Sentences with phrase «with bigger stakes»

The people with the biggest stakes in the future, not to mention the most power to force innovation, sat and twiddled their Rolodexes instead.

It's not a great time to be a media company with a big stake in traditional television.

While Western Australia is a lot bigger than one man and one company, with a bit of imagination it is possible to see the state through the financial health of a firm that sells equipment to the mining industry, and the personal wealth of a man with the biggest stake in that business.

On paper, Eric Martin is now a millionaire, with a big stake in one of the most hotly anticipated start - ups in years.

Even with the bigger stake, a takeover would be difficult because the controlling owners — the Ochs - Sulzberger family — hold voting shares that give them a firm grip on board seats.

Startups don't have the luxury of paying the highest salaries; many are scrappy and they rely on investors with big stakes in the company.

Others with a big stake protected Wellington management, Shasta Ventures, Tenaya Capital and Redpoint.

There's concern among our trustees that banks with a big stake in real estate projects like these could create something like the savings and loan crisis we saw in the 1980s if the projects get in trouble.»

Not exact matches

The book tells their stories of growth, challenge, anguish, triumph, and more, interspersed with other big names of other basketball legends and high - stakes brinksmanship.

He's still one of the biggest shareholders in the company, with a 5 % - plus stake that's worth about $ 300 million, according to SEC documents, mostly in a trust for his kids.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

Let's begin with the big news from last night: At the end of the day, a band of conservative GOP lawmakers thrust the final stake through the heart of the Senate's health care bill.

Icahn is Xerox's biggest shareholder, with a 9.72 % stake.

The company said this month that it would sell its private - label unit to TreeHouse Foods, after it came under pressure from Jana Partners, its second - biggest shareholder with about 7 % stake.

Collins wanted to make sure they understood that with bigger dollars came bigger stakes — some were getting ahead of themselves.

He also clashed with Benchmark, one of the company's earliest and biggest investors, which is also selling part of its stake.

The settlement with Universal Entertainment may help clear a path for Steve Wynn, the company's biggest shareholder, to sell part of his stake should that be necessary.

Few of us will ever face a public grilling the likes of which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with on Capitol Hill, but how he prepared for the big event offers a lesson for anyone who wants to perform their best when the stakes are high.

At stake is his chance to work one last time with the rock band that made his fortune and legend — the Rolling Stones — and a shot at what could be the biggest concert tour in history.

Icahn Associates is Xerox's biggest outside shareholder, with a 9.4 percent stake, and Icahn first disclosed a stake two years ago.

The stakes are bigger with games.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

Branson controls 24.8 percent of the company, while hedge fund Cyrus Capital Partners is the biggest shareholder with a 32.8 percent stake.

Those included a court challenge over how much of Wind Mobile was foreign - owned; struggles to negotiate tower - sharing agreements with Rogers, Bell and Telus (Rogers owns Canadian Business); and doubt about Wind's future when its biggest investor, Dutch carrier VimpelCom, revealed it was exploring «strategic alternatives» for its stake.

But with the shareholder rights plan quashed, Rio Tinto boosted its stake to 51 % earlier this year, killing the chances of a big payday.

He gave Robert Hortman and John McMinamin, two young guns with vital industry contacts, a 20 % stake each in Pyramid (which warehouses and processes paper in Hot Springs, Ark.) in lieu of commissions or big salaries.

This transaction now puts us in a position to compete with real focus and weight in the core markets where we operate, while giving us valuable and growing equity stakes in a number of big and important markets where we don't,» he wrote.

So is it really a big surprise that Russia is using Cold War tactics paired with new technology to influence the US election considering how big of stakes are on the line?

How those stakes, in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan, are distributed will also be a big question, as well as what Yahoo will do with its patents and the rest of its real estate portfolio.

What's at stake for big cell phone companies with the iPhone 6 hitting stores in one week as they fight to sign up more customers?

Berkshire was then the biggest shareholder of Kraft, with a stake valued at $ 3.3 billion at the end of December 2010.

Songa's biggest shareholder, Perestroika, owned by Norwegian investor Frederik Wilhelm Mohn, would become the largest shareholder in Transocean as a result of the acquisition with a stake of about 12 percent, the firms said.

With his $ 98 billion Vision Fund, he has barged into Silicon Valley, paying top dollar for big stakes in the ride - sharing giant Uber and the office - space company WeWork.

Coca - Cola's (NYSE: KO) announcement last week that it had acquired a $ 2.15 billion, 16.7 percent stake in Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) pairs the biggest soda company in the world with the biggest energy drink brand in the United States.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

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It's a story ripe with big personalities, high stakes, marketing spin, and unlikely success.

ARTIS combines the advantages of its infrastructure such as the Proof of Stake consensus algorithm, with novel proposals in the blockchain space such as Plasma, Raiden and Sharding to solve for the two biggest issues that blockchain faces right now: sustainability and scalability.

But there's a big difference: Money given to a company through a Kickstarter campaign is a donation often rewarded with a company's product; money given through an SEC - approved portal buys an ownership stake.

European stocks finished with gains on Monday, helped by Italian banks after that country's government stepped in to shut down two failed lenders, and as Nestlé SA rallied after a hedge fund snapped up a big stake in the consumer - products giant.

Verizon Communications made the biggest acquisition of the year to date with its purchase of a 45 % stake in Verizon Wireless from Vodafone of the UK in September.

And whoever buys Yahoo has to also deal with SoftBank and its desire to get out of large annual payments it makes to the company, which owns a big stake in Yahoo Japan.

Laughing — First of all, i'm not the only one that Knows the Big Bang theory does not hold weight and has many holes in it, many leading physicists do not believe in it, it's a Theory like you said moron... I don't have to be the one to try and disprove it to you, Do your own research, the folks that work the most with the theory haven't staked their entire faith or belief in it, because they know it's not proven and it can not be proven.

Mr Ottaway said it had previously fielded full buyout offers from a range of players, but had opted for a structure where Kirin - owned a minority stake so it could stay in control of its destiny but still gain the benefits of a serious link with a big player.

Brewers in the US with a bigger partner with a stake of below 25 per cent still retain their status as a «craft» brewer under the Brewers Association rules.

In addition, Bennigan's is rolling out a delicious new Pork Cutlet Sandwich and daring its guests to take the Big Irish Challenge, with t - shirts and other prizes at stake.

But Bega Cheese, WCB's single biggest shareholder with an 18 per cent stake, upped the stakes on Thursday by increasing its cash and scrip offer and declaring it final and unconditional.

The company that owns a 48 per cent stake in the battling Maggie Beer Products gourmet foods business has undertaken a big share consolidation to escape from the ranks of the penny dreadful stocks with billions of shares on issue.

He plays big - stakes poker for the fun of competing with the best.

Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who has acquired fascinating and rewarding habit of winning big ones, tried his able hands for first time with Sword Dancer, plucky little 3 - year - old, in $ 81,250 Travers Stakes at Saratoga.