Sentences with phrase «of a few other companies»

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

ONE of Perth's newest, and smallest, law firms is working with some of the world's biggest companies, capitalising on a niche area in which few other businesses in the Asia Pacific region have experti

The company also is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and rated A +, an honor of which very few other outsourcers can boast.

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

Today it remains one of few companies that still have it; Twitter cut off the full feed for some companies in 2015 after acquiring Gnip, which resells social media data to analytics businesses and other clients.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

With the excitement of earnings season slowing down, Walmart will be one of the few remaining market - moving companies to report its latest quarterly results this week, along with a handful of other big retailers.

After a few weeks of being live, the company is starting to hear back from couples that have found each other on the app.

Facebook boasts an AI research team of over 100 researchers on staff, a luxury few other tech companies can claim, yet the Facebook Messenger AI group was shut down soon after achieving a 70 percent failure rate.

A lot of those are payments from other fast - growing start - up companies — Fab, GitHub, and OpenTable, to name a few — a lucrative B2B niche.

It defies belief that this company could compete with a few other WA - listed players for the title of shortest - lived float.

In short, the energy sector is so heavily engaged with and intertwined in other areas of the economy that few companies or sectors would be immune.

While a few sports - related devices were introduced for more professional athletic purposes, there were dozens of other companies that unveiled some kind of fitness band or health tracker.

On the other hand, as defenders of the company point out, the factory is giving jobs to a few hundred Palestinians, and giving someone a job is hardly an act of aggression.

Apple is always good for a surprise or two, but other than the expected incorporation of fitness trackers, a larger screen and / or some sort of mobile payment technology, it's hard to imagine the company doing anything that will generate the same buzz as its first few iPhone models did just a few years ago.

All bets are on the table as to whether he will deliver it in some form of another (dragons aren't real, by the way) but the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, and a few other tech companies is no stranger to pulling gags with his witty Twitter posts.

But the sheer number of disruptive ideas depicted from outfits other than P&G underscores the fact that the $ 78.8 - billion - in - sales company has had so few of them of late.

The EpiPen has to be replaced on a yearly basis, ensuring the company a continuous trickle of dedicated customers with few other options.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

Jelly's investors include fellow Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Afghan Citadel Software Company CEO Roya Mahboob, and a few other people you might have heard of: Bono and Al Gore.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

And so, as I do my research and shop around for my next smartphone, I can't help but prematurely miss a few of the iPhone's most helpful features, which I believe are yet to be paralleled by anything the other major companies are doing.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.

Additionally, when visual objectskeeps visitors on your landing page — even for a few milliseconds longer than they would normally stay — it increases the chance of click - through rates to other sections of your site which can result in better engagement with your company and social media pages.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

None of these are new technologies; the company is banking on the idea that few others can provide all of them at once.

These companies are rapidly buying startups specializing in software, robotics, AI, mapping, cameras, and a host of other fields to forge entirely new alliances that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago.

Because each startup needed so much assistance, the Illinois cluster has worked with only about 14 companies, fewer than some of the other clusters.

That's not necessarily a bad thing — there's a graveyard of online music companies and other than Pandora, few that look like winners.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

First of all, there are very few fees, and if you compare them to other companies, there's a dramatic difference in the amount of fees that are charged.

Andrew Smithers, one of the few other analysts who foresaw the credit implosion and remains a credible voice now, concurred last week in an interview with my friend Kate Welling (a former Barrons» editor now at Weeden & Company): «The good news so far is that the stock market got down to pretty much fair value or even, possibly, a tickle below it, at its March bottom.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

A few other interesting points that I expect Tesla will address include, plans for production in China now that the door appears to be open, timing on Model Y since news came out that Tesla was aiming for a start of production in November 2019, and even though the company and Musk directly addressed it a few times recently, I expect analysts will want more details about Tesla's plan not to raise capital this year.

After a few minutes, Sergey Brin, the other founder of the world's biggest internet company, joined them.

BMW drove fewer miles than some of the other major companies and only had its vehicles on public roads in March and April of 2016.

The list goes on: The company's former director of the self - driving group Raffi Krikorian stepped down a few months after the entity saw the departure of three other top self - driving engineers, as Recode first reported.

But some companies struggle continually, others have lots of promise but just can't deliver, and just a few appear poised for more growth.

Other investors often consider positions held by venture capitalists as an «overhang» on the stock of a publicly traded company since VCs will typically dispose of their holdings of public companies during the first few years following an IPO.

Some P2P lending companies have a robust system in place, whilst others advertise they can approve a loan in minutes with but a few pieces of information.

«Now, the question, after over a full year of progress and tremendous strides in accountability, opening access to care, improving access to benefits, tackling mental health, and strengthening relations with stakeholders, is whether the President is ready to turn the keys to the VA over to ideologues who have designs on having VA go the way of railroads, airports, energy companies, postal services, and other businesses that have been privatized — and have also proven profitable for a few,» he said in the statement.

But Stamos's responsibilities have eroded over the past few months, and most of his team was reassigned to other managers inside the company, including Chris Cox's product group, according to two sources familiar with his role.

«Some of our other companies have female executives but few are led by a female CEO,» he says.

The capital will be used to back breakaway companies coming out of its incubators, as well as to co-invest in deals that were not seeded by Science, and it comes on the heels of a few other vehicles that Science has raised over its relatively short history.

During the past few months, Outotec has not experienced any further reduction of customer demand from an already low level, but the company has seen some additional project delays in copper and other base metals.