Sentences with phrase «become multibillion»

«Consequently, while Spotify has become a multibillion dollar company, songwriters and their publishers, such as Wixen, have not been able to fairly and rightfully share in Spotify's success, as Spotify has in many cases used their music without a license and without compensation,» the lawsuit states.

This is because more litigation from songwriters and their publishers are now predictable since Spotify has grown to become a multibillion - dollar company through efforts of the music industry.

So - called functional foods and nutraceuticals, such as yogurts with «good» bacteria, have already become a multibillion dollar market, but Nestlé says it plans to go a step further by providing consumers with «personalized health science nutrition» — although company representatives were vague on how this would work exactly.

Most of these global staffing firms are based in India, they've become multibillion dollar enterprises supplying American companies with H - 1B workers, like Rajesh, to replace American workers.

Stealing or pirating intellectual property has become a multibillion - dollar industry.

But it is the only system where ideas once scribbled on a cocktail napkin can become multibillion - dollar enterprises, and make a lot of people rich along the way.

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

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Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.

«Legal marijuana has become so entrenched in the U.S. — it's a multibillion - dollar industry — and I don't see the people who are behind this, people like myself, rolling over for the Justice Department, which means Congress will have to act,» Morse said.

If Spotify's stock rises in the weeks ahead, its direct listing could become a road map for the array of multibillion - dollar tech companies that investors are hoping will go public soon, including Airbnb, Lyft and Uber.

Our portfolio includes over 250 companies, from multibillion - dollar public corporations that have become household names to up - and - coming tech startups positioned to fundamentally transform their industries.

The convergence of several factors explains the trend: cheaper genetic sequencing technologies, the discovery of new oncogenes (genes that can cause a normal cell to become cancerous), a new generation of computers and bioinformatics that can analyze vast amounts of data, and a multibillion - dollar effort by researchers inside and outside the pharma industry to develop targeted drugs and companion diagnostics for cancer.

How a call for social action became a patriotic holiday, then turned into a multibillion - dollar industry.

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.

Another problem with excessive management fees in relation to performance fees is that they encourage hedge fund advisors to grow their funds as big as possible and just collect the annuity that the management fees become when they are running multibillion dollar portfolios.

Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion - dollar, employment - generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games.

Because of its scale, Facebook has become one of the most convenient platforms to reach an audience for all companies and developers, whether a multibillion corporation or a not - for - profit.

Would - be investors in Telegram's multibillion - dollar initial coin offering (ICO) have quickly become a favorite target for scammers.

(Bloomberg)-- Jared Kushner relinquished control of his family's multibillion - dollar real - estate business in January to eliminate conflicts of interest when he became a top White House adviser to his father - in - law, President Donald...