Sentences with phrase «year the company developed»

Earlier this year the company developed an app with Griffin Technology that allowed kids to color with their fingers or with an optional iMarker stylus on tablet devices, but that app had a lot of competition from a multitude of free and paid drawing programs for small hands.

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She enjoys using her years of experience managing her business to help other small business owners looking to develop their company.

Over the past year - and - a-half while developing Handle, our entire company was in a race to zero.

Uber had developed a system to monitor employee access in December 2014, but the company stopped using the system less than a year after it was put in place and rarely monitored employee access thereafter, the FTC alleged.

As an example, I worked with a small business company years ago that was developing a new solution to help with baby colic; the company spent years trying to work through all the requirements necessary to be classified as a medical device product, which they had not adequately anticipated.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

It's not like the show was created in a secret Netflix laboratory — it was actually developed over a few years by Bob - Waksberg and animator Lisa Hanawalt — but Reed Hasting's company knew what it was doing when it bought the show in 2013.

The company, which develops self - driving and self - parking systems, has seen its shares double in only two years and is up 46 percent over the past year.

Two years ago, he started Storrage, a company that's developing technology to help storage facilities more efficiently fill their space.

Focal reps told me the company spent four years developing the Utopia, and it shows.

But, don't forget that narrative thread: When you have spent years devoting energy to creating, developing and finally launching a new product or service, you may find it difficult to turn past your company's «page» and look at its story as a whole.

After developing the perfect recipe, they ordered so much of the spirit each year, the company making it forced them to get licensed.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

Amazon, meanwhile, is refashioning its TV and movie production in the wake of studio chief Roy Price's departure this year, and signing Murphy could help the company develop programs that catch on more with viewers.

Over the past 15 years, my company, Growthink, has developed thousands of business plans for entrepreneurs seeking funding.

Fifty years ago company management could make a bunch of rules and put in place processes to develop a system wherein failure wasn't an option.

Remarkably, many of these corporate leaders and companies are still working from the playbook developed by Johnson & Johnson over 35 years ago, when people began dying due to cyanide being maliciously injected into Tylenol pill capsules.

The company will see 2016 sales increase 15 percent this year, from about $ 10 million in 2015, largely due to a new product line it developed to help reduce glare in cockpits.

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

According to Glassdoor's survey on HR And Recruiting Statistics for 2017, 63 percent of millennials believe their leadership skills are not being full developed while 71 percent are likely to leave their companies in the next two years because they are unhappy with how those skills are being developed.

Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk backed the company Neuralink with the intent of further developing brain - machine interfaces, a technology that would merge humans with computers and could, in theory, make knowledge downloadable.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

I started as a receptionist and throughout the nearly 10 years I was there, I proved my value in developing business systems to help the company grow from one location to five throughout Oregon.

Emerging markets have largely kept the company aloft over the past few years while its popularity swan - dived in more developed countries.

Investors can participate in the potential of companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed by the BC Cancer Agency.

Founded in 2007, Magor has developed a collaborative telecommunications technology and Wesley Clover took the company public on TSXV last year in a qualifying transaction valued at $ 5.9 million.

Over the last eight years, the company has developed LED lighting solutions for projects such as Chicago's Solider Field, the headquarters of General Motors in Detroit, BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and The Shard in London, U.K..

Alnylam in court papers filed in Middlesex County Superior Court said the scheme allowed Dicerna to develop «strikingly similar» technologies within a year and unjustly enriched the company by up to $ 325 million.

Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

Two years ago, it raised $ 50 million in financing led by Tencent Holdings Ltd, the internet company that developed the social media app WeChat.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

Automotive companies, for example, were against using nickel, which is costly, as a component in a new kind of rechargeable battery that ECD aimed to develop years ago.

Nate Alder, a student at Brigham Young University, has won first or second place in 11 competitions over the past year for his company, Klymit, which has developed a way to insulate outerwear and outdoor gear using argon.

And if that isn't enough, two companies are currently hard at work developing a 1,000 - seat facility in Oakland's Jack London Square for the sole purpose of watching other people play video games, aka eSports, a $ 463 million global business this year.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

Later that year, he founds Tribal Voice, a company that develops PowWow, an Internet messaging program that pioneers many of the features found in later chat programs.

Prior to Corixa, Mr. Christianson served for 12 years overseeing manufacturing and site operations at RIBI ImmunoChem Research, a biopharmaceutical company developing late - stage adjuvant technology.

Similarly, at Maddock Douglas, an Elmhurst, Illinois, firm that helps companies develop and market new products, employees can bank from 100 to 200 hours a year to pursue whatever intrigues them.

Under recessionary strain, the company entered into an agreement this year with BP PLC to develop Terre de Grace using SAGD technology.

The senior teams that lead each separate business unit are directed by three key priorities: one, fostering cross-functional communication across the company; two, setting and supporting decision - making for the medium - to long - term needs of their unit; and three, developing three - year rolling business plans on an annual basis.

The move comes nearly two years after Google (googl), which is now Alphabet, agreed with five Asian companies to invest about $ 300 million to develop and operate a trans - Pacific cable network connecting the United States to Japan.

An infographic developed by social - media marketing company NowSourcing details some of the qualities and traits shared by the rich (we're talking those who earn more than $ 160,000 a year and have $ 3.2 million in assets).

When the company sat atop the world a few years ago, it raised hopes that Canada could develop a thriving tech sector, and move beyond its stubborn reliance on resources.

Created by a pair of 19 - year - old twin brothers from Maple Grove, Minn., college sophomores Jason Fotso (Duke University) and Brian Fotso (Baylor University), Trump Dump was the first app they ever developed, inspired by a «daydream,» which is what they named their company.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

As a result, the SEC developed new disclosure requirements for U.S. companies this year.

Over the past few years, Cisco (CSCO) has been feeling the pressure from a wave of networking startups and emerging companies developing technology that could threaten Cisco's dominance in networking.