Sentences with phrase «as billions of people»

There will be inflation as billions of people compete for insufficient resources.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

This in turn means that billions of dollars of «unnecessary and avoidable spending» takes place, as people are not following their healthcare plans.

The company, which sells exclusively through its website, takes its promise of individualized formulas seriously: The chance of answering the 12 - question hair quiz exactly the same as another person is 1 in 24 billion.

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

The strength of Facebook's network effect is what has allowed it to grow as fast as it has, encompassing about 1.7 billion people now, for as long as it has.

Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

The search company was one of the most vocal supporters of net neutrality and openness in wireless, going so far as to bid billions of dollars to ensure that people could use whatever devices and apps they wanted on whatever networks they wanted.

The world's population is projected to be at almost 8 billion people as quickly as 2020, and much of that population will have several smart devices in the home.

As of October 2015, more than 22.4 million people spent $ 57.6 billion per year with on - demand companies.

How can the people and algos that make up this market drive these shares so high as to give a nothing - company with the iffiest disclosures a market capitalization at one point of $ 7 billion?

The world's largest online retailer is selling $ 16 billion of unsecured bonds in as many as seven parts, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Snapchat is looking to raise as much as $ 500 million in a new funding round that would value the mobile messaging company at up to $ 19 billion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds with billions of people sharing a wide and deep array of data — texts, tweets, GPS coordinates, all manner of photos, videos, environmental data, clickstreams, status updates, likes and reposts, pumping trillions of real - time signals into the digital universe — what does the future hold?

Yang, controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $ 25.6 billion as of Jan. 5 to rank as the fifth - richest person in the nation, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The agreement is touted by the African Union as encompassing a market of 1.2 billion people, and a gross domestic product of $ 2.5 trillion.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Greater investment will bring about improvements for everyone, just as cost - reductions in chips, cloud computing, mobile devices and storage have already brought personal computing to billions of people.

As you would imagine, when you are one of the fifteen hundred people on planet Earth with a net worth of a billion dollars, you get access to almost everyone!

April 18 - Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut costs by $ 1 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The British government is contributing 9 million pounds to the van investment as part of its push to support the UK automotive industry, which employs over 800,000 people and generates revenue of 77.5 billion pounds ($ 110 billion).

I've learned more about who I want to become as a leader and discovered how I want to change the world by making it my mission to have a positive impact on the lives of one billion people.

TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters)- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) plans to book a charge of 50 billion yen ($ 470 million) for the year ended March, as it closes or merges unprofitable domestic branches to cut costs, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

As an exec at Shire (shpg), which with $ 6 billion in revenue is one of the smaller Big Pharmas, he spent months persuading leaders and commercial and supply - chain people to launch a clinical trial for the ADHD drug Vyvanse to treat binge eating.

However, he makes it onto many lists as one of the richest people in the world and is worth an estimated $ 2 billion.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

Amway sells consumer goods such as skincare and home cleaning supplies through some 3 million people and its parent company had sales of $ 10.9 billion in 2011.

As a brand worth billions, it gives people the unique, memorable prospect of staying with locals when they travel.

But ad spending has been accelerating at a rapid pace on YouTube over the past two years as brands sought to connect with its audience of more than 1 billion people.

The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim of adding billions of dollars to the global economy and lifting millions of people out of poverty through trade liberalization.

The eight richest people in the world have as much money as half of the world's population, or 3.6 billion people.

With huge volumes of venture capital sloshing around, and the increasing proliferation of billion - dollar - plus startups, known as unicorns, plenty of people think there's a tech bubble.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

Bezos is the richest person in the world with a fortune of nearly $ 129 billion as of Monday's stock market close.

Fondly known as the «Oracle of Omaha» — a nickname well - deserved for his uncanny investing savvy — Buffett is the world's fourth - richest person and is currently worth an estimated $ 53.5 billion.

It could raise as much as $ 10 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the company but not authorized to speak on the record.

iQiyi is aiming for a public market valuation of as much as $ 10 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

Last month, it eclipsed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the country, with a market valuation of $ 250 billion, and Forbes deemed Mr. Bezos the fifth - wealthiest person on earth.

Billionaire Wang Jianlin is poised to become the first Chinese person to control a Hollywood film company after Asia's richest man agreed to buy the co-producer of «Jurassic World» for as much as $ 3.5 billion in cash.

What started as a way for college kids to connect has grown to a 1.44 billion person social media mega-network and is now an integral part of how everyone does business — especially small businesses.

With about 100 million daily active users as of the first quarter, Toutiao is targeting annual revenue of $ 2.5 billion for 2017, according to a person close to the company.

HONG KONG Hong Kong - based private equity firm PAG is planning a new Asia fund that aims to raise as much as $ 6 billion, two people with knowledge of the plan said, potentially adding to a massive pool of buyout money for acquisitions in the region.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

One of the big concerns about comparing Puerto Rico to other blackout events — as Rhodium did in the first chart — is that not every country tracks power data as well as others, and some countries are still electrifying (there are still 1.1 billion people around the world who don't have electricity), explained Peter Marsters, a research analyst at Rhodium.

Wells Fargo reduced BreitBurn's borrowing base to $ 1.8 billion and agreed to maintain that credit limit through April 2016 as part of that EIG deal, the people said.

Uber Technologies Inc.'s net loss widened to $ 1.46 billion in the third quarter, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the ride - hailing leader struggled to fend off competition, legal challenges and regulatory scrutiny.

Cohen, who typically manages $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion in what is known as the Cohen Account, has cut his trading to the lower end of that range and has given more money to deputies who help him run the portfolio, three of the people said.

(Reuters)- Eden Creamery LLC, the privately owned U.S. manufacturer of low - calorie ice cream brand Halo Top, is exploring a sale that it hopes will value the ice cream brand at as much as $ 2 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.