Sentences with phrase «private companies use»

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As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

In the interim, Edison found more resistance than revenue as it tried to persuade states and districts to turn over management of their schools to a private company using a new, unproven school model.

We are private companies using our own monies to create energy and jobs as well as clean energy.

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Over the same period, the company paid Trump — essentially Trump paying himself — roughly $ 82 million by Fortune's estimates, collected from a dizzying variety of sources spelled out in the company's proxy filings, as varied as payments for use of Trump's private plane to fees paid directly Trump for access to his name and marketing expertise.

And while it might work for private companies, the lengthy and expensive bankruptcy process could use up resources cash - strapped states can not afford right now.

Companies relying on 1099 employees or private contractors regularly use quick - turnaround background check companies to provide consumers with a sense of Companies relying on 1099 employees or private contractors regularly use quick - turnaround background check companies to provide consumers with a sense of companies to provide consumers with a sense of security.

But there's more at stake here: If the company does adopt more rigorous background checks, which could include fingerprinting, drivers seeking classification as employees could try to use the move as evidence they are indeed employees and not private contractors, says one labor attorney.

It's wonderful,» said Frankel, who has been using her social media to urge companies to join her efforts and says that private companies and citizens are really pulling through for the island where government has fallen short.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

All three companies use an «in - house» crowdfunding model for their business — think private Kickstarter for a single designer or retailer.

Joyent is one company that has monetized its data organization and collection services, using the public cloud and private cloud software to provide businesses with a ready - made infrastructure for harnessing data.

At that point, large private equity buyers begin to enter the picture, because they can purchase the company with borrowed money and use the company's own cash flow to service the debt.

He said the company is leading the way in «differential privacy,» a field that, in his words, «uses hashing, sub-sampling, and noise injection to enable this kind of crowdsourced learning while keeping the information of each individual user completely private.»

So private equity firms need to use their balance sheet skills and they have to be more ruthless in wringing every last dollar of synergy out of the purchase for a company that they possibly can.

Reputation management companies BrandYourself and ReputationDefender have two key pieces of advice: Google yourself often, and when you do, do so using a private window or incognito mode option so that results are not customized because of your location or search habits.

This is because they're used nearly constantly, he says, and are collected by the company at the end of every day to be recharged before being redistributed to prearranged spots on private property.

Last week the company said it is rolling out a worldwide private network and load balancers of its own to speed file access for the 75 % of its half - billion users living outside the U.S. (Dropbox still uses AWS data centers in countries that mandate that user data stay local.)

For a private equity fund, that repeat customer allows it to use debt in its purchase of the company.

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

The suite provides a «kiosk mode» so the device can be limited to run only certain apps for demo or showcase purposes, and IT departments can also set up private app stores for use within their company.

Our failure rates are a fraction of what they used to be when we were a small private company.

Some private companies are also here in courtship mode including magnetic levitation specialist Arx Pax, which has an elaborate booth at the exhibit and is encouraging teams to use its technology on their pods.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Turning them into a publicly owned network, like today's interstate highway system, would give the government the responsibility to create clear, fair rules for private companies wishing to use them.

He's using his newfound knowledge to increase SimStar's value, regardless of whether the company goes public, merges, or stays private.

Kurth is here to take you on a private getaway from occupational monotony, something he's intimately familiar with: He used to be a director of project management with a phone company.

Yuri Sagalov is co-founder and CEO ofAeroFS, a private - cloud enterprise file sharing and collaboration tool used by Fortune 500 companies to safely and securely collaborate on corporate data.

But even with data easily available, investors found it hard to analyze because they were used to reading quarterly reports, not determining cohort retention for private companies.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

«The majority of private companies can accomplish most or all of their important goals by forgoing options entirely and instead making use of a phantom - stock technique,» says Jim Scannella, a principal in Arthur Andersen's human - capital - services group.

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

The company is also working with D.C. transit agencies and SharedStreets in a public - private collaboration to share data on how people are using transportation.

Rule 506 (c), which allows for the use of public solicitation in private securities offerings, is bringing about a groundbreaking change in the way small companies (such as my own) finance themselves.

All of the browser's traffic flows through a virtual private network connection to SurfEasy with the same level of security encryption banks use, according to the company.

In a recent Fortune commentary piece, a private company CEO opined that the disadvantages of going public — using the examples of Snap and Blue Apron — far outweigh the advantages.

Companies have been using the strategy for decades, but recapitalizations have become increasingly popular the past few years, thanks in large part to the fast - growing private equity market.

Many teaching tools used in classrooms are granting private companies access to personal student data, including attendance rates, grades and disciplinary records.

During his 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney used his 25 - year experience in the private sector to position himself as a Washington outsider and noted that his time spent as CEO of Bain Capital helped him learn how America competes with companies in the international arena.

Many companies will benefit from using a virtual private network (VPN), which secures web traffic and provides an additional layer of protection against attacks.

Unlike the 1980s vintage, these shells are created by experienced management teams that hope to acquire a private company and take it public using a process called a reverse merger.

Small business owners who want to keep their personal cell number private without having to carry a separate company phone can use the forwarding technology to keep the two numbers distinct.

Whatever transpires in the shadows, warnings abound that the business model used by foreign private security companies is becoming strained.

To create the series, Toyota enlisted award - winning filmmakers to explore just how its Toyota Production System (TPS) is being used in both the private and non-profit sectors, at companies large and small.

Datapipe has been positioning itself as a one - stop shop for companies that use, or want to use, AWS and / or Microsoft Azure cloud services along with perhaps some private cloud or traditional in - house data centers.

The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.

That means that some workloads and some data will run on dedicated a.k.a «private» resources reserved for that company's use.

Private cloud refers to a similar flexible model used by one company.

The proposed legislation would apply to three different types of distributed ledger technology platforms: private networks for internal use within a company, private networks that are accessible to certain entities outside the company that deployed them, and public blockchains.

With more startups staying private longer, investors are looking for ways to add equity in private companies to their investment mix through the use of secondary transactions.