Sentences with phrase «more companies investing»

2017 will see the introduction of an official eSports degree in colleges by China's Ministry of Education and we expect to see more companies investing in eSports tournaments this year.

Manufacturers also seem to be taking notice as more companies invest in creating better performing car safety accessories for pets.

Not exact matches

As Gluskin Sheff + Associates» David Rosenberg and Peter Mann put it in a note last week: «the real money will be made based on classic value investing that focuses more on company fundamentals than on Trump - onomics.»

Lebedev also said that the Independent will be investing more in digital and creating 25 new «content roles» for the company, as well a new subscription - based mobile app and new bureaus in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Shares in South Perth - based Noble Mineral Resources have surged more than 37 per cent on news Chinese group Zhongrun is to invest $ 87.7 million and take a 42 per cent stake in the company.

People who are invested in building a career, however, are much more focused on finding ways to learn and gain experience in their work as a way to go further toward fulfilling long - term goals, which might be running a company or starting one of their own.

At the other end, funds such as OMERS Ventures and Georgian Partners, two of the country's most prominent VCs, are capable of investing large amounts of money in more mature companies.

Resources companies are continuing to invest more in exploring for minerals but much of the additional spend is being eaten up by cost increases, rather than new or expanded exploration.

Since then, it's been more timid than the two other Chinese state - owned oil companies, Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. (parent company of PetroChina) investing in North America.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

I make it very clear that we're interested in investing in companies that can be $ 1 billion or more one day.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

However, investing in the right people and technology can make your life much easier and your company that much more effective in its promotion.

Investing in learning how to code, being able to analyze data to find meaningful patterns and then being able to visualize it will pay off in the long term, according to Lee, adding that her own company is hiring more and more new hires have a technical background, especially in data visualization.

Best Buy decided to instead invest in its big - box stores, where the company can provide «a better experience because there's more space.»

Then companies show their appreciation for customers even more by investing in shoppers» experiences, providing valuable content and thanking consumers with extra rewards and benefits.

Direxion's iBillionaire Index ETF is barely five weeks old and holds only $ 35 million in assets, but it's generated buzz by investing in 30 companies chosen from the portfolios of asset managers with personal net worth of $ 1 billion or more.

Part of our Top Company Cultures list, the medical staffing company invests heavily in its wellness initiatives, resulting in employees missing work less, being more productive and poCompany Cultures list, the medical staffing company invests heavily in its wellness initiatives, resulting in employees missing work less, being more productive and pocompany invests heavily in its wellness initiatives, resulting in employees missing work less, being more productive and positive.

I'm a free enterpriser so this might be me saying, well look, I don't think it is fair now to say to people that have made those investments — it's a number of companies not just Bell and Rogers, it's Telus and so on — that the city is going to facilitate more competition or invest in it.

Instead of investing time and money into training a separate customer care team, companies can allocate their human resources to other, more important tasks, leaving their chatbot to provide assistance to vendors, suppliers, as well as third parties.

It resulted in more than 2,000 comments, and Cuban eventually invested in four companies.

The company has said it will invest $ 7 billion over the next three years to beef up its digital operations, freshen up existing stores, and open more small outlets that give the company a presence in urban areas.

That provision would have allowed approved drugs that win additional FDA clearances to treat rare disorders — i.e., those that affect 200,000 or fewer Americans — extended market exclusivity in the hopes that biopharma companies would be more compelled to invest in difficult - to - treat spaces that involve costly follow - on clinical trials.

«But it quickly became clear, there's a lot more good companies to invest in.»

His funders include the Chinese government, General Motors (gm) and spandex company Yantai, which are all investing in how to build smaller and more flexible power that you can sew, wear, and stretch.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

I think that even companies we invested in two years ago that did not specifically focus on AI or machine learning at the time are now increasingly looking at assets that can now become that much more valuable when you apply machine learning to them.

Generally, an entrepreneur can not own 50 percent or more of the business that his or her IRA is invested in, unless the company has a minority shareholder with complete veto power over all transactions — but in some cases, even that won't be allowed.

Sometimes, this may lead to amazing new products that benefit the company, but more often it just leads to happier, more invested employees.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

More often than not, they will appreciate your concern and will be happy to invest in their relationship with your company.

Asked about the growing DC - SV connection, Mabus said, «the energy, the intellectual capital that is there, the intensity of these founders and companies that GV is invested in, it's very appealing to me, much more appealing than maintaining something that's already gotten there.»

While hardware companies were once considered too risky to invest in, advancements in technology have made the space much more appealing.

Returns were lousy, the early - stage companies the funds invested in constantly needed more money, and Ontario had already decided to cancel its tax credit in 2010, which became a deal - breaker for many investors.

If the company isn't «blowing up,» when the founder goes out to raise more money and the original VCs / Angels who invested don't lead or participate in the new round, it sends an very bad signal to other potential new investors.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

Far from absorbing the smaller company, Zillow wants to expand StreetEasy's footprint, investing in one or more mobile apps, according to The New York Times.

As a private company, Nordstrom would likely be able to focus on initiatives such as investing more in e-commerce, closing underperforming stores and expanding its off - price chain, Nordstrom Rack, without pressure from shareholders.

But doing business with that company still makes sense because Peachtree shows its inventory turning far faster than others, explains Garrett, so Triad gets a return on the same dollar invested more times a year than with other lines.

Online marketing certainly has the potential to save your company, but if you invest in the wrong channel, your marketing spend will be less like a life jacket and more like a cannon on your bootstraps.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Lucinda Shen on a new electronically - traded fund that specializes in investing in companies with more women in top management rolls.

O'Leary said that he had purposefully decided in the past two years to invest in more companies where women were in charge, based on «pragmatic financial data.»

TUNG: People are investing more in education to build the next generation of Internet companies leveraging mobile internet or distance learning.

Since 1998, the company has invested more than $ 220 million in water conservation programs.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

Companies like Google, Facebook (fb), and IBM (ibm) are investing millions of dollars in AI - related technologies like deep learning that have made it possible for computers to more quickly perform data - heavy tasks like translating text into multiple languages.

«I've invested in 20 different entrepreneurial and mid-cap companies and I've made more money with the women executives.

By investing in the education of women in tech, the company is not only creating a more diverse applicant pool but also attracting female engineers through its exemplary commitment to education and inclusion.

The fund, called the Blackstone Core Equity Partners, will seek to invest in safer, larger companies for more than twice than the three - to - five - year holding period private equity firms usually have.

RIM has also started to acquire more startups, and co-founded the BlackBerry Partners Fund in 2008 to invest in mobile computing companies globally.