Sentences with phrase «name basis in»

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Ontario - based OTTO — not to be confused with the startup of the same name Uber acquired in 2016 and then rebranded — builds self - driving vehicles specifically to transport materials inside industrial warehouses.

Fortune reviewed a customer's documentation of wires from a non-U.S.-based entity to its U.S. - based cryptocurrency - only fund that includes the word «Crypto» in the bank account's name.

Cottonwood Heights, Utah - based Cotopaxi — named after a volcano in Ecuador that Davis frequented as a child growing up in South America — is an outdoor gear and apparel retailer that donates 10 percent of all profits to charitable causes in the developing world.

Cuban is, of course, referring to the upcoming release of the movie based on the TV series of the same name, in which Cuban has made appearances.

Tailoring your services to each individual customer, whether its location based or you simply use their first name, helps establish a relationship with your clientele and in turn rewards you with brand loyalty.

United Bank Card, which is based in Allentown, Pa., now goes by the name Harbortouch and processes nearly $ 12 billion in payments annually for more than 100,000 U.S. merchants.

And in the case of Daniel Snyder, the owner of a certain football team whose home base is Washington, DC, one of those hard changes should be to get on with it and change his team's name.

-- Rick Morrison, CEO of Comprehend Systems, which works with big names in the life - sciences industry, such as Boston Scientific, Astellas, and AstraZeneca, modernizing and improving the quality in their clinical process through cloud - based tech.

Users can browse recommendations based on their location, can search by city, or can access a hidden menu by typing in the city name followed by a comma and a «magic word,» such as «free breakfast» or «pet friendly.»

The fun name «does a lot of work for us» in sparking interest in Tangerine, Aceto says, but service at the customer level needs to be thoughtful and earnest in order to build a client base.

The company hired California - based marketing experts Lexicon Branding, the same team that helped Research In Motion become BlackBerry, and came up with the names Swiffer and Febreze.

A pioneer in this area is a Silicon Valley - based startup named Ayasdi, which has developed an entire subfield of mathematics — topological data analysis — that renders any Big Data set as a network derived from hidden patterns.

It's no surprise to the retired Telus employee that the Swiss - based Skytrax World Airport Awards recently named YVR the best airport in North America — eighth in the world — for the fourth consecutive year, based on a survey of 12 million travellers worldwide.

• High Alpha, an Indianapolis - based venture studio, named Jeff Slobotski as an entrepreneur - in - residence.

This New York City - based start - up — whose name is a play on the word humongous — processes huge data sets in a fraction of the time it takes traditional databases.

Peters was in a San Diego restaurant when he overheard Olin Hyde, co-founder and CEO of Englue, explaining how his artificial intelligence product LeadCrunch could mine the web to uncover leads based on names of a company's best customers.

Tara Russell, a life sabbatical and long - term travel coach based in San Francisco, says the concept goes by different names in different circles: gap years for young people; mini-retirements for those inching toward traditional retirement age; sabbaticals for academics and professionals.

Kitchener, Ont. - based Clearpath Robotics recently sued U.S. - based automotive startup Uber in a trademark dispute over the name «Otto.»

Shanel Lindsay, the founder of Boston - based startup named Ardent, which makes a decarboxylator, a device that lightly cooks cannabis flowers to be used in edibles, says she has been bounced from PayPal, Square, Stripe, and at least four other payment processors.

Window Snyder was named security chief at San Francisco - based Fastly in June and was immediately inundated with unsolicited requests for meetings.

Prior to his now - infamous status, big name brands often used Logan Paul as an ally for marketing and ad campaigns, particularly those in the hopes of garnering millennial and internet - based audiences.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

The two big names in the space, Sling TV and DirecTV Now, have been plagued with technical issues, as has Vue to some extent — though Vue reportedly has a much smaller subscriber base than Sling.

Sony has indeed made some recent moves to prepare for this eventuality, first by acquiring cloud gaming provider Gaikai — despite its Japanese name, the company is also based in California — and Japanese broadband provider So - Net.

