Sentences with phrase «backers in»

This is good news, which could tip the scales for many financiers and institutional backers in favor of investments in cryptocurrencies.

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), also known as initial public coin offerings, crowdsales or token sales, are a new form of startup funding where a company raises funds by issuing its own digital token to early backers in a somewhat similar manner as a company would issue shares to new investors.

The watch will work with both iPhones and Android phones, and is expected to start shipping out to backers in May 2016.

Backers in other markets are breathing a sigh of relief that ICOs won't be bought out as quickly as they have been thanks to Chinese investors» deep pockets.

Many critical stages in the production roadmap have already been completed, and product will begin shipping to backers in June 2016.

In a typical ICO campaign, a predetermined percentage of the new cryptocurrency is distributed among early backers in exchange for fiat or other (more established) cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

«Since failure can happen to anyone, creators need to consider, and plan for, the ways in which they will work with backers in the event a project fails, keeping lines of communication open and explaining how the money was spent,» Mollick said.

A pledge of AU$ 26 will net you a standard Oi, or if you'd like to stand out even further, a pledge of AU$ 47 (~ US$ 33) will reserve the titanium model for you, and the product is expected to ship to backers in August of 2016.

All products will be available in 3 different designs, and are expected to ship to backers in September 2017.

And they are usually motivated by selfish and short - sighted desires including looking after their finacial backers in the case of many politicians, or chasing short - term financial gain in the case of the bosses of the fossil fuel industry.

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

Imagine the glee, then, that the sceptics (and their strident backers in the media) had when the final draft IPCC report landed for governments to pick over for approval.

The spectacle last week of a few Midwestern Senators making threats and holding up nominations to protect a government handout that only benefits their wealthy backers in the ethanol industry was a new low even for Congress.

Solartab was initially launched with a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, which ended up raising more than $ 60,000 USD (double the initial goal) in pre-orders and pledges, with the first units being shipped to backers in 2015.

A blog storm began building Tuesday and broke on Wednesday as environmental groups posted a batch of documents — ranging from tax forms to lists of donors to a 2012 Heartland «climate strategy» — that appeared to expose the group's game plan, budgets and backers in remarkable detail.

The company estimates that the first of these micro wind turbines will be shipped to backers in January of 2015, with full scale production beginning in February of 2015.

Units are expected to ship to backers in May of 2018.

The painting Thérèse Dreaming by Balthus on view at The Met became the center of the controversy after an online petition, that gathered almost 9000 backers in five days, called the artwork too sexually suggestive and demanded for it to be taken down.

We've got a lot of backers in the community that are console players.

The first act of Double Fine's Broken Age is out for Kickstarter backers in beta form with its public release on the horizon set for 28 January.

That means Shovel Knight was guaranteed to sell 2 - 4 times the 15,684 backers in the first week, or in other words, 30k - 60k copies in the first week.

If Konami had their way, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night would never have left the drawing board; this seems odd for a Kickstarter project that raised $ 5,545,992 with 64,867 backers (one of the highest amounts of Backers in Kickstarter history) however as Koji Igarashi explains it, Konami wanted nothing to do with the project, which led him to strike out on his own, reaching out with Kickstarter in order to fund the project.

Larian reached out to Divinity: Original Sin 2's backers in a Kickstarter update saying, «you're amazing!».

Many gamers have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Playtonic Games» upcoming collectathon platformer, Yooka - Laylee, but none have done so more than Nintendo fans, who comprised the majority of Kickstarter backers in an effort to revive a genre of gaming that once thrived on older Nintendo consoles.

Their transparency let backers in on the nitty gritty details and it boosted their support and credibility.

Seeing as they are clearly cash strapped now, and need money, they restricted this sale to only backers in a certain class (CitizenCon ticket holders, Concierge Backers, Backers with subscriptions) at a discount of $ 625.

All that aside from the fact that since day one Chris Roberts has been blatantly lying to backers in order to continue his penchant for unjust enrichment.

There are, surely, only a handful of financial backers in the world who would be willing or able to finance such an ambitious project, and to such a preposterous degree of finesse.

The Awesomenauts: Starstorm expansion will be released as paid downloadable content for Awesomenauts on Steam, and all backers in the Copper tier or above will gain access to it as soon as it launches.

Star Citizen has just had a rather beefy update, fulfiling the development team's promise to regularly deliver content to its backers in a timely fashion.

A demo was distributed to backers in mid-January.

We'll bring the 10 backers in this tier to Harmonix for a day of beta testing, design meetings, and coaching.

Plus, another free gift for backers in the very near future.

«Even though we received much more money from our Kickstarter than we, or anybody anticipated, that didn't stop me from getting excited and designing a game so big that it would need even more money,» Schafer told backers in the latest email update.

Please, please, please keep your Wii U backers in mind when you send the Nintendo Network eShop version live.

Paris — Global Game publisher Playdius and independent studio Robot Wizard are proud to announce that the point & click adventure game, Jengo, has successfully achieved its Fig Backstage Pass Program, with more than 20 % of its fundraising goal reached and over 270 backers in one month!

The ToS clause in question has been altered to read that no refund can be requested while developer Cloud Imperium Games declares that it is still working on the game, which makes the odds of claiming any Star Citizen backer refund close to none for new backers in the situation where game development should stagnate but not be officially canceled.

This latest line of books should be delivered to backers in October, with stock for regular customers appearing shortly afterwards.

Announced today Yooka - Laylee will launch on April 11th 2017 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms, Yooka - Laylee is now available to pre-order at # 34.99 / $ 39.99 / $ 39.99 for non-Kickstarter backers in both digital and physical formats * from all participating stores worldwide.

Since it was funded by eager Kickstarter backers in 2013, the rumours of a console port of indie 3D platformer A Hat in Time have been circling the internet like a chocoholic around a Mars bar.

Both projects raised more than $ 1 million — and brought a flood of new backers in the process.

We released a beta version of Distance to all Kickstarter and PayPal backers in 2014, and we've been continually updating it since then.

However we do want to offer something good to or backers in case several figures are reached!

Its charming aesthetics and sheer amount of talented people working on it has won over backers in droves, so much so that the game will now be released on PlayStation 4 and Vita, Wii U as well as Steam!

Alongside the classics we are experimenting with new game modes, we'll be calling on Founder & Partner backers in the coming months to help us test and balance these new game modes.

Usually, the games are pitched very well, and most of the time, have very cool concepts rope backers in.

The team is still hard at work on Hive Jump and working to deliver the game to our Wii U backers in Q1 2017 and start working towards the fulfillment of physical rewards in Q2 2017.

Likewise, potential backers in a funding round or prospective buyers for a public offering from the company may require a report from a credit agency before advancing their plans.

The book is scheduled for release to backers in February 2015, with remaining volumes out to the public in March.