Sentences with phrase «of other firms make»

In effect, they want to see a lot of other firms make the change before they do.

Not exact matches

Along with the hardware sellers, railroads, trucking companies, logistics firms and others that make up the supply - chain of the economy also faced the challenge of providing essential goods to Texas, the second - largest U.S. state.

Unlike plenty of other tech firms, Twitter makes actually makes money, and does so in several ways.

The Taiwan - based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything from self - driving cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Dual - class shares and other regulatory changes are making Chinese technology firms look closer to home for listings, says Wilson Chow of PwC.

Facebook's shares have lagged behind other big tech names, making the valuation potentially attractive, says Tim Seymour of Triogem Asset Management, which has accounts holding shares in the social media firm.

Instead of making and selling goods, these companies buy other firms or infrastructure assets and either hold them long term or turn them around for an eventual sale.

A few have made more of an effort and serve as a paradigm for other Bay Area firms.

Aside from the fact that Carrier's plans were made during the presidential campaign and its parent company is vulnerable to political pressures, what exactly makes Carrier worthy of being treated differently from the other multinational firms that employ 23 million Americans?

Others include Filterboxx, a private firm that makes portable treatment modules, and GasFrac (TSX: GSF), a Calgary outfit that developed a proprietary liquefied - petroleum gas gel as a fracturing liquid instead of water.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

In other words, Canadian firms have a harder time raising funds than U.S. counterparts, even though it would, on average, make more of a positive difference for them.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

According to Mark Højgaard, CEO and co-founder of Coinify, a tech firm helping businesses accept payments via crypto, «It definitely makes sense for Facebook users globally to send some kind of token to each other.

While CORFO conducts research and development in collaboration with other organizations to identify a short list of firms that could make strong candidates to set up shop in Chile, Fernandez's decision to open up an office in Chile was actually a result of Ruby on Rails (RoR).

Budnick is president of Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Connecticut, a 30 - person injection - molding firm that makes parts on contract for medical - equipment makers, automotive companies, and other manufacturers.

To make matters worse, executives at a couple of solar firms, Conergy and Solar Millennium, are under suspicion of fraud, insider trading and other wrongdoing.

Alabbar has also made other investments in new technology and e-commerce — buying a stake in regional logistics firm Aramex last year and is in the process of setting up a high - end Middle East online fashion retailer with Yoox Net - a-Porter after buying a 4 % stake in the Italian - based online retailer for 100 million euros last April.

However, if that same person was a partner in an unincorporated firm to which she had contributed 10 percent of the company's capital, she might be eligible to receive more than 10 percent of the business's profits if such an agreement had been made with the other partners.

Nixon then made the media rounds on Monday to say that six of the 21 employees used by its IT services firm iGATE are local, and the other 13 from India are only in Canada to manage the transition.

A source at a law firm told the South China Morning Post that the State Administration of Taxation issued a consultation draft on the proposal at the end of last year, specifying that multinationals would have to disclose affiliated businesses and how intangible assets, labor and other internal cost transfers were made.»

This week, the U.S. district court judge slapped the stingy content - marketing firm with a fine of $ 1.75 million to make it right with workers it forced to forgo pay while using the toilet and for taking other short personal breaks.

First, Meg Whitman's nomination to HP's board was made at the behest of Ray Lane, the chair of HP's (hpq) board, circumventing the board's nominations processes, which raised concerns with ISS, a proxy advisory firm, and others.

Amidi, who is also a co-founding partner of seed investment firm Amidzad Partners and founder of 14 other companies, says Plug and Play started the accelerator to help make Bitcoin more widespread and easier to use, and to add strong Bitcoin - related companies to its investment portfolio, which includes PayPal and Zoosk.

The neighbourhood suits the company, which makes a point of steering clear of the typical, sterile white - collar look — not unlike many other young tech firms.

But it is valuable and why should I just give it away so that other firms and advertisers can make money out of it?»

Other companies facing similar questions about whether they can make good on early investor expectations — and lofty private - market valuations — include online storage service Dropbox Inc., note - taking company Evernote Corp., music - streaming service Deezer SA and blood - testing company Theranos Inc., said Anand Sanwal, chief executive officer of CB Insights, a firm that tracks startup investing.

In the spring of 2000, I went into my local brokerage firm and said to these guys: ««Why did I only make 12 percent last year, when other people are making 40 percent.»

The world's 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $ 1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year, compared to $ 1.4 billion in oil, according to Coalition, a financial industry analytics firm.

In the bet, Buffett picked a Vanguard fund that tracks the S&P 500, while Protégé Partners, a firm that puts clients» money into funds made up of hedge funds, took the other side of the bet with five of its funds.

Andrew Bowden, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's examinations office, has drawn scrutiny over comments he made March 5 at a conference for private equity firms and other investors.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Other firms will cease making investments for some period of time, possibly forever.

«In our research of high - growth sales and marketing organizations, we have found that buyers want predictive analytics applications to deliver fast access to their target accounts and transparency into the account insights that make an account more valuable than others,» said Craig Rosenberg, co-Founder and Chief Analyst at TOPO, a leading analyst firm for sales and marketing organizations.

JPMorgan reported a net $ 2.4 billion charge, made up of the impact of repatriation of overseas earnings and adjustments to tax - oriented investments such as affordable housing and energy, but also offset partly by a revaluation of the firm's deferred tax liabilities rather than assets as at other firms.

WASHINGTON — President Obama pressured the heads of the nation's biggest banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large bank to make more loans and vaguer assurances from others.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

As increasing amounts of personal, business, and other forms of information are collected, firms are using computers to harness this data, and are creating machine - learning predictive software for various purposes, including helping consumers make better buying decisions.

Market research is the process of gathering and analyzing information to help business firms and other organizations make marketing decisions.

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

Financial firms seem to be doing a little of both, partnering when it makes sense and building it on their own in other instances.

Paul is making the case that Jesus did in fact rise therefore our faith is firm and the act of baptism associates you with the death, burial and resurrection and shows others (those living) your choice and association with Christ.

To its credit, it does a better job than many other polling firms in making the details of its methods available.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

The social science that studies how individuals, firms, governments, and other organizations make choices, and how those choices determine the way the resources of society are used.

Though Anullinus tried in various ways to force her to renounce her faith and offer sacrifice to their gods, Crispina was firm in her stand of faith in Jesus Christ and that she has never offered sacrifice to any other gods other than the one true God who has made the heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are in them and who alone is to be feared which is also said by Appollonius.

O made this bread last night but as a lot of other people have stated below, after nearly 2 hours in the oven it was still raw I followed all the processes step by step and I would say the mixture was firm definitely not runny, so am really confused as t what has gone wrong, I even turned up the oven temperature to over 200 for the last half an hour as was getting a bit desperate............... perhaps ella you may be able to post a picture of the dough just before it goes in the oven so we can see what you mean by firm as that may be where it goes wrong OR should I just try with using less water?

«Just because of the timeframe and the high perishability of our items,» he explains as the two other reasons why the firm made this change.