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"leapfrog" Definitions
  1. a children’s game in which players take turns to jump over the backs of other players who are bending down

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Zipline co-founder Keller Rinaudo, saw the leapfrog potential of medical delivery by drone after seeing some existing leapfrog innovation reach its limit.
"This investment is an opportunity to bring a global leader in digital remittances into the LeapFrog portfolio," said Stewart Langdon, partner at LeapFrog Investments.
Broadband is an opportunity for us to leapfrog developed countries.
Montgomerie had shot a 70 that would leapfrog 20 competitors.
Can it leapfrog its competitors while maintaining its privacy stance?
He's got a lot of people he's got to leapfrog.
It's possible the 87003th-Gen Cores could leapfrog AMD's desktop offering.
Because obviously the internet is the best way to leapfrog that.
LSE would leapfrog ICE to $8.4 billion, if the deal completes.
Children's tablet maker LeapFrog does something similar with its LeapPad devices.
Startups like Zipline leverage drones to leapfrog broken or nonexistent infrastructure.
They also can "leapfrog the mistakes made by the West", he added.
He currently works at Leapfrog, the well-known purveyor of children's games.
That figure is predicted to leapfrog to 13.1 million units in 2017.
Accordingly, nobody even bothered to try and leapfrog Iowa this time around.
It's another exciting leapfrog of the aspiring space tourism company's previous achievements.
This is one reason we'll see AR leapfrog VR in market size.
N) in August, helping the carmaker leapfrog French rival Renault SA (RENA.
Fleetwood had a lot more players to leapfrog for this year's title.
It is the justices' apparent "acquiescence" in the government's game of leapfrog.
The electronic toymaker said LeapFrog would become its indirect wholly-owned unit.
Is Siri just catching up, or does Apple have a leapfrog move?
Without Allen, veteran Derek Anderson could leapfrog Nathan Peterman and start at Indianapolis.
New entrants can readily amass enough data and match or leapfrog your solution.
Now the question is, will SpaceX leapfrog Boeing with an even cooler suit?
In India the game being played by the e-commerce pioneers is leapfrog.
So we need to figure out how do we leapfrog over coal power.
Will the US leapfrog contactless card adoption and go straight to digital wallets?
"They're going to need to leapfrog the transitional roadway transportation system," he says.
That's cheap enough to leapfrog insurance companies, the traditional gatekeepers of genetic tests.
It's where you can leapfrog publicists and aides and interact with your idols.
So they don't fool themselves that they're going to do this leapfrog approach.
"This would allow them to leapfrog years of hard-won experience," he said.
"In China, they have an opportunity to leapfrog straight from paper to AI."
Other investors included Proparco, Finnfund, Vostok Emerging Finance, Gemcorp Capital, and LeapFrog Investments.
But MBS's leapfrog towards the throne will not silence the questions that still swirl.
So could Australia leapfrog the U.S. again and move straight to wearable payment devices?
John R. Kasich of Ohio — who are engaged in a game of political leapfrog.
The combined company would leapfrog Mars, which has 13.3 percent of the global market.
Melissa DePino is principal of Leapfrog Group, a communications and marketing firm for nonprofits.
The LeapFrog Epic Academy Edition Android-based tablet grows right alongside your little ones.
But she would have to leapfrog over several other more senior male colleagues. Rep.
Apple has also removed apps that would let users leapfrog the country's censorship controls.
Other organizations, such as Leapfrog, collect data from hospitals and construct their own rankings.
Or is he a wealthy white man who gets to leapfrog over everyone else?
And Von Braun believed in the leapfrog: 'You can't go incremental, astronaut to astronaut.
With one update to Windows, Microsoft will immediately leapfrog much of its VR competition.
Investors only play games like leapfrog when there is a very positive backdrop, Cramer said.
By placing factories closer to consumers, Adidas could ostensibly leapfrog over shipping delays and expenses.
It builds a platform for growth while empowering the developing world to leapfrog the competition.
They have made it possible for poor countries to leapfrog much more than landline telephony.
The combined company would leapfrog Mars Inc, which has 13.3 percent of the global market.
Photo: LeapFrogComing from a company that's focused on edutainment, LeapFrog has geared the RockIt Twist!
The crowd's main concern was that no one would leapfrog sentimental favorite Hypolito or Mariano.
Adding support for voice to automate tasks could leapfrog several missed generations of consumer technology.
"We could leapfrog right past that and go right to clean, green electricity," she said.
We need someone who can both fix and rebuild and lead and leapfrog us forward.
The company is still at it as of 2020 with the LeapFrog Epic Academy Edition.
Both companies could come up with a leapfrog innovation that catapults them (for a while).
These are opportunities that could help these emerging market economies leapfrog in to digital economies.
Pixar is headquartered here, as is toymaker Leapfrog, smoothie chain Jamba Juice and other prominent brands.
Those two elements, growth and leapfrog to the lead, continue to drive every decision we make.
China has access to more data, for example, and has the potential to leapfrog Western technology.
Targeting these wider problems, in fact, is one reason that WorldRemit was first approached by LeapFrog.
Elevar Equity, LeapFrog Investments, Collaborative Fund, Obvious Ventures and Renewal Funds all invest broadly in GoodBusiness.
And that centrality has helped Cabello seemingly leapfrog over the biggest post–Taylor Swift pop stars.
As part of the transaction, existing investor Leapfrog has partially sold its stake in the company.
Leapfrog invested USD 29 million in IFMR Capital in 2014 and will remain a key investor.
So how do we leapfrog into healthy-hair territory as if we'd had it all along?
We want to show that it's possible to use this kind of technology to similarly leapfrog.
If successful, Facebook could effectively leapfrog the app economy, and create its own thriving digital ecosystem.
So it has been able to leapfrog past other markets, which mainly used PCs for purchases.
And Chiang needs to leapfrog Villaraigosa to become the choice for Democrats who can't stomach Newsom.
Such a move could also rankle some CBC members who don't want her to leapfrog Clyburn.
This enables countries such as China to leapfrog some of the old ways of doing things.
Amazon, who whiffed on the Fire, has decided to leapfrog a generation and move to voice.
So let's not leapfrog over what we think should be the path that should be taken.
"We were just playing a little leapfrog, just taking it back to the playground," Thielen said.
In the same way that cellphones allowed many countries to leapfrog the absence of landlines we think this kind of technology can show that it's possible to leapfrog the absence of roads or low quality roads to make fast deliveries in a highly cost-effective way.
A Home that dishes out Wi-Fi could be the one thing that'll help Google leapfrog Amazon.
The vote would allow the FCC to leapfrog the courts and put its own ruling forward first.
Google, on the other hand, seems ready to leapfrog past social Stories entirely to focus on Stamp.
A points system designed to identify the neediest applicants allows victims of intimidation to leapfrog the rest.
But by following these steps, business and technology leaders can partner to leapfrog ahead of their competitors.
And, even if not, it has unmatched access to resources that could help it leapfrog the competition.
LeapFrog Ventures, Elevar Equity, Gray Ghost Ventures and Khosla Impact are focused on large frontier markets opportunities.
Outsourced apprenticeships are an opportunity for America to leapfrog into leadership in alternative pathways to good jobs.
Leapfrog Epic Speaking of video games, like most kids, my 4-year-old is a big fan.
It's a technique that will help you and your team create breakthrough innovations and leapfrog the competition.
Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) tried to leapfrog the more senior Brady in the race to replace him.
Louisville can leapfrog all of those teams, and this weekend will mostly determine if the Cardinals will.
They also hope Almond can leapfrog existing virtual assistant systems in its ability to understand complex language.
RBC Capital Markets recently predicted Google could try to buy Salesforce to leapfrog Microsoft in the cloud.
And even if Utah wins, the Sooners could leapfrog them if they win in more impressive fashion.
The seventh was the Tournament of Champions, where Xander Schauffele shot a 62 to leapfrog into first.
For many, Mr. Sanders appears a throwback to this radical past, one that seems to leapfrog the generations.
"When it comes to access to financial services, mobile provides a leapfrog option in emerging economies," said Lund.
They have enabled China to leapfrog straight to mobile payments using QR codes, bypassing credit and debit cards.
We've seen some fascinating attempts to leapfrog the limitations and frustrations of today's entertainment platforms and streaming devices.
Gowdy is eighth in seniority and would need to leapfrog a number of colleagues to win the gavel.
It would enter service in 2024 or 2025 as Boeing attempts to leapfrog the hot-selling Airbus A321neo.
I was playing leapfrog with two heavy shopping bags on First Avenue in the cold, damp December air.
RBC Capital Markets recently predicted Google could acquire Salesforce this year to leapfrog Microsoft in the cloud market.
GOP lawmakers and aides say there's no chance Scalise would try to leapfrog McCarthy to the Speaker's office.
Amy Klobuchar looks to leapfrog him and emerge as a surprise contender as the campaign moves to Nevada.
A smaller company in the networking equipment market could look to leapfrog the competition by merging with Nokia.
The Panthers have won four in a row to leapfrog Montreal into fourth place in the Atlantic Division.
That quick registration could help it leapfrog competitors that can often seem foreign or confusing compared to consumer software.
However, prosecutors could also leapfrog that step and go directly to trial, the source close to the case said.
Sometimes combining two companies that compete in the same market provides a quick way to leapfrog your market share.
She can leapfrog Karolina Pliskova as world number one by winning the title, which the Czech won last year.
They&aposre able to leapfrog where we&aposve been, because we&aposre spending all the money in R&D.
But its very lagging position may become a boon as it attempts to leapfrog over the West, experts say.
India will leapfrog Germany and the United States to claim the number three spot in global rankings in 2024.
Trump said his attacks on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton have allowed Sanders to leapfrog her in some polls.
Derby could leapfrog Hull and take fourth, though this would only assure them home advantage for the second leg.
If the IHS Markit forecast pans out, the Permian would also leapfrog today's output from Canada, China and Iraq.
China was able to leapfrog the world because of permissive regulation and a lack of existing digital-payment methods.
The Supreme Court has already declined an administration request to leapfrog those courts and consider the DACA rescission immediately.
The development of mobile payment in China continues to leapfrog the rest of the world at a breakneck pace.
Bloomberg faces an uphill battle to leapfrog Sanders and Biden, who both rank ahead of him in the polls.
They already benefit from the leapfrog effect, says Wei Zhou, boss of China Creation Ventures, a venture-capital fund.
However, Russia is on track this year to leapfrog North Korea to become China's fourth-biggest supplier of coal.
That has helped J.P. Morgan leapfrog competitors from China and the U.K. in the total value of its stock.
The latest plans are intended to "leapfrog our economy in line with local, regional and global trends," he said.
When you imagine hacks that can theoretically leapfrog on other hacks, the world abounds with worst plausible outcomes, he explained.
How-to video maker Jumprope launches to leapfrog YouTube Josh Constine profiles a new social network built for making tutorials.
The Hong Kong-based VTech is also the parent company of LeapFrog, a popular brand for educational entertainment for children.
If realized, that sum would leapfrog the Trump super PACs over similar groups, who have struggled to raise large dollars.
That's in part because AI researchers are mostly creating systems that leapfrog human abilities, rather than do what humans cannot.
"I'm a firm believer in the hypothesis that some of these transformative technologies can help Africa leapfrog," says Mr Hjort.
Released from the fear of the censors, the internet has enabled Muslims and Jews to leapfrog borders and passport controls.
