Sentences with phrase «old company for»

A group of high - powered executives are scrambling to save InFocus from «New York sharks» who they say want to liquidate the 22 - year - old company for a quick profit.

ALBANY — The state attorney general which has been investigating disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's old company for four months, is raising serious concerns about its imminent sale, the Daily News has learned.

The ad hits Murphy's old company for creating jobs in India, something that he was attacked over in his first campaign for Congress in 2009.

Chicago - based Hill - Rom Holdings Inc. bought 101 - year - old company for $ 2.05 billion in September from the Allyn family and has continued to manufacture medical diagnostic equipment under the Welch Allyn name in Skaneateles.

Critics derided the now 41 - year - old company for its insular corporate attitude and glaring lack of cool.

Not exact matches

For the likes of a Verizon or Comcast, buying Twitter provides an instant and massive new - media audience that allows an old - media company to go toe to toe with Facebook and Google, which have been steadily diverting advertising budgets.

When asked which company they would most want to work for, respondents chose the 93 - year old entertainment giant.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

The hurdles were not small: He'd need to get licensed in every state, and somehow account for the fact that most insurance companies won't pay for a new prescription until the old one is just a few days from running out.

The investigation is the latest problem for a six - year - old company, known until last year as Trump University, that already faces a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.

At 27 years old I had sold a company for eight figures.

Perhaps the search giant is actually tempted to follow the example of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.

In 1989, a 24 - year - old Michael Dell told Inc. magazine that he planned to be CEO of his company for at least 60 years.

The more than 100 - year - old company said it used blockchain to create a new platform for digital photography with its own cryptocurrency, called KodakCoin.

For all we hear about 20 - year - olds dropping out of Stanford to raise trunk loads of venture money, most entrepreneurs need industry knowledge and connections to start a company.

The six - year - old company is known for its white, cube - shaped card readers that plug into smartphones and tablet computers, turning them into electronic sales terminals.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

Heading to a company with a name like «Lord Danger,» Kate and Joey have their work cut out for them to give this next office a makeover that brings some productivity to this production team, and also emphasizes the unique, old school vibe of its employees!

The service is an expansion of a nearly four - year old partnership between Apple and IBM in which the two companies create corporate apps together for Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad.

For companies old and new, this evolution from selling products to selling services — leveraging the proliferation of internal and external data across the value - chain, to redefine or create your brand, product or service and create unique relationships — is a powerful concept.

The challenge for Legere to start with was to shift the organization's control away from legal and HR and towards employees — breaking the company's old rules along the way.

It's critical for companies in old - school industries to ditch the «we've always done things this way» mindset and begin listening to what consumers want — nay, expect — and that's a personalized dig...

For Inc.'s fourth annual tally of the 5,000 fastest - growing private companies in Europe, old and even older world capitals went head to head.

For years, the company has made week - old hires «The Offer» of a $ 2,000 bonus to quit the job.

Following his company's collapse, he'd spent days methodically double - checking Mt. Gox's old digital wallets, where the secret alphanumeric keys for accessing Bitcoins are stored.

Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

The company was introducing two additional products in 1993 — the second release in its early - learning line, and the first in a new line that Stanger had dreamed up for four - to eight - year - olds, called Thinkin» Things.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

«Companies led by older management tend to be very controlling, but when I look at people in the 20s or 30s, they're totally capable of working on their own and being productive,» said Kevin Wheeler, whose Future of Talent Institute researches and consults on human resources for Silicon Valley businesses.

The owner of the trucking company involved in the crash, Sukhmander Singh, has said the 30 - year - old driver had been working for him for about a month.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

It's hard for a company that is already decades old to grow as fast as a fresh upstart, but this engineering firm with 14 offices across the country can keep pace.

Kozlowski divides his time between the Fortune Society, which is volunteer work, and a year - old M&A advisory practice and consultancy he set up with former colleagues, called Harbourside Associates, to help companies evaluate takeover candidates or prepare for takeover and to provide business expertise for start - ups.

Prior to founding Stray Boots, the 29 - year - old Millman — who graduated from Princeton in 2005 with a history degree — handled distribution and logistics for a retail apparel company and managed sales for a startup beverage company.

The 17 - year - old plane had circled Tribhuvan International Airport twice as it waited for clearance to land, a company official said.

You might be surprised to see a 150 - year - old company on this list, but for Source Atlantic, evolution is the only path to growth.

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

Benko is convinced his more cautious approach is largely responsible for keeping his seven - year - old company in a positive cash - flow position throughout the recent recession.

But instead of a big hit to drum up some hype in the city that never sleeps, Cirque's got Shpeel on its plate, and it isn't the sort of entrance the 26 - year - old company was hoping for.

Garrett Creek Ranch www.garrettcreekranch.com Where: Paradise, Texas 940-433-2055 What: Owner Leslie Schulz dreamed up this quaint Old West resort — located an hour from the Dallas / Fort Worth Airport — after years of planning small meetings for her husband's financial services company.

Snapchat has been pretty pleased by its four - month - old Discover channel, which has been yielding millions of daily views for its 11 partnering media companies.

According to a Bloomberg report, young campaign enthusiasts are discarding their old intern and campaign manager positions for something they believe will be more lucrative and potentially game changing — building companies around Web platforms both political parties will embrace.

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

But for many small companies, digital advertising will never fully replace the value of word - of - mouth marketing — or good old - fashioned face time.

But if you ask the CEO, there is plenty more growth to come for his two - decade - old company.

All of which indicates that the planet's largest software company is looking remarkably old - fashioned for a firm that trades in the future.

While it may seem strange for a 20 - something - year - old with three failed companies to launch a career in consulting, Sam felt like it was the perfect match.

Fatherly's list of the 20 Most Innovative Companies for kids and parents features both the sharing economy and new takes on old favorites.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»