Sentences with phrase «of competing head»

Huawei's one of those rare companies that came seemingly out of nowhere (here in the States, at least) and seemed immediately offer up premium products capable of competing head - to - head with big name manufacturers like Samsung and Apple.

Not exact matches

«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

Instead of trying to compete head - to - head, Under Armor went after youth, who unlike their parents, had not yet developed a brand loyalty to Nike or any apparel company.

«If we're going to compete for the next HQ2 project out there, we know we're going to have to fundamentally rethink our economy, and that's what this is all about,» Rob Dixon, head of the Missouri Department of Economic Development told The Journal.

And it's here where a new battle is brewing, because these middlemen, which make up the backbone of the Internet, and which many small businesses also depend on for access, are now competing head - on with enormous providers like Comcast and Verizon.

Squire's trajectory is not unique: Oracle is often credited with creating the most millionaires in Silicon Valley; many of those ousted by Ellison went on to head tech firms that competed in the same high - profile realm.

«Commerce is going to be really big with us, and we want to show we can compete head - to - head with major commerce competitors,» said Squarespace's founder and CEO Anthony Casalena, a group that includes Weebly, Wix, Shopify and GoDaddy, all of which offer specialized commerce features for small businesses.

«Leaving to compete with a startup business, or otherwise, would likely attract a greater amount of notice — but especially a startup,» says Ronald Minken, head of the boutique employment firm Minken Employment Lawyers in Markam, Ont.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

My grandfather, Vic Bubas, took over as the head coach of Duke University in the 1950s when he faced a problem — trying to compete with perennial powerhouses NC State and UNC in the North Carolina Research Triangle.

The strategy will see the company competing head - to - head with a larger number of Chinese manufacturers, as well North American sock manufacturers.

When the head of inventor relations left for a competing company, Dermer got the position.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

So how are you going to compete with ESPN when they have such a head start in terms of inventory?

«For the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.

So to ensure that Lyft maintains some of its power in a situation where one partner creates a competing service, pulls out of the network or takes longer than expected to build the technology, the company is diving into the ever - crowded driverless tech space head first.

A GROUP of Adelaide entrepreneurs is seeking to raise up to $ US25 million to develop a cloud storage platform it believes can compete head - to - head with giants such as Dropbox and...

And my votes for «Performers Most Deserving Of A Severe Acorn - Bonking On The Head would have to be everyone who ever competed for American Idol, all disco bands and rap performers, and every Christian music performer that ever polluted the planet with their putrified propaganda.

When you're competing with two heads, that can pose a lot of problems or issues.»

If they were, then the emergent theology could compete on a more equal basis with traditional ones, and the insights and convictions now gathered under the heading of a theology of nature could penetrate more deeply into the life of the church.

So I've got all of these competing voices in my head, telling me at one moment to be giddy, at another to be cautious, and at another to be cynical.

In addition to stating their own views, actors are likely to engage in real or imaginary dialogue with their competitors, attempt to debunk or neutralize competing ideas, or use them as illustrations of wrong - headed or unworkable proposals.

Unveiling details of indieDirect at Metcash's annual meeting on Wednesday, chairman Rob Murray and head of supermarkets Steve Cain said the portal would enable independent retailers to source a wider range of products to differentiate themselves from Coles and Woolworths and better compete with Amazon.

Blackmores» foray into supermarkets will compete head - on with the major brands of the industry in Aptamil, A2 Platinum, and Bellamy's.

While's Bell's operation is speculated to be headed to Chinese investors, there are multiple corporates who could compete including Macquarie's Paraway Pastoral, Rifa Salutary — the Australian arm of China's Zhejiang Rifa Holding — and other corporates such as Ferrero Group, TIAA's Westchester, as well as the listed companies Webster and Rural Funds Management.

I've been competing in the sport of Powerlifting for 3 years now (I'm headed to my second USA Powerlifting Nationals competition in October), and because I am an athlete (and an older athlete at 47), I pay pretty close attention to the way I eat so that I can maximize my strength in relation to my body weight.

