Sentences with phrase «tiny handful of companies»

As bad as it is to have a publishing world with only five major publishers in it — a monoposony in which a tiny handful of companies converge on terms and practices that are ultimately more to their benefit than those of authors, it's even worse to have a world in which a single company controls the entire market.

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Moreover, a handful of acquisition - happy tech companies have shown a willingness to add services by buying tiny, money - losing start - ups for tens of millions of dollars.

There are thousands of start - ups, far fewer successful start - ups, fewer still that become successful companies, even fewer that go from successful company to enduring company, and a tiny handful that become great, enduring companies.

The very best growth stocks can deliver returns of a hundredfold or more after decades of growth, although by definition only a tiny handful of the thousands of companies listed will ever reach blue chip status.

Indeed, a tiny handful of jurisdictions — mostly Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands — now account for 63 percent of all profits that American multinational companies claim to earn overseas, according to an analysis by Gabriel Zucman, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Founded in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, Genzyme evolved from a tiny start - up with just a handful of employees to one of the world's leading biotech companies.

Of course, only a tiny handful of cars in the world are Teslas, or will ever be, even assuming the company one day achieves its targeted production rateOf course, only a tiny handful of cars in the world are Teslas, or will ever be, even assuming the company one day achieves its targeted production rateof cars in the world are Teslas, or will ever be, even assuming the company one day achieves its targeted production rates.

At first, we thought it might be odd phrasing for an insurance company that does business nationally — as opposed to one of the really tiny unrated ones that do business in a handful of states and take advantage of regulatory loopholes to avoid disclosing their financials.

However, as an asset - light company, Marriott only owns a tiny handful of the properties it manages, with the vast majority controlled by investors.

Even though HFC - free refrigeration technologies are readily available in the marketplace, Walmart continues to use HFCs in all but a tiny handful of its U.S. stores, which contributes 13 percent of the company's total carbon footprint.

At first, we thought it might be odd phrasing for an insurance company that does business nationally — as opposed to one of the really tiny unrated ones that do business in a handful of states and take advantage of regulatory loopholes to avoid disclosing their financials.

While a tiny handful of Sony's Xperia Z5 flagships have apparently received Android 6.0 in certain markets in recent weeks, it looks like the company is finally gearing up for a wider Marshmallow rollout.