Sentences with phrase «big backing from»

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The biggest question mark that remains is just how much of the money from Snap's IPO will get funneled back into the Los Angeles tech scene.

Aurizon's West Pilbara iron ore joint venture has won backing from one of Australia's big four banks, ANZ Banking Group.

«She takes a big breath in, which we usually do when we are upset, and she sways back and forth in what appears to be a way to gently move away from his hand,» Reiman told INSIDER.

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

Last March, it gave HootSuite $ 20 million, which HootSuite used to buy back stock from its early investors — «to align for a bigger win,» Holmes says.

The bulk of the conference sessions take place Friday and Saturday, so I'll be back Monday with another post about the big takeaways from the rest of the conference.

From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for «Flyover» Start - Ups.

Key is really starting from within, figuring out some business pain points — big or small, across front and back office — and then taking a curated approach to meeting relevant companies.

I'm up in Maine now, for a brief respite from New York City heat, but will be back next week with some Big Maine - y Thoughts to share.

To read his blog is to watch the growth of a human being: You see Ev nearly lose his company, bring it back from the dead, strike it big, struggle with the tech support for his new cell phone, and get married.

On Monday, U.S. stocks pulled back from record highs, with the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes marking their biggest one - day percentage declines in about five months, weighed down by a slide in Apple shares on reports of poor iPhone X demand.

From the start, Barton loved consulting — breaking big problems down into their smallest components, then peering at them closely, first - hand, before building back up to a solution.

After the last champagne bottle is drained, the new Bentley is in the garage and you're back from the Bora Bora vacation, you start to realize there's a big difference between running a company worth $ 30 million and managing $ 30 million in disposable cash.

Mobile Mini, America's biggest provider of mobile storage units, backed away from a centralized customer service center because customers wanted the human touch.

Two months later he announced he'd be pulling back from day - to - day news meetings and story editing to focus on «the big picture» and training.

The world's biggest smartphone maker kept its full - year investment plan conservative and warned it would be difficult to increase earnings in the first quarter as demand pulls back from the year - end holiday period.

Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn, who joined the company from SuccessFactors back in 2009, isn't big on discussing private valuations, but confirmed in June that Coupa's is in the «billion - dollar range.»

Food delivery apps are gaining ground in China, thanks to backing from the biggest Internet firms.

Cut back on television and cable bills by casting TV shows from your smartphone to the big screen via Google Chrome, Roku or Apple TV.

That's a big win for the nursing home industry, which requested relief from what it called burdensome fines and claimed was holding back efforts to run better facilities.

Earth's biggest e-tailer could one day 3 - D print your purchases from the back of a high - tech delivery truck.

Make Mobile Security a Big Deal The app rush is far from over, and the growth of both smartphone and tablet PC platforms is about to create a bonanza for malware creators looking to cash in via the back door.

I sat down with him recently to ask: What holds people back from spreading their wings and jumping into the big blue sea of opportunity?

What stands out about it for now is that its business model — backed by some big money — is a radical rethinking of what consumers want from an online shopping experience.

Hootsuite also raised $ 20 million last year, but that was to buy back stock from early investors — for «a bigger win,» as Holmes explained it.

Neuroscience tells us that our brains still run an operating system from back in the caveman days, and fear is a big part of it.

«We couldn't source it from any fish retailers... so I would go down to down to the Exumas with a big old Coleman cooler and shoot 30 or 40 fish, bring it back on a Monday [and] give it to our chef in the restaurant,» Chadwick recalls.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.

It was one of the first big YouTube networks to make headlines, quickly growing to 300 million subscribers and raising almost $ 50 million in venture backing (including from Google, YouTube's parent company), valuing it at nearly $ 200 million in 2012.

As we've seen with Instagram's relentless copy - cat approach over the past year, another big risk for Snap is that the Facebook - backed company — or even Facebook itself — will simply move in on its market even further and suck all of the oxygen from the room when it comes to video.

One only has to think of the steep price defunct bookseller paid for having Amazon run its web site for years, or how much bigger Target's (tgt) would be if it hadn't waited until 2011 to take back oversight of its e-commerce from Amazon to understand the skittishness.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

It also has a relatively big research community with annual AI competitions dating back to 2010, a publicly accessible programming interface, even support from Blizzard.

A bill making its way through the House of Representatives and heavily backed by Big Food would create a voluntary national labeling standard, while preventing states from mandating labeling on their own.

But the online protests also highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate about protecting net neutrality, rules that prohibit internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from blocking or slowing sites or for charging people or companies for faster speeds of particular sites.

The biggest companies back then were mostly stuffy giants like General Electric, Exxon, Walmart and Citi — the budget's authors managed to refrain from labeling them «old economy» companies, but that was clearly the intent.

«China's biggest worry has always been joint push - back from its major Western trading partners,» the diplomat said.

Skeptics said the United States, the world's biggest economy, might back away from targets set in the Paris climate agreement if the Republican Party wins the presidential election in November.

«We're hearing from this survey that one of young Canadians biggest pet peeves is that they don't hear anything back,» says Boswell.

If you start to lose focus on the big picture, it might be necessary to take step back from the situation and reassess it, or even seek outside advice.

The decision by the SNB to call time on its efforts to prevent the euro from trading below 1.20 francs was a huge surprise and came amid mounting speculation that the European Central Bank will next week back a big stimulus program that will put more euros in circulation which would further dilute their value.

That's because many big enterprises regularly issue more stock than they buy back, using the proceeds for repurchase of new shares from newly exercised options and vested restricted stock, for M&A, and for secondary offerings.

In the last 2 years, HSE and Training has been set back 20 years, why MONEY of course, that is the only thing that counts, so constant cut backs from the big 3 Iron Ore producers, want everything as cheap as possible, as a result, standards have dropped to appalling standards, but they are cheap, and that is all that matters, and injury figures are easily falsified.

The Capital One Spark Cash for Business Card gives you $ 500 cash - back when you spend $ 4,500 in the first three months, that's the biggest cash - back bonus available from any credit card, whether business or personal, according to Wallethub.

Fisher made its big withdrawal from the U.S. Deutsche Bank FI Enhanced Global High Yield ETN on Oct. 5 as Deutsche «faced a big penalty for allegedly misselling mortgage - backed securities in the U.S.,» the Journal says.

Over the long run, AI will move from the back office to the front office and take big chunks of incumbents out along the way.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Going back to the lesson he learned from his mentor Speros Derlles, Stan Druckenmiller notes that probably 80 % of the «bib, big money» he's made has been on an investment somehow related to central bank policy.

The bigger change is the pulling back from tech, which has been the most popular sector among millionaires over past surveys.