With a $ 50,000 grand prize on the line, the stage is set for the ultimate grilling showdown, as the chefs head out of the kitchen to compete outdoors over three rounds, consisting of an appetizer, entrée and dessert, with recurring Chopped judges Scott Conant, Alex Guarnaschelli, Chris Santos, and special guest judges Amy Mills and Tim Love, deciding the fates for each grilling pro.

He heads out with a family to hunt and cook iguanas, competes in a fishing derby to tackle the lionfish invasion, and learns the art of Cuban cooking and cigar making from a master.

The Best of Show wines from the IEWC competed head to head with the Best of Show wines from the WCWC.

but this season he has no excuses, he's kinda victim of his own success, he made us into this european team who expected titles.when we constantly never do it or compete in europe ppl call for his head so this window if he buys no one, of course i will support but i will see it as a tremendous failure, and essentially he will have to pull off a season long tactical masterclass.

The Belgian has head to fend off harsh criticism for failing to compete with the likes of Kane and Aguero in the league this season.

The highest remaining seed heading into the Final4 gets to select which of those two their Final4 Game will compete in.

We'll see how their endurance is when they go head to head with Team Zimmerman and then Team Holzman who will be competing in their first game of the night.

The Huskies are currently ineligible to compete in the 2013 NCAA Tournament because of low APR marks, rumors are everywhere that Jim Calhoun may call it a career, Lamb and Drummond appear locks to head to the NBA, and a handful of other players may either follow suit or transfer.

Bellerin will be heading off to Poland to compete in the under 21 championships with Spain but I would have expected him to have been moved up by now, even though his form suffered a dip in the second half of last season.

Pittsburgh players are best advised to keep heads on a swivel since getting into the mud is one of the few reasons Philly can compete

South Carolina Head Coach Steve Spurrier said on the Dan Patrick Show that he thought Alabama could compete in the NFL with some of the weaker teams.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

He was the Special Olympics Coach, the 2011 Jumps Coach at the World Youth Track and Field meet, and finally was the Head Coach in 2013 of the World Youth Track and Field Team that competed in Ukraine.

From The First Tee of San Joaquin to the first tee at Pebble Beach and Poppy Hills — that's where 15 - year old Anitra Khoth is headed to compete in the PURE Insurance Championship, September 22 - 24, 2017.

Toyota's head of motorsport Shigeki Tomoyama suggested that the team will be there to compete in the 2018/19 «superseason» and beyond.

That same ol feeling that wenger is just f ****** with fans heads again... every idiot comment coming out of his mouth suggests that he believes he has a good enough squad to compete... And he is right because 4th is his and boards objective... Anything beyond is a bonus....

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... AKBs and their definition for success and why that potato head should continue turning the club to a laughing stock... i get so confused when some people will stay in the most competitive league in the world and still be happy to just compete for top four... even the sick manager is thinking about a «top four» like the whole years of embarrassment has not been enough especially for fans who spend their hard earned money to watch home games as well as buy club apparels...

All of which has opened the door for the north London club to move for Llorente in the new year, with Gunners head coach Arsene Wenger, who scouted the Spaniard extensively last January before opting not to compete with Juve for the player's signature, hoping to take the forward on an initial six - month loan deal, with the option of then bringing him to the Emirates on a permanent contract next summer.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

The problem with success, like the achievement of the invincibles, is that Wenger got too big headed, arrogant and he thought that his ego was enough to compete for honours, without the need of replacing the quality with quality that either left or retired from that era.

There was serious doubt heading into the season over whether Texas Tech would even make the NCAAs, let alone compete with Kansas at the top of the conference.

The team would get at least nine full scholarships, have a full - time head coach and full - time assistant coach, and «compete in at least two - thirds of its regular season against NCAA varsity rugby teams.»

Tomorrow our team head down the road to the Armitage Centre to face our local rivals University of Manchester and compete for a repeat performance of this season's opening game.