Sentences with phrase «about as a conference»

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Cuban made those comments and others about the candidates at the economic summit SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT, in Las Vegas on Thursday, CNN reports.

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Box being his best investment idea for the year, as well as the growth of big data and consumers» privacy rights.

Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

At the Inside ETFs Conference, Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley speaks to CNBC's Bob Pisani about the state of ETF investing, the environment for active versus passive investing as well as what he thinks about bitcoin.

At a Wells Fargo media and telecom conference on Wednesday morning, AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens said that closing the mega-deal for Time Warner «is now uncertain» even as he declined to elaborate on the company's ongoing discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice about securing regulatory approval for the transaction.

DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach speaks to CNBC's Scott Wapner on the sidelines of the Sohn Conference about his best new investment ideas, his outlook for markets and the economy, as well as the rising interest rate environment.

As we talked, a dozen or so entrepreneurs whom Carbonell had invited to meet me trickled into the conference room, and the conversation quickly turned into a kvetchfest about the difficulty of raising money.

«While all docs complain about their EHRs, as central repository for clinical information I think they'll continue to exist for a longtime,» said Roberts, who was speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Monday about «the next big thing» in health care.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has already indicated that his company is beginning to get serious about revenue; he said as much at an industry conference in October.

In a conference call about the merger, executives indicated they may sell «non-core» assets, such as those the company has limited ability to control.

Billionaire Chipotle investor Bill Ackman spoke about the chain during a conference Tuesday, suggesting there were a number of opportunities for improvement for Chipotle, including introducing desserts and breakfast options as well as extending store hours and introducing more drive - thru windows.

I also had the privilege of chairing the annual conference for the Australian Institute of Company Directors for about 6 - 7 years and putting that conference together was a fascinating exercise and has taken me to different parts of the world and the Asia pacific area such as Beijing, Shanghai, Christchurch and Singapore.

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

We don't yet know much about why Amazon is buying Whole Foods» fleet of 461 stores as Bezos and his management team declined to hold a conference call with Wall Street analysts and members of the media.

Because of his passion for the cryptocurrency, he eventually abandoned his job as a freelance consultant, deciding instead to speak at conferences about bitcoin, consulting for startups, and writing articles free of charge.

Wal - Mart CEO Mike Duke told investors on a conference call this month that the retailer's customers remain concerned about their jobs as they juggle their credit card bills and take steps to conserve cash by clipping coupons and cutting back on vacations and eating out.

At a Toastmasters International district conference in a Toronto suburb in November, members made plenty of direct eye contact as they talked about the shyness that had once silenced them, holding back their lives and careers.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

During a panel centering on issues of privacy and user data at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations about how the companies operate.

As Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, said at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in July, «We're cautious about it in the short term.

I am not as hyper - focused, but try to have a meaningful conversation with only about five people at every event I attend or for each day of a conference.

He made that much clear on Tuesday while speaking as part of BlackRock's digital conference about factor investing.

Usually, Facebook takes every chance to obfuscate this point: Last year's F8 conference, for example, was as much about augmented reality and brain - typing technology as it was about improvements to its existing services.

As you plan your year, a huge part of being an entrepreneur or part of a startup is figuring out if and how you will get to conferences to make connections and learn more about business, entrepreneurship, technology and beyond.

Asked at the conference about Netflix's tests with new pricing plans, Wells said the company was looking to offer different choices because as the customer base grows larger «one size does not fit all.»

De Galhau: We «Should Work On» Exchanges Speaking at the City Week banking conference in London April 24, de Galhau, who has gone on record to make some curious claims about cryptocurrency in the past, appeared to choose the industry as a specific point of interest.

A senior executive said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday that if the government found the method did not work and tried to force Apple to help break into the phone, Apple would have questions about what was tried, in order to keep its products as secure as possible.

Monday afternoon, when asked during a press conference if he had timed his pardon of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Friday evening so that storm news might push it under the radar, Trump replied that he «assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally» on Friday as the storm was about to hit the Texas coast.

There are about (or, as they say up north «aboot») 100 coworking spaces in Canada and this conference was about the same size as the first global coworking conference, which was held back in 2009.

Chief executive Steve Easterbrook said at a conference Wednesday morning that as the company makes organizational changes — which were the focus of the new CEO's comments about the turnaround earlier this month — «At a more fundamental level we are recommitting to hotter, tastier food across the menu.»

Watch a video interview with Lauren Aitch of Our Own Apparel about her experience at last year's National Conference & Business Fair as a newly certified WBE, and what she is looking forward to this year in her home state of Michigan.

Either way, action or inaction will allow us to make some inferences about Poloz as a central banker that will be very useful going forward — this is a huge learning experience, and the statement, the monetary policy report that accompanies it, and the press conference that follows are much - reads and must - watches.

At the New York Times DealBook conference, the founder of The Honest Company spoke about the challenges and benefits of starting a company as a famous actress.

Trump's comments, delivered at a White House news conference, illustrate the political minefield he will navigate in September as he tries to draw support for disaster recovery funds but wages a bitter fight with lawmakers from both parties about whether U.S. taxpayers should finance the creation of a wall that he has long promised Mexico would fund.

About a half dozen employees show up at a recent progress meeting in the glass cube that serves as the main conference room in the firm's Palo Alto office.

As I attended sessions, and had conversations, on everything from deal structures to term sheets and deal flow to exits, it occurred to me that I had been in similar conferences about 25 years ago.

Traders should learn as much as they can about their area of interest, educating themselves and, if possible, going to trading seminars and attending sell - side conferences.

«We're excited about the new launch of our marketing strategy in September and the new loyalty program in October,» said Jeff Gennette, who took over as CEO and president earlier this year, on a conference call to discuss the results.

«I feel very positive about what we've been able to accomplish and feel tremendous... loyalty to the institution,» Yellen said in December at her last news conference as Fed chief.

It is about as clear as any historical chain can get that this implosion is a direct consequence of the famous Lambeth Conference in 1930, at which the Anglicans abandoned the longstanding Christian position on contraception.

and the disabled, poor, non white, ill educated... I just blogged about that today as I was at a conference where we were talking about how to reach unreached groups or sections of society, but we don't let anyone else in to play.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

She added that the fact Christians believe God loves them no matter what they look like should be told to non-believers also: «Now, some of the people at the conference would not identity as Christians and yet I still want to say that the reason I'm doing this is because I know from scripture, I know God really cares about you.

Arno Froese of Midnight Call Ministries, through many paperback books, Midnight Call magazine and prophecy conferences at pricey resort hotels, promulgates theories about computers, new surveillance technologies and Washington's post-9 / 11 antiterrorist measures as anticipations of the Antichrist.

As John Hume, a Catholic member of Parliament, long ago complained about terrorism in Northern Ireland, «The Provos bombed themselves to the conference table and they bombed themselves away again.»

Once, at an academic conference at which people began banging on, as they so often do, about what a magnificently systematic thinker Aquinas was, I lost my temper and said that whenever I heard people going on about this, I knew one thing: that they had never closely studied Aquinas's texts.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....