Travel experience is great, but it is not going to get you to leapfrog over people who stayed and worked.
Tahira previously led strategic projects at LeapFrog Investments, a specialist emerging market private equity impact fund focused on financial services.
But none of these leapfrog the other assistants — it's just catch up to things Google Assistant and Alexa already do.
I then drew several straight lines that were unconnected but adjacent, that didn't so much branch as they did leapfrog.
Tesla is trading up again today, after a strong run yesterday that saw its total market cap value leapfrog Ford's.
One achievement could see China leapfrog the US, however, and make history in the progress: landing an astronaut on Mars.
The short political memories and unawareness of American voters perpetuate this unhealthy cycle, referred as "leapfrog representation" by congressional scholars.
Beyond Stories, Instagram has been working hard to leapfrog Snapchat with new features like replay privacy controls that Snapchat lacks.
"It's almost as if the stocks are playing leapfrog over your ability to perceive where they could go," he added.
It is also battling e-commerce giant Amazon, whose advanced investment in technology helps it leapfrog traditional stores' profit margins.
With this clean energy, underdeveloped countries could leapfrog the outworn development model that sacrifices environmental well-being for economic growth.
That means she needs to leapfrog Sanders and Biden, both of whom have been constants throughout, to win the nomination.
But the Kings will have to leapfrog at least two teams to stop the league's longest playoff drought (1 seasons).
Corey Crawford made 25 saves, helping Chicago leapfrog idle Dallas for the top spot in the Western Conference with 22 points.
So, having this blockchain technology will ensure that we leapfrog in the documentation process, and even in improving the logistic efficiency.
"For me, the single biggest advantage is really that ability to leapfrog some of that painful trial and error," he adds.
We're hoping to do the same for transportation and logistics in these countries, using drones to leapfrog the absence of roads.
For emerging markets, the lesson is that with the right technology, it is possible to leapfrog to new forms of banking.
But researchers are now developing systems that leapfrog chit-chat to the next frontier: They can argue and play devil's advocate.
Our stated hope all along was that Uber could leapfrog other companies to be a real leader in diversity and inclusion.
"We believe that drone delivery technology will enable a leapfrog, similar to what we saw happening with mobile phones," he said.
While the focus has been on reducing fraud and waste, what is forgotten is that Aadhaar has enabled a digital leapfrog.
"North Korea will want to leapfrog its way into the global economy," said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike.
"China is really showing us the way — they didn't have the older financial infrastructure so they could leapfrog us," said Wood.
The vast majority of that has been on ads attacking Republican candidates in the hopes of helping Democrats leapfrog over them.
The Hawks have lost three in a row, allowing the Stars and the Blues to leapfrog them in the Central Division.
Mr. Rajoy's sudden ouster left the party leaderless, however, providing Mr. Casado with an opportunity to leapfrog over more experienced politicians.
We're hoping to do the same for transportation and logistics in these countries using drones to leapfrog the absence of roads.
Consumers and the internet ecosystem benefit when start-ups can leapfrog incumbents, and net neutrality is key to preserving this ethos.
With these works he seems to leapfrog from pre-abstraction to post-abstraction, à la Robert Rauschenberg's trash-and-cardboard assemblages.
Feld said that despite white space broadband being an American invention, other countries are starting to leapfrog the States in implementation.
The point is that a colonial past is no excuse for Africa's failure so far to catch up, emulate and leapfrog.
WorldRemit has raised $220 million since its founding in 2010 from investors including Accel Partners, LeapFrog Investments and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV).
That may sound too sophisticated, but the PRD's firms are already showing the rest of China how to leapfrog on smart automation.
Often there is not even a physical infrastructure to leapfrog—so-called third-tier cities, for example, often lack big retail centres.
I'm delighted that a world-class fintech company like WorldRemit is choosing LeapFrog as its partner for growth in the emerging markets.
ICOs resemble both a new form of crowdfunding, and a technological leapfrog over the regulations that hem in more orthodox funding strategies.
Two terrestrial based programs—no nifty drones needed—hope to technically leapfrog fiber with throughput speeds maxing out at a blazing 973Gbps.
"Normally what happens in emerging markets is they leapfrog others in terms of forging ahead," said Satish Meena, forecast analyst at Forrester.
Sagers argues, however, that it would be legal for Amazon to independently develop its grocery sales rather than leapfrog ahead through acquisition.
"It is very much my belief that we will leapfrog much of what you find in corporate America," she told BuzzFeed News.
But assuming Bledsoe stays healthy, it's likely they'd leapfrog past the Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Portland Trail Blazers.
Besides, who is TJ Dillashaw to come down to the flyweight division and leapfrog every fighter already in line for my title?
Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the Democratic whip, is highly unlikely to attempt to leapfrog the No. 2 Democrat by taking on Pelosi.
Last year, the United States-based Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy announced that it would leapfrog rivals and pay first-year associates $190,000.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren "would leapfrog all these other countries in terms of generosity," said the Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt.
Two goals from Edin Dzeko helped Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Gibraltar, 290-32, in Faro, Portugal, to leapfrog Greece into second place.
Sketched out in the 1990s, the technology was supposed to leapfrog conventional computing by tapping into the weird physics of subatomic particles.
But the Russians produced a dynamic performance with their second routine to leapfrog the early pacesetters and topped the standings with 36.21.
And the Supreme Court declined the administration's unusual request to leapfrog the appellate courts and consider immediately whether to overrule those decisions.
Iowa's state party activists have pretty much threatened to leapfrog any other state that dares to schedule its primary earlier than the caucuses.
She added a fourth seven minutes from time and that final goal allowed them to leapfrog Brazil on goals scored in the standings.
Previously, she held leadership positions at top edtech companies, including Kaplan, LeapFrog SchoolHouse and Blackboard, where she worked in the K-12 group.
U.S. The administration essentially wants to leapfrog over a lower court in hopes of finding a more favorable ruling in a higher court.
Countries across the continent are experimenting with this 250st century technology as a way to leapfrog decades of neglect of 215th century infrastructure.
It's still in concept phase, but it's a show of Chinese companies already poised to leapfrog existing products we have on the market.
Days later, Mr Trump's lawyers made their audacious request to leapfrog the Ninth Circuit and have their appeal heard by America's top court.
But Caper's plug-and-play cart-based system might be able to leapfrog its competitors if it's easier for shops to set up.
"We were going to use our 19th-century infrastructure, our trucks and our printing plants, to leapfrog into the 21st century," he recalled.
Even sub-orbital space tourism is still taking its first shaky steps, relatively speaking, so that's quite the leapfrog if Musk and co.
What the party leaders have done instead is punish states that try to leapfrog to the head of the primary and caucus calendar.
"[Walmart's] speed is allowing them to leapfrog and get hyper-competitive with Amazon in a short period of time," First Insight's Petro said.
The funding round is led by emerging markets investor LeapFrog Investments, with backing from existing stakeholders Accel Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV).
They got the three points they required to leapfrog their rivals when Tevez rifled home from 20 meters out with 18 minutes remaining.
By contrast, pulling out of the agreement could subject the United States to retaliatory trade measures, enabling other countries to leapfrog American industry.
Because of this kind of support, the ecosystem was able to leapfrog over less advanced technologies and move directly to more advanced ones.
World Cup winners Germany are pushing Adidas to leapfrog Nike's record contract with Euro 2016 hosts France worth 43 million euros a year.
What we're seeing is, is that they are seizing this opportunity, to leapfrog, and to accelerate, which is what this program is all about.
"This is the only way to leapfrog United States tax code in front of every other tax code around the world," said Nunes. Rep.
"What that does is give entrepreneurs opportunities to leapfrog over old technologies, old political structures, old institutions, and start forming their own," Obama said.
If Amazon decided it wanted to compete aggressively, it could throw a ton of cash and resources behind the problem and potentially leapfrog SoundHound.
The failure of the deal, which would have seen Electrolux leapfrog Whirlpool as the world's biggest appliances maker, raised questions about its future strategy.
Tianqi's interest in SQM comes as Beijing aggressively promotes electric vehicles to combat air pollution and help China's domestic carmakers leapfrog combustion engine brands.
The International Air Transport Association, a trade group, predicts that China will leapfrog America as the world's biggest market in the coming five years.
A gene drive, if it works, could leapfrog 100 years of learning and evolution and death at the sharp end of a cat's teeth.
Amazon would also gain a network of fresh-food warehouses that it could use to quickly leapfrog into being the only viable online grocer.
It sees the segment as an opportunity to leapfrog global automakers that had a nearly century-long head start in making internal combustion engines.
"China is ready to leapfrog the USA in AI. The US initiative has NO money," tweeted one skeptic, Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Karl Freund.
Musk tweeted earlier on Friday that customers shouldn't expect it to leapfrog the Model S in terms of tech — it's cheaper for a reason.
Lack of red tape and a less developed financial system have apparently allowed mainland China to leapfrog the developed world into embracing mobile payments.
She believes the continent could soon become a renewables superpower, and that it can leapfrog carbon-centered energy systems and go straight to renewables.
But there's a silver lining, said the spokesperson: the lack of legacy systems provide an opportunity for countries to leapfrog their progress to 5G.
Even if Djokovic wins, there is still time for Nadal to rescue his season, win more ranking points, and leapfrog the Serbian once again.
Left with little functioning electricity infrastructure, Somalia has the chance to leapfrog to a more nimble approach, using local grids powered by renewable energy.
But it retained some early-stage projects that it now believes have the potential to leapfrog rivals and be at the forefront of treatment.
Earlier this year, a record 35-day partial shutdown ended with Trump declaring a national emergency to leapfrog Congress and get more wall funding.
Bottom line: The combined company would leapfrog AT&T in size and come in just behind Verizon as the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
The best part is the dude backing away from Baker, which might be a smart play, but looks like he's scared to play leapfrog.
That's the biggest reason Instagram Stories was able to leapfrog Snapchat Stories so quickly — because the network was already there to adopt the format.
Observers have speculated since he took the job that Kurian could be looking to make megadeals to help Google leapfrog closer to cloud supremacy.
The team was asked to pursue her great white whale: a personalized search product that could leapfrog Apple's Siri, Google's Assistant and Microsoft's Cortana.
For retailers already ahead, the boon of excess cash falling to their bottom line means an opportunity to further leapfrog ahead of their competition.
JUMO's debt and equity round included participation from both new and existing investors, like Goldman Sachs, Odey Asset Management, and Leapfrog Investments, per TechStartups.com.
Demand from China is expected to leapfrog the United States and Western Europe, while India and new manufacturers like Vietnam are growing the fastest.
In 1958, Mao embarked on the Great Leap Forward, an ill-conceived dream to leapfrog Western countries through a series of rash economic policies.
When it developed the Leaf, CEO Carlos Ghosn signaled Nissan would leapfrog gasoline-hybrid technology and go straight to battery-powered cars with zero emissions.
One time I got caught watching deepthroat videos on my nephew's Leapfrog tablet that I modded when my own laptop crashed from watching deepthroat videos.
Mobile broadband, smartphones and social networks, combined with emerging technologies, can enable Africa entrepreneurs to leapfrog generations of broken legacy infrastructure bogging down developed countries.
If successful, such a development would effectively leapfrog the currently dominant mobile app economy and allow the company to create its own thriving digital ecosystem.
