Sentences with phrase «own archrival»

Subsequently, Uber merged its China business with Didi Chuxing, a Lyft partner and investor, meaning that Lyft could be part - owned by its archrival.

Its greatest stronghold remains the U.S., where it covers 55 percent of the population and completes seven times as many rides as archrival Lyft, according to data compiled by investment advisory firm FutureAdvisor.

What could possibly turn these archrivals into business partners?

The company refused to sign an exclusive contract with Alibaba, and instead participated in a big sale promotion with its archrival, JD.com Inc..

On Uber's part, it's a way to differentiate itself from archrival Lyft, while Spotify (currently caught up in a tiff of its own with... Taylor Swift) gets increased exposure and presumably, new customers.

The deal appeared to surprise Boeing's archrival Airbus, whose staff had attended a long - delayed news conference and left the room just moments before the announcement.

When HP tapped L?o Apotheker, the former CEO of SAP, Oracle's archrival in business - application programs, as its new commander - in - chief, Ellison charged HP with «[picking] a guy who was recently fired because he did such a bad job of running SAP,» and called for the board's immediate, «en masse» resignation.

Last year it moved ahead of archrival Thomson Reuters to become the largest financial data provider on earth.

Archrival Merrill Lynch, a unit of Bank of America Corp, has not made similar changes to its compensation structure, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

European aerospace giant Airbus is Boeing's archrival.

I knew that my archrivals at bigger firms were probably offering her the world, and that the only way I had a shot was to simply gang up on her.

Last year, Walmart sought U.S. Federal Aviation Administration permission to test drones for home delivery and grocery pickup to match archrival Amazon, which is testing the devices to better fill and deliver online orders.

Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary banter like old friends or archrivals — it just depends on the night.

But AMD didn't disclose any new hardware features, performance tests, or comparison benchmarks to chips from archrival Intel, which just released a host of new, faster processors of its own.

That's hard to do for any company as it gets bigger, and the threat of competition — archrival Vivint raised $ 330 million in its October IPO — could make his task harder.

Alibaba's biggest challenge will be to pull off a successful pivot to mobile, where it still lags behind archrival Tencent, despite years of heavy investment.

Archrival Alibaba was the first in China to pilot their Sesame Credit in 2015, was similarly reprimanded by the regulators in January for automatically enrolling users in its credit scoring program.

Over all, Morgan Stanley is almost the same size as its archrival Goldman Sachs, with just under $ 33 billion in revenue expected in 2014.

It also has the added benefit of putting pressure on archrival TSN, which is fighting to keep pace after losing most of its hockey broadcasting rights to Sportsnet.

Archrival Celestica (NYSE: CLS) saw its shares edging nearly 3 % higher on no news of its own.

Cohn was Navarro's ideological archrival in the administration, and it looked like Navarro had fallen from the president's favor.

Despite a history of lagging behind its archrival, Mastercard is fighting hard to surpass its biggest industry peer, and its mix of strategic vision and execution has served the company well recently.

It is smoking out its burger foe with a new print advertising campaign that literally goes into its archrival's backyard.

More than a third of Schama's book is devoted to another artistic giant, Pieter Paul Rubens, who far surpassed Rembrandt in fame and wealth, and whom Rembrandt must have considered both an archrival and a potent role model.

«Everywhere you look these days, archrivals are falling into each other's embrace».

But after finishing the season with four straight wins, including a blowout victory over archrival Florida, the Noles» body of work is a good one.

Lafayette's archrival Lehigh will be blotted from existence, Lafayette will score more points after that, and then a monument to the obliterated will be made just so it can be desecrated by Lafayette.

The Panthers would win 27 games in Dave Wannstedt's next three years, but wrecking archrival WVU's greatest season ever made the Panthers the biggest winners here.

Remaining undefeated under new coach Bob Bradley, the U.S. won the Gold Cup by beating archrival Mexico (yet again) in a match that served as a young midfielder's coming - out party

Last March, in a game against archrival Brigham Young that would clinch the regular - season conference title, the lanky forward scored 38 points, including 16 of 16 from the free throw line, to lead Utah to a 96 - 85 win.

Rutgers's Sue Wicks («Heiress Apparent»), surely the top player in the women's game now, was the last Lady Knight to leave the court following a recent win against archrival Penn State.

After hosting Oregon on Saturday, the Bruins play their final three games in hostile environments, starting with the daunting Utah - Colorado trip and a finale at archrival USC.

UNLV Last November, Jeff Horton quit as coach of Nevada to take over the program at archrival UNLV.

Gilgeous - Alexander and Quade Green (15 points) combined for three late free throws to seal the tight win that followed Friday's 29 - point shellacking of archrival Louisville.

As the big game against the archrival looms (Election Day), students (delegates) rally in support of their teams (candidates).

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Coming off a loss to archrival Alabama and trailing by double digits at halftime for the third time in four games, No. 17 Auburn never panicked and let the home crowd spark another second - half comeback.

The Pistons» resounding victory left little doubt about their desire, and it whetted their appetites for the archrival Celtics.

Pittsburgh had scored 17 straight points to take a 24 — 21 lead early in the fourth quarter — if you haven't been in Heinz Field when the Steelers overcome a 14 - point playoff deficit against their AFC North archrivals, imagine a magnitude - 5.2 earthquake — but the Ravens were threatening.

They lost to their archrivals, Adam, Noel and Seth Frattasio, who were playing under the sponsorship of J. Murphy Sportswear, also of Hanover.

Now that Pitino is coaching archrival Louisville instead of the University of Kentucky, many basketball fans in the state consider him a traitor.

A victory over archrival Apolo Ohno in the tightly contested 1,000 meters confirmed Ahn Hyun Soo's ascension to the top of his sport — and served as payback for perceived wrongs to South Korea at the Salt Lake City Games

Also in that story, the finest piece of journalism produced this season, is Oklahoma State archrival QB Baker Mayfield:

But we weren't winning against our archrival [USC].

The defense that Del Rio left as coordinator to take the Raiders» head job became the NFL's best defense overnight, which would have been embarrassing even if that defense hadn't belonged to an archrival Oakland was chasing in the standings.

Longley grew up in Fremantle, and on the night of Dec. 7 he seemed for all the world as if he were back there again rather than where he actually was, on his adopted home court in Albuquerque, playing against New Mexico's archrival, New Mexico State, and enduring scandalously rude taunts from several of what Long Luc calls «sepos.»

And it wasn't as sweet as the 57 - second wonder that gave the Tide a 25 - 23 triumph over archrival Auburn on Nov. 30, when Shula steered his team 45 yards to set up Tiffin's 52 - yard field goal with no time left.

Toronto fans merit such congenial treatment; they have been grumping for nearly eight years over the injustice of archrival Montreal having a major league baseball team when they did not.

Bork, a slender but remarkably nimble quarterback, led Northern Illinois to a taut 29 - 22 victory over archrival Western Illinois.

Out of Bama's two archrivals, Tennessee ranks over Auburn because the Tigers currently use a similar offense to Kelly's, whereas the Vols prefer to not use an offense.

Then there was SMU's 0 - 5 start and the letdown last month of not being invited to join Conference USA while archrival TCU was asked and accepted.