Sentences with phrase «small force in»

Kobo is the only likely candidate at this point, and while they're growing, they are still a relatively small force in the ePub market.

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My mentor in the program was CEO of a credit union who forced me to NOT think small & mom / pop regarding services.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

In the case of business customers, a small business's sales force can often collect trade references and financial statements from potential customers.

Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

In today's global economy, small businesses are forced to compete with huge companies from all around the world.

Over in the UK, many small businesses are undoubtedly thinking hard about the viability of employing extra staff before legislation that forces employment contributions to pensions comes into force.

The small business owner who clearly communicates personal expectations and company goals, provides adequate compensation, offers meaningful opportunities for career advancement, anticipates work force training and developmental needs, and provides meaningful feedback to his or her employees is far more likely to be successful than the owner who is neglectful in any of these areas.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

That means shoppers are forced to accept change in the form of chewing gum, cigarettes, and other small items.

Small - business owners, with their strong voting records and firm intentions of hitting the polls in November, represent an untapped but potentially game - changing force in this presidential race, particularly if overall voter turnout comes in low.

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

In many cases, hackers simply take a tried - and - true method, such as Sality malware (which brute - forces networks to create easy - to - guess passwords), and make small tweaks to improve it for the modern world.

Tack said that the tank army would partake in the exercises, but it would only be a small contingent of the corps - sized force.

Meanwhile, Haley adds, the U.S. air force is now voicing a need for long - range bombers aimed at «small wars in the region.»

In an era of small businesses and startups, however, benefits packages are considered extras, with workers sometimes forced to choose between higher pay and costly health insurance premiums or lower pay for the ability to provide great medical insurance for their families.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

To move that product, the company has put in place a sales force, which has already been supplying some garments to the retail sector in Australia (where they ship to Kmart) and a small sporting goods chain in the United States.

Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch said in a note Thursday that Aereo appears to be attempting to force the case back to the high court so it can find a way of paying some smaller fees for content.

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra has said the company's small - car production will remain in Mexico, but it could only be a matter of time before she's forced to change course.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

But the number of entrepreneurs who want to use commerce in ways great or small as a force not just for profit but also for good is growing.

The problem is, the technology won't take off if consumers are forced to pay extra for it, so which of the existing parties is willing to take a smaller cut of the action in order to let newcomers in?

Contreras - Sweet, who served as head of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama, first made an offer for the studio in November, after a sex - harassment scandal forced co-founder Harvey Weinstein from the company.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

The USAF EC - 130H overall force is quite small, consisting of only 14 aircraft, based at Davis - Monthan AFB (DMAFB), in Tucson, Arizona and belonging to the 55th Electronic Combat Group (ECG) and its two squadrons: the 41st and 43rd Electronic Combat Squadrons (ECS).

«Either it is a sign that Sarbanes - Oxley created a burden on entrepreneurship, inefficiently forcing companies out of the public markets, or alternatively it provided some protection to investors by inducing smaller firms that should never have been public to begin with to abandon that status,» Eric Talley, the report's co-author, said in a statement.

But instead of sitting here wallowing in envy of this super-heavyweight marketing marriage, let's look at what Disney is doing to promote the upcoming and eagerly awaited installment in the Star Wars series, «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» and outline five lessons we can use in our small business marketing campaigns.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this yeaIn Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this yeain comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

We are setting up a task force in every federal agency to identify and remove any regulation that undermines American auto production and any other kind of production, including the production of high - end, low - end, big, small, every form of automobile and truck.

Women are a significant force in small and medium businesses but they need to think bigger if they're going to take on the big end of town.

This raises the initial cost of a mortgage — a potential problem for borrowers whose smaller down payments are forcing them to take on mortgage insurance in the first place.

During the past thirty years especially, reserve accumulation and private capital flows have overwhelmed trade flows, to the extent that small changes in gross capital flows have often forced large changes in trade and current flows.

Several consulting companies said H - 1B workers were only a small part of their work force in the United States.

I'm thinking a Smaller Fiscal Deficit will force dollar holders to invest in dollar based businesses.

Those better rates, Stoller said, could allow Amazon to force smaller retailers to use their Amazon fulfillment services — and if retailers don't, then Amazon can discriminate against those retailers in the marketplace, crushing the competition.

The proposed $ 4 billion merger of HCF and HBF will create a third force in private health insurance and could spur smaller players to join t...

But the steep tumble from $ 100 - per - barrel oil has helped cut short the age of big, multi-year mine developments, forcing companies to shelve other large projects; analysts expect smaller, more modular expansion projects from here on in.

Given the terrible plunge in Help Wanted advertising and the likelihood of smaller movement out of the labor force, my expectation is that the unemployment rate will jump from the current 4.5 % to somewhere between 4.8 % and 5 %.

«Small business is a major force in the U.S. economy, and business regulations and taxes are always a hot issue during elections — it's no surprise with nearly 28 million small business in this country,» said SwancSmall business is a major force in the U.S. economy, and business regulations and taxes are always a hot issue during elections — it's no surprise with nearly 28 million small business in this country,» said Swancsmall business in this country,» said Swanciger.

The size premium has been out in full force as small and mid cap stocks have outpaced their larger counterparts in the U.S. stock market over the past decade.

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

Some may be able to purchase with a smaller down payment, but many will be forced to delay or forsake homeownership, widening the inequality gap in our society.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor forceforce.

Small Partnerships — Partnerships are an excellent way to invest in real estate, where two parties (or more) join forces and bring their talents, resources, and experience to the table to make a profitable investment.

I have witnessed trades for many stocks where you can clearly see the manipulative efforts of small block sell orders coming through, that appear to be intentionally forcing share price down... Much of this activity runs through the houses of Canada's biggest banks, and it almost always forces the price of stocks down to a point where liquidity and buy orders have completely dried up and there is no more stock floating around in the system to short.

Owners of multiple flexible workspace locations may be eligible for the Small Business Health Care Employer Mandate, which comes into force in January 2015.