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The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

As the campaign picked up speed, barreling through the coveted $ 1 million mark, Sanghavi soon realized he wouldn't be able to manage both getting his MBA and running a startup that was absolutely exploding.

Former agribusiness heavyweight Great Southern was losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the months leading up to its collapse as it continued to raise money from investors.

The firm exploited Facebook's data rules to vacuum up data from some 50 million Facebook users in 2014 as part of an operation to seed attack ads on the internet during the 2016 US election.

Ricky's NYC founder and chairman Todd Kenig says Halloween sales account for about 20 percent of the firm's annual $ 50 million revenue, but Sandy forced to shutter all of its stores, as well as its corporate office, in the two days leading up to the holiday.

Back in April, Uber settled class - action lawsuits with drivers in Massachusetts and California in an agreement that has Uber paying drivers up to $ 100 million but preserving the right to treat them as independent contractors.

Aspermont has announced plans to raise up to $ 10 million by offering shares to investors and converting debt, as it seeks to shore up its balance sheet.

Shares in Geopacific were up 9.3 per cent today as the company announced a $ 3 million rights issue, with the company planning to step up exploration activity at its Cambodian Kou Sa project.

As you exercise, Charity Miles measures your distance and donates 10 cents to your chosen charity for every mile you bike, and 25 cents for every mile you walk or run, up to the company's initial million - dollar corporate sponsorship goal.

We want to be a catalyst investor, so our $ 150 million ends up being over a billion dollars as it gets invested in these companies.

Its advertiser - supported BarkPost is filled with dog news and videos and gets 10 million unique visitors a month; BarkShop is an e-commerce site where customers can buy all manner of dog paraphernalia without the committing to a subscription; and BarkLive sponsors dog - centric live events such as Open Bark Night, where waggish stand - up comedians share drinks and dog stories («Three corgis walk into a bar...»).

«Following today's announcement up to 100 million cups will be recycled this year alone and if the nation's other coffee chains sign up, there is no reason why all takeaway cups could not be recycled by as early as 2020,» Costa Managing Director Dominic Paul said in a statement.

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up to announce a US$ 60 - million investment in «massive online courses,» known as edX.

• Three partners from Black Coral Capital, a Boston - based venture firm, are raising up to $ 400 million for an inaugural fund as partners of a new firm, Spring Lane Capital, according to an SEC filing.

Total oil demand in February was up 2.4 percent, or 460,000 bpd, to 19.62 million bpd versus last year, EIA data showed, as strong demand for distillates helped soften weakness in gasoline demand.

While provincial Liberal Opposition critics blasted it as a sellout, Dunderdale talked up access to lucrative European markets and how the $ 400 - million fund would help make up for any lost jobs.

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

Second, as there are roughly 80 million 401 (k) plan participants, simply reduce the maximum they can contribute, just a bit, to make up for the difference in tax revenue.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Loss - making Spotify, which is prioritising rapid growth over profit, said it expected to have signed up between 73 and 76 million paying subscribers this month, roughly twice as many as closest rival Apple has disclosed.

McKinsey predicts that by 2018, the United States my face a shortage of up to 190,000 data scientists as well as 1.5 million managers with the skills to translate data science into business decisions.

Longer term, assuming safety and comfort improves and ticket prices drop, Futron sees as many as 15,700 people flying to space annually, representing up to $ 786 million a year in revenue.

Regulators in 47 states have been allowing businesses to raise up to $ 1 million a year through shares priced as low as $ 1 using a financing technique called the small corporate offering registration, or SCOR.

The numbers, as reported last month, back it up — this year's second quarter saw 48 home sales priced at $ 5 million or higher, the most activity in almost a year and a half, according to a report by Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Trump reportedly did not want to give up to 1.8 million immigrants a pathway to citizenship as part of that deal, as Democrats wanted.

Ma reaped more than $ 800 million selling shares in the company he set up 15 years ago as Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, based on company filings, with the value of his remaining stake of 7.8 percent surging to more than $ 17 billion by Monday.

Leon Cooperman: Icahn wasn't the only investor to pick up some shiny new Apple last quarter, as Omega Advisors CEO Leon Cooperman bought up almost 1.3 million shares of the company.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

And they are starting to step up to the give - back portion of the program as well: In 2012 two Endeavor entrepreneurs each gave $ 1 million to their local offices.

So unless revenue rises substantially and operational costs remain stable — a tricky proposition as Tesla is still struggling to get Model 3 manufacturing in track — Tesla will spend itself down to either nothing on the cash - balance side or end up with about $ 1 billion in reserve, give or take a few hundred million.

As it is now, Sotheby's has outstanding guarantees of $ 148 million on various items that have yet to be put up for auction.

As expected, the subsidiary, which PayPal scooped up for $ 800 million in cash last September, has joined forces with Coinbase to integrate «One Touch» Bitcoin payments in the coming months.

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

But this also means that potential buyers can now find deals in some of Vancouver's most expensive neighbourhoods — as long as you don't mind an average home price that creeps up to the $ 2.8 million mark.

Other forms of travel, such as trains, buses and cruises, will see a slight bump — up 1.1 percent to 1.48 million travelers.

The new report comes a few months after WSJ also reported that Facebook would be willing to pay up to $ 3 million per episode for potential high - profile shows — an amount that rivals the price of top shows on premium cable channels — as well as smaller outlays for original sitcoms and other scripted shows.

MZI Resources will raise up to $ 45 million to repay loans and fund ongoing work, as its Keysbrook mineral sands project moves into production.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

Online screening and verification company CVCheck has announced plans to raise up to $ 7.6 million from investors as it wraps up its acquisition of New Zealand - based company Resume Check.

Perth - based Swan Gold Mining has completed a one - for - 10 share consolidation as part of a restructuring of the company that it proposes including a capital raising of up to $ 20 million and debt to equity conversion of more than $ 29 million.

In September, the company's stock reached a 100 % increase over last year, as Tsai and Ma discussed selling up to 22.5 million (or US$ 4 billion worth) of the company's shares.

CTI Logistics has acquired national business Jayde Transport in an all - cash deal worth up to $ 7.5 million, as it seeks to lessen its reliance on the local market.

Gold miner Millennium Minerals has received firm commitments for an $ 8.1 million capital raising to provide a working capital buffer as it ramps up to full production at Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara.

These fans have already backed up the money truck to Activision's front door (the CoD franchise has sold 56 million console units in the U.S. alone, with the November 2010 - released Call of Duty: Black Ops, topping $ 1 billion in sales in just 42 days) and see Elite as more money grab than value - added proposition.

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.

It's easier if you're a startup with just a handful of customers, but as you ramp up, it becomes important to «make your millions of customers individually feel like they are one in a million,» as Leyden puts it.

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

Last year, Hulu said it had roughly 12 million subscribers, which means the service still has a long way to go to catch up with its larger rivals, as Netflix boasts over 100 million subscribers around the world while more than 80 million people have Amazon Prime accounts.