However, my crystal ball's telling me there's one particular Chinese phone maker that could finally leapfrog everyone and become a global powerhouse, and that's OnePlus.
Should they be built, CMA CGM's 22,000 TEU vessels will leapfrog the OOCL Hong Kong to take the crown of the world's largest container ships.
Combining market shares of 15.9% and 15.5% respectively, according to Kantar Worldpanel, the new entity would leapfrog the current market leader, Tesco, which has 27.6%.
If something like Sanders' bill did become law, it would "leapfrog the rest of the world," as the Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt put it.
"What's exciting and perhaps unexpected is the fact that IoT is enabling low-income, off-grid customers to leapfrog straight to solar power," says Moore.
When it developed the Leaf, CEO Carlos Ghosn signalled Nissan would leapfrog gasoline-hybrid technology and go straight to battery-powered cars with zero emissions.
The mobility and broader internet opportunity in the region is massive and untapped, and has the potential to leapfrog our region into the digital future.
I went to USC Marshall School of Business, which provided startup competitions and opportunities to help leapfrog entrepreneurship and was incredibly valuable for that reason.
Much of that content will come from LeapFrog Academy, a subscription-based service (three months included) that serves up thousands of educational activities and games.
In May, Volkswagen outlined plans to leapfrog Tesla in the electric car market, with a plan to sell 1 million battery driven vehicles by 2025.
"I'm looking at having obnoxious returns," Hamilton is quoted as saying in "Leapfrog," a 2018 book by investor Nathalie Molina Niño and author Sara Grace.
By investing $40 billion, the combination will help the United States leapfrog China in the race to develop the next generation of wireless, they said.
From satellites and missile defense systems to adaptive armor and cyber weapons, Israel has consistently found ways to circumvent or leapfrog financial and technological barriers.
Having reversed a decline in production, Congo is on track to leapfrog Equatorial Guinea to become sub-Saharan Africa's third-largest crude producer next year.
Amazon could leapfrog its competitors by combining that approach with its delivery prowess — bringing samples, and data-based ad targeting, to doorsteps in a visceral way.
If the US fleet decides to focus its efforts on the hypervelocity shells, it could quickly leapfrog past China's in terms of overall at-sea firepower.
Without the same levels of resources and funding at their disposal, it's hard to imagine Rubin and Essential will be able to leapfrog the whole industry.
China, with its lone time zone, gets absolutely smushed, while Greenland—with eastern territories that leapfrog across several time zones—grows a creepy pair of arms.
Whether such efforts will be enough to allow Africa to catch up with the rich world, let alone "leapfrog" ahead of it, remains far from certain.
The 33-year-old claimed up a sixth Indonesia Open title on Sunday to leapfrog China's Chen Long at the top of the latest world rankings.
Amid pressure to leapfrog mobile phone giants Apple and Google, Facebook pushed to buy virtual reality firm Oculus "in a moment's notice," in 2014, emails revealed.
Tianqi's interest comes as Beijing aggressively promotes electric vehicles to combat air pollution and help China's domestic carmakers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global brands.
That didn't quite work out, as Bottas put in a couple of very strong laps on used softs and managed to leapfrog Sainz despite stopping later.
Though the voice assistant arrived with a big splash, the company's inability to iterate the product quickly left its competitors ample opportunity to leapfrog its capabilities.
The second-biggest reason that Instagram Stories was able to leapfrog Snapchat Stories overnight is that it was built better — everything about it was just nicer.
But as we saw with the launch of AirPods, Apple's design expertise and native iOS integrations can allow its products to leapfrog what's in the market.
But Democrats are worried the Defense Department might try to leapfrog Congress by arguing sign-off from lawmakers was based on precedent, not a statutory requirement.
World number two Rafael Nadal, who will leapfrog Djokovic in the rankings if he wins in Paris, eased past France's Adrian Mannarino 7-5 6-4.
Even a quick leapfrog across the career of Takesada Matsutani, who was born in Osaka, Japan, and is now based in Paris, reveals tremendous formal variation.
Sources say it may leapfrog northern Africa to fly non-stop as far as Casablanca, a mission currently served from neighbouring Dubai by an Emirates A380.
The company is also giving itself the power to leapfrog general submissions by sending expedited cases directly to the board to ask for a speedy opinion.
Sources say it may leapfrog northern Africa to fly non-stop as far as Casablanca, a mission currently served from neighboring Dubai by an Emirates A380.
Plus, if you're tired of them begging for an iPad (or getting yours all sticky), there are even deals on kids 'tablets from Sprout, LeapFrog, and HighQ.
Developments in technology can give women a chance to "leapfrog" their male counterparts and correct workplace gender imbalances, according to the chairman and chief executive of ManpowerGroup.
Mobile payments — a more scalable, lower-cost alternative to traditional banking — are the region's leapfrog, with more than two-thirds of people on the continent owning smartphones.
I hope you like to play leapfrog, because I'm confident that in the coming years, we're going to see many more innovations like these pass us by.
"The pathway is in Chick-fil-A's favor in terms of continuing to leapfrog iconic chains that are still doing fine," said Technomic senior principal David Henkes.
But unlike CEO and designer Henrik Fisker's previous attempt at making a car and car company, the EMotion is trying to leapfrog a whole host of startups.
"In any given month, a brand is going to leapfrog another brand and come up with a brighter screen or bigger battery of faster charging," said Cavender.
In January, VTech Electronics — the parent company of popular educational brand LeapFrog — agreed to settle for a fine of $650,000 after charges that it violated children's privacy.
It mined 60 million tonnes of bauxite last year and is aiming to leapfrog Australia and China to become the world's leading producer of the aluminium ore.
Tesla's founder and chief, Elon Musk, feels that Teslas will leapfrog Waymo with an upgrade in 2020 that will make more than a million cars fully autonomous.
Ahmad is certain the only way out of Pakistan's energy crisis is to bypass the grid and leapfrog straight into low-carbon sources like wind and solar.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Emerging markets-focused LeapFrog Investment has bought a majority stake in Kenyan pharmacy chain GoodLife for $22 million, the private equity firm said on Wednesday.
LeapFrog, which previously invested in the Kenyan healthcare sector through medical insurer Resolution, said it paid $22 million, or 2.2 billion shillings, for the stake in GoodLife.
LONDON (Reuters) - India looks set to leapfrog Britain and France next year to become the world's fifth-largest economy in dollar terms, a report showed on Tuesday.
Ten weeks away from a midterm election that will determine whether Donald Trump faces a Congress of sharp oversight or blind obedience, let's leapfrog ahead to 2023.
Actually, cellphones have allowed a lot of these countries to totally leapfrog the absence of landlines and build infrastructure that has made people's lives a lot better.
"Considering our large consumer base, we aim to leapfrog and envision India as a global hub of manufacturing of electric vehicles," she said in the budget speech.
That reign at the top of the mobile pack may be a short one, because Samsung's new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones seem destined to leapfrog it.
A team of researchers led by MIT grad student Albert Kwon (with help from EPFL) aims to leapfrog Tor's anonymizing technique with a brand new platform called Riffle.
Roglic powered down the final descent from the Col d'Aubisque to beat Thomas by 19 seconds and leapfrog Froome, whose star continued to fade, into third place overall.
All of which adds up to a very 'Apple' device, wherein the company takes a pre-existing technology and gives it enough usability improvements to leapfrog the competition.
"Economically it's a no-brainer to go to solar where solar is able to leapfrog the grid in the same way that mobile has leapfrogged landlines," said Tozun.
LeapFrog also has the Leapband, meant for kids aged four to seven, that is packed with 50 built-in games that are supposed to help kids get moving.
But sales of the 777-300ER have picked up, and Boeing is working on plans to leapfrog the A350-1000 with an upgraded 3803X boasting over 400 seats.
For now, micro fuel cells give us a compelling vision for moving beyond batteries and possibly transforming how billions of people might leapfrog into the age of electricity.
While countries like the U.S. and EU member states have to backpedal their heavy carbon emissions, emerging markets could still leapfrog the most carbon-intensive approaches to urbanization.
Kendall Jenner is allegedly dating Los Angeles Lakers player Jordan Clarkson — rumors that were further solidified by the dangerous game of leapfrog they played at Coachella this weekend.
Whether Toyota will be able to leapfrog its rivals remains to be seen, however, as mass production requires a far more stringent level of quality control and reliability.
One of the continent's advantages is that it is able to "leapfrog" to new technology because older, more established, and more expensive, systems are often not in place.
"From a capital and environmental perspective, solar energy is a more cost-effective and competitive option with the potential to leapfrog grid power on the continent," he said.
The pharmacy retailer serves 600,000 customers from 19 outlets in East Africa, LeapFrog said, calling the deal the largest direct investment in East African retail pharmacy so far.
Court watchers say that in addition to being unusual, the strategy to leapfrog normal judicial order is aggressive and may undermine the solicitor general's credibility with the justices.
Congo expects to raise output by 25 percent to 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) next year and leapfrog Equatorial Guinea as sub-Saharan Africa's third-leading crude producer.
Because this was really redesigned to leapfrog America to the lead pack as one of the best places on the planet for that next new plant, new facility.
But she noted that that President Obama could leapfrog Congress and make the change on his own, and Congress could then pass the legislation to back him up.
In March, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told CNBC that countries like India are "leapfrog[ging]" over legacy financial technologies like credit cards and embracing digital payment methods instead.
When I began talking to others in the drone industry about Amazon's interest in autonomous flight, they all pointed out that drones offer a way to leapfrog roads.
The Sharks are three points behind the second-place Ducks in the Pacific, blowing a chance to leapfrog Anaheim with a 2327-231 loss at Arizona on Thursday.
That means he may name someone else to leapfrog Gordon and temporarily oversee America's 16 intelligence agencies, hundreds of thousands of staff, and more than $53 billion budget.
We're running the same experiment in politics: Voters, donors and journalists are all excited by the great leadership potential of young men who leapfrog up the political ladder.
When the United States went from Mr. Obama to Mr. Trump, it leapfrogged over the center right, and it may leapfrog over it again in the other direction.
"We see a real opportunity in the developing world to leapfrog forward and avoid the mistakes that have been made in other parts of the world," she said.
There were murmurs among some in the camp that those who signed up would leapfrog to the top of the 60,000-applicant waiting list for taxpayer-subsidized housing.
Soros fears that weakening Western tech companies would allow authoritarian regimes like the Chinese government, which actively exports its surveillance systems, to leapfrog the rest of the world.
The victory, Memphis' fourth straight, allowed the Grizzlies to leapfrog the Spurs into eighth place in the Western Conference standings as the NBA season nears its midway point.
Cheney also made clear she wants House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next GOP speaker, quashing any speculation she would try to leapfrog McCarthy.
But adding 4K support alone certainly won't help Apple leapfrog the competition right now, and Apple doesn't have anything else on tap to help Apple TV stand out.
Newmont can now move forward on its own planned takeover of Canada's Goldcorp Inc, a deal that will help it leapfrog Barrick to become the world's largest gold producer.
One whose high school coach once said he'd leapfrog offensive linemen to block field goals, one who could dunk a basketball in nothing but a pair of flip flops.
Federer had been expected to leapfrog British world number two Andy Murray in the ATP standings in February while expectant father Murray takes a paternity break from the game.
"In 12-24 months, our data business will leapfrog [our legacy focus] and drive this business to multiple-times more revenue," the Mirchandanis told TechCrunch in a recent interview.
