Sentences with phrase «run by large companies»

Some are run by large companies while others are small businesses or sole proprietorships.

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I saw the picture and spat it all on screen,» wrote one user on Baidu Tieba, the large Chinese online community run by search engine company Baidu.

A poll conducted earlier this year by Abacus Data found respondents identified the Conservative as the party leader who was best suited to running a large company.

In the UK, 1 in 10 large companies are run by families.

The San Francisco based startup is one of the largest companies known as peer - to - peer lenders and runs a website where consumers can apply for loans that are either funded by individual investors or by institutions such as banks.

Dell Technologies, run by Dell founder and PC pioneer Michael Dell, is the result of the $ 67 billion merger between the two companies in 2015, which created the largest privately held technology company in the world.

Only eight percent of Canada's 100 largest companies are run by women, according to talent management firm Rosenzweig & Company.

Perhaps more than any other industry, media companies have long been run by «moguls,» executives whose personality and fame was often larger than the size of the companies they run.

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

Modern corporations are typically characterized by a «separation of ownership and control» — that is, companies are generally run by professional managers, who manage on behalf of a very large number of mostly - anonymous shareholders.

It's a long running debate: is Apple's device - first, cloud - second approach to artificial intelligence a brilliant and differentiating maneuver or simply a weak attempt to keep up constrained by the company's larger business aims that prioritize hardware over software and services?

The combined company, which is touting an ability to create a large - scale 5G network and thousands of U.S. jobs, will take the T - Mobile name and will be run by T - Mobile CEO John Legere.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The largest companies were state - owned enterprises with a reputation for being run by thugs, er, I mean Putin's buddies.

In particular, the company noted only 8 percent of its patients reported no - shows with Uber, compared to 25 - 50 percent of no - shows in the industry at large, traditionally run by taxis and livery services.

U.S. private - equity firm TPG said on Oct. 13 it had sold its stake in Myanmar Distillery, the country's largest spirits company, to Thai Beverage, the beer and spirits firm run by Thai magnate Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi.

The site is run by the same company that runs the world's largest binary options trading site, Anyoption.

As a result, many creators have no access to large crowdfunding platforms, limiting their fundraising opportunities, and narrowing the reach and diversity of the platforms.Crowdfunding is now dominated by astroturfing campaigns run by large, well - funded companies, rather than indie developers.

HSUS undercover investigators have exposed the suffering of hens in battery cages on factory farms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale Farms.

Targeted at companies dissatisfied with the long lead - time and large print - run constraints dictated by current label delivery methods, VIPColor is dedicated to creating a new level of labeling value around packaging and identification activities.

By purchasing our chickens people are directly supporting the farmers who raise them, rather than a large company that runs vertically integrated farming systems producing cheap food.

B. By purchasing our chickens people are directly supporting the farmers who raise them, rather than a large company that runs factory farms producing cheap food.

Today, the global premium spirits company is run by the fifth generation of his family and distils some of the world's leading brands of Scotch whisky, including the world's most awarded single malt Glenfiddich ®, The Balvenie ® range of handcrafted single malts and the world's third largest blended Scotch, Grant's ®, as well as other iconic spirits brands such as Hendrick's ® Gin, Sailor Jerry ®, Tullamore D.E.W. ® Irish Whiskey, Monkey Shoulder ® triple malt whisky and Drambuie ®.

They also found that Glenn Design Construction, a company run by the nephew of the project construction manager's, «was hired as the only bidder on a large part of the contract.»

A 2014 report from the New York Daily News found that companies run by Cuomo's largest donors got $ 15.2 million in grants from the state.

The project — meant to launch in April but pushed back by renovation delays — looks set to start just ahead of a larger, newly built advanced coal plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, run by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

The plan is to predict very early which drugs are likely to succeed and which are not, and promote the winners rapidly to larger (phase III) trials, which most likely would be run by private companies, without data sharing.

In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

ChinaLoveCupid, also known as Chinese Love Links is the largest English language dating site in China, run by the Cupid dating network, the company behind ThaiCupid.com among others.

Our # 1 - ranked major two years ago only to drop into the mid-sized group the following year, Sega returned to the majors this year with a larger slate of releases (even without including games published by the recently acquired Atlus, which continues to be run as a separate company).

Students in schools run by the largest management company, Edison Schools, have, on average, posted meaningful achievement gains in every year those schools have been open.

Summerfield Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford County.

Michigan, where state pension policies create a strong incentive for EMO - or CMO - run schools, had by far the largest number of school management organization - operated schools, with nearly 90 percent of its charter schools operated by a management company.

Pitbull's school will be run by non-profit Mater Academy, which has several Miami - area charter schools, and Academica, a large national charter school management company.

The technical platform of the BnH is run by Numilog, a company specialized in the distribution of digital books, which also runs the largest French - speaking online bookstore.

Dhahran is the largest of four communities run by the Saudi oil company Aramco.

Most of the higher end apartments that are available are run by large property management companies.

Government is Paterson's single largest employer, followed by healthcare and the textile industry that still exists in Paterson, but there are many private companies and smaller industries that keep the city running and contribute to its low unemployment rate.

The first and perhaps most interesting candidate is Loews (NYSE: L, $ 31.39), a large holding company run by the Tisch family.

Like with all funds, what you own when you own shares in an open - end fund is a proportionate share of a large portfolio of assets run by a management company.

For example, a portfolio of large companies bought at the end of each year where their median P / E was below that of the market would have earned average annual returns 10.2 percent above S&P 500 returns over the following five - year period (helped by the late 90's run - up in large companies).

Veteran manager Keith Lee and his team run the $ 3 billion large - cap growth fund by selecting high - quality companies with strong growth prospects, while also limiting risk.

As Longleaf's largest investor group, we want our capital in competitively advantaged companies run by competent managements that sell at materially discounted prices.

We believe our Pet Detective program is the largest of its kind run by any CPG company in the United States.

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Our # 1 - ranked major two years ago only to drop into the mid-sized group the following year, Sega returned to the majors this year with a larger slate of releases (even without including games published by the recently acquired Atlus, which continues to be run as a separate company).

As a real world example, the capacity factors at the Queanbeyan Solar Farm (an industrial installation run by Country Energy, one of Australia's largest electricity distribution companies) average 13 % all year round, 9 % for 3 months of winter, and down to less than 1 % on some days: http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/08/16/solar-power-realities-supply-demand-storage-and-costs/

Acuña is an indigenous farmer from the Cajamarca highlands of Peru, near one of the largest open - pit copper and gold mines in the world, run by Peru's Buenaventura and Colorado - based Newmont mining companies.

Though the company behind Silken Park is a well - known large scale developer, Durkan Residential is family run — by brothers Patrick and Barry Durkan.

Used to receive funding from ExxonMobil, still recieve grants from tobacco companies and are also a major recipient of grants from the foundations run by Koch Industries Inc. (the largest private energy company in the United States).