Sentences with phrase «over partnering for»

Not exact matches

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

It partners with sustainable farmers all over the world and local florists to get you the best flowers for your special day, plus you can get them as soon as the next day.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

«They must realize that by trying to trample over us — a premiere partner in the Alexa Fund ecosystem — that they are going to really cripple that ecosystem and put a warning out for others,» Frankel said.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

CB&I and Westinghouse were consortium partners building those reactors prior to their deal for Stone & Webster, which was meant to resolve disagreements over each contractor's responsibilities over the projects.

But it didn't take long for Leung and his partners to stumble across what looked to be a mammoth opportunity: There was, he realized, an enormous craving for IT specialists who knew how to develop and manage web platforms that relied on so - called open - source software based on Linux — a non-propriety operating system beloved by Microsoft - loathing tech geeks the world over.

It's this lack of clarity over the changes at Whole Foods that may be the biggest issue for the brand, as it's been hit by a slate of negative articles and even held a summit to address angry partners.

Charles Birnbaum, Bessemer Venture Partners: «Valuations in the alternative - lending space were overly optimistic in our opinion over the prior five years, but we do feel that the pendulum has likely swung back too far in the other direction following the recent pullback» leaving the sector ripe for potential funding or M&A.

Here's a not - so - fun fact if you work for the NFL or one of its broadcast partners: NFL ratings are down an average of 14 % this season, and on some nights by over 20 %.

Gust, which has been around for over 10 years, hopes to bridge this gap by connecting startup enterprises with potential investors and partners.

Successful restructuring of operations at the company's Casposo mine in Argentina by experienced local partner Austral Gold Limited may also lead to a further cash inflow for Troy as Austral have the right to gradually increase their equity in that project over time.

Adolfo Rodriguez, managing partner of the A / R Financial Group, has been focusing more and more on Social Security maximization over the past six years, conducting seminars for the public and for other advisors, as a service to their own clients.

The social network may argue that it doesn't tell its publishing partners what they should be creating for that money, but the fact that it is pushing video — and that its algorithm clearly favors certain kinds of video content over other kinds — helps determine what gets promoted.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

Any small business that posted average annual sales over the previous three years of $ 5 million or less and employs 100 or few individuals (including all owners, partners, and principals) is eligible to apply for a Low Documentation Loan.

Lanzalotto says that while local Chambers of Commerce usually can't recommend one provider over another, a professional association or trade group will often recommend the right partner for your needs.

«I schedule time outside the office, whether it's to meet with a new potential partner, a chat over lunch with an old client, or an out - of - town industry convention for a few days.

Now, Zuckerberg says, he's looking for three to five additional telecom partners to run additional trials with over the next year.

Debating whether the government has a legitimate antitrust case against AT&T over its deal for Time Warner with Ethan Glass, partner at Quinn Emanuel and former assistant chief DOJ antitrust division, and Seth Bloom, Bloom Strategic Counsel president and former general counsel of Senate Antitrust Subcommittee.

Both Buffett and Protégé Partners originally put around $ 320,000 into bonds for the bet that was expected to appreciate to $ 1 million over the course of the 10 years.

For Craig Buckstein, COO and partner of Geneva Worldwide, a 106 - year - old company in New York and No. 2757 on the Inc. 5000, helping clients bridge the communication gap in person, over the phone or through documents is the reason his company is so successful.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

In attacking Berkshire, Ackman was striking back after Buffett's business partner Charlie Munger last year called Valeant «deeply immoral» for its practice of raising drug prices, sparking a sort of long - distance feud over whose favorite stock was better.

Malcolm Hamilton, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, thinks there is room for the PRPP as long as the fees are low and the plans offer enough advantages over group RRSPs for employers to adopt them (e.g. much of the administrative burden transferred to the government).

But the IRS and the Department of Labor are actually more concerned about the level of control exercised over a worker, said Sarah Maxfield, co-founder and manager of Xero partner ArtsPool, an administrative co-op for nonprofit arts organizations.

They had flown in from all over the world for a regular partners» meeting of Bain & Co., a Boston - based management consulting firm.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

• Extreme Venture Partners, a Canada - based venture capital firm and accelerator, raised just over $ 50 million for its third fund focused on immigrating international startups.

Snagging Syngenta is crucially important for China in one other way: The country had to secure a major Western partner as the global chemical and seed industry suddenly consolidated over the past 18 months.

For example, money raised by VCs from limited partners has dropped by well over 50 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

«Right now they clearly have a loyal user base in the younger population, but the over 30 year old demographic is one of the most attractive segments for advertisers because of their spending power,» Eric Kim, managing partner at venture capital firm Goodwater Capital, wrote in a report.

The price for foreigners operating in China is often handing over their technology to local «partners» in return for access to the market, effectively fuelling your future competition with your hard - earned intellectual property.

So they reprioritize raising capital over building a valuable product or service and usually end up asking for too much money too soon which ends up in a failed fundraising attempt or a raise on bad terms for the entrepreneur,» said Hrach Simonian, a principal at Canaan Partners.

Qualtrics has raised $ 220 million from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners over two rounds of funding, but the 13 - year - old company was bootstrapped for its first decade, taking institutional money for the first time in 2012.

Partnering with Nant Capital and Dr. Patrick Soon - Shiong to accelerate the transformation from a legacy news company to a technology and content company, including gaining access to over 100 machine vision and artificial intelligence technology patents for news media applications.

A changing of the guard is under way at prominent CBD agency Burgess Rawson, with founding partner and joint managing director Geoff Potter stepping down from the position he has held for 21 years and handing over the reins to fellow joint managing director, Andrew McKerracher.

AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel noted: «Starbucks continues to be an important partner for us, and we continue to provide them with a variety of services over AT&T's advanced network, including the nation's fastest, most reliable LTE network.»

In an email promoting the fundraiser, Marc Lampkin, managing partner of the Washington office for the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, says that additional VIP attendees will include House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R - Texas, «along with over 100 members of Congress.»

It started in 2008, when my partner Kristin and I decided to go to Northern Alberta to fly over the tar / oil sands, to see for ourselves what had up until then been hidden from plain sight.

Elise Rees, FCPA, FCA, ICD.D is a retired partner of Ernst & Young LLP, and is a strategic senior executive with over 35 years» experience advising clients on finances and tax, specializing in mergers and acquisitions for the last 14 years.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

He has been practicing for over 25 years and has been a partner for 13 years.

[2] Each quarter in the Statement on Monetary Policy, we publish forecasts for Australia's major trading partners» GDP growth, as well as Australia's terms of trade, GDP growth, unemployment rate and inflation over the next two - and - a-half years.

Our founding team invested together while at RBC Venture Partners for over a decade.

He has been a partner for over two decades, amassing a small fortune litigating securities and mergers and acquisitions cases.

Some of the sales and marketing highlights for VA Partners include helping a transportation firm grow from 2 to over 50 clients; closing new revenue of $ 300,000 for a software firm; finding over 200 leads a year through social media for a design firm; and managing an inbound marketing strategy that consistently generates 40 leads a month.

In addition to being one of the top three revenue producers in the history of the firm, Frank is a member of the DHR Board, Senior Operating Committee, DHR Hall of Fame and was an equity partner in the company for over 10 years.

Over the last decade, Harvest has become an established leader in the marketplace by generating attractive returns for its financial partners, providing creative solutions and outstanding service.

«Over time, we have every confidence that the work we are doing to reposition and engineer our company will deliver an even stronger brand for our consumers and retail partners.»