Sentences with phrase «relatively few companies»

However, relatively few companies regulate use of personal devices, which can lead to huge risks on the security of their data and networks.

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That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

By comparison, this relatively low level of involvement in strategy can be found in fewer than 40 % of European companies and slightly more than 30 % of Asia - Pacific companies.

There's been relatively few promising robotics companies until now, he said, «but people are becoming more commercially disciplined — they're taking it seriously now as a business rather than as a science project.»

The company's super user - friendly website helps immigrants complete marriage - based green card (aka spousal visa) applications in relatively few simple steps.

Until a few years ago, the company had kept a relatively low profile.

It's been a strange year for venture capitalists, whose portfolios are stocked with billion - dollar companies but relatively few IPOs or blockbuster sales.

The company has also garnered relatively few official complaints, receiving a complaint rating of 0.64 from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, compared to the national median of 1.00.

But among companies that did any testing on public roads, Tesla reported the lowest number of miles — 550, or more than 99 percent fewer than Waymo reported — and a relatively high number of disengagements, 182.

That money has searched for outlets as companies, already well financed, issue relatively few new credits.

The capital will be used to back breakaway companies coming out of its incubators, as well as to co-invest in deals that were not seeded by Science, and it comes on the heels of a few other vehicles that Science has raised over its relatively short history.

Management Leadership Challenge Nearly two out of three chief financial officers worldwide aspire to become chief executives of their company, but relatively few succeed in occupying the corner office.

Although ponying up that kind of cash is a lot to ask, the company has solid finances and relatively few complaints from policyholders.

Approximately what size group of wandering Israelites, then, are we justified in visualizing» In these pages we have throughout assumed a relatively small company - a few thousand.

Forty years ago, The Nutrition Group began as a relatively small company that provided meals for summer camps, senior congregate dining programs and a few school districts in Pennsylvania.

Plant - based protein powders are currently a relatively niche product, meaning that fewer companies produce them (although demand is definitely growing — hence this post!).

Wow, I hadn't noticed the Coconut Water Sorbet before — haven't seen it in the relatively few stores we have but I bet I could ask the companies to order some.

Only in a relatively few select cultures (Western, industrialized societies) have infants ever slept outside the company and presence of their breastfeeding mothers.

There are relatively few such folks who haven't already gone off to pharmaceutical companies, where the grass is greener.

«However, because palm oil companies have chosen initially to certify well - established plantations containing relatively few remaining forests, certification currently benefits less than 1 percent of the forests remaining in Indonesian oil palm plantations.»

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

Rockstar Games revealed Red Dead Redemption just a few weeks ago, but since its reveal, the company has been relatively quiet regarding the highly - anticipated game.

A few private - equity funds determined Barnes & Noble is relatively unproven in digital sales and would have to compete in that area with companies such as Apple Inc., Amazon.com and Google Inc..

Relatively few people live to be 95, but the opportunity to stop making payments and continue to have coverage isn't common among whole life insurance companies.

If you own a fund of 500 companies and a few of them have lawsuits, crises, or bankruptcies, the net impact on your overall fund value is relatively small.

Use of stock funds, vs. individual stocks, is an easy and low - cost way to guard against catastrophic events that regularly impact individual companies and avoids trying to pick out the relatively few winners in a market composed mostly of losers.

Often a manager of a popular actively managed fund will be forced to buy more stock in a relatively few favorite companies, sometimes driving up the cost of acquiring that stock.

The Canadian small - cap market has relatively few names and is dominated by energy and mining companies, which can be highly speculative.

Since Sallie Mae Bank is a relative newcomer to Internet banking, the company has relatively few customer reviews online.

For example, if you want to invest a certain portion of your portfolio in stocks because of their relatively high rate of return, should you invest in the individual stocks of a few select companies, individual stocks from many different companies, or in funds that track the performance of large swaths of companies in the stock market?

Since sales are so consistent and opportunities for growth are relatively fewer, these companies can afford to pay out more cash as dividends.

For this article, editors sought out actively managed funds with relatively concentrated portfolios — typically 50 companies or fewer — and a solid long - term performance track record.

However, many of these companies are acting only as agents for the relatively few specialist trekking companies that actually operate the trek of the Inca Trail to, Read More

It isn't innovative in a traditional sense, but it smacks companies like Ubisoft in the face and screams at them that massive world can be packed with worthwhile stories rather than filler content, that huge games can be launched with relatively few problems, that dark and mature doesn't just mean bloody and shocking, that the audience deserve smart writing and that consumers can be treated with respect instead of ramming pre-order bonuses and other crap down their throat.

For the past few years Square Enix has had a relatively muted presence at E3, with 2015 being the last time the company went all out with its own stage show, revealing the likes of NieR Automata and Hitman while highlighting bombshells like Final Fantasy VII Remake.

In 2012 we were a company of fewer than 100 people, developing just two games — Superbike and WRC — with a relatively low technology level and a distribution focalized on Europe.

Though Nintendo has been relatively secretive regarding details on the Nintendo Switch recently, there have been a few hiccups in the company's endeavors to keep things...

With the pressures of work and the demands of a growing family, he had created relatively few paintings during his eight years at the company.

The fact that I have already established significant scientific credentials of the traditional variety, and have a tenured university position, and am within a few years of being able to afford to retire, gives me a relatively secure personal position (I also have a private sector company that provides additional income, but it is definitely not equivalent to my university income at this point).

His portfolio of alternative strategies take the form of «planet levers,» relatively «focused efforts, targeted the right way» that «can translate into big outcomes» and that rely on a «handful of nimble actors — including a few key nations, states, cities and companies — to get started.»

The report claims that Walmart's renewable energy projects are «far too small relative to the huge scale of Walmart's operations» and that the company's clean energy deployment is only in «relatively few» states, with about three - fourths of its solar installations in just two states (and more than half are just in California), and none at all in «large swaths of the country, including including many of the most coal - intensive states — the states that would benefit most from clean power.»

The question of colour trade - marks is still relatively new in Canada, but will likely gain more prominence in the next few years, as more companies seek to protect distinctive colours which form part of marketing efforts.

Exterro Legal Hold Foundation is designed specifically for companies with relatively few cases per year.

And if you look at the registration list for this upcoming meeting, you'll see relatively few large departments represented amongst the many hundreds of companies that CLOC attendees represent.

Relatively few people live to be 95, but the opportunity to stop making payments and continue to have coverage isn't common among whole life insurance companies.

You can go to essentially any insurance company and buy an LTD plan, but there are relatively few options for buying a private short - term plan.

Consequently, in a group of one thousand 25 - year - old males with a $ 100,000 policy, all of average health, a life insurance company would have to collect approximately $ 50 a year from each participant to cover the relatively few expected claims.

Safe drivers who log relatively few miles can save as much as 50 % on car insurance, the company says.

There are a few companies today that offer a 6 month reprieve if one becomes unemployed, but that is a relatively new option and only a handful of carriers have it.

The company has also garnered relatively few official complaints, receiving a complaint rating of 0.64 from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, compared to the national median of 1.00.