Sentences with phrase «big conference calls»

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The party followed an annual DFJ conference called the Big Think.

A year after announcing a big bet on Amazon, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya returned to the Sohn Investment Conference Monday with what he called a more controversial pick: Tesla.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

Plus it must be the only conference in the world where you can go to a panel on Big Data and then, at night, go see a performance by a band called Big Data.

Valeant CEO Mike Pearson said in a conference call that Medicis will strengthen the company's place in medical dermatology and bring it to critical mass in aesthetics, a $ 12 - billion market that doesn't depend on government health - plan reimbursement and previously did not have a significant «big pharma» presence.

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

The winners of the Big East tournament secure spots in the single - elimination tournament officially called the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Conference Championships and better known as «March Madness.»

Results might have been better had the company been more aggressive with its factory orders: «Being in stock and in sizes two, four and six continues to be our biggest productivity expansion opportunity,» CEO Christine Day remarked in the conference call.

Oak Brook, Illinois - based McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant chain, raised U.S. menu prices 1 percent in March to help offset higher commodity costs, Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen said during an April 21 conference call.

«It feels like the big rig is just starting to move along the track now,» Linton told analysts on a conference call Wednesday.

On a recent conference call, the CEO explained a $ 700 million share repurchase as follows: «The reason that I made the biggest acquisition in the history of the company this last month was because the company is so cheap.»

The BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as web searches and text mining of corporate conference calls — suggests a higher growth rate over the coming 12 months than currently reflected in consensus estimates.

The reason XRP saw some growth in October is largely due to the belief that Ripple is going to make a big announcement at their upcoming conference in Toronto called «Swell».

The GPS goes further by also incorporating big data insights, from Internet searches and corporate conference call transcripts to traffic patterns.

Other big platform - based announcements from the conference include the addition of group video calling for Instagram and WhatsApp, and AR camera effects for Instagram.

When the president of the United States wants to speak to the world, he doesn't call a press conference or craft a big speech.

(Of course, it doesn't take a stodgy old person to find his or her mind blown by San Diego State getting ready to move to a conference called the «Big East.»)

In the days after the Michigan game he had Penn State athletic director Tim Curley write a letter to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney, calling for a top - to - bottom review of conference officiating.

«It's pretty obvious that they're going to be 7 - 0 getting ready for that big rival game against Michigan State in East Lansing, they've got to go to Iowa and they've got to go to Ohio State,» Herbstreit said on a conference call with reporters today.

Of course, by football, I mean the sport that we call soccer here in the states, and by soccer, I specifically mean Big East women's soccer, as the 10 teams kick off conference action this weekend.

Celebrity Big Brother star Stephen Baldwin called President Barack Obama a «homey» at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

De Blasio called upon the Senate IDC to «return to the Democratic fold» — even if they want to maintain their «independent presence» within the bigger conference.

His 2010 Conference speech called for a «Big Society Spirit»: «It's the spirit of activism, dynamism, people taking the initiative, working together to get things done.»

On Tuesday, June 23, Cuomo and legislative leaders, looking absolutely exhausted, called an evening news conference to say that a framework deal on all the big issues had been reached.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called upon the State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member breakaway faction that shares power with the GOP, to «return to the Democratic fold» even if they want to maintain their «independent presence» within the bigger cConference, an eight - member breakaway faction that shares power with the GOP, to «return to the Democratic fold» even if they want to maintain their «independent presence» within the bigger conferenceconference.

During the series of conferences, there were compromises here and there and we eventually founded a big nation called Nigeria.

Several conference members have since launched on - line petitions calling for the act's repeal — a quixotic and merely symbolic quest, since the governor clearly considers this a big win and has no intention of revisiting the matter.

The conference calls the ruling — which is going to be appealed by the Senate Republican plaintiffs, most likely — a «victory for democracy» but it's also a big win for them.

The changes are being backed by a broader group called the Educational Conference Board, whose membership includes the Council of School Superintendents, the New York State Schools Boards Association, School Administrators Association of NEw York State as well as NYSUT and the Conference of Big 5, the five largest school districts in the state.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commemorated the completion of that stage with a press conference held on the new Hudson River crossing, called the New NY Bridge, during which he said the project «sends a powerful message to the world that nothing is too big or too difficult for the Empire State.»

At a City Hall press conference following Gov. Cuomo's call for an infusion of cash from the Big Apple, the mayor reiterated his stance that the state is responsible for the subway system.

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

But at a press conference on the matter on July 7, the NDC's Chairman in the constituency called Ms Safo «a big liar».

«We've had a big uptick in calls to 311 — renters looking for information,» he said during a press conference on Roosevelt Island.

And you attacked Ed M's call for better behaviour by big business in his 2011 conference speech, even though David Cameron promptly jumped on board the bandwagon that Ed had started rolling.

I'm going to call it a night there, but go to guardian.co.uk / politics in the morning where Andrew Sparrow will be covering the last day of the Lib Dem conference — including Nick Clegg's big speech to the faithful.

Guy Harrison, executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which saw the biggest gains of the day, told reporters on a conference call Wednesday morning that the NRCC's role Tuesday was crucial in the defeats of longtime Democratic incumbents such as Reps. Ike Skelton (Mo.) and John Spratt (S.C.).

The Strategic and Policy Forum, a group with chief executives of some of the country's biggest companies, held a conference call and agreed to disband.

Calling the actions by the PAC an effort by «big money trying to take over the neighborhood,» Shafran said at Tuesday's news conference that «anyone who benefits» from the fliers «is just as bad as those behind them.»

At a press conference at Widows Creek, Bill Johnson, the Knoxville, Tenn. - based utility's president and CEO, called the Alabama data center announcement «a big day for TVA.»

The 1 - day conference, called the Origin Summit, will include eight workshops, including discussion of how evolutionary theory influenced Adolf Hitler's worldview, why «the big bang is fake,» and why «natural selection is NOT evolution.»

The HapMap was also my introduction to so - called «big - science»: large - scale, multi-center projects with a data control center and weekly conference calls.

If you've been to a blogger conference / sorority gathering / any bar on a Saturday night, you know that picks from what I like to call the big three — J Crew, LOFT, and Banana — run rampant.

In a conference call, the CEOs of both companies said the deal with strengthen the brands across the board, from mass market to boutique businesses like salons, while piling up some big cost savings.

The blonde actress, who is reportedly going to play Victoria Gotti in an upcoming movie project called, «Gotti: Three Generations», attended the press conference with big wig John Travolta and the Gotti clan in a three piece combo that included grey trousers, a halter blouse, and a black leather jacket.

The first Red Dead Redemption game has sold 15 million copies, and it sounds like RDR Online is going to be a big part of the next game, which during their quarter 3 2017 earnings conference call, is confirmed for a release in Fiscal 2018.

During a mid-day news conference, Jindal called on the Legislature and state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to come up with «Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test» to replace Common Core, the country's biggest education change in a generation.

Although Ford representatives jokingly call their press conference at the 2014 NTEA Work Truck Show the company's «biggest truck launch of the year,» they're not entirely kidding.

I need to put out another big call for info before this summer's RWA conference, for sure.

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