Sentences with phrase «several companies tried»

When interactive books first emerged, several companies tried to stick the label «interactive» onto anything they published.

You Earned It is one of several companies trying to change how companies recognize staff achievement.

The career zone was introduced in GIC 2016 and then repeated in 2017 (under the new name of Geek Careers), with several companies trying to attract employees for their Polish and international offices.

With the SimCity fiasco and several companies trying to find new ways to combat piracy and stating piracy has negatively affected their bottom line I wonder if they've taken the time to accurately try to determine what their losses are due to piracy.

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Jonathan Friedland, chief communications officer for Netflix, tried to clarify this in several tweets on Wednesday night, saying the company isn't considering getting into the news business per se, and wants to «leave that to the professionals.»

Last year, I tried several pieces from Olivers and liked it better than clothing from big - name sportswear companies.

The company partnered with EY, Microsoft, Willis Towers Watson, and several insurance companies to try securely sharing shipping data on a blockchain.

Several young companies with roots in Silicon Valley are trying to elbow their way into a business long dominated by national governments and aeronautics giants like Boeing.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

• I spoke with an investor who passed on the company several times, and he said, «Every time you try to press down on a number, it evaporates.»

If so, you may be doing something wrong, according to Victor Green, author of How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying, and a serial entrepreneur who's launched several successful companies and spent the past 15 years consulting with other entrepreneurs.

I spot winners by looking for somebody who went out and tried a business by him - or herself and maybe failed several times, but still has that determination, that love and that passion for the company.

If you hire the wrong people, you'll spend the next several years trying to move them out of your company.

CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — who co-founded the DreamWorks movie studio with Steven Spielberg and then spun the animation unit off as a separate company in 2004 — has tried to sell the company several times.

The ride - hailing company is trying to find a replacement for Kalanick who resigned in June after several major shareholders demanded a change in leadership.

Since then, the company has been trying to limit access of several parties to its user data.

The article discussed several Chinese companies that are trying to shore up their stock prices by ensuring employees against losses if they buy stock in the company.

WASHINGTON — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, tried to get ahead of a week of intense scrutiny for him and his company by visiting several top lawmakers in Washington on Monday and reiterating how sorry he was for the social network's failings.

It has been suspended for several years as the companies involved try to sort out a way to make it economical.

Several companies have recently tried to head off criticism by taking actions to address rising prices.

When pushed on specific changes the company would be making, Alston eluded to «a lot of things that we're trying to really push», adding that the Cambridge Analytica debacle could be spun as an opportunity for «to push forward on several things like ad transparency and user control».

As for the others, several are the worst companies for which to work; many treat their customers horribly and / or try to rip them off wherever possible.

Pharmaceutical companies are anxious to tap into this market, and several pharmaceutical companies are currently trying to develop an Alzheimer's vaccine.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

Several cloth diaper companies make their own diaper soaps, plus there are some cloth - diaper - specific soaps, such as Rockin Green, if you want to try something that is made for your dipes.

Shortly after that, Playtex and several other large international companies tried unsuccessfully to buy out Paddi from Robinsons.

If your company doesn't offer paid maternity leave, and you can't afford to take unpaid leave try to work out a flexible schedule where you might be able to work from home several days per week for the first six weeks after your baby's birth, or possibly ask to work part time for a period of time.

Schneiderman said his office has received several complaints from landowners who say gas companies are trying to extend leases during the ongoing environmental review process from the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Throughout the nearly three - week trial, jurors listened to roughly a dozen witnesses and dozens of wiretapped phone conversations and viewed several hundred email exchanges, all while trying to keep track of the dates, the alleged victims, and the companies they represented.

There is currently no treatment or vaccine, though several companies have announced plans to try to develop one.

He tried several different formulations and took them to companies he knew could make them up for him.

Although he tries to confine his research to basic science, he holds many patents and has spun off companies, including several working on soft lithography, a method for building nanostuff.

This method is slow and laborious, and several companies are trying to develop more efficient methods in which the virus is harvested from animal cell lines.

After trying several different Matcha tea brands, I can honestly say that The Brilliant Green Company is the best.

I've read several posts on different rollers and bloggers reviews on their favorites and scrolled through pages of facial rollers by different companies before finding the one I wanted to try out.

Match.com has several features other companies have tried to copy.

When my brother wrote the company (markus) i do believe and said he wanted them to be aware that he has had several woman pretend to be someone and then these woman try to get money from him.

He has also been featured in Paste Magazine and is a copywriter for several other companies, all the while trying to escape the restaurant industry.

What we're presented here are several miserable people who try to find happiness in the company of other miserable people; it's not hard to figure out why they can't find any.

Over the past several years, I've delighted in telling Jeannine how ugly her company's cars were, then watching her squirm as she tried to defend the indefensible.

There are several companies that can help you make these types of book — try searching for «fixed - layout eBook» help on Google.

There are several ways the strategic role of software plays out in the book publishing industry but the first one that comes to mind ties in with a point made by Joel Spolsky in an old blog post, «smart companies try to commoditize their products» complements»:

While several companies that produce engaging and award - winning content for iOS are content to stay with the iPhone and iPad platforms due to consistency in screen size and formatting, Hedgecock is looking forward to trying out the Pocket God comic series on Android devices as early as this summer.

Companies have been trying to solve the built in book advertising solution for a number of years and even Amazon has filed several patents on technology that they are trying to develop.

I tried several of the recommended audio production companies and found several more that could do the job but in the end they were all too expensive and required too much out of pocket to make it worth my time.

Several times, he mentioned that he just didn't feel right signing away e-book rights to a company that he believes is trying to delay the ascendence of e-books as long as possible, by fighting instead of embracing them.

Several companies have been trying to offer all you can eat comcis buffets, but a lack of top content has been holding them back.

Whether it was quarterly or annual earnings reports that made the stock price go up or down, it was bait of a roller coaster trying to follow several companies at once and buy when I thought they were low.

The CFPB has highlighted several warning signs that a student loan debt relief company may be trying to take advantage of you:

Several years ago the company tried to expand its operations into the U.S. but the effort ended in ignoble failure and a hasty retreat.