"Whilst 2017 should see a good step forward, we are realistic in our expectations as we know that we won't leapfrog the midfield in a single season," he added.
Compared to a populist reformer like Brown, who authored the legislation that would have broken up the largest U.S. banks, I'm sure the industry would welcome a Bayh leapfrog.
Steve Johnson, who with one more victory would leapfrog Isner to become the top-ranked American player, prevailed over France's Julien Benneteau 3-6 6-2 7-6(5).
Critics of the practice though argue the 996 culture does not bode well for the sector's future, especially if China wants to leapfrog competitors, such as the United States.
With a single initial intrusion, Chinese spies could leapfrog to industries as varied as banking and finance, biotech, consumer electronics, health care, manufacturing, oil and gas, telecommunications, and more.
Instead, Milunovich predicted Apple will acquire firms which will allow the company to "leapfrog" its technology capability in areas such as transportation, augmented reality, health, home automation and content.
The government expects to raise output by 25 percent to 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) next year and leapfrog Equatorial Guinea as sub-Saharan Africa's third-leading crude producer.
Chinese phone maker Huawei made a bold prediction this week - it plans to surpass Apple as the second-biggest smartphone player in three years and leapfrog Samsung by 2021.
Granted, the process of creative destruction where new industries and fields form provides windows of opportunity where people with new, important knowledge can leapfrog others with more overall experience.
I thought, "We have a chance to create a whole new structure that will leapfrog," kind of the way people, I guess, go right to mobile phones or something.
Surprisingly pipped by David Gleirscher in the opening run, Loch found extra pace in his second to leapfrog the Austrian with an aggregate time of one minute 35.299 seconds.
His consistent front-runner status makes him a clear target for his rivals, who are eager to leapfrog him in the polls before voting begins in Iowa in February.
Head back to the apartment and watch how the city empties out, or leapfrog the hordes and try to beat the traffic north or east or west or south.
The project is the latest move in a game of leapfrog played by Airbus and Boeing in the market for big twinjets, valued at $1.9 trillion over 20 years.
NBC, which led all the broadcast networks with just under 12 million viewers, could leapfrog Fox News when Nielsen releases final viewership data for the broadcast networks later Wednesday.
And the delicious part of this was that we were going to use our 19th-century infrastructure, our trucks and our printing plants, to leapfrog into the 21st century.
"This demonstrates that AS is prepared to use (this method) to leapfrog around the AU Mission to Somalia and Somali Federal Government forces," says John Steed, of Oceans Beyond Piracy.
Although $7bn is a tiny slice of Goldman's portfolio, it is huge compared with the investments of even well-established impact specialists, such as LeapFrog, whose commitments total around $1bn.
Despite being decades behind the U.S. space program, China is clearly catching up and using what Chinese experts call the "latecomer's advantage" - exploiting the latest technologies to leapfrog space advancements.
Despite being decades behind the U.S. space program, China is clearly catching up and using what Chinese experts call the "latecomer's advantage" — exploiting the latest technologies to leapfrog space advancements.
The Briton was on course to finish tenth and score a point after a quick pitstop by his Renault team allowed him to leapfrog the Force India of Nico Hulkenberg.
Maryland has the most raw talent in the league, and with a win, the Terps will leapfrog over Indiana and put themselves in position to claim the Big Ten crown.
Cuba's outdated technical infrastructure – including limited Internet access and connectivity and lagging cell phone and computer usage – offers a golden opportunity to "leapfrog" rapidly into a new generation of technology.
Despite the new narrow band IoT protocol, there is a lack of overall global standardisation, such as the common GSM protocol that allowed Europe to leapfrog others in mobile telephony.
Almost two decades ago, contemplating Arnold Schwarzenegger's run to become governor of California, political scientist Darrell M. West wrote about why celebrities are often able to "leapfrog" established career politicians.
Google TangoFor years and years, Google has tried to do something remarkable in the augmented reality space with Project Tango, and it looks like Apple is about to leapfrog it.
"Drones, data and artificial intelligence are leapfrog technologies that allow more informed and agile development response and potentially accelerate economic growth in the region," UNICEF Malawi Representative Rudolf Schwenk said.
The Bears, slated to draft third behind the 49ers, sent three other picks to San Francisco to swap first-round places and leapfrog them to select the North Carolina quarterback.
Instead, it has historically come in a bit later with a leapfrog product — products that defined the potential and the high watermark for what each of these technologies could become.
The Covington brief said DOJ's explanation that a stay of the Alsup injunction would not protect the administration from litigating other DACA suits is no reason to leapfrog normal appellate procedures.
They are now one point behind City and Arsenal in third place but Liverpool, who are two points further back, can leapfrog them with a win over Manchester United on Monday.
The company told CNBC in a recent interview that it plans to surpass Apple as the second-biggest smartphone player in the world in three years and leapfrog Samsung by 2021.
Lithium is a key ingredient in rechargeable batteries and China has aggressively promoted electric vehicles to combat air pollution and help domestic carmakers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global brands.
The Timberwolves (44-123) are deep in the hunt for the playoffs, and the win on Friday allowed them to leapfrog New Orleans into sixth place in the Western Conference standings.
After an eagle, two bogeys and three birdies on the front nine, American DeChambeau picked up shots at the 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th holes to leapfrog above Poulter and Kim.
Marathon Petroleum said on Monday it would buy rival Andeavor for more than $23 billion, forming a company that would leapfrog Valero Energy as the largest independent U.S. refiner by capacity.
"You have to watch China because the question is how much will they leapfrog," said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at OPIS, a company that provides oil price information.
For the past two years, New York City has been pushing an initiative to leapfrog Silicon Valley — and the rest of the world's leading tech hubs — in one particular industry: cybersecurity.
Warren was able to leapfrog the traditional résumé demands of statewide candidates via inadvertent boosts from both a timorous Barack Obama and the most inept Democratic Senate candidate in recent memory.
China's domestic market is expected to leapfrog the United States and Western Europe to become the largest aviation hub, while India and new manufacturing markets like Vietnam are growing the fastest.
The growing GOP frustration over the treatment of Trump's nominees comes after Republicans changed the rules on some committees to leapfrog Democratic boycotts and approve Trump's nominees without a Democrat present.
The move is the latest unusual filing at the high court by an administration that appears eager to leapfrog over appeals courts that have previously sided with challengers to the administration's policies.
The win, on a balmy day by New England standards — the game-time temperature was 20 degrees — allowed them to leapfrog idle Florida and move into first place in the Atlantic Division.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China could "leapfrog" the United States in certain technological capabilities in coming years, thanks to its burgeoning investment in research and development, the head of Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.
Sock, who started the week in 24th position in the Race to London, needed to win the title to leapfrog Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta to ensure he will play in the Nov.
Now it appears Google may leapfrog Amazon by adding actual microphones to its hardware, so you don't need to additionally set up a Google smart speaker in that room of your house.
The new iPad Pro's insane performance is evidence enough that Apple's custom silicon has already surpassed and will likely leapfrog Intel's chips by an order of a magnitude in a few years.
With about $20 billion in revenue, that new agribusiness spinoff would leapfrog Monsanto, the St. Louis-based seed and tech powerhouse with $15 billion in revenue in its latest fiscal year. Sen.
There's also the LeapFrog LeapBand, which is aimed at kids aged four to seven and comes with 50 built-in games or "challenges" that are supposed to incentivize kids to get moving.
This is where the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc has an opportunity to leapfrog to the forefront, putting it in the top five digital economies in the world by 2025.
An even balance between comedic relief and outright horror, Velvet Buzzsaw's various vignettes leapfrog between genres like many projects before it, but truly shine when forcing the two opposing tones to collide.
As many users in the developing world leapfrog passed desktop computers and straight to smartphones, Facebook's mobile-only user count grew to 894 million, up 8.62 percent from 823 million last quarter.
It's easy to leapfrog this month, what with Nintendo delivering The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and a little thing called Switch) and BioWare launching Mass Effect: Andromeda in March.
Finally, I asked Gadowski if he is considering acquiring smaller e-scooter startups in Europe (or perhaps elsewhere), as part of a roll-up strategy that would help the company leapfrog competitors.
Supporters of Saudi-related legislation could try to leapfrog Risch by requesting their bill be put directly on the Senate calendar, which would allow leadership to bring it up for floor action.
There are reasons to be optimistic about emerging markets with the region able to satisfy the growing trend for ethical investments, according to Jim Roth, founder of private equity firm Leapfrog Investments.
That's why the United States was able to leapfrog over the older, more established, more socialistic nations of Europe to become the world's dominant power in the middle of the last century.
"I think Postmates is in a very unique position to leapfrog itself and continue be the leader in the on-demand delivery space," Byttow told TechCrunch at the time of the acquisition.
To leapfrog American tariffs, some Pacific-based corporations that can't afford to be excluded from the U.S. market may move manufacturing stateside, which would harmonize with the White House's wishes, Capri explained.
For Ford, investing in Rivian is a way to leapfrog the competition and get new ideas from a start-up as it and other automakers race to prepare for an electrified future.
Trotz's Islanders beat the defending champion Washington Capitals, 2-0, on Friday night to win their fourth in a row and leapfrog his former team into first place in the Metropolitan Division.
"This court should not allow petitioners to leapfrog lower court consideration," Ken Paxton, Texas' attorney general, said in the court filing, adding that the case was "unripe for review" at this time.
Based on Android, it's not the most flexible device you will find, but LeapFrog uses its expertise in the field to deliver a tablet that children of all ages can figure out.
Fortunately, new technologies such as Natural Language Processing exist which can leapfrog previous impediments to linking together various agencies' legacy IT systems, which until fairly recently might have been substantial technological barriers.
If they succeed in collecting signatures from a majority — a challenge in the Republican-controlled House — their legislation can then leapfrog the committee process and come to the floor for a vote.
The e-commerce behemoth's apparel and footwear gross sales is expected to top $30 billion this year and leapfrog longtime incumbent Walmart for the top spot, wrote Wells Fargo analyst Ike Boruchow.
The goal was Ronaldo&aposs 10th this term in the top flight, and it saw Juventus leapfrog Inter Milan into the top spot in Serie A.Read more of our soccer coverage here.
The Horned Frogs made their final six field goals of the half and got a 3-pointer from Nembhard with 29 seconds remaining to leapfrog to a 39-38 lead at halftime.
As a result, the 26-year-old will leapfrog Simona Halep to rise to third in the singles rankings as the Japanese prepares to defend her Australian Open crown later this month.
Interest in the field spiked after a Bell Labs researcher authored an algorithm that a quantum computer could use to break long encryption keys, showing how the technology might leapfrog conventional machines.
Beijing is promoting electric vehicles to combat air pollution and help domestic carmakers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global auto brands, making battery and lithium producers attractive assets for Chinese firms.
All four films are prestige projects that are more obvious choices for Academy voters, so Deadpool would need to leapfrog them in a history-making upset to actually come away with the gold.
The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing an event around its "Electronics Resurgence Initiative," an effort to leapfrog existing chip tech by funding powerful but unproven new ideas percolating in the industry.
Leapfrog Group says its scores are worse than average for different kinds of infections, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it ranks below the national average on safety of care.
China's central government sees electric vehicles as a way for its industry to leapfrog ahead of international competitors, that have decades more experience in making petrol cars, while also reducing intense urban smog.
