Sentences with phrase «traditional company shares»

Well, that's kind of what's currently happening with ICOs (also known as token sales) and this is evident from two data points — the initial token sale price and current sale price (analogous to traditional company shares).

-RRB- and this is evident from two data points — the initial token sale price and current sale price (analogous to traditional company shares).

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They have been grabbing market share away from traditional tobacco companies, and are available in different flavors.

Instead of a traditional IPO, Spotify plans a direct listing, which will let investors and employees sell shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering.

The loss of Starz hit Netflix's share price hard, since investors were concerned not just about losing access to the company's library of movies and TV shows, but about whether the move signaled that distributors and traditional networks were going to start playing hardball with the streaming service.

Traditional pharmacies and sharing economy companies alike are on board with this vision to either automate diagnoses and treatment processes or eliminate the physical task of visiting a doctor or pharmacist altogether.

M2C companies are well positioned to take increasing percentages of market share from traditional brick and mortar retailers.

With the rise of Uber, Lyft, and other ride - sharing companies, traditional car and insurance companies will need to do something drastically different if they want to survive.

RideAustin is a non-profit company that showed itself as an interesting alternative to traditional ride - sharing ventures.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

Instead of the 10 to 15 year commitment that comes with traditional office space, a shared space from a company like Jay Suites has loose commitments ranging from one day to five years.

Faster vesting could reduce a salesperson's incentive to stay at your company, one of the reasons why keeping some amount of shares on a traditional monthly vesting is important.

«We see car sharing as highly complementary to traditional car rental, with rapid growth potential and representing a scalable opportunity for us as a combined company.

It is the traditional news companies that still provide the lion's share of original reporting, though we have taken care to craft our policies so they won't lock in a privileged status quo and stifle innovation.

Spotify, though, is forgoing a traditional IPO — in which stock is sold in advance of the opening day to some institutional investors — and executing a novel «direct listing» in which company shares are sold directly to mom - and - pop stock pickers.

First, the company may pump the same ads into self - driving cars that appear on Google's search engine, and second, it may be able to profit through licensing arrangements that let traditional automakers participate in its ride - sharing and other self - driving services, he said.

The FinTech Professionals Association's mission is to bring the traditional financial services world together with new and emerging financial technology companies to expand opportunities, share ideas, network and shape the future of the industry.

Described as a mix between the crowdfunding of Kickstarter and issuing shares on a stock market, they are increasingly used to fund companies in the fast - growing world of blockchains, as an alternative to traditional fundraising routes.

The company and its ride - sharing competitors have been stepping up its efforts to pressure Albany into acting on this issue, receiving some pushback from traditional cab companies who say they want an even playing field for all drivers and disability advocates who worry about access for all riders.

Ride - sharing companies can currently operate in New York City under an arrangement with the city's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivers.

He pointed to Ford Go Bikes, its urban bike - sharing program, and plans to field fully autonomous ride - hail cars on city streets by 2021 as examples of how the company is moving past its traditional role as an automaker.

Based on the Tiago hatchback, the Tigor shares much of its design and engines with its hatchback sibling but rather than just tacking on a traditional boot, Tata Motors has opted for a more flowing design, branded by the company as «Styleback.»

You point out in your post that we're demonizing Amazon, a company that could lower royalties in the future, when they're already low in traditional publishing, but should we really shrug our shoulders at the idea that Amazon could lower royalties in the future if they gain greater market share?

Hybrid publishing companies behave just like traditional publishing companies in all respects, except that they publish books using an author - subsidized business model, as opposed to financing all costs themselves, and in exchange return a higher - than - industry - standard share of sales proceeds to the author.

Pod companies are basically middle men, who handle many of the traditional publisher's functions for a share of the proceeds.

Some of these companies even publish under the own ISBN, emulating the traditional publishing model while allowing authors greater control and a higher share of their profits.

Amazon's substantial (some would say near - monopolistic — the company commands at least 65 % of the ebook market) market share has blocked its access to big name authors and crucial markets and prevented it from running a more traditional publishing house, but that same size has allowed it to create a publishing ecosystem in its own image.

Traditional publishing companies often do not share metrics with the author and in many cases don't have real time information to this sort of data themselves.

But they are (at the same time) often owned (meaning majority shares) by a larger publishing company above them, and so on up and up and up until worldwide there are basically six big conglomerates that have fingers in most large traditional publishing companies.

«Hybrid publishing companies behave just like traditional publishing companies in all respects, except that they publish books using an author - subsidized business model, as opposed to financing all costs themselves, and in exchange return a higher - than - industry - standard share of sales proceeds to the author.

Almost all the earliest ETFs were tied to traditional indexes that weighted each company according to its size (or more technically, to its market capitalization: the current share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares).

Most traditional indexes are weighted by market capitalization, which means that a company's influence is determined by its size (as measured by the number of shares outstanding, multiplied by the price per share).

One advantage of this particular type is that, upon liquidation, a trust preferred's debentures generally rank as junior debt, ahead of a company's traditional preferred or common shares.

An interval fund is a type of investment company that is legally classified as a closed - end fund, but is different from traditional closed - end funds in that their shares typically do not trade on the secondary market and they are permitted to continuously offer their shares at a price based on the Fund's net asset value.

However, smaller companies may only offer «pseudo» equity schemes that pay dividends but do not give employees the rights associated with traditional share ownership, such as the right to vote at annual general meetings.

While earnings continue to look strong by traditional metrics, investors have become more focused on forward guidance, and shares of companies that disappointed investors have sold off severely.

Traditional licensed taxi drivers in major cities have been the most vocal opponents of expanded operating rights for the ride - sharing companies, and now they could benefit from new technology that will put them on more even competitive footing.

Ted Venners, founder of Evergreen Energy — a company in Colorado that reduces CO2 emissions from coal by 8 percent compared with traditional coal — shares Gore's skepticism.

For decades, companies developing pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or agricultural seed profited from the biodiversity and traditional knowledge of other nations, often doing little to share those revenues.

If you're looking to rent a car, depending on your needs and location, there are a number of alternatives — the traditional brick - and - mortar companies, peer - to - peer car services and car sharing programs — each with its own insurance parameters.

As a result, drivers who are searching for highly specific coverage, such as ride - share or gap insurance, would be better served by a traditional auto insurance company, like Farmers or Allstate.

Faraday executives have hinted that the company's vehicles will be geared more toward car sharing than traditional individual ownership.

«In contrast to the traditional IPO process, a «Slow PO» through OTC Markets enables companies to enter the public markets by making previously restricted shares available for public trading by brokers on the OTCQX, OTCQB, and Pink markets,» said Jason Paltrowitz, OTC Markets Group's executive VP of corporate services, in an interview with VentureBeat.

In a traditional IPO, the company in question prices, sells a large bloc of shares, and then begins to trade.

In return for investor cash, the organizations involved offer virtual coins — recorded over the blockchain — rather than traditional company stocks and shares.

In traditional financial markets, the market capitalization of a company like Apple would refer to the total value in US dollars of all outstanding shares of the company.

In comparison to more traditional avenues for investment such as stocks and shares, ICOs provide investors with «tokens» or company - branded cryptocurrencies in exchange for traditional virtual assets, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).

If, at 3 pm on July 10th, the share price of X Company strategies used in trading traditional options.

Despite entering the public market, Spotify opted against holding an initial public offering and went for a direct listing, meaning its valuation could oscillate in the coming days as the company skipped the traditional process of identifying share value which involves underwriters and a wide variety of assurances.