Sentences with phrase «on by big companies»

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Stocks rose sharply on Thursday, helped by strong quarterly results from some of the biggest U.S. companies.

The combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

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.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystBig brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystbig growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

Large companies bidding on big contracts need small company subcontractors to meet the goals set by government regulators.

Big biotech and pharma companies are absolutely dependent on being able to successfully innovate by partnering with and acquiring disruptive startups because of the nature of the patent cliff in pharmaceuticals.

Spotify is trying to hammer out new deals with the music industry's biggest record companies to hold on to the rights to play their artists» music for the foreseeable future, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Among the individual tracks seeing the biggest spikes were 1993's «Linger» and 1994's «Zombie,» with the hit singles seeing their global Spotify streams increase by 664 % and 320 % on Monday compared to the same day a week ago, the company said.

Luckily, Gilbert has elaborated on the idea, sharing more details in a Fast Company article that discusses her new book, a sort of self - help guide for those bitten by the creativity bug titled Big Magic.

«If I'm investing in a company that was created and coddled by a big company early on, my presumption is that their market is going to be limited,» says Harden, whose firm has invested in YouTube, Practice Fusion and InternMatch.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Katie Fehrenbacher on the five ways to make big companies more innovative according to some of the business world's most savvy executives.

The companies that make those beers, Boston Beer (sam) and Molson Coors (tap - a) respectively, have found themselves in a war of words after The New York Times published an op - ed by Boston Beer founder Jim Koch in which the brewer lamented the effect Big Beer mergers have had on the craft beer industry.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

The biggest company in Canada by market cap on the TSX — an admittedly capricious metric — is now Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which surpassed the Royal Bank of Canada this week.

Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy of a bug?

Asia markets traded higher on Friday, following notable gains on Wall Street, helped by strong quarterly results from some of the biggest U.S. companies.

The way that the company is run is by understanding the importance of the individual: You clearly can run a business just focusing on delivering a task or you can run a business while you focus on delivering a purpose, and the purpose being a little bit bigger than the task.

Telus has tried to acquire the small provider on two occasions but was denied both times by the government, meaning there's zero chance the company can sell out for relative big bucks to an incumbent.

The company has, over the past decade, transformed itself from a humble maker of computers into the biggest and most important technology company on the planet, mostly by eschewing the gadget - only approach.

That model is now being adapted by bigger companies that are putting more jobs on this infrastructure rather than expanding their own data centers.

These big companies have security and compliance concerns that made public cloud, which relies on resources shared by many companies, not the greatest option.

Now, unsurprisingly, EMC's (EMC) Information Infrastructure group (EMC II for short) will focus on helping Virtustream sell into big companies running mission - critical applications, according to an internal memo from EMC II Chief Executive David Goulden viewed by Fortune.

Over at the Globe and Mail, I popped in on QNX, the Ottawa - based software company owned by smartphone maker BlackBerry, to see what was new and also to see what they thought of the big news of Google's Open Automotive Alliance, which will be pushing Android onto cars starting this year.

The latest figures are another indication of a key trend in modern IT, and one that's got traditional server makers — the Dells, the Lenovos (lnvgy), the HPEs (hpe) of the world — on the defense: More big web - scale companies are designing their own servers and having them made by contract manufacturers instead of buying name - brand servers.

In the software industry, it's possible to gain retail presence by riding on a big company's reputation.

This year's list represents many examples of the disruption that is faced by many of the world's biggest companies on many levels.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

Then Trump rattled Japan's leading automobile producer, Toyota, and its CEO, Akio Toyoda, by threatening to slap a «big border tax» — which he has referred to as 35 % — on any automobiles the company assembled in Mexico and imported into the U.S.

Finally, Hunter suggested becoming something of your own insurance company when making big purchases, by taking the money you would have spent on the warranty and saving it in a separate account instead.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

The company's overstated political influence was noted by the New York Times political reporter Ken Vogel, who tweeted on Monday that the company's «BIGGEST SECRET» was that it was «an overpriced service that delivered little value to the TRUMP campaign, & the other campaigns & PACs that retained it» and that most people hired it because it was seen as a «prerequisite» for receiving cash from the Mercer family.

Indeed, I suggested Microsoft might kill the whole bad idea and refrain from releasing the device altogether, but sure enough the company soldiered on, only to see the Pro become a big flop, mainly because it delivered none of what people wanted in a tablet — lightness, low price and good battery life, all of which were ironically established by Apple.

That's because many of the so - called nonbank banks — some of the big credit - card companies and brokerage houses, for instance — have based their own business plans on growth within the entrepreneurial marketplace, in large part because that segment of the economy has been ignored by much of the banking community for years.

«On a personal note, as well as the huge amount of time, stress and effort it takes to continually combat these scams, this whole episode has been extremely depressing — to see my reputation besmirched by such a big company, out of an unending greed to keep raking in its ad cash.»

On the environmental front, big companies must cut carbon emissions and avoid deforestation, and we have exciting innovations popping up, led by the likes of Tesla.

You wouldn't know it by the celebrity lavished on Lucent, Revlon, and the big - deal end of the market, but those little companies represented more than one - third of the Year of the IPO.

On January 13, Big Pump Signal announced the pump of the day would be GVT, a four - month - old Russia - based altcoin created by an apparently product-less company called Genesis Vision.

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.

HOUSTON ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production company, posted a bigger - than - expected first - quarter profit on Thursday, helped by rising crude prices and cost cuts.

The U.S. company announced the launch of a new Dell - backed cloud services company called Guizhou YottaCloud Technologies on Thursday at a big data summit in Guizhou attended by CEO Michael Dell.

The indices are backed by a national database of more than 200 million property records dating back to 1987 and use what the company calls «Big Data techniques» and new algorithms to track an individual home's value on a monthly basis and create forecasts to predict the home's future value.

On Tuesday, Wanda announced it would buy Burbank, California - based Legendary Entertainment, China's biggest investment into Hollywood, to create the world's biggest film company by revenue.

The first quarter of 2018 was the biggest quarter on record for buyback announcements, with $ 242.1 billion worth of buybacks announced by U.S. companies, according to TrimTabs.

His third company, SolarCity, is the biggest provider of solar power systems in the U.S. Managed by his cousins, Peter and Lyndon Rive, SolarCity sold shares in a public offering in 2012 and was bought by Tesla on Nov. 21, 2016.

Tozer has since sold his shares back to Wilson, but the company has undergone a rapid expansion — now employing 75 people, increasing sales by 50 % and adding new equipment and processes, including a digital printer capable of putting a picture on a piece of glass as big as 283 by 130 inches.

Much of the coverage has focused on what happened and how it could have been prevented, but the question now is whether Facebook — and other big tech companies — will have to be regulated by the government in a way we never imagined before.

The company has lost more than $ 45 billion of its stock market value over the past three days on investor fears that any failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.