Sentences with phrase «at multibillion dollar»

«If you can increase the sink strength by 5 percent, and you get 5 percent more product, you'd be looking at a multibillion dollar market,» said Michael Knoblauch, a professor in the WSU School of Biological Sciences.

As a corporate accountant and financial analyst for nearly a decade, I spent my workdays looking into the details of products at multibillion dollar companies.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon and other states is also being smuggled out, and the trafficking is putting America's multibillion - dollar marijuana industry at risk.

Founder Drew Houston has grown the cloud - storage company into a multibillion - dollar business at an incredibly fast pace.

The downturn has cut into profits at U.S. casino operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd., which have multibillion - dollar projects in the pipeline.

Brian Wilcove, partner at Artiman Ventures, an early - stage venture fund in Silicon Valley that invests in companies aiming to disrupt multibillion - dollar markets, seconds this prediction.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

It's certainly possible — but not until 2022 at the earliest, because CBS, NBC and Fox have the rights to the contest sewn up until then, as part of a multibillion - dollar deal signed in 2012.

Miguel McKelvey may be the co-leader of a multibillion dollar venture, but at heart — and if his beard is any indication — he says he's still the scrappy businessman he was in the late nineties.

Together, they are at the frontier of player - computer interchange — a fanciful, lavish, highly graphic, user - involving, no - alien - zapping edge promises to carve ever larger slices from the multibillion - dollar home computer and arcade markets.

Running a multibillion - dollar company at such a young age is surely evidence that Schwartz's success is a product of both smarts and hard work.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

At the same time, when multibillion - dollar startups can blow through hundreds of millions of investor dollars before imploding — or hire hundreds of employees and then close without ever launching a proper product — it gets harder and harder to believe that the tech sector isn't at least a little inflateAt the same time, when multibillion - dollar startups can blow through hundreds of millions of investor dollars before imploding — or hire hundreds of employees and then close without ever launching a proper product — it gets harder and harder to believe that the tech sector isn't at least a little inflateat least a little inflated.

Someone has to benefit from the tide of lawsuits coming at opioid manufacturers — particularly if drugmakers pay out a multibillion - dollar settlement.

Nor did she step into another corner office at a multibillion - dollar company.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

Companies wouldn't keep making them if they didn't — just look at how home shopping has skyrocketed QVC into a multibillion - dollar business.

We work with C - Suites at multibillion - dollar companies who want to take the initiative to create a platform business.

«The Chinese are looking at a multibillion - dollar investment in Guinea,» says de Pontet.

Nancy Koehn, a professor and historian at Harvard Business School, noted that Howard Schultz is «one of the few globally recognized CEOs who turned around a multibillion - dollar enterprise when growth stalled.

Brian Bollinger, CPA, runs Simply Safe Dividends and previously worked as an equity research analyst at a multibillion - dollar investment firm.

«Based on our sales record, we should have been in a prominent position, but we were at the bottom of the page,» said the e-commerce director of a multibillion - dollar publicly traded company.

Judge Rakoff had this to say at the time: «The notion that Bank of America shareholders, having been lied to blatantly in connection with the multibillion - dollar purchase of a huge, nearly bankrupt company, need to lose another $ 33 million of their money in order to «better assess the quality and performance of management» is absurd.»

Ethiopia's plans to build a multibillion dollar dam on the Nile River spurred Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi — whose country lies downstream from Ethiopia — to vow to protect Egypt's water security at all costs.

GlobalFoundries, which has racked up Empire Zone tax benefits estimated at up to $ 586 million (in addition to a $ 665 million cash grant from the state and other perks) built a multibillion - dollar chip fab in Saratoga County that now employs more than 3,000 people.

Weeks later, Gov. Paterson picked the company, which boasted influential Queens pastor and former Congressman Floyd Flake as an investor, for the multibillion - dollar casino deal at Aqueduct Racetrack.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo faced a breakfast revolt from three liberal Assembly Democrats yesterday as they challenged his plan to allow the multibillion - dollar «millionaire's tax» expire at the end of the year.

