Sentences with phrase «such companies even»

He said he is open to such companies even if they use cryptocurrency to finance their investment.

After Tale of Tales» recent declaration that they are leaving the industry, gamers» reactions have ranged from dismay that another indie game company has failed to outrage that such a company even attempted to exist.

Not exact matches

«We welcome competing with anyone, even an international giant such as the Verizon organization,» said Josh Blair, the company's chief corporate officer.

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

That section laid out that a change in accounting rules now required Alphabet to include the change in value of any shares it owned in private companies, such as Uber, in its profits even if just held onto to its stake and didn't buy or sell any more shares.

The company also required that buyers live in a city that had a Tesla service center — even though, as of mid-2014, only Beijing and Shanghai had such centers.

Komisar pointed out that even in the last, um, down cycle, valuable companies such as Google and Amazon emerged.

Yet mighty Boeing still took issue with the Canadian company's sale of 75 of its 110 - seat, C - Series planes to Delta Airlines, even though Boeing doesn't build such a plane.

The company's other media offerings even diverged from the magazine's adult content; it produced movies such as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, and The Naked Ape, based on the classic sociobiology book of the same name.

Even in the weeks before the Fed's move, highly valued private companies faced other pressures as prominent mutual fund companies, such as Fidelity Investments, bid down the value of their holdings, potentially over concerns that they had become too bloated.

That's easy when the company is itself making the ad, but it even has a method in place to recognize such instances on the fly:

«Most every company gathers competitive intelligence, even though they may not define it as such.

Even in the face of these exclusionary agreements that have unreasonably restrained competition, some companies, such as TreeHouse, have fought hard to win market share away from Green Mountain on the merits by offering innovative, quality products at substantially lower prices.

Then, the company can give you data such as average and range of ages and income, how large the families are, what kind of home they live in, what hobbies they have and maybe even where they make charitable donations.

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

Companies such as HP and IBM have never changed their vision statements, even though their business models have gone through a number of evolutions.

Others are subject to contractual impediments such as union work rules — or company policies regarding long - term or even lifelong employment.

Even before the acquisition, Altman operated and still operates as an active investor, including his early stake in large testing company Optimizely, and has personally taken part in investments in huge companies such as Asana, Patreon and Change.org.

Even oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips were among the companies that expressed support for the accord ahead of Trump's announcement.

The former Vice President of Growth for Mobile & International at Facebook, Palihapitiya was an angel investor even before leaving, with money in companies such as Palantir and the Disney - acquired Playdom.

Limited capital or the lack of the right staffperson might prompt even the most forward - thinking companies to avoid innovations or postpone such a move until they reach a certain revenue or profit goal.

Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.

* But there is also a valid policy argument that companies that own both cable channels and cable wires have excessive power over pricing, and that blocking such a merger is a good use of anti-trust power — even if it's an argument you'd usually hear from the left side of the aisle.

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

Canadians aren't alone in this regard: In the U.S., companies such as Motorola and Charles Schwab have experimented with forced holidays, and even the government of Japan — a country with a word, karoshi, to describe sudden death caused by occupational exhaustion — is mulling mandatory time off.

Even recent Nintendo bestsellers such as «Super Mario Odyssey» and «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» have been lauded for being examples of the company's willingness to take risks with even its most important franchiEven recent Nintendo bestsellers such as «Super Mario Odyssey» and «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» have been lauded for being examples of the company's willingness to take risks with even its most important franchieven its most important franchises.

Shareholder returns at family - controlled corporations significantly outperform those of widely held public companies, even though family - controlled boards tend to break governance rules, such as having a certain number of independent directors.

While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman's proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients.

After all, with trade being such a key element of economic growth, businesses generally could feel the sting if tariffs spike, even companies that don't rely on international sourcing and manufacturing.

Even the late Margaret Thatcher, who championed the sale of state - owned companies such as British Telecom and British Gas, backed away from privatizing Royal Mail during her tenure as prime minister back in the 1980s.

Even when RIM's products dominated the smartphone market, the company ranked relatively low in so - called enterprise factors, such as corporate citizenship.

More recently, however, that freedom has run headlong into Reddit's desire to be a business — a desire that took on even more urgency after the company raised a $ 50 - million financing round from VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz, who were no doubt attracted by the site's 170 million or so unique visitors a month.

Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison said that Trump has also talked with advisors often about his ability to drive high traffic numbers for networks such as Fox News and CNN, and feels that he could do the same thing for his own media company even if he is unsuccessful in his presidential bid.

«Instagram represents a new kind of stylish startup on the Web — one whose skyrocketing popularity, thanks to the prominence of outlets like Apple's App Store, largely precedes its evolution into a traditional company with such accoutrements as financing, office space — or even a permanent Web address,» noted BusinessWeek shortly after the financing was announced in February.

«Nowadays,» say the two experts, «valuations are much more sober: the average NASDAQ - listed company today trades at around 21x PE, and even high - flying companies such as Apple, the most valuable company ever, trades at only 15x PE.»

NEW YORK — An audit of Facebook's privacy practices for the Federal Trade Commission found no problems even though the company knew at the time that a data - mining firm improperly obtained private data from millions of users — raising questions about the usefulness of such audits.

The state even quotes an anonymous former Oracle employee as claiming that the company had an elaborate «behind - the - scenes effort» to convince Oregon that hiring such a manager would only serve to delay the project.

That's why it was such a shock to learn last month that hackers found a way to break in to the company's famous iPhones, and even take over the camera and microphone features without a user even knowing it.

No matter what, he wants them to feel like their work has an impact, even at such a huge company.

The Apple TV will run games such as Galaxy On Fire, Rayman Adventures, and «even games that [had] only been available on consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentation.

Miller expects such growth to continue, making the company a good buy even at its relatively high valuation of 26 times fiscal 2017 earnings.

Later, the company expanded even further, incorporating topics such as business and psychology, to reach a wider audience and increase Buffer's influence on the market.

Cultivating relationships and building trust, he explains, were the keys to securing his first few giant clients, such as Red Bull, even though the company knew he was running a small shop.

There was such an undersupply in the markets Elyria was serving that customers came to it; the company didn't even have its own sales force.

Only a company seeking to profit from gullibility — to prey upon the public's lack of financial sophistication — would even think of such slimy advice.

That a Fortune 15 corporation would send even one person to such an event says something about the stakes involved in litigation targeting companies in the opioid supply chain.

Hard thinking about whether packaging is needed at all, and whether there are better ways to do it, can lead to cost savings, environmental improvements, and possibly even new revenue streams (such as the «mushroom packaging» invented by the company Ecovative).

It's even what the oil companies want, for heaven's sake: Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa - based think - tank, recently surveyed 10 major energy companies, including Shell and Suncor, and found all of them were already incorporating a «shadow carbon price» into their decision - making, under the assumption they will contend with such regimes in the near future.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a corporate governance expert, to understand that having a former Ontario premier on a company's board can offer plenty of potential upside, especially for an Ontario - based auto parts maker such as Magna International.

But even companies in fax - heavy industries are starting to look for alternatives, especially those adopting sustainable business practices such as reducing the office paper they use, Davidson says.