Sentences with phrase «other giant firms»

Companies often come across such situations where they are just happy to make strategic alliances with other giant firms.

Not exact matches

Mobike raised the latest round from Chinese internet giant Tencent and renowned Silicon Valley tech investment firm Sequoia Capital, as well as a number of other investors.

It has become increasingly clear that new regulations are essential to constrain the power of Facebook and the other giant tech firms, and to prevent the societal damage that abuse of their services can cause.

Quebecor may want to sit back and wait for someone to consolidate Wind and Mobilicity — whether it's the two firms themselves joining up, U.S. giant Verizon, private equity or some other entity other than Bell, Rogers or Telus, someone is going to snap up the two firms.

While rumors about a potential merger between the electric car maker and consumer electronics giant have swirled for years, a new Bloomberg report suggests that Tesla has recruited at least 150 employees from Apple — more than any other company, including competing car firms.

But firms like Blackrock and Fidelity certainly are investing large amounts of other people's money in Google, according to the tech giant's preliminary proxy filing.

The firm's hard - driving, solution - oriented sales culture has produced a new set of clients in a space that may seem to have little in common with energy giants and others in infrastructure.

Still, the online retail giant is in a «unique position» compared to other tablet makers in that the company is more concerned with getting more subscribers to its Prime subscription service than pushing its Fire tablets, the firm explained.

Europe has no doubts that tech firms other than Facebook are affected by privacy and data protection issues similar to the social media giant, European Commissioner Vera Jourova told CNBC.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

A number of international companies, including Cisco Systems Inc, the world's largest networking gear maker, and German software giant SAP, have agreed to the reviews, though others, including cybersecurity firm Symantec, have refused because of security concerns.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

Other major donors giving at lower levels run the gamut of industries and interests, such as the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, beverage giant Coca - Cola, and the governments of Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

Seaman is represented by a North Carolina law firm and also by Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (no relation to this reporter), the San Francisco - based legal powerhouse that won a $ 415 million settlement against tech giants Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for colluding to keep wages down by not hiring each other's workers.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

Through my firm's work with entertainment giants like HBO, Time Warner, and others, we've identified 5 tactics designed to compel learning that's addictive among employees.

Other large holdings that perhaps carry this «lean yet mean» corporate flavor include industrial laser maker Coherent (COHR), social media giant Twitter (TWTR), household carbonated beverage systems pioneer SodaStream (SODA) and 3 - D computer - aided design software firm PTC (PTC).

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On the other hand, a few small firms will mushroom to become the giants of tomorrow.

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With Playtika being recently acquired by Chinese firm Giant Interactive and other Asian acquisition deals taking place across the games industry, there is no better time to discuss mergers, acquisitions and Asia.

A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.

You should certainly show off your holiday spirit, but if you go over the top (think tinsel on every desk or a giant Santa tracker on your website), consumers will see a law firm that's trying too hard (legal consumers are smart) and turn the other way.

Clifford Chance explored a merger with Australian legal giant Mallesons Stephen Jaques in 2008 and, according to Legal Week and others, has more recently talked to boutique firms in Sydney and Perth.

Pharmaceutical giant GSK fined alongside a raft of other firms for «stifling» competition for depression drug

I guess maybe what I'm thinking is that by opening up the window, by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and solving legal problems, and part of me thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop thinking about serving just one client's legal needs, and start thinking about solving that legal problem for anyone who comes to you.

But if it later transpires that the other side is using one of the giant firms, I immediately call my client back and tell them that the quote just doubled because of the prodigious amount of additional time I will be forced to spend on the file.

At Law Giant, Begum Law Group, we are a a successful, highly focused Texas firm dedicated to protecting the rights of people who have been injured by the negligence of others.

We are one of very few top U.S. law firms who can be and has been adverse to the global finance giants like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Barclays, Bank of America, and Credit Suisse, among others, and who represent both international investors and sovereign governments.

While most of the giant players in the VR industry, for instance, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, etc, are focusing on developing travel and gaming experiences, VR firm - NextVR, on the other hand, has devoted its massive VR resources for live sports events.

As Amazon now battles it out with other tech giants — such as Google, which recently launched the $ 50 Home Mini speaker — any excuse to drop its prices will help it gain a firmer foothold in an increasingly competitive space.

By being more agile and responsive than IBM, HP, and Compaq — and other channel - only firms that are now industry footnotes — and allowing customers to custom configure their systems rather than relying on fixed SKUs, Dell built itself up to be a multi-billion dollar company and giant that it is today.

The South Korea giant is unveiling its Galaxy Note 8 phablet later this month, while the Cupertino - based tech firm is believed to be launching the iPhone 8 and two other iPhone installments this September.

Buying the segment outright, however, means the search giant would have the option of building its own hardware rather than turning to other firms, which would save money and give it more control.