHealth as the leading insurer for big companies, Hemsley made big bets on what he considered the future for growth and profits, healthcare services.

As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs are pairing up to make big bets on China's film industry.»

Stephen Lacy, executive chairman, explains why he is making a big bet on the future of print publications.

A tech hedge fund manager who made a big bet on cloud management company Box says his investment is paying off.

In 2015, Mr. Ackman made a big bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

Most notably, the company made a big bet on its Shape - Ups fitness shoes a few years ago, going so far as to air a Super Bowl ad featuring Kim Kardashian in 2011 to promote the shoes.

James Gorman made a big bet when he bought Smith Barney and doubled down on brokerage.

For every investor that hitched their wagons to Amazon.com back in the late 90's there were several others who made big bets on companies such as Pets.com.

That's something we've made a big bet on.

Also, US President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner also told Angela Merkel that US banks had made big bets — derivative gambles — that Greece would pay its bondholders, and threatened to hurt European banks if they did not pressure the IMF to bail out Greece.

I hope Shopify's success will continue to signal to investors and future entrepreneurs that Canada is a great place to build a tech company and make big bets.

I made a big bet on the sector.

Rivals have made big bets on TV while Vodafone has grappled with past geographic expansion.

But with interest paid on savings accounts low, Chinese investors appear willing to make big bets on stocks and real estate.

Some banks are reluctant to lend because they have already made big bets on the condo market, according to Ayush Kapahi, principal at real estate debt brokerage HKS Capital Partners.

Will you follow suit and make your biggest bet on an underdog?

Toad, Cheol - jong's nemesis, offers a large sum of money for Young - hoon, and Cheol - jong must make the biggest bet in his life.