Sentences with phrase «of the biggest moving companies»

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Big, slow - moving companies focused on dominant but mature product categories find the notion of reinvention particularly terrifying.

Think about the big moves your company can make to go «10X» or take «massive action» instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results.

It's both an assertion of strength by the company and the biggest move to date in a radical strategic pivot.

In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.

The company is one of the world's biggest makers of freight locomotives but the unit is barely big enough to move GE's dial these days, accounting for only $ 4.3 billion out of total annual sales of $ 124 billion).

His project grew through word of mouth until it grew so big, he moved the company to San Francisco and started taking on venture capital investments, eventually raising $ 259 million at a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.

Ford has always been a big truck company, and it pioneered some of the original SUVs, such as the Explorer, so it makes sense for the company to follow FCA and move in this direction.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

The move is a nod to the needs of big companies looking for flexible real estate solutions for an ever more mobile and far - flung workforce.

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.

Don't expect mass layoffs in IT even as the world's biggest companies move more of their workload to the cloud, Oracle's Mark Hurd says.

Don't expect mass layoffs of IT workers even as the world's biggest companies move more of their workload to the cloud, said Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd.

«At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price,» said John Legere, moved attribution up president and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

In the West, we know the big Android makers as Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, but for most of the world, the manufacturers making and selling Android devices are Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, which are more interested in moving sheer volumes of units than reaping fat margins on them.

This is the latest example of a big software company moving its IT operations to AWS or another public cloud so it doesn't have to build or manage data center infrastructure on its own.

One big reason is that the technology promises companies a way to more easily move software applications from one set of infrastructure to another.

Even with these challenges, many of the biggest consumer technology companies are now moving into the smart home market.

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

But the firm also made a big move into the natural gas space with its 2013 acquisition of Plains Exploration & Production Company.

The move will help HootSuite offer more analysis to its high - paying enterprise clients — HootSuite claims these include 75 % of Fortune 1000 companies — as uberVu has experience offering insight to over 200 clients, including a few big names like NBC, 3M and Heinz.

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.

«It's like this big pile of VC money moves from one company to another,» she says.

U.S. regulators» recent moves against the accounting practises of Chinese companies listed in the U.S. are a timely warning about the risks of letting foreign state - owned enterprises (SOEs) play a bigger role in Canada.

As we've seen with Instagram's relentless copy - cat approach over the past year, another big risk for Snap is that the Facebook - backed company — or even Facebook itself — will simply move in on its market even further and suck all of the oxygen from the room when it comes to video.

The companies that build products and services that help us identify, reach, and influence the people who matter most — those highly influential and deeply connected prime movers who can move markets and the marketplace — will be the next generation of big winners.

The move, which has not been announced publicly, is the latest sign that the world's biggest ecommerce company wants to control more of its own deliveries.

To win the other half of the battle, you need to understand what are big companies bad at — moving and iterating quickly, being aggressive and making decisions.

In addition to moving to a bigger office and boosting marketing of existing products, the team will spend some of the second - round cash to roll out several new products that will be their first step toward the company's future.

Bray has worked for Carrier for more than 14 years, and he said he was one of the biggest critics of the company's decision in February to move manufacturing operations to Mexico.

Upscale menswear chain Harry Rosen is moving many of its 17 stores into bigger, more expansive locations; And Hudson's Bay Company owner Richard Baker is rolling out the chi - chi Saks Fifth Avenue brand in Canada.

Google on Wednesday said it would begin penalizing the search rankings of websites that use pop - up mobile ads asking users to install an app, the latest move by the company that could have a big impact on advertisers, publishers and other content creators.

Susan Lyne, a co-founder of BBG Ventures, confirms that «the biggest issue is not the number of women starting companies, but the access to capital as you move up the food chain.»

Bigger global companies are moving in and a lot of great talent is being spun out of the first wave of startups who are now starting new companies.»

Such a public solicitation is rare in the world of economic development where companies usually conduct discreet searches and negotiate in private before announcing big moves.

Big stock market moves after the announcement suggest that investors think that whatever the companies develop could become broadly adopted, undermining the business of existing health care players, and transforming health insurance across the country.

Kalanick touted the hire in August as a «big change» and said the move was a result of his realization that the company needed to put a bigger emphasis on marketing.

Eli Lilly was so optimistic about its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, solanezumab, the company staffed up in anticipation of its approval — a move that has proven to be a big mistake.

Whitman transformed eBay from a small online auction company to a worldwide brand, and then moved on to pursue a bigger ambition: to become governor of California.

The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.

All told, that's a bigger move into 4K than any singular company has announced yet, outside of TV manufacturers.

The company was the leader in wearable tech devices; it was snatching up smaller players like Pebble to build out its wearable strengths; and it got out ahead of the wearable market even before big tech companies made their moves.

The move is a big gamble on the part of Governor Stephen Poloz, who hopes the rate cut will both spur companies to spend and help fend off low inflation, but the risk is that Canada's already over-indebted households will put themselves in even more danger by taking on excessive leverage.

Such a move would be part of a bigger restructuring at the company which has seen its stock fall about 25 percent this year alone.

Now moving forward — Austin touched on some of these things — disenchantment with big technology companies, you know, the internet has become centralized, VCs have a lot of control over innovation and ICOs are a way to democratize the capital - raising process.

The risk of shorting a single stock, bad as it might be, is that it can be bought out by a bigger company and as a result the stock price will move against you.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.