Sentences with phrase «only rival company»

Microsoft is not the only rival company that has recently been a target of Google Project Zero, as an iOS 11.1.2 exploit was released by security researcher Ian Beer.

Not exact matches

That also means Novartis will be taking on rival Gilead, which is the only other company to have an approved CAR - T therapy on the market (both received the regulatory green light in 2017).

Of the company's initial rivals, only about three are still in business.

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

While it would in theory allow it to hire more drivers including applicants it previously rejected, and therefore continue to compete with taxis and rival Lyft, the company told the Journal that it would only affect a small number of applicants.

Hertz, the company's only serious rival, certainly in the U.S., saw its stock price fall during the same period.

The carriers» sales reps, he adds, had told his team that they'd been burned in the past by offering one company's value - added application, only to discover that the rival teleco was promoting the same product.

The company's pain was all the more stark given that larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) not only posted stronger - than - expected results on Friday but also had not announced any massive layoffs.

Not only is Grab keen to fill at least some of the nearly 500 vacancies within the company, but it was particularly eager to avoid a migration of Uber staff moving en masse to direct rivals like Go - Jek in the ride - hailing space or food delivery services Deliveroo and FoodPanda.

But this week, a rival drug company has announced that they were able to develop a cheaper alternative version of the medicine, and it's only going to cost patients $ 1.

Interestingly, CNPC was bidding against established oil majors; the company not only cleanly outbid every rival, it also paid the cash strapped Kazakh government a generous bonus upfront and conducted feasibility studies on a pipeline to Xinjiang, offering the Kazakhs a non-Russian export line.

The company's head of AI research Yann LeCun and research engineer Soumith Chintala have described their ideal system as being «capable of not only text and image recognition but also higher - order functions like reasoning, prediction and planning, rivaling the way humans think and behave.»

MIAMI, July 7 / PRNewswire / — ... The move represents Webdate's commitment to the South Beach club scene and signifies the company's strategy to overtake rival Match.com by becoming the dating community of choice among the hip and chic... Webdate is the only online dating service to provide video chat and the «webdating» experience as a substitute to the traditional blind date... The move puts Webdate in close proximity to the clubs where Webdate sponsors several parties a month for celebrities, supermodels, recording artists and athletes.

This 218d manual is not the best BMW can do, but the company's first front - drive car is clearly only a sensible transmission and wheel and tyre specification from being among the best and is, in any case, a compelling offering against high - end mainstream rivals.

The Audi Q7 e-tron is expensive in the company of its rivals; it's only slightly more than a Volvo X90 T8, but almost # 10,000 more than the BMW X5 xDrive40e.

The company officials have apparently denied that the brand's only TT rival for the moment, the SLK (SLC), currently in the development stage with a new model, will be phased out to make room for this new version.

But I have never hesitated to challenge the company on such matters as the attempted Google Book Search settlement, and I also loathe the privacy abuses from Google and rivals — most recently, the obnoxious practice of scooping up photos in your collection for Google + for the iPad, without any upload request from you, so they're only a click or so away from «on the air.»

It was the only kind of deal publishers would sign (for lots of good reasons, and some less less good reasons), but that did not make the economics stack up any better: the writing was on the wall back in July when rival subscription company Scribd culled a range of romance and erotica titles from its service because they were costing the company too much money.

Clearly the year 2010 has belonged to the Apple iPad so far and the only thing that arch rivals Microsoft could muster is a verbal volley by company CEO Steve Ballmer trying to convince the world at large that the Windows 7 is as good or maybe a tad better to deliver superior tablet PC experience than any other.

Apple is the only company to sell eBooks directly through their app, but they tend to be more 20 % more expensive than their rivals.

The company has a reputation for keeping devices up - to - date for much longer than many of its rivals (we're looking at you, HTC) and the Galaxy S3 has gone from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich all the way up to 4.3 Jelly Bean over quite a long period of time — on Android, pretty much the only manufacturer which outperforms here is Google itself on the Nexus line.

«The only one that is not working out for us is Nokia,» said Mr. Maida, referring to the world's largest cellphone company, which has been losing market share to rivals.

But then, along came Satya Nadella, who upon taking over as CEO in 2014, refocused Microsoft as a cloud services company that is now rivaled by only Amazon.com, Inc.'s (AMZN) AWS.

However, what truly sets the company apart from most of its rivals is that rather than attempt to grow for growth's sake, management has remained steadfast in its approach to buying only the most popular names in its niche industries.

The Dreamcast in many ways was the last big hooray for Sega before becoming a software - only company developing games for its once - rivals platforms.

you have one of the largest companies in the world whos founder is a devout charity giver and your only rival is a failing sony and you bring us this old world excuse.

The new Echo faces direct competition not only from rival companies, but from within Amazon itself.

After months of struggling to turn a profit and hundreds of millions of dollars in quarterly losses, Cho Sung - jin, Vice Chairman of LG Electronics, told 2018 Consumer Electronics Show attendees in January that the company will «[only] unveil new smartphones when it is needed» going forward, and that it will «not launch [a smartphone] just because other rivals do.»

«If approved, the deal would create a new company whose dominance over access to the Internet is rivaled only by Comcast,» said Joshua Stager, policy counsel for New America's Open Technology Institute.

Latest product from the company trying to make smart home tech not only functional but beautiful too, the Nest Cam rival follows Hive's connected thermostat and other devices that, having launched first in the UK, began arriving on US shores last year.

Samsung has a market share of 10.6 percent, which already makes the South Korean company the only Apple rival to post a double - digit market share.

Google's Siri and Alexa rival was initially only available on the company's own Pixel phones, but has made its way to the LG G6, which lays claim to being the first non-Pixel phone to have it.

Chinese company Xiaomi today held an event in Beijing, where it unveiled new products that will rival the MacBook Pro and iPhone X.First up was the new Mi Notebook Pro, with a fully metal enclosure that looks virtually identical to Apple's latest MacBook Pro in Space Gray.Mi Notebook Pro is equipped with a 15.6 - inch display with narrow bezels, a full - sized backlit keyboard, custom Harman Infinity speakers with Dolby Atmos sound, and seven ports: USB - C, data - only USB - C, dual USB 3.0, full - sized HDMI, a 3 - in - 1 SD card slot, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.The notebook is equipped with up to Intel's new eighth - generation Core i7 quad - core processor, up to 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics card, and 256 GB of SSD storage.

The iPhone X is looking it will be a big hit for not only Apple but, also, the company's biggest rival, Samsung.

The South Korean company has been heavily overshadowed by its local rival Samsung in terms of market share and overall popularity, and its entire mobile division has only shown quarterly profits twice within the last two calendar years.

The Daydream View headset of Google is currently only compatible with a short list of devices, but if Samsung wants to maintain its leadership in the VR headset market, it makes sense for the company to release a Gear VR controller so that it could erase an advantage of a rival device.

We've already seen the company make huge strides in adding new functionality and support for rival platforms in tools such as Visual Studio, and its Xamarin acquisition only strengthens its overall proposition for developers.

With only $ 500 million in debt maturing over the next four years, the company faces fewer risks than its highly - leveraged rivals.