Sentences with phrase «several companies called»

To achieve these objectives, GAO conducted covert testing by calling 20 companies while posing as fictitious consumers; made overt, unannounced site visits to several companies called; interviewed industry stakeholders; and reviewed information on federal and state legal actions.

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Chief Executive Officer Bruce Broussard was asked several questions about news reports the company had discussed a deal with retailer Wal - Mart Inc during a 45 - minute conference call to discuss better - than - expected first - quarter earnings.

Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»

By 2005, the company — then called Quiet Solution — employed 30 people and had been profitable for several years.

The company has already started offering food, coffee, books, and even salon services at several of its newest stores, which the company now calls «lifestyle centers.»

The company is opening a research and development center called Didi Labs in Mountain View, Calif., one of several Silicon Valley hotspots for artificial intelligence and self - driving car technology startups.

Google also said that it released several new so - called application program interfaces that give companies the ability to more easily sync data from other companies» services like Salesforce (crm) into Google's own Slides presentation software.

A distributor's lifeline are so - called output deals, which give it regional rights to all of a production company's releases over several years.

The WSJ reports that many investors are growing concerned about Redstone's ability to remain in charge, noting that he is now entirely silent on the company's earnings calls and has suffered several mini-strokes.

Microsoft, like Google (goog), IBM (ibm), and other companies that are pushing hard into cloud computing, use different metrics when reporting what they consider to be their «cloud business,» which has led to several technology analysts to call for more transparency so they can be more equally evaluated.

Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said in an April earnings call that the company had been running «pretty much max gasoline,» a point echoed by several other CEOs that month.

Washington this month imposed sanctions on billionaire Oleg Deripaska and several companies in which he is a prominent shareholder, including Rusal, in response to what the United States called Russia's «malign activities.»

A May report by the Guardian detailed the tough work conditions at the company's Fremont, California, factory, revealing that hundreds of ambulances have been called over the past several years for injuries, fainting, and dizzy spells.

Known more for his humanitarian work outside music, Bono has invested in several emerging companies through an entity called Elevation Partners.

What was then called 24 Hour Nautilus grew quickly, and a decade later, the company bought out several of its rivals and rebranded as 24 Hour Fitness.

Several weeks ago I was introduced to a company called the Corcoran Group.

Eeyo, the maker of Adblock Plus, just announced a new ad - free mobile browser for Android users downloadable from the Android Play Store, while another Israeli company called Shine is currently testing mobile ad blocking for several unnamed mobile carriers in Europe.

Spotify's so - called direct listing, which valued the company at $ 30 billion at the opening trade, attracted so much interest because it bucked the traditional initial - public - offering process in several key ways.

Lightwave is one of several companies furiously at work creating a new field — let's call it the emotion economy — focused on sensing and analyzing consumers» mental states.

Washington last month imposed sanctions on Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and several companies in which he is a large shareholder, including En + Group Plc and aluminium giant United Company Rusal Plc, in response to what the United States called Russia's «malign activities.»

He launched a robotics company called Tech - No - Logic in Massachusetts in 2013 and, two years later, pulled in his first several - hundred - thousand - dollar investment.

Several tech companies, led by IBM, began to develop their own operating system, called OS / 2, to replace MS - DOS.

Called the Airbnb Community Compact, the document outlines several ways that the popular company plans to work with municipalities, including sharing anonymized data on the hosts and guests who use the service, preventing illegal hotel landlords from operating on the platform, and promising to pay its «fair share» of hotel and tourist taxes in cities that have them.

China Unicom worked with several foreign companies to devise an investment structure called «China - China - foreign» to get around the...

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

In 2015, several bitcoin companies announced they were stopping all business in the state leading to what the New York Business Journal called the «Great Bitcoin Exodus.»

Likewise, the so - called «Smartphone Patent Wars» have ballooned in recent years and today, several major companies spend more on patent litigation and defensive acquisition than on research and development.

ICON is operated by a company called theloop, which was formed in a joint venture between several Korean universities and the DAYLI Financial Group.

Through this Founder's Mentality 100 initiative, or what we call FM100, we believe that we will be helping companies over the next several years become the next generation of growth leaders globally, and thereby meeting Bain and Company's mission to help our clients redefine their industry.

When a small online education company called Plato Learning hung up a «for sale» sign, several suitors showed interest.

However, the company will move forward with several new projects and without key Googlers that built the so - called «moonshot factor.»

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

Several young Christian stars have struggled to reconcile Christ's call to self - denial with their record company's desire to put their names and faces on T - shirts and magazine covers.

Mommy is growing a business, Daddy dealt with turmoil at work that ultimately led to him having to leave the only company he ever worked for out of college and sent us to a new home in a new state through a several month long process that involved home improvement projects, shuttling you off to grandma's house, three hour drives back and forth, and a stress that Mommy has never experienced before because New Jersey was the only place I ever called home.

Mr Kennett holds about 7.65 per cent of the listed entity which has been through several derivations, including being a networking community in legal services, human resources and accounting from 2013, after transforming from its previous guise as a social media company called Jumbuck Entertainment.

So, in 1983 after baking for the previous several years company profile at Berkeley's Chez Panisse restaurant, Sullivan and his wife Susan answered that call for better bread Acme Bread Co..

Formerly called the National Biscuit Company, Nabisco was formed in the late 1800s by several bakeries that joined together to meet a growing demand.

• Shop around and get free estimates from several different companies • Make sure the company you choose is bonded in case they cause damage to your home • Ask to see a list of references or other people that you can call to see how well they performed their job • Check with the BBB or local watch dog group to make sure that they haven't had numerous complaints • Make sure they agree to give you a free estimate and that they warranty your work • Also, make sure the work order is negotiable.

A full - throated campaign has taken root at the University at Buffalo, calling on officials to divest endowment funds from fossil fuel companies, as several universities around the country already have done.

Anna Stankiewicz, owner of the New York - based spray tan company Suvara, specializes in house calls, and said she has been hired by several New York City politicians over the years — including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who she said was «cool about it.»

The exchange was one of several wiretapped calls played on the first full day of testimony at the trial in federal court in Manhattan of Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 33, both of Rockville Centre, on charges they conspired to extort companies to hire Adam and used Dean's legislative power to help him succeed.

The management of the company after several calls have refused to reinstate the 32 workers which it said breached its ethical rules.

Attorneys general from eight states (including New York) and the District of Columbia have written letters to several national retailers expressing concern about on - call scheduling, which allows companies to assign shifts to workers with only a few hours» notice.

Lobbyists from both sides called Council members Tuesday to assess their positions on the pending legislation, which would require routine reporting of addresses and other information tied to online listings for short - term rental companies, according to several sources familiar with the calls.

Sakat Consulting is moving from New Jersey to Cobleskill, according to founder Bay Hajrulla, who is involved in several different businesses and software companies in marketing, transportation and call center operations.

Technology lobbyists and several executives from a company called nfrastructure, which builds information technology networks, mingled.

Tesla is one company of several in this game: it recently announced a device called the Powerwall, designed for homes and businesses.

The company has performed several so - called landmark studies.

I've seen thousands of resumes, taken even more phone calls, and conducted hundreds of interviews, and I have been accountable for hiring 1000 - plus new scientists for several major companies.

RRAM technology (sometimes called ReRAM) is in a relatively early stage of development but has managed to garner attention from HP, Sharp, Samsung and several other companies that have received RRAM - related patents in the past decade.