Ms. Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, has devoted vast resources to search technology — particularly on mobile devices — in an attempt to leapfrog Google, though the company has little to show for it so far.
Trump rejected one bipartisan proposal from a handful of senators, a blueprint that also drew pushback from GOP senators who warned that the group had tried to leapfrog the rest of the chamber.
Tablet shopping on a budget usually goes like this:  You shop for five minutes, realize your only options are the Amazon Fire tablets or one that looks like a LeapFrog, and you're out.
"That really helps customers think about a leapfrog strategy, where they can maintain the existing VMs but benefit from the operational model of Kubernetes," Google VP of product management Jennifer Lin told me.
Tianqi's interest comes as Beijing aggressively promotes electric vehicles - lithium is a key ingredient in rechargeable batteries - to combat air pollution and help domestic carmakers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global brands.
Manufacturing and designing chips for the internet of things and AI applications offers an opportunity to leapfrog less agile chip companies, even if it is not the wholesale opportunity that electric vehicles present.
And if FX winds up showing it in 2018, the series will surely leapfrog a Princess Diana plotline from Netflix's "The Crown," a Golden Globe-winning drama about the life of Queen Elizabeth.
His sheer drive, his focus and his willingness to leapfrog in a country where most success is built step by step make him more like the entrepreneurs he admires than a typical politician.
Relatively few people own cars here, so Uber's long-term goal is to leapfrog Western-style car-ownership culture and move directly into a society where people don't buy cars, they hail Ubers.
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, where only about a third of the population have bank accounts but at least sixty per cent have cell phones, mobile payments have begun to leapfrog over paper currency.
The startup's CEO sees the model as a classic leapfrog tech business, effectively bypassing Nigeria's deficient electricity grid and providing a less capital intensive alternative to large (and often complicated) energy infrastructure projects.
Acting in part on Mr. Sessions's alarm about activist judges, the Justice Department has sought to leapfrog intermediate courts and has requested immediate relief from the Supreme Court in these and other disputes.
Demand should also get a major boost as China, the world's top auto market, aggressively promotes electric vehicles to combat air pollution and help domestic carmakers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global brands.
Washington has offered flight launch technology that is being inducted into its own carriers to fly heavier fighter planes off the deck, which could allow the Indian navy to leapfrog a generation of technology.
" Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist who advised the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, said some Republicans are interested in climate policy, but, he added, "They are focusing on innovation and leapfrog technologies.
Steady releases could definitely help Ring hold its own against competitors like August, and even leapfrog some companies like Nest that once looked poised to make a strong showing in the home security space.
The theory that Bayh, who previously served in the Senate from 1999 to 2011 before not seeking reelection, could leapfrog to the top of the committee has been floating in financial circles for weeks.
Brandon Belt also went deep for the Giants, who have won the first two games of this four-game series to leapfrog the Diamondbacks in the chase for a National League wild-card spot.
The country's dominance in that particular debt market followed its 220 record of 43 deals totaling $33.17 billion, which allowed it to leapfrog traditional green financing giants such as the United States and France.
Battery and lithium producers have represented attractive assets for Chinese firms, amid a push by Beijing to promote electric vehicles and help domestic car makers leapfrog the combustion engine to build global auto brands.
Oregon State likely can't finish in the top four of the Pac-12 Conference standings, but the Beavers can definitely leapfrog a few teams if they win games like Sunday's against visiting Washington State.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to leapfrog federal appeals courts in several cases concerning the president's decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military.
After Ledgard's meeting with Kagame, Gasana and his colleagues had drafted the first commercial-drone regulations on the continent, a model for other countries looking to "leapfrog into the future," as he put it.
Once the Supreme Court declined to leapfrog the appellate courts to immediately take up the issue, it ensured that DACA renewals would continue for at least a few months, given the appeals process schedule.
The risk for the industry is that advances in battery technology — which allows surplus wind and solar power to be stored for future use — could allow the world to leapfrog gas direct to renewables.
Clearly, Africa's rapidly-expanding urban areas require improvement to basic infrastructure -- and the use of technology to leapfrog otherwise expensive developments; instead of building more parking spots, build more lift-automated smart car parks.
Remember, mainland China in 2025, they told us it was to leapfrog us and to converge on advanced chip design, robotics and artificial intelligence to converge eventually with genetics to converge on advanced manufacturing.
" —EY's CEO, Mark Weinberger on gender and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Read more here: Tech can help women 'leapfrog' men in the workplace: Manpower CEO "The top 1 percent is not carrying their own weight.
The company recently released its flagship P9 smartphone and told CNBC in February that it will surpass Apple as the second-biggest smartphone player in the world in three years and leapfrog Samsung by 2021.
The bottom line: "We are unnecessarily killing thousands of people every year because hospital quality is not what it should be," said Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group, an organization that grades hospital care.
From that perspective, it certainly makes sense for Apple to, at the very least, explore what's possible and to make sure that some of its key competitors can't leapfrog them in important new consumer technologies.
For another, unbeatens such as Miami and Wisconsin or one-loss teams such as Ohio State and Penn State could easily leapfrog the best of the Big 12 into the semifinals with undefeated finishing stretches.
Noren is 633,436 adrift of his countryman but if he finishes first or second and Stenson is outside the top eight and Willet outside top two, then he can leapfrog them both in the standings.
GM is looking to leapfrog its competitors in the autonomous driving space by deploying a larger fleet of cars than any of them — perhaps as many as 300, according to documents obtained by IEEE Spectrum.
Although GSK sold its established cancer medicines to Novartis three years ago, it retained some early-stage projects that it now believes have the potential to leapfrog rivals and be at the forefront of treatment.
The Leapfrog Group, a national non-profit focused on health care quality, has C-section rates for many hospitals across the US. Simply Googling and asking around at your local hospital might yield additional information.
Even if headhunters call them with amazing and legitimate roles that could seriously impact their earning potential or career trajectory, people say no to themselves all the time, allowing others less-qualified to leapfrog them.
Given the huge variation in C-section rates per hospital, Dr. Shah suggests checking on your hospital's rates, which are available by calling the facility or on sites like Leapfrog and rankings in Consumer Reports.
Lowering the cost of launch has been the focus of some of the most successful space startups out there, and SpinLaunch aims to leapfrog their cost savings by offering orbital access for less than $500,000.
TV.  "We've got a lot of opportunity to leapfrog the technologies that are right behind us, and really go forward to where we all want to see the cities of the future be," he added.
"This fresh investment comes from new and existing…investors including Goldman Sachs, Odey Asset Management and LeapFrog Investments," Jumo said in a statement —  though Goldman told TechCrunch its participation in this week's round isn't confirmed.
"This fresh investment comes from new and existing…investors including Goldman Sachs, Odey Asset Management and LeapFrog Investments," Jumo said in a statement — though Goldman told TechCrunch its participation in this week's round isn't confirmed.
"Our government shall work towards taking the country forward so that we can leapfrog to the next level of health, prosperity and well-being," said Mr. Modi's finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing the budget.
But the state moved in 2628 to leapfrog its way to Super Tuesday, the March 28503 primary day when more than a third of delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be up for grabs.
The German, whose last victory was at the Belgian Grand Prix in August 2018, started third but made the most of an early pitstop to leapfrog the unhappy Monegasque, who had led from pole position.
The Supreme Court, this week, rejected the Trump administration's request to leapfrog over an appeals court and hear their request to overturn an injunction requiring DACA to stay on the books while ligation plays out.
The Stars, who were trying to leapfrog the Nashville Predators and Winnipeg Jets and catch the Los Angeles Kings and Vancouver Canucks for eighth place in the West, saw two more players leave with injuries.
"The Subway Stops at Bryant Park" (Leapfrog Press) by N. West Moss is a charming anthology that celebrates an oasis for all seasons and breathes life into quotidian characters who might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Li's business ambitions appear to align with those of China's government, which wants to strengthen the country's high-tech expertise and leapfrog global auto rivals by becoming a leader in electric vehicles and autonomous driving.
First up, the long shots: two young teams that are on the right track, and could leapfrog teams in front of them as early as next season if they make a few creative moves this summer.
While Goldman is the lead — and standout name — the round also saw participation from existing backers that include Proparco — which is attached to the French Development Agency — Finnfund, Vostok Emerging Finance, Gemcorp Capital, and LeapFrog Investments.
AR, with it its emphasis of optimising images as well as making them more lifelike and movable, will change all that and maybe even help commerce and design online leapfrog ahead of the real-world experience.
It's going to be a fascinating battle when it plays out to see whether, like Uber's cowboy start, tech companies can leapfrog regulation and force the hand of the legislatures with the help of consumer demand.
"The mobility and broader internet opportunity in the region is massive and untapped, and has the potential to leapfrog our region into the digital future," Careem CEO and co-founder Mudassir Sheikha said in a statement.
In Africa, the IoT is enabling customers to leapfrog over the conventional electricity grid and go straight to "mobile power" — in a similar way that they have already leapfrogged over conventional telecommunications grids to mobile communications.
Lee, who lost the last two Olympic singles finals to China's Lin Dan, beat Denmark's Jan Jorgensen in the final in Jakarta and will leapfrog China's Chen Long when the world rankings are released this week.
Huawei has made a bold prediction, saying it plans to surpass Apple as the second-biggest smartphone player in the world in three years and leapfrog Samsung by 2021, a top executive told CNBC on Sunday.
The cellar-dwelling Reds look to continue their recent dominance of the visiting Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday, when they attempt to complete a three-game sweep and leapfrog their National League Central rivals in the standings.
India is currently considered the third largest domestic civil aviation market in the world, but is tipped to leapfrog the U.S. and sit behind China by 2022, according to forecasts from the International Air Transport Association.
Echoing concerns voiced by several Republicans, Alexander noted that Trump could set a precedent for a future Democratic president to leapfrog Congress and enforce policies that Republicans would oppose, including on gun violence or climate change.
China's central government has spent billions in subsidies to aggressively promote battery electric and plug-in hybrid cars, aiming to cut urban air pollution and encourage domestic car makers to leapfrog global competitors in automotive technology.
Mets 2, Marlins 1 | 2015 Innings Entering a critical week in which the Mets were to face a team they must leapfrog to keep their playoff hopes alive, their roster was battered and bruised yet again.
At the same time, Yahoo devoted just a couple of slides to important strategies, like its costly Hail Mary project to create an entirely new mobile search experience to leapfrog competitors like Google, Apple and Amazon.
Marggraff is a serial entrepreneur/inventor who created the LeapFrog LeapPad and Livescribe Smartpen, both pieces of tech that were both undoubtedly on your tech-saavy kids' Christmas lists at some point over the past decade.
Beijing has spent billions of dollars promoting electric and plug-in hybrid cars to help the domestic auto industry develop the technology to leapfrog global competitors, while also reducing frequent bouts of heavy urban air pollution.
India's plan to leapfrog hybrid technology comes after China announced aggressive measures last year to push sales of plug-in vehicles including subsidies, research funding and rules designed to discourage fossil-fuel cars in big cities.
"The biometric technology is enabling a lot of charities and organizations to leapfrog a computer-based system and go straight from a paper-based system to a mobile system," Simprints co-founder Alexandra Grigore told CNN.
Leapfrog over the age of computer-generated imagery and even the golden age of hand-drawn cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, and Mickey Mouse, and delve into the masterworks of the earliest years of animation.