Then the prosecutor took direct aim at Cuomo's signature «Buffalo Billion» economic - development project — and seems to have extended that probe to the multibillion - dollar SUNY Poly nanotech initiative, which dates to the Mario Cuomo administration.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany, where he will be delivering his executive budget at 1 p.m. at the State Museum — a proposal that is expected not to include a lot of good news news to a multibillion dollar deficit and funding cuts from Washington.

Katz also suggested the other candidates in the comptroller race look at the task of investing the city's multibillion - dollar pension fund in a manner that is cut - and - dry.

CVS reported a multibillion - dollar loss in general sales when it stopped selling cigarettes at its pharmacies, though CVS pharmacy revenue was robust last year.

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

In a report, the commission argues that «[g] lobal governments should unite to offer multibillion - dollar incentives for drug developers, and pharmaceutical companies should pool their billions in support of early - stage research,» as Kelly Servick wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

«Cassava is now a multibillion - dollar business for starch production in Asia, providing income to smallholders,» says Andy Jarvis, leader in policy research at CIAT.

A decades - long, multibillion - dollar search paid off last July when physicists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva announced that they had discovered the Higgs boson, a particle so fundamental that without it there would be no atoms in the universe — and therefore no stars, no planets, and no one to wonder about it all.

Albany NanoTech, a multibillion - dollar research complex affiliated with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany in New York state, involves more than 250 corporations, many of which provide major funding for university faculty members.

«The brutality of animal poaching, wherever it occurs, feeds the demand of a multibillion - dollar illegal international market,» said Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, at a press conference.

My cardiologist friend and the rest of the mainstream medical system has no clue about the steamroller coming to health care aimed at the huge profits from diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, a multibillion dollar industry in the US.

It details the 2007 multibillion - dollar bidding war for the Chicago Board of Trade, where Erika was a Managing Director at the time.

If demonlover was one of the most scrutinized films of 2003, it was because director Olivier Assayas boldly chose to so directly enter, as well as represent, the new technology at the center of image circulation and the multibillion dollar entertainment industry.

While the players in this multibillion - dollar drama wrangled over Justice DeGrasse's order last winter, the question at the heart of the New York case was the one debated across the country: Will more money improve children's education or simply feed an already bloated and ineffectual bureaucracy?

Ebook sales at Amazon have grown by 70 percent year over year, says Bezos, making it a multibillion - dollar category for the company.

Not so long ago did he agree to buy The Washington Post, now the company's press release published on Aug 14th from his much beloved international multibillion dollar electronic commerce company, Amazon, fans the flame of his fame when Amazon publishing is releasing their biography series at the end of 2013.

That said, I also think I should be able to get more of the revenue of each sale and have the ability to have my work priced at whatever the market will bear, without a multibillion - dollar company artifically capping the price I or my publisher can set on my work for its own business goals, which may or may not be in line with my own.

«That said, I also think I should be able to get more of the revenue of each sale and have the ability to have my work priced at whatever the market will bear, without a multibillion - dollar company artifically capping the price I or my publisher can set on my work for its own business goals, which may or may not be in line WITH my own.»

I think the market generally does a good job at valuing companies within a range of reasonableness, but there is absolutely no way that the intrinsic values of these multibillion dollar organizations fluctuate by 50 %, 80 %, 120 %, 150 % or more during the span of just 52 weeks.

Brian Bollinger, CPA, runs Simply Safe Dividends and previously worked as an equity research analyst at a multibillion - dollar investment firm.

1) pays a fixed dividend rate of at least 6.5 %; 2) Become callable five years after IPO; 3) Pays dividends quarterly; 4) Be rated «investment grade» by Moody's Investors Service; 5) Be issued by a company that has a perfect track record of never having suspended the dividend payments on a preferred stock (and these are mostly decades old, multibillion dollar companies); 6) Have a «cumulative» dividend obligation; 7) Be issued by a U.S. company; 8) Not be convertible to common stock in the future; 9) Have easy (online) access to the prospectus at IPO; and 10) Have an initial share value (par) of $ 25.00.

Our scores are available for thousands of stocks and are overseen by Brian Bollinger, who was a partner and equity research analyst at a multibillion - dollar investment firm prior to starting Simply Safe Dividends.