Sentences with phrase «richest companies in»

Facebook is one of the richest companies in the world, and over two billion people use it.

Google is one of the richest companies in the world.

What this means is that, one day, most people's connections to the internet will be mediated by some of the richest companies in the world, namely telecoms (or telecommunications companies, to give them their full titles).

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Rich 100 rank: # 79 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 9 Major company holdings: IMP Group International Location: Halifax Age: 84

Rich 100 rank: # 29 Change in rank from 2017: No change Major company holdings: Onex, Indigo Books & Music Location: Toronto Age: 76 and 69

Rich 100 rank: # 20 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 4 Major company holdings: Portland Holdings, National Commercial Bank (in Jamaica).

Rich 100 rank: # 43 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 6 Major company holdings: Atco, Canadian Utilities Location: Calgary

Rich 100 rank: # 78 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 11 Major company holdings: Kilmer Van Nostrand, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Location: Toronto Age: 72

Rich 100 rank: # 27 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 6 Major company holdings: Aquilini Investment Group Location: Vancouver

The Nanaimo, B.C., digital marketing company that landed the richest deal ever on Dragons» Den — then rejected it in favour of a better offer — has made an acquisition that its founder says gives it «the complete package» to take on its super-sized American rival.

Laingen started the network in 2004, while working for Minnesota Wire, a small manufacturing company that realized that high - tech entrepreneurs needed some way to band together and tap into the rich vein of military spending.

The billionaire still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria, and though he's the richest person in the fashion industry, he sticks to a simple uniform of a white shirt and blue blazer.

The second - richest person in China, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma reportedly started China's first internet company in 1988: China Yellowpages.

Change from 2016: ▼ 3.3 % Rich 100 rank: # 94 Change in rank from 2016: ▼ 3 Major company holdings: Ledcor Group Location: Calgary Age: 61 and 69

Rich 100 rank: # 10 Change in rank from 2017: No change Major company holdings: Jim Pattison Group Location: Vancouver Age: 88

Rich 100 rank: # 6 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Uber, Stumbleupon Location: San Francisco Age: 39

Rich 100 rank: # 92 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 13 Major company holdings: Acerus Pharmaceuticals, Ottawa Senators Location: Barbados Age: 58

Change from 2016: ▲ 4.1 % Rich 100 rank: # 84 Change in rank from 2016: ▼ 2 Major company holdings: Inwest Investments, DRI Capital Location: Vancouver Age: 76

Rich 100 rank: # 76 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 13 Major company holdings: Birchcliff Energy, Barrick Gold Location: Toronto Age: 77

Rich 100 rank: # 60 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 32 Major company holdings: Brookfield Asset Management Location: Toronto Age: 52

Rich 100 rank: # 100 Change in rank from 2016: ▲ RETURNING Major company holdings: McEwen Mining Location: Toronto Age: 67

Rich 100 rank: # 21 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Northland Properties Location: Vancouver Age: 76

Rich 100 rank: # 19 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Katz Group, Edmonton Oilers Location: Edmonton Age: 56

Rich 100 rank: # 66 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Samuel, Son & Co., Samuel Manu - Tech Location: Toronto

Change from 2016: ▼ 5.8 % Rich 100 rank: # 91 Change in rank from 2016: ▼ 7 Major company holdings: Teva Pharmaceutical industries, Viventia Bio Location: Toronto Age: 85

This has created an ecosystem in which two of the world's richest and fastest - growing companies are bidding against one another for hot investments.

Rich 100 rank: # 47 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 8 Major company holdings: Slack technologies Location: California Age: 43

Rich 100 rank: # 54 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 4 Major company holdings: Iberville Developments Location: Montreal Age: 97

Our 19th annual guide to the richest people in Canada — how much they're worth, how they made their fortunes, and the companies that got them there

Rich 100 rank: # 11 Change in rank from 2017: No change Major company holdings: Ebay, Participant Media Location: Palo Alto, Calif..

Jack Ma's fairytale journey from schoolteacher to China's richest man was the signature entrepreneurial storyline of 2014, an arc that culminated in his e-commerce company Alibaba completing the splashiest IPO in Wall Street history.

Rich 100 rank: # 18 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 2 Major company holdings: Alimentation Couche - Tard Location: Laval, Que.

Today, a company's value proposition must be continually tuned and re-tuned in order to match solutions being sought by empowered and information - rich consumers and businesses alike.

More than 1,000 people responded; the company took that feedback and used it to build a product called Priming Moisturizer Rich, which it released in January.

He chalks up the service's success with a broad spectrum of age groups to its ease of use and suggests that by keeping the less tech - oriented user firmly in mind, his company has tapped into a rich vein of customer need and appreciation.

These companies aren't household names and they seldom get much love in the media, but being boring can be a great way to get rich

Berg wrote that while his team understands Salesforce's interest in MuleSoft's technology, he believes «the purchase price to be too rich,» and questions what Salesforce — which exclusively sells cloud - based products — will do with MuleSoft's on - premise license offering, which makes up a substantial portion of the company's revenue.

Saudi Arabia's oil - rich monarchy is one of America's most important strategic partners in the Middle East and a significant patron of U.S. defense companies.

Rich 100 rank: # 88 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 18 Major company holdings: Clearwater Seafoods, Columbus Communications Location: Chester, N.S. Age: 69

The Silicon Valley worker benefits and perks — the free, fresh produce and transcendental meditation pods — have become symbols of the riches created in the tech sector and how good it has been to workers, but the hype belies the truth that many of the employees operating within big tech companies are working on second - class contract terms.

Change from 2016: ▲ 1.8 % Rich 100 rank: # 93 Change in rank from 2016: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Quantum Valley Investments, Blackberry Location: Waterloo, Ont.

Rich 100 rank: # 4 Change in rank from 2017: No change Major company holdings: Rogers Communications Location: Toronto

«If they are successful, they could drain the full value of the company — that's easily in the millions,» said Rich Mason, president and chief security officer of cybersecurity consulting firm Critical Infrastructure.

Rich 100 rank: # 56 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 13 Major company holdings: Melco International Development Location: Hong Kong Age: 41

Rich 100 rank: # 24 Change in rank from 2017: ▲ 21 Major company holdings: Atlas Tube Location: Windsor, Ont.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

The company's properties in the Bakken oilfields in North Dakota and the gas - rich Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania have proven much more bountiful than first thought, a windfall Dundas attributes to the company's skills upgrade.

Rich 100 rank: # 8 Change in rank from 2017: ▼ 1 Major company holdings: Irving Oil, J.D. Irving Location: Saint John, N.B.

However, it's also not a great look for a company whose soaring earnings just made CEO Jeff Bezos $ 12 billion richer in one day.

In Cincinnati, «these big corporate strategic companies [are] baked into the startup space,» says Rich Mitchell, director of strategic growth markets for Ernst & Young.