Board member Alfred Schindler, part of the Schindler family, told Reuters this week the company would launch antitrust legal action should Kone Ojy and Thyssenkrupp pursue a combination that would leapfrog Otis and Schindler in size.
But I really want to see you back in the game with a leapfrog moment — one that redefines assistance in the user's image, that operates in my interests, that shifts from tedious recommendation to blissful anticipation.
What's more, he's been working with a team on nano-materials for hydrides and expects a "massive leapfrog" in power-to-weight in coming years; eventually, he says, he wants energy density competitive with fossil fuels.
"If you believe that lifelong learning and learnability is going to be a key driver of your employability, women have a great opportunity to leapfrog based on their educational background and reset their competitive contribution," he said.
Still, experts say his position as heir apparent is solid and that he would have to stumble badly for someone else to leapfrog him and become the next president in Cuba's arcane system for choosing its leader.
Before then, though, it had looked as if seventh-placed Everton were about to leapfrog United in the table on goal difference when a rare and deft Phil Jagielka goal gave the visitors a first-half lead.
Boise State (17-10, 8-6 Mountain West) had a chance to leapfrog New Mexico (16-10, 33-4) into second place in the conference with a win, but the Broncos failed to capitalize on Drmic's performance.
But Bixby will (eventually) feature advanced AI that could leapfrog Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri when it comes to speech comprehension, and Samsung's enormous scale could make it a dominant player in the emerging voice-assistant space.
There has been some consolidation among the mid-sized auditors, with BDO set to leapfrog Grant Thornton by merging with Moore Stephens, although Bodin said this would not put pressure on his firm to find more partners.
But thanks to a happy combination of innovation and falling costs for renewable energy, Africa may now be able to leapfrog ahead not once but twice, skipping both polluting fossil fuels and, often, the electricity grid itself.
Echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on lowering cash usage, Patel urged people to start using cash substitutes such as debit cards and digital wallets that would help India "leapfrog into a less-cash economy", PTI reported.
Rather than cast himself as the equal of his contemporaries in US pop and hip-hop, he would leapfrog them, leveraging the borderless nature of streaming services to take his vision for Latin music to new horizons.
It may seem surprising that the star that built IBM's Watson artificial intelligence (AI) platform quit the corporate Goliath to work at Viome, a start-up launched Wednesday that aims to leapfrog medical breakthroughs in microbiome science.
Last month marked the 15-year anniversary of the Concorde's final flight, but right now, a handful of aerospace outfits are working to leapfrog supersonic travel and launch straight into the Mach 5 world of hypersonic propulsion.
So, although the United States enters the race today with large advantages that did not spring entirely from the marketplace, other nations see this new era of precision medicine as an opportunity to leapfrog into pre-eminence.
On paper there are some reasons why GDP per person might increase much faster in emerging economies than in rich ones: for example, they might be able to leapfrog generations of technology, learning from rich countries' experience.
MORE (Ariz.),  warned earlier Thursday that they could not support moving forward with a "skinny" repeal bill until they got a guarantee that the House would not leapfrog a conference with the Senate and pass the bill.
Monfils, who needs to reach the last four to leapfrog Berrettini in the race to London after the Italian was eliminated in the second round at Bercy, beat Moldova's Radu Albot 4-6 6-53 6-1.
Those parties have taken over seats long held by the two traditional parties, Mr. Rajoy's conservative Popular Party and the Socialists, but not enough of them to leapfrog above the older parties and present a viable alternative.
While the company had a niche appeal, many analysts have speculated that Amazon's true motivation for buying PillPack is to leapfrog its way into the broader prescription drug business because PillPack has pharmacy licenses in 50 states.
"The mobility and broader internet opportunity in the region is massive and untapped, and has the potential to leapfrog our region into the digital future," Mudassir Sheikha, Careem's co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.
Starting the day in sixth, seven minutes, 42 seconds behind race leader Primos Roglic, Quintana finished ten seconds behind Gilbert to leapfrog team mate Alejandro Valverde into second place after gaining five minutes on the red jersey.
Why not leapfrog the peace process — which has dragged on without real results since the 1979 Camp David accords, almost as long as the Jews wandered in the desert with Moses — to unite the region against terror?
Anthony, a four-time Olympian and the Team USA leader, finished with a game-high 31 points to leapfrog David Robinson and LeBron James on the list of all-time leading scorers at the Olympics among American players.
Its range of up to 4,700 nautical miles - about 15% more than the previous A321LR - will leapfrog the out-of-production Boeing 757 and nudges it into the long-jump category occupied by more costly wide-body jets.
The new round takes Jumo to $90 million raised from investors and also saw participation from existing backers that include Proparco — which is attached to the French Development Agency — Finnfund, Vostok Emerging Finance, Gemcorp Capital, and LeapFrog Investments.
With the Nate Diaz-Conor McGregor rematch headlining UFC 202, maybe the publicity boost will allow the winner of Condit versus Maia to leapfrog Stephen Thompson and, with all those eyeballs, emerge as an heir apparent at welterweight.
Its range of up to 7373,700 nautical miles - about 15% more than the previous A321LR - will leapfrog the out-of-production Boeing 757 and nudges it into the long-jump category occupied by more costly wide-body jets.
Earlier this year, Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer business group told CNBC that the company plans to surpass Apple as the second-biggest smartphone player in the world in three years and leapfrog Samsung by 2021.
Its range of up to 4,700 nautical miles - about 93% more than the previous A321LR - will leapfrog the out-of-production Boeing 757 and nudges it into the long-jump category occupied by more costly wide-body jets.
Volkswagen is ramping up production of electric cars to around 1 million vehicles by end of 2022, according to manufacturing plans seen by Reuters, enabling the German car maker to leapfrog Tesla and making China the key battleground.
"That Europe has moved more quickly than the United States to impose a broadly applicable requirement that parties use the LEI highlights the challenge of entrenched interests and the way newcomers can leapfrog over incumbents," the researchers added.
Long seen as a cheap, no frills brand in China and unheard of in Europe, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group purchased struggling Swedish carmaker Volvo from Ford in 2010 to help it leapfrog a decade of research and development.
The Stars did the Ducks a favor by rallying for a 22-33 victory over Pacific Division-leading Los Angeles on Saturday, giving Anaheim a chance to leapfrog the Kings into first place with a victory on Sunday.
Until then, the only decision to make is whether it would be better value for rural areas to leapfrog straight to fibre-to-the-home, or whether a cheaper fibre-copper hybrid would benefit more people more quickly.
BECKY QUICK: The-- WARREN BUFFETT: That-- but somebody could come along and leapfrog something in the way of the technology and add some benefits that-- as-- that would be the more competitive threat to me than price competition.
The 21 billion pound ($20.7634 billion) deal to buy the UK arm of Walmart, a transaction that could see the combined group leapfrog Tesco as Britain's biggest retailer, is being assessed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Michigan is just 2-5 against teams currently ranked in the top-25 with all five losses coming by double digits, but can leapfrog Purdue in the conference standings with their third consecutive home win in the series.
The companies last week unveiled plans to create a $50 billion group that would leapfrog Hyundai, General Motors, Ford and Honda to become the world's No.20213 automaker, based on their combined 8.7 million vehicles sold last year.
We don't think this means that immuno-oncology rivals will leapfrog Merck, but both Bristol and Roche could have front-line non-small cell lung cancer data in late 2017/early 2018 that could further weigh on sentiment.
But the idea has sparked pushback from some Republicans on Capitol Hill who warn it will spark a lengthy court battle and set a precedent for a future Democratic president to use the declaration to leapfrog congressional Republicans.
"She is trying to take skin from Pete, who has the overall vote share lead in Iowa and is the one she needs to leapfrog to take on Biden in the moderate vote lane," one Democratic strategist said.
Volkswagen is ramping up production of electric cars to around 1 million vehicles by end of 2022, according to manufacturing plans seen by Reuters, enabling the German carmaker to leapfrog Tesla Inc and making China the key battleground.
This will bring a mix of classic franchises and favorite characters to the channel, like Care Bears, The Cat in the Hat, Leapfrog, Little Baby Bum, My Little Pony, Rev & Roll, Super Mario Brothers, Thomas & Friends and more.
After recently forming an alliance with a radical party, United Left, it could now leapfrog over the Socialists into second place, behind the conservative Popular Party of the caretaker prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, according to recent opinion polls.
Sanofi may have missed the first wave of immunotherapy drugs that help fight tumors by removing brakes on the immune system, but Zerhouni hopes to "leapfrog" forward by focusing on new approaches and testing multiple cancer drug combinations.
In other words, New Hampshire can leapfrog in front of any other state who tries to hold a primary before it, a way that state has been able to retain its first-in-the-nation status for decades.
There he excelled in seven starts, compiling a 6-1 record with a 1.66 E.R.A. He is the first Mets starting pitcher to leapfrog two levels, from Class AA to the major leagues, since Mike Pelfrey in 2006.
After Republicans took control of the House in the 6900 midterms, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders successfully championed Cummings as the top Democrat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, helping him leapfrog over the more senior Rep.
"Champions put you in an opportunity that you've never had before, and they help you leapfrog," Beck says during our conversation about women and leadership in the latest installment of my Two Questions series with prominent female executives.
The Video hub heavily features Facebook's Live broadcasts, and will roll out on iOS and Android in the coming weeks alongside a slew of Live upgrades including: The upgrades leapfrog Facebook Live's competitor Periscope, which is owned by Twitter.
Sunday's 6-1 1-6 6-3 victory over German Alexander Zverev on the Rome dirt ensured the 31-year-old would leapfrog Roger Federer and become world number one for a sixth time ahead of the French Open.
The only benefit of having poor infrastructure is that once in a generation — when people, policy and timing align — a country can reboot and leapfrog the developed world because there is no material incumbent investment or scale to protect.
The Volkswagen car brand said it is confident it will "leapfrog" the competition and become a leader in electric cars by 225 as it redirects its attention to battery-powered vehicles and emerges from the 202020 diesel emissions scandal.
While he has since led the party to two defeats in national elections, he has managed to keep at bay Podemos, an upstart and radical party that hoped to leapfrog the Socialists to become Spain's main left-wing party.
African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect Over the last two years South Africa passed commercial drone legislation to train and license pilots, and Malawi opened a Drone Test Corridor to African and global partners.
"Both the Russians and the Chinese have concluded that the way to leapfrog the US is with AI," says Bob Work, a distinguished senior fellow at CNAS who served as deputy secretary of defense under Presidents Obama and Trump.
"The ecosystem is constantly changing, and if there's somebody who comes to us with an idea of how we can kind of leapfrog forward in that environment, we're going to listen to them," Ellis said in an interview with Reuters.
The founder and CEO of some Finnish company I'd never heard of had just told me he and his team of 19 people had managed to leapfrog virtual reality 20 years into the future—and he gives me an Oculus Rift?
The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off-grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.
Based on this strict cutoff date, the district court sped up its review of the case and the justices granted a very rare petition permitting the government to leapfrog the circuit court of appeals and proceed directly to the Supreme Court.
African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect Many verticals that involve outdoor work have the potential for drone-based analytics and services, but SenseHawk is sticking to the industry it knows best for the time being.
While Samsung and Apple enjoy a loyal customer install base in the U.S., their grip on the market is quickly loosening as Chinese smartphone makers not only compete on design but leapfrog their latest phones with new flashy new innovations.
