Sentences with phrase «of niche players»

Between iOS, Android, and Windows Phone (to say nothing of niche players like BlackBerry and Firefox OS or in - development efforts like Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, and Tizen), most smartphone buyers» needs are already being met.

Yet these are commercial beasts, and thus there are differences between them — in functionality, inclusion of niche players and the treatment of initial discounts.

Ted Stolberg and his partners at Stolberg, Meehan & Scano, in Denver and New York City, are another good example of niche players.

As a result, «carbon fiber is likely to be somewhat of a niche player,» said Kevin Lowery, director of corporate communications at the aluminum company Alcoa Inc. «Sure, you're going to see it win a piece of an application here and a piece of an application there.

Tata said Jaguar Land Rover will be «less of a niche player in the coming years as new vehicles roll out.

But still, you have to be some sort of niche player.

Technology has made the rise of the niche player very much easier and their commercial power very potent in some industries.

«When we established this group, we decided to be more of a niche player vs. a broad - based provider of real estate financing,» says Jacobs, a managing director at Greenwich Capital and group co-head of the Commercial Assets Group.

Not exact matches

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

Do these niche firms stand a chance of becoming major players?

Online influencers are people who have a dynamic personality that comes across online and they command the respect of other key players in their niche.

Like many SaaS companies, Dyn started as a small niche player in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the market leader.

But the decline of cable could be tough for smaller players, such as niche channels which currently get a share of cable fees but might not be able to attract subscribers on their own.

But if it's a small industry, a small market, with small niche players, be very conscious of the consequences of that action.

The departure of TomTom could aid Garmin, another niche player with a strong following among amateur athletes and fitness freaks.

As a company dealing with the media - streaming - player niche, it's up against huge megaliths including Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Sony, all of whom offer not just similar devices, but also a host of related hardware and services.

Heidi Messer, an entrepreneur who holds all - female poker games that have introduced early - stage female investors to female entrepreneurs, cautions those who write off these types of companies as niche players.

But VMware's decision to narrow the focus of vCloud Air from what was once characterized as a full - on competitor to Amazon Web Services to a more niche offering is what opened up this opportunity for IBM and other cloud players.

It's doubtful BlackBerry will ever realize its dream of becoming a global handset player again, but it could carve out a profitable niche serving clients for whom security and reliability come first.

With the big ETF players covering the easiest and most inexpensive indexes, more ETFs have been launched by niche managers focused on new slices of markets and sectors, as well as alternative investing and actively managed strategies.

His was a niche with no established players, and he saw the chance for a few companies to race ahead of the pack.

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later.

The FHA, once a niche player focused on low - income housing, now backs about a third of new mortgages including super-sized ones for wealthy home buyers.

Skyword, ScribbleLive, Spredfast and Sprinklr are pegged as Niche Players, which are on the short end of both those metrics.

«It's basically supporting the growth of our business,» he says, adding that the company has established a strong niche between large competitors and smaller, regional players.

That means delivering a rich mix of all of the established players, plus new niche packaging suppliers they perhaps wouldn't otherwise see.

¬ ∂ Twenty years ago lacrosse — in shorthand, lax — existed as a niche sport, popular in and around Baltimore and parts of New York State and New England, with most of the top players developed on boarding school campuses.

Asked to play at left - back against one of the fastest players in the league, Klavan did well, and while he didn't get forward enough, it's unfair to ask the Estonian Maldini to attack, when he's clearly got his niche locked down.

«We have found a way by which cytokinesis is temporarily halted and later started back up, and this phenomenon coordinates all cell players in the maturation of sperm cells in this niche,» says DiNardo.

Leavitt is still looking to the future, as the chief executive confidently announced at an investors meeting, «These early chapters will tell the story of a once niche brand that has grown to be an accessible luxury player, with nearly $ 800 million in [current] retail footprint on its way to $ 4 billion.»

A lot of these companies are very focused, niche players and I think the niche players here have a great opportunity to make a very good business out of continuing to focus on those niches.

Japanese are both the prominent developers and players of this type of games The popularity of these games in Japan are borne out by the fact that they always find a niche in the weekly top 10 charts.

The industry has a host of small players, including those with extremely niche positioning like secondshaadi.com (for second marriages), idontwantdowry.com (for those against the practice of dowry), h1bmarriages.com (for non-resident Indians and technical professionals), positivesaathi.com (for HIV - positive people) and so on.

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While the music niche in dating is not overly saturated, there are a couple of big players, namely London - based Tastebuds.fm, which this year launched their mobile app.

There are hundreds of sites, from the major players like Match.com and eHarmony, to niche websites accommodating daters of every conceivable preference and background.

From what was in the early 90's mabe 2 - 3 major players, we now have hundreds - thousands of serious Internet singles services that cater for every niche group you can imagine - Christians being one of them!

She attributes part of this to the fact that the big players (OkCupid, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, Match) and the majority of the niche ones (Skout, HowAboutWe, MeetMoi) were started by men.

Although this monopoly is much less pronounced in the dating industry, the weight of the largest players has pushed the space further towards niche specialisation — something that has also happened in the digital ad space.

I think that is one of the reasons why this is such a niche genre for console players.

This offer is seemingly geared towards a very specific niche, namely those players who absolutely want a physical edition of the game, but don't want to drop the full sixty bucks just now.

One of the first Behemoths players will encounter is the fantastical hybrid owl and bear known as a Shrike, a combination that feels original and is at the very least an exceptionally niche mythological creation if it does exist.

However, if you're in that specific niche of someone who's looking for a party game where everyone is able to play with their own controller and want either a 3v3 or 4v4 experience with no AI controlled players, the PS4 just can't handle it!

«Rainbow Six: Siege is a niche game, designed for hardcore players who're part of a dedicated multiplayer community, and within that context, the game can be enjoyable» they said.

Thomas's mochachino - drinking Finch is given the last amount of screen time of the four, but, like the even more peripheral players, such as sex advice - dispensing Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) and gabby geek Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), he carves out a memorable niche.

In the niche category of luxury - compact coupes and convertibles, all the players meet a high bar.

Niche player The Fortwo has always been a bit of niche vehicle in the U.S., primarily adopted by urban iconoclNiche player The Fortwo has always been a bit of niche vehicle in the U.S., primarily adopted by urban iconoclniche vehicle in the U.S., primarily adopted by urban iconoclasts.

As a consequence of this total ineptitude, Microsoft doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hades of becoming anything more than a niche player in consumer mobile, while at the same time totally alienating their bread and butter enterprise and SMB customers.

Android will be a toy again and Mac will be a significant niche player as the value of thier phone / tablet ecosystem diminishes.

All these startups are looking to carve out their own niche in a market dominated by a handful of larger players.