Sentences with phrase «owned by a big company»

Using real lemons may be no better because this could require large areas of agricultural land owned by big companies being used to grow trees that provide little or no benefit to the local population.

We're not owned by a big company, we don't have any agenda other than making sure the schools that want to teach people how to be responsible drivers are put in touch with the people that want to BE responsible drivers.

«Most of the mall properties are already owned by the big companies.

Not exact matches

Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next biggest DDoS attack, which targeted Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.

The smaller companies have argued in favour of getting access to newer, faster network components owned by the bigger players, including fibre.

I bet that someday I'll come across a big customer problem that's not being solved or well served by the industry, come up with an innovative solution, and start my own company.

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.

Yahoo, now owned by Verizon, and Equifax, are two companies which were hit with some of the biggest data breaches of all time.

To address this «big problem,» the company, which is owned by Ebay, has enlisted the Space Tourism Society and the SETI Institute to help it launch PayPal Galactic (yes, that's the real name), an initiative to devise solutions.

A recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined a number of problems it found with the big three consumer reporting companies along with suggested reforms that could help consumers improve the accuracy of their own credit reports as well as those all - important three - digit scores.

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

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.

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.

Being acquired by a bigger company early in your venture's life cycle can be a sweet deal in its own right.

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

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.

The state is the biggest market for the two companies, and DraftKings and FanDuel fought back by filing their own lawsuits against Schneiderman.

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.

Finally, Williams believes small businesses are uniquely positioned to capitalize upon opportunities left behind by the big companies that become too mired in their own politics.

COPENHAGEN, April 10 Genmab plans to own a bigger share of drugs in its early - stage pipeline as Europe's biggest biotechnology company prepares to reduce its reliance on a blockbuster cancer drug, marketed by partner Johnson & Johnson.

The initiative is part of McDonald's bigger plan to give up sales growth by selling off most of its company - owned locations to franchisees.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

That message was a reference to revelations last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, was part of the NSA's program to monitor communications through some of the biggest U.S. Internet companies.

As an extreme example, the biggest Canadian forestry company currently (by market capitalization) doesn't own any forests in Canada!

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

«Now being owned by a larger company will help us facilitate growth and development,» he says, while conceding that consumers currently are cautious in their big - ticket purchases because of the slow energy economy.

MFM will be partnering with edie for the two - day event, providing more than 600 attendees with new ideas about how to make their own companies more environmentally friendly — not least by encouraging employees and colleagues to cut down on the amount of meat they eat; making a small change to their diets in order to effect a big change in the way we live.

Australia's cattle station market is charging back to life with a shortlist of bidders, including billionaire Brett Blundy, likely to send the price of two huge properties owned by one of the country's biggest beef producers, the Oxenford family's Western Grazing Company, to well over $ 100 million.

Lowes Foods isn't owned by a big box chain or run by a holding company overseas.

Companies owned by two big contributors de Blasio appointed to VIP slots had serious integrity issues before the mayor rewarded them for their money - raising, a Daily News review has found.

A former Manhattan borough president, Mr. Stringer jokingly refers to his own status as a bespectacled white guy, and laments that too many big companies are run by people «who look like me.»

The speech took place in a building owned by CGI Communications on Main Street, which is part of the company's expansion efforts... and that downtown location was a big reason why Warren held the event there, to tout the construction and activity that has been increasing downtown.

With big bets on high - risk companies, many without revenues or even business plans, venture capitalists anointed millionaires by the dozens, along the way adding millions to their own net worth.

«All the good wind farm locations are now owned by the biggest energy companies,» says Greenpeace spokeswoman Sarah Liang.

Paul Wilmott explains that by combining an academic post with his own financial company, Oxford financial, he's managed to have it all: the big bucks of finance and a life!

Their passion is to break down the barriers set by society that tell us what's to big and what's not beautiful by using smaller women to market full - figured women products.It was created by our parent company Pink City Corp, but has since morphed into its own full blown international movement impacting the world like never before.

Mark Brooks: The three big national speed dating companies are # 1 Predating (now owned by Cupid.com), # 2 Hurrydate (speedating in combination with online dating), # 3 8 Minute Dating (Tom Jaffee's service is ripe for acquisition)

It's also big technology companies like Apple and startups like Amplify — a brand owned by News Corp. that produces a tablet designed for classroom use and a multimedia Common Core - aligned curriculum.

Volkswagen is not looking at big numbers, instead the company believes that the Polo GTI will be bought by enthusiasts who will be ready to pay the premium to own one of the fastest and most powerful hatchbacks in the country.

After all, many of the vehicles sold here by the Big Three automakers — one of which is now owned by an Italian corporation, anyway — are built outside the United States, and many of those from the foreign companies are manufactured inside our borders.

Which is turning into a big problem, by the way, when starting my own company.

These big publishers are owned by giant companies with interests that are much greater than making money in publishing.

Because the five biggest book publishers are all owned by companies that have either newspapers or television networks within their group.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

With the success of the partnerships Amazon has established with big name companies such as EA by making dedicated paid Kindle Applications, they are laying the ground work for their own store that could be employed with any Google Android Smartphone or Tablet PC.

His darkest prediction — that Amazon will face the same kind of anti-trust legal woes that Apple and the then - Big Six faced — may be his most negative prediction yet, but again, it's not based on wishful thinking or an attempt to further the interests of his own company by targeting the competition.

They currently have thousands of titles available (7500 individual issues, 700 of which are free) and thousands of individual submit titles available (creator - owned and self published titles, not ones published by big companies like Marvel and DC).

In an interview with the Bookseller, Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said «People write on Huffington Post, they write for Goodreads, they write for Medium.com: valuable sites owned by big tech companies that make a lot of money for those companies.

But they are (at the same time) often owned (meaning majority shares) by a larger publishing company above them, and so on up and up and up until worldwide there are basically six big conglomerates that have fingers in most large traditional publishing companies.