BMW's decision to leapfrog to the most advanced level is ambitious, but it's working with Intel and that chipmaker's newly acquired self-driving hardware and systems subsidiary Mobileye on its autonomous tech, so it's definitely not starting from a dead stop.
Chinese automakers have invested billions in developing electric and petrol-electric hybrid vehicles at the direction of the government, which sees green cars as a way to leapfrog global competitors more experienced in traditional petrol engines while also cutting heavy pollution.
"Other nations that are investing more heavily in robotics and, specifically, in developing a legal and policy infrastructure for emerging technology will leapfrog the United States in innovation for the first time since the creation of steampower," Calo wrote in 2014.
"We're not proposing to leapfrog Iowa or New Hampshire or Nevada or South Carolina for that matter, so I think there's going be a lot to be said for candidates who earn support and build momentum," he told The Hill.
The deal, which would see the combined group leapfrog Tesco to become Britain's biggest food retailer, sent shares in Sainsbury's up 17 percent by 1200 GMT and on course for their biggest one-day gain since 1983, Thomson Reuters data showed.
I remember the moment when it became clear that by getting off the poles, the mobile communications industry would change the lives of billions of people in emerging markets and allow them to leapfrog their way into the communications age.
So I continue to make the case that while it is a new and difficult debate on border adjustability, it's important that we solve it and maintain it in the final version, because that's critical for us to leapfrog to the lead pack.
And it means elevating a veteran for whom fans have a soft spot above a logjam of fighters in their primes, who are presumably not thrilled at the idea that Old Man Henderson could leapfrog them on his way out the door.
Founded by a former Leapfrog exec, Nancy MacIntyre, Fingerprint has its own library of kids' mobile applications, as well as a framework that allows developers to integrate their own apps into Fingerprint's platform, plus those of partners like Astro Play or Sylan Play.
Allowing Huawei to develop a global supplier monopoly with 5G technology could enable China to quickly leapfrog the West in developing the next generation space-based 6G networks that are already beginning to appear on some drawing boards, at least in academia.
Beyond powering our devices 100 times longer than batteries, this refueling model of personal power systems might also set the stage for a "leapfrog" energy scenario that brings billions of people into the age of electricity by delivering clean fuels to retail shelves.
"I hope that Go-Jek will be talked about 10 years from now — 20 years from now — as the company that proved technology is actually the key enabler in unleashing an economy, in making it leapfrog into the next stage of societal evolution. "
The idea behind Selco, and other companies like it, is to create a business model that will help some of the 1.2 billion people in the world who don't have electricity to leapfrog the coal-dependent grid straight to renewable energy sources.
Why it matters: The Party sees this next technology revolution as both a way to leapfrog ahead of other nations in its quest to become the leading technology superpower of the 21st century and to enhance its control over the population. 5.
Much as mobile telephony has helped the poor leapfrog landlines and bricks-and-mortar banking services, a handful of tech-savvy entrepreneurs are seeking to provide widespread access to clean, cheap energy with local systems, metered and paid for by mobile phone.
She warned in her American University speech that both Russia and China "are hard at work developing technologies and tactics to leapfrog the United States, in areas like cyber, robotics and artificial intelligence," while U.S. leaders have been "focused on wars" elsewhere.
The 20-year-old, competing in her first-ever LPGA major, birdied seven holes to leapfrog overnight leader Ashleigh Buhai, who bogeyed three of the back-nine holes to finish the third round with a par score and drop to second place.
This time it was to India, where I learned a ton that I didn't know: I found India trying to leapfrog out of poverty and catch up to China by engaging in a rapid digitization of its entire economy and power grid.
"People invest in people who look like them," said Nathalie Molina Niño, author of "Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs" and chief executive of O³. Still, leadership and financing experts say there are ways women can attract money to their start-ups.
"We expect the big three to continue to play a game of leapfrog over the next several years as the enterprise moves from experimental to industrialization of AI and machine learning," said Ken Corless, a principal in Deloitte Consulting's cloud engineering practice.
"The biggest risk to Intel is the year delay in shipments of its next-gen 10 [nanometer] product while rivals Taiwan Semiconductor have finally caught up and are enabling Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Xilinx to potentially leapfrog, " Bank of America analysts wrote.
The last time it happened was in 1999, when the New York shows moved from being the final stop on the fashion week merry-go-round to the first, after a decision by Helmut Lang to leapfrog his show to the front of the line.
The split allowed Henry to leapfrog from one marriage to another in search of a male heir: He had two marriages annulled and had two other wives executed, including Anne Boleyn, the former mistress for whom he had rejected papal authority in the first place.
The report stressed that there would likely be significant movement soon in the industry as "major players try to leapfrog the competition" Another item that's clear from the report is the fact that secretive powerhouse Magic Leap is an impressively hulking force in the industry.
But with three more rivals to go after him in the final, including world champion Whitlock, Smith spent much of the next 15 minutes kneeling on the floor, unable to look at the scoreboard as he waited to see if anyone would leapfrog him.
I know the manager who allegedly propositioned Fowler Rigetti is long gone (as is she from Uber), but considering the shenanigans she described (mid-level managers withholding intel so they could use it to leapfrog their own managers), a serious reorg is in order.
And the unusual system prompted two underdogs in the Democratic primary race for governor to take an unusual tactic in the race and team up, endorsing each other for second place in an attempt to leapfrog the rest of the pack and gain the nomination.
The deal, agreed in April last year, could see a combined Sainsbury's-Asda leapfrog Tesco as Britain's largest retailer, with revenue of about 51 billion pounds ($66 billion), over 2,800 stores and a grocery market share of 31.2 percent, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel.
Moreover, I'll show how this disruption is different from other domestic leapfrog stories in India and China — because if it delivers as promised, India's fintech revolution will have global repercussions, affecting all publicly traded banks and payment companies by the end of the decade.
Personal autonomous flight vehicles still seem pretty far out there, but company's like Airbus are investing in its potential, and leading technologists like Sebastian Thrun think they could even leapfrog autonomous cars in terms of develop pace and practical usability, so watch this space.
Everyone's investing in 5G infrastructure, but it won't be for a few more years until we see it up and activated for your phones — T-Mobile's already bragging that its 5G network be ready to leapfrog everyone in 2020 —  and not just in your home.
President Trump will be encouraged by a population that voted for him, often against their best interests, because economic mobility has always been a hustle—to leapfrog over seemingly impossible social obstacles requires a certain amount of luck, cleverness, and a cavalier willingness to lie.
By looking outward, you not only draw on your own ingenuity and motivation as a leader, but it also gives you the power to drive key innovations that have the potential to transform your business and leapfrog the competitors, whether they're traditional or non-traditional.
WorldRemit, the London startup that has focused on enabling competitively-priced, quick money transfers from migrant workers and immigrants living in developed countries back home, typically in developing countries, has raised $2483 million in a Series D round of funding from TCV, Accel and Leapfrog.
In more ways than one, the startup seems to be taking a page from Snapchat in their approach to AR but also hopes to leapfrog Snap's efforts by moving harder and faster into the hard AR tech that the chat app has largely sidestepped.
The decision to embrace the commercial use of flying taxis offers New Zealand an opportunity to leapfrog many developed countries in this area, and perhaps give it a head start over Silicon Valley, where much of the most innovative work has been taking place.
The Mets outscored the Diamondbacks by a 20-1 margin in the final two games and 26-24 overall to leapfrog Arizona, which began the series 27 25/21 games ahead of New York, in the gaggle of National League teams pursuing a wild card.
Ronaldo&aposs goal was his 10th in 14 top-flight games this season, and it saw Juventus leapfrog Inter Milan into first place in Serie A.It now leads with 42 points, though Inter trails by just three points and has a game in hand.
Dylan Osetkowski answered for the Longhorns with a runner with 1:63 left to allow Texas to leapfrog back in front at 64-63 and Mohamed Bamba's block of a layup by Sima with 48 seconds left allowed Texas to stay in the lead.
Barty is now two wins away from becoming the first Australian woman to top the tennis rankings in more than 40 years as a title win in Birmingham will allow her to leapfrog world number one Naomi Osaka, who exited in the second round.
A growing number of companies are looking at the viability of airborne, autonomous taxis as a way to ease urban congestion and transportation woes, but the city of Dubai could leapfrog those with a plan to deploy a passenger-carrying drone as early as this summer.
The entrepreneurial work ethic in China (as praised recently by arguably the world's greatest investor, Michael Moritz), the speed of innovation and the ability to quickly scale and reach meaningful populations have caused Chinese companies to leapfrog the market cap of many of their U.S. counterparts.
When Tighe litigated this issue at the end of 2017, Seeger countered that it was routine for players to be asked to submit additional information early on to make sure their submissions were complete, and that Tighe misunderstood the process and was trying to leapfrog steps.
Western Union faces stiff competition from rival MoneyGram as well as digital payment start-ups like TransferWise, which had a recent reported valuation of $2168 billion, and WorldRemit, which in May landed a $175 million round of funding from TCV, Accel and Leapfrog, according to Techcrunch.
During the Google I/O keynote, Google unveiled a number of products that are coming either this summer or fall: With Google Assistant, Google seeks to leapfrog voice-activated interfaces such as Siri and provide answers to more complicated questions — answers that change as your context changes.
Minutes before they were to pick, perhaps the two highest-ranked players they had hoped would be available — Georgia linebacker Leonard Floyd and Michigan State offensive tackle Jack Conklin — were snatched away by other teams, both of whom had made trades to leapfrog over the Giants.
Read more: Lionel Messi has surpassed Ronaldo as Europe's highest ever scorer and evidence shows Cristiano will struggle to leapfrog the FC Barcelona forward againSpeaking to Catalan radio station RAC 1 on Wednesday, Messi said the treatment he received ultimately made him want to leave Barcelona.
As the measure had been written, olive oil producers, lobbyists and farming groups feared that it would leapfrog criminal procedures in favor of fines of up to 9,500 euros, or about $10,300, which they said were inadequate to discourage fraud that could generate millions of euros.
Pay-TV companies know the future of watching TV and movies is via streaming services rather than cable and satellite TV. And traditional players are hoping they can catch up and even leapfrog the tech giants because they own something Silicon Valley companies don't — the broadband pipes.
Even if we assume that the Central will take both wild-card spots and send five teams to the postseason—a good bet, but no sure thing—that leaves Winnipeg needing to leapfrog two division rivals, and it's awfully tough to figure out who that would be.
"The machine will be working well in the US and then in Europe they assume machine will work well from third gear but that's not how it works, there's usually no brand awareness, no hardcore community of product advocates, so you can't leapfrog product development," he said.
This widespread use of apps in part reflects a "leapfrog effect": Chinese people never truly adopted credit cards, so they jumped directly to mobile payments; Chinese hospitals never had extensive traditional systems for booking patients, so they are jumping straight to smartphone apps; and so on.
Fuglsang, who rides for Astana, attacked on the final climb to the Plateau de Solaison in the French Alps, a grueling seven-mile ascent at an average gradient of 9.2 percent, to win the 71.5-mile stage and leapfrog the overnight leader, Richie Porte of Australia.
Iowa Democrats also considered mailing absentee paper ballots, but feared such a system would be considered a primary by New Hampshire officials, who are bound by their state Constitution to hold the nation's first primary and could have tried to leapfrog Iowa on the presidential calendar.
