Sentences with phrase «old company which»

The five - year - old company which lets people summon rides at the touch of a smartphone button is valued by investors at nearly $ 51 billion, making it the world's most richly valued private company.

But Greater Media, a 59 - year - old company which runs 21 radio stations and is considered an innovator in the digital space, - views post-click as a way to engage its target audiences and those stations» advertisers.

The 86 - year - old company which is based primarily in Cameron Highlands, is a dominant household name in Malaysia, where it generates approximately $ 100 million in revenue per year.

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.

Unbeknownst to the company, the old agency ran a black - hat back - linking campaign which pointed thousands of spam links to the client company's site.

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

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.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.

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.

Parsons» company, Indosole, which produces and sells a line of sandals and shoes made entirely of repurposed old tires, has achieved a great deal of visibility thanks in large part to its community of customers, who support and advocate the company's quest to save one million tires from landfills.

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.

The 202 - year - old company, which owns gun manufacturers including Bushmaster and Marlin, said its sales fell 30 % last year to $ 600 million.

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.

Founded in 2009, by then 15 - year - old Ava Anderson, her company offers 11 distinct product lines, which consist of more than 75 products, including home cleansers, cosmetics, and candles.

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.

Indeed, when confronted with the news that Apple had eclipsed Microsoft in market cap, CEO Steve Ballmer trumpeted the company's dominance in the PC market as evidence of its stability — which, says Bonner, «illustrates the old way of thinking.»

The seven - year - old company, which has 34 employees, will join Zillow as a separate unit, retaining its own brand identity.

New Leaf Paper, which must cope with huge economies - of - scale issues in order to compete with the paper manufacturers that use virgin fiber, has formed alliances with various large stable companies like Old Navy Clothing, Nike, and Hewlett - Packard to ensure that its orders are of decent volume.

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.

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

(Presumably, this future does not include the risk of serving expired meat — which the company's China subsidiary ran into earlier this year when one of its suppliers was caught repackaging old ground beef.)

Lamb determined that his 17 - year - old enterprise software firm, which provides cost accounting services to drilling companies (and is ranked 385th on the 2013 PROFIT 500), would thrive in Colorado's oil and gas sector, which is similar to Alberta's.

And it looks like New Yorkers can't get enough: The four - year - old company's two locations have booked a 2,792 percent rise in three - year sales, which hit $ 3.4 million in 2014.

This former consultant (Booz Allen and Price Waterhouse) has rocked the world of big data with his eight - year - old firm, which provides data and analytics services to a quarter of the companies on the Fortune 500.

If you want to work at whiskey company WhistlePig, which sells luxury, 10 - year old rye, you're first going to have to learn how to feed big, burly pigs and read historic philosophy texts.

EquityZen, a four - year - old New York - based company, provides a platform on which private company investors can sell their shares to accredited investors.

None of which is atypical for a small, 10 - year - old company that has grown organically.

The 35 - year - old company, which helps industrial clients keep their equipment running through a mix of lab testing, consulting and training services, outgrew the space it had occupied for the better part of two decades.

Old - school retailers like Gap have suffered compared to fast - fashion companies like Zara and H&M, which allure millennials with their quick turnaround and low - price.

He said that his staff found a 42 - year - old software bug in its system, which highlights the elderly technology the company must deal with.

And finally, there's the old (and true) point made by Milton Friedman years ago, which is that companies contribute socially by making goods and services that people want.

In 2010, he approached Eon Reality, one of the oldest American VR companies, which was founded in 1999.

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

Edmunds was contacted by an old friend of hers, a publicist in Hollywood, to see if the company could supply some furniture for an episode in which characters Ross and Rachel bring home their new baby.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

Floorfashions Floor Coverings This five - year - old company — which sells carpeting and tile to builders and managers of institutional property — has outgrown its original space, which includes a cramped showroom and a jammed just - in - time warehouse.

Search engines new and old use proprietary mathematical formulas to crawl websites and return results, which explains why your company's pages may rank higher on one compared with another.

Consider the old downtown, a once - stagnant area located eight miles away, which is dominated by large national company headquarters, hotels, and government offices.

Adidas (AG) will become one of the club's biggest sponsors along with Chevrolet, which recently replaced Aon as Manchester's shirt sponsor, meaning Wayne Rooney and company will hit the pitch at Old Trafford with the Chevy logo blaring across their chests next month.

He goes so far as to distribute old leadership manuals from his boot camp to the crew chiefs of his 15 - employee, $ 2 - million company, which stages lighting shows for concerts and corporate events.

At its Build 2015 conference, the company announced that its new Windows 10 will allow developers to easily reconcile both Android and iOS apps on the Windows platform as well as incorporate older Win32 - based apps (which compete with desktop OS platforms).

As it has expanded into mobile, analytics and second - screen viewing, the seven - year - old social network has snapped up companies that can help it further its goals, from under - the - radar outfits such as Ubalo to larger companies such as Crashlytics, which reportedly sold for nine figures.

While Yervoy brought in $ 960 million in sales in 2013 (an enormous figure for a two - year - old drug with a small patient population), the company currently has more than 35 ongoing clinical trials investigating another drug that disengages the immune system's brakes: the much - awaited nivolumab, which was also from the Medarex portfolio.

Created by a pair of 19 - year - old twin brothers from Maple Grove, Minn., college sophomores Jason Fotso (Duke University) and Brian Fotso (Baylor University), Trump Dump was the first app they ever developed, inspired by a «daydream,» which is what they named their company.

Which is why so many old - guard health care companies, from hospitals and insurers to benefits managers and drug and device makers — which together account for one - fifth of the economy — are hastily recombining and reinventing themseWhich is why so many old - guard health care companies, from hospitals and insurers to benefits managers and drug and device makers — which together account for one - fifth of the economy — are hastily recombining and reinventing themsewhich together account for one - fifth of the economy — are hastily recombining and reinventing themselves.

We're sitting in the company's headquarters in San Francisco's Mission District, discussing the philosophy of Asana's culture, which they conceived around the time they were trying to recruit old friends and colleagues.

Trapani and Shindler have also discarded their old pension plan entirely since the «defined benefit plan» was set up to provide payouts only to employees who stayed until age 60, which just didn't meet the needs of the company's somewhat transient work force.

To address the subjectivity of office temperature, most companies set their thermostats to the «Standard 55» guideline, which assumes the average worker is a 40 - year - old man dressed in a business suit, i.e. the average office worker in the 1960s.