Its targets have included a Middle Eastern telecommunications company doing business in North Korea, a Japan - based entity associated with a United Nations group on sanctions and the general director of a Vietnamese trading company, FireEye said, declining to name the victims.

It may not be a household name in the U.S., but South American based Leonisa is one of the biggest swimwear and lingerie manufacturers in the world.

The script, based on a book of the same name, is written by wunderkind Drew Goddard («Cabin in the Woods»).

The company said Whole Foods Market will continue to operate under that brand name and pledged to «preserve its high standards and commitment to providing the finest natural and organic foods,» and John Mackey will stay on as CEO of Whole Foods, which will remain based in Austin, Texas, where it was founded in 1978.

West Kalgoorlie - based AVKO Mining Pty Ltd has been named 2007 Telstra Western Australian Business of the Year, and will represent the State in the national awards, to be presented later this year.

While the FBI report did not name the victim of the destructive attack in its bulletin, two cybersecurity experts who reviewed the document said it was clearly referring to the breach at the California - based unit of Sony Corp..

If you wondered why Pfizer had to argue its well - known status based on its English mark «Viagra,» it's because Pfizer doesn't actually own the commonly - used Chinese language name «伟哥» (wei ge — big brother), in China.

The company's core wearable fitness trackers business has fallen sharply as it faces bigger names with deeper pockets, such as Apple and Samsung, that are relatively new entries in the wearable market but control a large and loyal customer base in electronics.

In a strange twist, Nintendo is apparently working with a San Francisco - based venture firm named Scrum Ventures to identify startups interested in creating Nintendo Switch hardwarIn a strange twist, Nintendo is apparently working with a San Francisco - based venture firm named Scrum Ventures to identify startups interested in creating Nintendo Switch hardwarin creating Nintendo Switch hardware.

Marlon Blackwell — whose Fayetteville, Arkansas - based firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects, was named the top design firm in the country for 2016 by Architect magazine — describes Ivy's statement as «too little, too soon.»

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be nameIn talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be namein certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

While the «Carolina» in this restaurant's name refers to the mustard - heavy variety of barbecue sauce invented in South Carolina, the eatery's mayonnaise - based Alabama white sauce is also a crowd - pleaser.

I'm not talking about the.1 percent of big - name startups that raise millions of dollars in venture capital and build up a user base of millions before they need to make any money.

Corwin Stone, 41, an associate creative director for a software company in Dallas, knows that doors open to him because people assume he's white based on his name.

«Canada has a tremendous amount of reputational capital, but it's not taking advantage of it,» says Rob Jekielek, a principal at New York — based Reputation Institute, a research and consulting company that last fall named Canada the country with the best reputation in the world.

Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of San Francisco - based dedicated virtual assistant company Zirtual, continued to make a name for herself as in 2012.

At this point, the Project Tango - based smartphone, which is still in development, doesn't even have a name.

In 1988, Houston - based Waste Management, the nation's leading garbage hauler, launched its first large - scale curbside - recycling program under the direction of a man named Bill Moore, the company's first recycling director.

Mega, a block - toys arm, is in Canada, and Fisher - Price, the brand for smaller tots, is based in New York, to name a few.

Instead, Canadians showed a preference for big name companies based in the United States, Europe and Asia.

On top of all that, you have to introduce new ideas on a near - constant basis, and make sure your name gets recognized by people both in and out of the industry.

With a loyal customer base who were keen to preserve the things they liked about one of the most innovative banks in Canada, readers were curious about how the name change happened.

Phillip Nappi, founder of Peter Nappi Nappi was inspired to create Peter Nappi, a luxury Italian footwear company based in Nashville, Tenn., after discovering that his grandfather (for whom the company is named) shared the same passion for leather craftsmanship.

Knowledge - based authentication doesn't replace user names and passwords; it's an extra layer of security on top of such schemes, since hackers who stumble across your log - in credentials won't easily figure out the name of your high - school sweetheart.

Tallgrass is basically a limited partnership that owns dividend - paying shares of a natural gas company of the same name, based in Leawood, Kansas.