The Red Raiders led by seven points at the half, but Texas used a 11-2 run through the middle of the second half to leapfrog to the front at 55-51, with Jones and Courtney Ramey hitting big shots for the Longhorns in that stretch.
Li followed her on to the apparatus and had been expected to leapfrog the Canadian in the standings but when her score of 55.885 flashed up, she realised that not only was she not top, she had also been pipped to the silver medal by Britain's Bryony Page.
Li followed her on to the apparatus and had been expected to leapfrog the Canadian in the standings but when her score of 55.885 flashed up, she realized that not only was she not top, she had also been pipped to the silver medal by Britain's Bryony Page.
After three years of tantalizing us with his otherworldly talents and moving steadily up the list of the NBA's most valuable players, Davis was finally going to leapfrog LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and anyone else that stood between him and the title of Best Basketball Player Alive.
"For example, if I hack into a major law firm and then realize that this law firm has direct communication channels with the Fortune 255, then I can leapfrog from this law firm into all of those entities," said Tom Kellermann, chief security officer at cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro.
That impulse—the one that drives us to leapfrog children and-or other vulnerable humans who may be blocking the way to the closest emergency exit—might not be particularly flattering, but its results could wind up being a net positive in terms of overall survival during an emergency.
But as the highest-ranking GOP woman in Congress, Cheney — an effective communicator and a member of one of the most powerful families in Washington — could possibly leapfrog both men in the event of a knock-down, drag-out fight between McCarthy and Scalise in 2020 or 2022.
Hill nurtured talent wherever she found it — the filmmaker James Cameron was once her visual effects guy; a second assistant director, Jeffrey Chernov, became a producer of "Black Panther" — and had the confidence not to fear that others would leapfrog over her if she gave them a steppingstone.
"If you're planning on doing exactly what you're doing now as a full-time job but in a freelance capacity, then you'll be able to leapfrog a lot of time-consuming steps since you'll already have the skills, experience, and network to hit the ground running," Lundberg explained.
"Overall, we would be positive if this deal materializes as this could reduce the number of competitors, effectively enabling the merged entity to leapfrog to top positions in terms of market share in countries which are involved in the merger," said Alex Goh, an analyst at AmInvestment Bank in Kuala Lumpur.
Audi thus hopes to leapfrog Tesla, whose Autopilot technology suffered a major blow when a driver using it was killed in a crash, and GM, whose Super Cruise feature to be offered this autumn will allow limited hands-off driving at highway speeds on limited access roads like dual carriageways.
The equity-research firm in its 2 software outlook report said Google could acquire Salesforce to leapfrog Microsoft in the cloud market in a deal that it projects to be valued at as much as $53 billion — a premium of some 220% of its market cap at the time of writing.
"If China wants to enhance its leadership on climate and 'ecological civilization', Chinese companies' and banks' investment must steer away from coal towards renewable alternatives such as wind and solar and help countries along Belt and Road to leapfrog from traditional development model that sacrifices environment for economic advancement, " said Huang.
It also knocks on the head Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing's ambition to leapfrog BNP as Europe's premier investment bank: the French bank appears to be gaining market share at the expense of its German peer, which reported a double-digit drop in fixed income revenue for the same quarter.
Industry sources said Airbus's A2737-2737 deal with Virgin Atlantic provided a shot in the arm to a 2185-seat model promising greater efficiency but whose sales have slowed as Boeing develops a larger version of its 2321, prompting a game of leapfrog between the only two makers of long-haul jets.
The funding was led by a new, strategic investor: LeapFrog Investments, the firm founded in 2007 and backed by billions from the likes of Prudential, JP Morgan and the Omidyar Network specifically to make investments into financial and healthcare businesses improving services in emerging markets, specifically in regions like Africa and Asia.
The Trump administration has made a flurry of requests in recent weeks, asking the justices to leapfrog the appeals courts and hear its challenges to district court rulings against the administration's decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its ban on transgender people serving in the military.
It's an ambitious goal, one that is especially timely in light of the recent climate change talks in Paris, where renewable energy was on display as a potential strategy for combating climate change and as a development tool that may allow poorer nations to leapfrog prior roads to wealth dependent on dirty energy sources.
Most of the time, entrepreneurs in the developing world (and in emerging economies) are skipping generations of technology to leapfrog in front of other companies, even in the U.S. It's only a matter of time before developing nations compete at a global level, as the rate of entrepreneurship and technological booms have changed the ecosystem.
House Republicans made a conscious decision to go bold, to create a tax code built for growth, literally designed to grow jobs, wages in the US economy, and, while doing that, to leapfrog America into the lead pack as among the best countries in the world for that new job and that next investment.
Unlike in the western world, where most users accessed the internet via computer before technology advanced to the stage of mobile devices, in India we are witnessing a technology "leapfrog" in which the majority of "second India" has skipped laptops and computers and are accessing the internet for the first time via mobile devices.
At the same time as almost doubling its wide-body jet engine output, Rolls is looking at squeezing more out of its Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A25 engine by enhancing it for a potential, bigger 26-seat model of the plane, as Airbus and Boeing play leapfrog in the market for twinjets.
The funding — $30 million of which is in equity, and the remainder as secondary transaction to buy out shares primarily from LeapFrog, another investor — was made at a pre-money valuation of around $260 million and gives Bima a post-money valuation of around $300 million, deputy CEO Mathilda Strom said in an interview.
In one lawsuit, Tesla alleges that Zoox as well as four former employees Scott Turner, Sydney Cooper, Christian Dement, and Craig Emigh, have made "concerted efforts "to steal Tesla's proprietary information and trade secrets to help Zoox leapfrog past years of work needed to develop and run its own warehousing, logistics, and inventory control operations.
Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas) is an option, but ideologically they'd have to leapfrog Rubio to get to Cruz.
Just ask Ted Cruz, by whose strange and self-serving logic it is "the will of the people" (his actual words) that he and John Kasich collude to prevent Trump from amassing a majority of delegates so that some runner-up with less demonstrable support can leapfrog past him to become the Republican presidential nominee.
They hope to leapfrog the spending fight that tanked the budget blueprint while making good on Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE's (R-Wis.) high-profile promise to restore regular order to the spending process.
In Des Moines, supporters had spent all day outside the Wells Fargo Arena, awaiting the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest event of the year -- the one that had allowed Obama, who encouraged O'Rourke to run and compared the former Texas congressman to himself, to leapfrog Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2008 Iowa caucuses.
Imagine what will happen when the next three billion people come online and the opportunities for value creation that will follow — particularly in markets where there is no legacy infrastructure in place and decentralized technology can leapfrog financial institutions, real estate, capital markets, identity platforms (and more) as we know them in the developed world.
" He suggested that could involve "massive investments in modern infrastructure, job training and economic stimulus," could allow the "industrious, well-educated" Palestinian population to leapfrog to the forefront of the "technological industrial revolution" and said Palestinians would particularly benefit from integrating their economy with that of Israel, "the Silicon Valley of the Middle East.
Jackets leapfrog Rangers with win at MSG NEW YORK, NY — Most NHL teams struggled immediately after their respective bye weeks this season, but not the Columbus Blue Jackets, who returned to action with a home-ice win Saturday and followed that up with an impressive 5-2 road victory over the New York Rangers Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
Now, Asus has announced a laptop that looks to positively leapfrog the MacBook Pro in some rather professional ways — most notably fitting a 17-inch, 16:10 aspect ratio, color-calibrated, Pantone validated, 97-percent DCI-P3 color gamut, 353-degree layflat screen into a notebook small enough that it'll fit into bags designed for thin 15-inch laptops.
But as desirable as such a fate might be, I can't help but wonder if at least a cohort of Californians, and others in nations with good roads, might over the next decade or so leapfrog housing reform, which after all moves at the speed of molasses, into a far more interesting emergent form of accommodations: self-driving houses.
"[We have been] pulled into this broader business intelligence conversation, and it has put us in a place where as we do this merger, we are able to instantly leapfrog the three years it would have taken us to deliver that to our customers, and deliver operationalized insights on integration day on day one," Glaser explained.
A.E.K. is back in Greece's top flight after several years of hardship and financial crisis, some of it perhaps brought on by rash decisions prompted by the need to try to close the gap on a runaway rival, but less than a week after its cup tie it beat Olympiacos to leapfrog its rival in the table.
The 35-year-old Gore now trails only Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton and Barry Sanders, and while he is unlikely to get the 1,157 he would need to pass Sanders for third place, he has a chance to leapfrog both Sanders and LaDainian Tomlinson on the career yards-from-scrimmage list if he can stay healthy this season.
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And that sort of leapfrog approach is far better than just going towards like a 10-year goal because, especially in something like robotics that has such huge dependencies on hardware, and sensing ecosystems, and technological ecosystems, the inability to adapt and quickly iterate and learn, that's a huge handicap if you aren't able to adjust along the way.
Those regions have already proven their technology ability (and appetite) for leapfrogging to wireless communication systems, and they are once again poised, with their infamously poor and inefficient transit infrastructures, to leapfrog directly to urban air, where the time saved would be tremendous, turning a 1.5 hour drive into a 10-minute flight, 2x/day… for almost the same cost of an UberPOOL.
The new waterfront project gives Canadians "amazing opportunity to innovate or leapfrog" in urban innovation, since existing cities grew organically into what they are and how they work, for better or for worse, but the new smart city area won't "be built on the bones of past failure and past successes," but will instead be developed from a clean slate.
Rank-and-file lawmakers appeared rankled by the president's willingness to leapfrog them and cut an agreement with Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
In an attempt to leapfrog the planets and vault into the interstellar age, a bevy of scientists and other luminaries from Silicon Valley and beyond, led by Yuri Milner, a Russian philanthropist and Internet entrepreneur, announced a plan on Tuesday to send a fleet of robot spacecraft no bigger than iPhones to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, 2600 light-years away.
The Red Bulls took advantage of a rare stumble by first-place Atlanta United to leapfrog Atlanta in the standings and claim the top seed in the playoffs on a wild final day that also saw one of the league's biggest stars, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, miss out on the postseason when his Los Angeles Galaxy blew a two-goal lead and lost at home.
Mr. Macron's entire career has been a leapfrog from one powerful older figure to the next — from his apprenticeship under one of the country's leading philosophers, Paul Ricoeur, to his service as a very young assistant on economics to Jacques Attali, a leading government figure of the last quarter-century, to his stewardship of economic policy for the president he helped dislodge, François Hollande.
This year alone, Chinese home appliances maker Midea has agreed to buy German robotics firm Kuka and Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP is taking over semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron.. Long seen as a cheap, no-frills brand in China and unheard of in Europe, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group purchased struggling Swedish carmaker Volvo from Ford in 1.53 to help it leapfrog a decade of research and development.
In fact, he told me he believes that it will leapfrog autonomous cars sometime in the next few years, mostly because when you take to the skies, there are actually fewer problems to solve in terms of building a self-piloting system than when you're locked to the ground, which naturally means you're having to deal with pedestrians, other cars and more, with one less dimension to navigate.
If the Cubs had lost, which would have allowed the Brewers to leapfrog into first place, it could have resurfaced some very painful feelings in Chicago, but they were able to win it in the 93th thanks to a walk, a sacrifice bunt and a walkoff single by Albert Almora Jr. The Cubs game, while dramatic, came after both the Cubs and Brewers had already clinched playoff spots thanks to Milwaukee's win over St. Louis.
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