Sentences with phrase «last hit by»

Last book I read was One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow — outstanding book.

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

Macron, who defeated the anti-Europe, far - right leader Marine Le Pen last month, said that he had always been a defender of globalisation and free trade during his time as minister but that leaders should hear from workers hit by globalisation.

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

«I want the comfort of knowing that if I got hit by a Mack truck, what we've built here will last.

The last couple of weeks have been rough going for Uber, as the ridesharing service continues to be hit by regulatory roadblocks from cities around the globe.

But card fraud has been prevalent — 14 % of in - store monthly transactions contain a fraud attempt, a figure that ticks up to around 40 % online, and 15.4 million US consumers were hit by identity fraud last year — and remains expensive for merchants.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

But the sales numbers posted by «Advanced Warfare,» which has been a critical hit, were 23 percent lower year over year than those posted by last year's «Call of Duty: Ghosts,» according to Edward Williams of BMO Capital Markets.

Foreign investors hit the brakes last December, shortly after the Harper government approved the Nexen and Progress deals and the prime minister warned that future takeovers in the oilsands by state - owned enterprises (SOEs) would be approved on only an exceptional basis.

Last year saw the industry hit by a range of different memes and trends, some of which business professionals were happy to harness for marketing purposes and others which they'd sooner forget.

This resilience shown by the S&P 500, which just last week hit a series of new record highs, goes a long way towards disproving the notion that the stock market is trading at the whim of the tech industry.

But the company was also contending with other challenges: the takeover of its pharmacy business by CVS Health (cvs) last year has not gone smoothly and the retailer's grocery strategy is confused, two ongoing problems that have hit store traffic.

The chain, 49.9 percent - owned by McDonald's Corp, has been grappling with falling sales that began long before a food safety scandal last summer hit confidence in its products.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

Almost two - fifths of businesses in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany have been hit in the last year by a ransomware attack, according to a survey by security firm Malwarebytes.

Over the last two months, everyone from IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have warned that a vote to leave would hit financial markets, while President Barack Obama and others, supported by a stream of studies from think - tanks banks and universities, have warned about the long - term damage to the U.K.'s economy.

The Canadian - born company's first major product since being acquired by Japan's Rakutan last year joins a slew of new tablets hitting the market this fall.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

Even before being hit with a federal securities fraud lawsuit by the SEC and independent perjury charges by the DOJ last month, the founder of a now - defunct cryptocurrency exchange had left a trail of lawsuits.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

Last year, more than 30,000 PCs at South Korean banks and broadcasting companies were hit by a similar attack that cybersecurity researchers widely believe was launched from North Korea.

It's the first time that the streaming service — which has endured a rocky start since it was relaunched by rapper Jay Z early last year — has hit number one on the app rankings, a point that West himself championed on his ever - active Twitter account:

Netflix said enthusiasm for new shows like Stranger Things is the main reason, but its subscriber numbers were probably also boosted by the easing of the «un-grandfathering» effect that hit it last time.

If Tesla hits that target, it means the company has effectively ramped up production, in part by reducing the number of Model S options — a goal it outlined last quarter.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Russian companies hit by U.S. sanctions have asked for 100 billion roubles ($ 1.6 billion) in liquidity support from the government, Siluanov said last week.

The latter announced on Wednesday morning that its monthly average user base hit the 700 million mark, up by more than 100 million in just the last four months.

Until late last year, Indian SMEs were growing at their own pace, undeterred by the fast technological wave that seemed to be hitting every other sector.

Now, enthusiasts line up to hoard rarities like the annual spring release of Halifax's Garrison Spruce Beer; esoteric and earthy Italian imports like Panil; and, most famously, Westvleteren XII, a Belgian ale brewed by Trappist monks that sold out in minutes when it hit 16 Ontario liquor stores at a cost of $ 80 per six - pack last December.

Yum, which will spin off its China restaurants on Oct. 31, said the last quarter started well there — but its stores were hit by protests after an international court rejected China's claim to historic rights in the South China Sea.

The 620 Gbps attack that hit my site last month was launched by a botnet built on Mirai, for example.

This scenario was part of our thinking at the beginning of last year, when Canada's economy was hit by the collapse in oil prices and we cut our policy interest rate.

«By working with the hardest hit in our communities and providing them with career paths and living wages, we can help ensure that people can afford to stay in our communities as they improve and that is one way that we can create lasting generational change,» Bernier - Green said.

Google Cache — When you hit this, you'll see what the page looked like when it was last cached by Google.

After the shutdown of the Sharara oilfield last week, two other main producing fields have now been hit by armed militias in Libya's western region.

Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to «fast - track» its Niraparib review process, raising the likelihood it could hit the market by 2018.

The largest space to hit CoStar in Midtown South last month was at 395 Hudson Street, a 10 - story building owned by the New York City District Council of Carpenters.

After hitting at over 35 times early last week, gold prices fell sharply by Thursday, bringing the ratio down to about 33.9.

Bank of America's quarterly profit more than doubled from the same period last year, when earnings were hit by big legal...

EBITDA would have to hit $ 165 million by 2016 — an annual increase of 20 percent from last year.

Mobile Captures More Than Half Of All U.S. Internet Advertising Revenue For The First Time Ever, Total Digital Ad Spend Hits a Landmark $ 72.5 Billion in 2016 IAB reports: «Mobile advertising accounted for more than half (51 %) of the record - breaking $ 72.5 billion spent by advertisers last year -LSB-...] The total represents a 22 percent increase, up from $ 59.6 billion in 2015.

Before Hurricane Maria hit last September, Puerto Rico was battered by the forces of another storm — a financial storm.

A new report published last week by the Pew Charitable Trusts states that while consumers often turn to payday lenders in order to avoid writing bad checks or getting hit with overdraft fees, in many cases customers wind up paying overdraft and payday loan fees.

Since being hit by Hurricane Maria last year, Puerto Rico has been embroiled in a power crisis, and Tesla has been doing its part helping the island nation through its products such as the Powerpack, Powerwall home battery, and solar panels.

Its real estate board announced Thursday that sales reached 2,032 last month, up 13.6 % from last year, and the average home price rose by 4.2 year - over-year to hit $ 455,212.

Threats of retaliation by key U.S. allies like Canada and the European Union prompted President Donald Trump to exempt a large group of countries from the steel and aluminum duties it announced last month, which means they will likely hit China hardest.

The airline was also hurt by the three major hurricanes that hit the U.S. last year: Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

Romney himself remains haunted by a statement he made to the Las Vegas Review - Journal last fall, when he said the best housing policy was to let foreclosures «hit bottom.»

Economic Collapse News reported late last year that Jeff Clark of Casey Research put forth analysis in a newsletter that gold would be hitting $ 2,300 by Jan. 2014.