Sentences with phrase «table stakes on»

While 4K HDR is now table stakes on almost every streaming device that costs more than $ 50, voice control — especially the hands - free kind — are one area where Amazon can get ahead.

Not exact matches

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

It has staked its future on doing so through devices like its Google Home smart assistant device, a competitor for Amazon's Echo, which sits on a table and responds to voice commands like «What is the weather like today?»

But vision and people skills are, in a sense, table stakes: you need those things just to get the boat headed in the right direction and to keep it more - or-less on course.

Billionaires can fly in to the private jet terminal, gamble at private high - stakes tables at the two new casinos, and buy and sell on the world's first diamond trading exchange.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

The assets on the table include the 20th Century Fox film and TV studio, the FX Networks, Nat Geo Channels group, 22 regional sports networks, Fox's collection of international channels, including Star India, and its 39 % stake in Sky.

French giant Danone put its chips on the table last week by forking out $ 486 million to increase its stake in China Mengiu Dairy - China's biggest milk producer - to 9.9 per cent from 4 per cent.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

Good morning Bob, I sincerly believed Arsenal will beat AFC Bournemouth and collect all the 3 points that will be at stake at the Ems this night and go top of the table on 39 points at the half way of season.

The stakes were simple — win in this best of 3 and go on to the Dodgeball Championship OR lose and leave crucial points on the table.

As Gov. Paterson yesterday put a new round of more than $ 300 million in budget cuts on the table, he and legislative leaders played a high - stakes game of chicken over a possible government shutdown early next week.

At the introduction of each new set of public cards, players are asked to bet, hold, or abandon the money at stake on the table.

A lot in the way this film was shot, with this speed and the high stakes and the technicalities and the dependency on each other and the, also the effects, you know the props and things, the cameras, the lighting and the removing of tables and putting them back, you know all those things sort of created this high level intensity and pressure that felt sort of emblematic sort of how it feels on the stage.»

Shea Wigham steals scenes as Shannon's co-worker; familiar - face character actor Ray McKinnon has one impressive scene as Curtis's concerned - yet - taciturn older brother; Kathy Baker, as Curtis's mother, briefly demonstrates the stakes on the table for Curtis as he tries to figure out if his visions are mere madness.

After contributing an essay to the blueprint, Lightman said: «For too long the way children are assessed has been dominated by the demands placed on schools by performance tables and a culture of high - stakes accountability.

Here's an example of the high stakes: During the last election cycle, controversial initiatives like Common Core, charter schools, alternate route programs, vouchers and teacher tenure have all been on table for elected boards to consider in Louisiana and other states.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said her union has «long argued that league tables, high - stakes testing and other accountability measures have a negative effect on children and young people».

The Texas Legislature is now in full swing and, of course, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leadership.

The battlegrounds are the classrooms, the kitchen table, and auditoriums packed with parents and teachers who are demanding a three - year moratorium on high - stakes testing, but will settle for the resignation of New York State (NYS) Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr. and the head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

There is also one on a table early in the game with a stake through it's chest, I believe it's in the hospital section possibly.

There are conflicting views on this, granted, but all the more reason to make sure alternative voices are heard and not suppressed, given the stakes, and I expect both an equal place at the policy table (if politically convenient, which I believe my theory is) and earmarked grant money, for which I can provide a recipient account.

Leaders expressed that «Never have the stakes been so high,» «the fate of humanity is on the table» and that «we are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it.»

Leaders expressed that «Never have the stakes been so high,» «the fate of humanity is on the table» and that

Making sure your website, social media, blog and advertising are working in harmony to deliver new prospects may seem like a lot, but it's basically table stakes for firms that want a spot on the winner's podium.

When the chips are on the table in a high stakes civil jury trial, Boyle Brasher LLC's experience and ability can make all the difference.

Skadden, Weil, Paul Weiss on Toshiba's $ 2.16 bln path out of bankruptcy, Clifford Chance on Kofu International and Concord Greater China's $ 2 bln sale of Sun Art retail stake, and many more in this week's Asia Deals table.

These are minimum table stakes to maintain credibility on the global stage.

On top of that, it lacks both water resistance and a headphone jack; the former a table stakes feature for phones at this price point, the latter a puzzling omission given the sheer size of the Razer Phone.

In the time since Samsung made small bezels a table stakes feature, other companies have improved upon and iterated on the concept to produce even more immersive designs.

In answering to your «Hey Siri» vocal commands, Apple's assistant can perform many of the same table - stakes tasks as Amazon's Alexa on Echos or the Google Assistant on Google Home speakers — from setting timers and reminders to informing you of the weather and traffic, turning on smart lights or solving math.

Investors have been at the table this year, ready and willing to buy a stake of the startup, but sources said every deal came contingent on Jia stepping aside.

That should be a table stakes feature if you're spending $ 500 on a phone in 2018, and while the situation may change with the OnePlus 6, the feature is a sore omission on the OnePlus 5T.

It also makes sense — there's no space for a fingerprint sensor on the front side, and a dual - camera system is table stakes for a flagship smartphone these days.

Android Pay on a watch of this size is table stakes going forward, but again it's great to see it in a watch that's smaller than LG's and has a removable band.

For a company that makes a voice - controlled assistant, it has become table stakes to have a smart speaker for the home that uses it: Amazon's Alexa debuted on the Echo smart speaker three years ago, Google now has a complete lineup of Home speakers that...

Overall, then, I'm generally pleased with the OnePlus 5, though I'd question the focus on vanity specs like 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage over features increasingly seen as table stakes in the high - end world, like water resistance and a bright 2K display.

In the world of luxury home sales, the fact that there can be multiple millions on the table at any moment during a deal raises the stakes all around.