Sentences with phrase «of other big companies»

Plenty of other big companies are going after virtual reality games in a big way.

Walmart (wmt) joins a list of other big companies that have preordered the electric trucks, including J.B. Hunt Transport Services, which said it would buy an unspecified number, and Michigan - based grocery chain Meijer, which has preodered four of the vehicles.

Not exact matches

«What this has done is really allowed for more pools of money to be available to entrepreneurs, so that's the really big news about all of this,» says Geri Stengel, founder and president of Ventureneer, a digital media and market research company that, among other issues, specializes in crowdfunding.

The reality: while you're at CES with hopes and dreams of being the next big thing, so are hundreds of other companies and entrepreneurs.

UPS told Reuters it is now eyeing the furniture delivery business — one of the fastest - growing segments of online retail — with Amazon, Wayfair and other e-commerce companies competing for market share against chains like Crate and Barrel and big - box stores.

In the category of epic role reversals, the New York Daily News makes big companies pitch to startups and other need - to - know stories from this week.

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

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

The bigger the company, the larger the paycheque you can command — and that doesn't count other compensation such as stock or performance bonuses, common at the higher end of the leadership ladder.

This board should contain relevant news from all sources: companies big, small, public, private as well as any other type of news that could inspire or influence the direction of the startup.

The second Canadian outpost of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's other big tech company goes for a wide open feel to foster collaboration

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

Banks and other big companies employ lots of smart people to figure out ways to game the system.

In other words, it encourages the smallest companies to expand and hire employees — thus making a bigger contribution to the economy — in order to take advantage of the tax break.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Somewhere along the line many of us have grown accustomed to using tools from Facebook, Google, Amazon and other big companies to log in to websites and apps, instead of creating new usernames and passwords for each one.

Finnegan is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, in which I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can leverage to get ahead in 2018.

When I started my company, iDoneThis, the biggest question on my mind — and I'm guessing it's top of mind for other young founders too — was: «Hmm... how do I sell this?»

The stocks of retailers, banks, railroads and other companies with big exposure to Alberta will enjoy better growth prospects than their peers.

That index includes 500 of the biggest companies in the U.S.; the index fund pools your money with other investors to buy shares of those stocks.

Verizon's move to sell public asset - backed securities follows a variety of similar, private arrangements that the company and other wireless carriers have struck with big banks.

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.

On Tuesday night, the Internet lit up with big news: Facebook, along with a partnership of six other companies, launched a new global initiative called Internet.org.

Various big - name companies constantly strive to one - up each other, and when they can't, sometimes they copy the design and features of their competitors in slightly new and different ways to keep up.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

Gap's Athleta isn't the only U.S. company that's expressed interest in carving out a piece of the fitness fashion pie, and other big brands like Nike and Adidas have launched yoga lines with a similar focus on style.

When other companies imitate our product, it not only undermines the creativity that goes into designing it, but more importantly, our mission; we're building something much bigger than ourselves, and we're proud of it.

The kingdom is due to list shares in Saudi Aramco in both Riyadh and at least one other foreign stock exchange by 2018, selling up to 5 % of what will likely become the world's biggest company by market capitalisation.

If their companies weren't hamstrung by big loan balances during the downturn, owners saw plenty of other businesses falter when revenue fell and monthly payments became unmanageable.

Now, as a big - fish investor on ABC's Shark Tank, John uses everything he's learned from more than two decades of business building to size up other companies as potential investment opportunities.

Assange has said that WikiLeaks will share details of the vulnerabilities with Apple and other big tech companies, so they can fix the vulnerabilities that the CIA uses for its hacking tools.

Some other department stores like Giant Tiger, Fields and the NorthWest Company are expanding their influence and do well in smaller towns, but the big four have the lion's share of the market.

Indeed, the fact that Fluid Life has designed its offices to keep everyone thinking big is just one reason the firm — along with 44 others — joined the ranks of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the first time this year.

«Hopefully we will be announcing other MoUs with other big American companies,» Khateeb told Reuters on the sidelines of the 2018 Saudi - U.S. CEO Forum in New York.

Many of its former employers have gone on to work for other big technology companies over the years like Intel (intc), Nvidia (nvda), and supercomputer maker Cray, explained Patrick Moorhead, the president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

Other big technology companies have created similar investment funds to fuel technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality, which are generating a lot of interest from investors and analysts.

On the other end of the spectrum, Big Food companies like PepsiCo and Campbell Soup are cleaning up their ingredient lists, launching new healthier products, and investing in food startups to participate in the trend away from big branBig Food companies like PepsiCo and Campbell Soup are cleaning up their ingredient lists, launching new healthier products, and investing in food startups to participate in the trend away from big branbig brands.

A big company is taking a slice at the top, but both services essentially allow individuals to connect with each other and keep the lion's share of the money being exchanged.

Using big data, companies already target customers» ads based on past purchases, where we live, what we read online, and many other small pieces of personal information.

The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

In October 2012, Ballmer announced Microsoft would shift away from software and become a «devices and services company,» doubling down on phones, tablets (the Surface) and other hardware such as Xbox (one of the biggest successes of the Ballmer era), along with cloud computing.

Amazon Web Services was a pioneer in such low - cost data warehousing and remains one of the biggest providers, but for a variety of reasons — whether because companies want additional technical support or because regulations require them to store their data within Canada's borders — many are looking around for other options.

A wealth of big businesses provide new market opportunity for smaller ones: Startups are increasingly going the business - to - business (B2B) route, meaning they frequently work with other companies as opposed to going directly clients.

Teva, for its part, is headquartered in Israel, though of the three companies, it stands to gain the biggest tax benefit if its proposed acquisition is successful: The company said that buying Mylan would allow it to reap $ 2 billion per year in tax savings and other «cost synergies.»

Pinterest's growth should scare the hell out of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and every other company that will have to compete with it for the marketing budgets of big companies.

By simply observing others, Intuit founder and CEO Scott Cook built one of America's biggest companies.

Here's how the company stacks up so far to other big techIPOs, according to CNBC analysis of data from FactSet and Renaissance:

In other words, Apple has behaved like any other big company in a market - leading position — supposedly the kiss of death in the fast - moving technology world.