Sentences with phrase «which giant industry»

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Although the search giant points out that the definition of which ads are acceptable comes from an independent industry group called the Coalition for Better Ads, some believe that the default blocking of certain ads puts too much power in Google's hands.

In 1986, I pulled the music industry's leg by telling Music Week, a British music publication, that Virgin had set up a giant computer in Britain, on which we had stored every music track we could find.

But operations were strictly Canadian until 2005, when new executives with connections to Noranda agreed to a joint venture with the former Canadian mining giant in Turkey — which was liberalizing its mining industry as part of ongoing efforts to join the European Union.

In a recent interview with ad industry veteran Jay Sears, Pivotal's Wieser said the digital - media industry has effectively become a giant duopoly in which Google and Facebook win almost everything, advertisers have to play by their rules, and other media companies «fight for the scraps.»

That collaboration is especially important as big breweries are starting to quietly put out craft - flavored beers like Shock Top, which is brewed by Anheuser - Busch in Saint Louis, Mo., or Blue Moon, which is a MillerCoors product, though many fans of either beer don't realize either is made by the industry giants.

Somewhat predictably, the majority of the slowdown within manufacturing has been concentrated in transport equipment, which reflects the downturn in the auto industry, and information and computer technologies (ICT), a sector that took a big hit when telecom giant Nortel went belly up.

Which brings us to the second story, covering an Advertising Week Europe panel featuring three industry giants in R / GA chairman and CEO Bob Greenberg, Radical Media chairman and CEO John Kamen, and Bartle Bogle Hegarty founder Sir John Hegarty.

To fend off tech giants Apple and Google — which are trying to make inroads to the auto industry — this year Toyota teamed with Ford to integrate Ford's apps platform into its cars.

At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based niche in the photo - processing market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

Like Memphis Meats, which counts meat - processing giants Tyson and Cargill among its investors, Finless is hopeful that major industry players will welcome a more reliable alternative to the vagaries of fishing.

The e-commerce giant is plowing money in with its blockbuster Echo home automation device portfolio, its Prime streaming video and music service, and its industry - leading Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, which is under siege from rivals including Microsoft and Google.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Search engine giant Google has launched Google Capital, a fresh growth equity fund which will invest in a range of industries...

Luxury industry giant Compagnie Financière Richemont, which acquired a majority stake in Net - a-Porter back in 2010, didn't give her one despite that Massenet thought the deal undervalued NAP.

And the ad industry already has an action force: an anonymous group called Sleeping Giants, which has been effective at getting advertisers to step away from Breitbart News and other outlets the group accuses of racist or sexist content.

Not only this, the e-retailing giant which was earlier twitching to acquire Twitch, a game streaming service (dubbed by industry watchers as the «next YouTube»), in which Google had shown interest in August 2014, has gone ahead and acquired the same for an astoundingly huge $ 970 million.

They have created a condition — call it collusion, if you wish — whereby the three or four giants in each of the major industries hike price tags in concert, so that the consumer loses the choice which «free - enterprise competition» was supposed to give him.

Miles Beale CEO of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association says: «Britain has become a global giant in the wine industry — something which is evident from the complex importing and exporting networks highlighted in the WSTA's first ever annual Wine Report.

Mr Baird rejected the industry's alternative proposal, which included funding more recycling bins at beachfront parks, and said in the letter the beverage giants need to make a «far greater commitment» to reduce packaging waste litter and boost recycling.

The SNA, which represents school food workers across the nation, has always been heavily funded and influenced by the very food industry giants who stand to lose money when healthier school nutrition standards are enacted.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

The two companies, which are the giants of the industry, have submitted applications to operate to the state Department of Motor Vehicles and plan to launch statewide on June 29, the first day they can.

He publicly fought with Gov. Andrew Cuomo — which apparently did not help him with voters, based on this poll — and faced a multi-million dollar advertising onslaught from Uber, the e-hail giant which opposed his attempts to regulate the industry.

However, when he launched his three - day, six - event State of the State tour in New York City on Monday morning, just a few blocks from Wall Street, home to the country's financial industry giants, Cuomo made no mention of the proposal, which his Sunday press release said would» better help prevent situations like the one seen recently at Wells Fargo.»

The industry giants racing to build such a machine quietly started recruiting app designers, which suggests the long quest to make good on the hype about quantum computers might have entered a new stage.

The two giants — which own brands like Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Louis Vuitton — have taken this step in response to criticism of the fashion industry for promoting eating disorders, Reuters reports.

This leaves a giant hole in the sex ad industry in which I am sure Craigslist competitors will fight over to fill.

Casual Kiss, a five - year - old Toronto - based dating site, and Love Match, which was originally a chat site, both outscored a field of industry giants.

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

Industry giant Toshiba is the lead brand sponsor of SkillFRIDGE, the national refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump competition which forms part of the WorldSkills UK portfolio, a government led initiative designed to champion apprenticeships and technical skills development programmes.

Box imprint which has reshaped the face of the comic industry with progressive young adult series like Lumberjanes, Giant Days, Goldie Vance and more.

But as some areas see sales shrink, there may be further consolidation in the increasingly smaller book publishing industry, which is now down to a handful of publicly traded giants with book publishing arms, including News Corp., which owns MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.

Leading Taiwanese computer vendor Acer on Monday unveiled the industry's first 8.1 - inch tablet running on Microsoft's Windows 8 software, a move which analysts said highlighted the software giant's bid to make inroads into...

The e-commerce giant had just over 83 percent of the U.S. e-book market in early 2017, up from 74 percent in October 2015, according to AuthorEarnings, which tracks book sales for writers and other industry participants.

However, once HP announced its intentions to buy struggling Palm, the industry soon heard that the technology giant had ditched the Slate in favor of creating another tablet, dubbed Hurricane, which will run on the widely praised WebOS platform.

For this industry giant, the move to cloud computing has generated strong revenue streams which help support its high research spending... Read More

The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) condemns the recent airing of Discovery's Eaten Alive special in which an activist attempted to goad a giant anaconda into swallowing him.

Commenting on the deal Kevin Rolfe, group editorial director at VENDS, said: «Following the merger between the two giants of the hotel industry, Starwood and Marriott, one of the biggest challenges facing Marriott will be connecting with travellers and the promotion of the new combined loyalty program which will have to be rolled out over the coming months.

A panel discussion, moderated by Bookassist saw industry giants - Google, Tripadvisor and Trivago discuss ways in which hotels could better engage with them to generate more online direct bookings.

Voting on the 35th annual Golden Joystick Awards is now open public, allowing gamers the world over to decide which games over the past year deserve to be heralded as giants of the gaming industry.

Several games have sold items like this in the past or bundled them free with expansions, including industry giant World of Warcraft which lets players boost characters up to the level cap in order to get straight into the endgame.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

The rivalry of the shooter giants, which mainly manifested in verbal back and forths initiated and kept alive by EA, also benefited «gamers and the industry,» Moore adds.

The only real industry giant we've heard speak pleasantly about the console is Ubisoft, which means Just Dance is probably ready to ship as a launch title.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

He outbid industry giants on land parcels (which, starting at $ 2 an acre, were adjacent to national treasures like Canyonlands National Park), winning 22,000 acres of land worth $ 1.7 million before the auction was halted.

What I obviously point out time and again is that there is no evidence proving skeptic climate scientists knew catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science but were corrupted by giant wads of illicit cash which caused them to spew industry - created / directed lies.