Sentences with phrase «big raises as»

Public employee union leaders slammed Gov. David Paterson for giving five of his staffers big raises as he pushed a furlough plan for state workers.

Indiana's payroll is about $ 53 million, and after next season Jermaine O'Neal, Jonathan Bender and Jeff Foster will be seeking big raises as free agents.

Some stars will get big raises as teams bet their bankrolls on them; other big shots will have to take huge pay cuts or retire, because teams won't have any money left with which to pay them.

Sources say Robinhood Gold has sold better than expected, which likely gave it the momentum for this big raise as investors seek to «pour gasoline on the fire».

Not exact matches

Airbnb has moved to head off conflict with tax - raising authorities, city councils and hoteliers worldwide as a two - day promotional event in Paris, the online home - sharing group's biggest market, gets under way.

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

Since late 2012, the once high - flying charity — which has raised some $ 500 million over the years to help 2.5 million patients, caretakers, and survivors get access to services such as fertility preservation, clinical - trial matching, and insurance assistance — has lost some of its biggest sponsors, including Nike and RadioShack.

Many high - growth companies fuelled by investment dollars were spending as if they were about to raise another big round, he says.

The decision, which has not been previously reported, raises the question of whether other big and profitable oil firms with small refineries - such as...

Twitter is quietly raising big bucks — pegging the company's value at as much as $ 7 billion.

Chicago Ventures doesn't disclose its investments, but Larkins says he's seeing more Midwest startups receive minimal funding in the early stages, as opposed to raising big funding rounds.

Until now it has raised most of its funds from big banks and corporate investors such as Google.

That's hard to do for any company as it gets bigger, and the threat of competition — archrival Vivint raised $ 330 million in its October IPO — could make his task harder.

And despite the fact that Mylan raised EpiPen prices roughly 30 % in 2015 while prescription volume also grew 7 %, the company's revenue on the drug actually fell slightly, as the other players took even bigger cuts, according to Raffat.

Mark Seetin, director of regulatory and industry affairs for the U.S. Apple Association said that while school lunches were a «significant contributor» to increased consumption, «When a company as big as McDonald's helps promote something, it not only boosts sales, but also really raises public awareness.»

The biggest players — BuzzFeed, Vox Media, and Vice — each raised more than $ 100 million last year, while smaller companies like Mic and Refinery29 racked up respective $ 17 million and $ 50 million rounds as well.

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.

And even though aluminum, which faces a 10 % import tax, isn't a big part of Toyota vehicles directly, Lentz notes that it is a component of parts the company buys from suppliers, which could raise the price of those as well.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly raised the possibility of a link between the malware and network break - ins at such big retailers as Target and Home Depot.

If we raise each team's Forbes.com value by the same multiple as the Bills» sale price, which is 1.497 times bigger, the Dallas Cowboys are now worth $ 4.8 billion instead of their Forbes.com value of $ 3.2 billion (cont.

«One of the biggest mistakes I've seen people make is that they treat «getting a raise» as a once a year exercise,» says Krawcheck.

The foundation's biggest fundraiser — its annual Tech Jam, a party that attracts more than 1,000 attendees — has raised as much as $ 120,000 for the organization in a single night.

When Morejon consulted on the Trunkster Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $ 1.4 million, a big boost came from an appearance on Good Morning America, as well as a story in Travel + Leisure.

Nash also raised questions about Wells Fargo's position as the biggest lender to the gun industry.

The report raises questions about Magic Leap's ability to live up to its billing as one of the next big tech hits, based on its flashy demos presenting robots with blasters overlaid on the real world.

«You can find some really great professional training opportunities that don't cost as much as a raise and yet can have a really big impact: in - person classes, online classes, or internal opportunities that we set up.

This appeal to Madison Avenue comes as Facebook, the world's biggest social network, plans to raise $ 5 billion in an IPO that could value the company at upwards of $ 75 billion.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

The McDonald's announcement comes as other big employers have raised starting wages amid a tightening job market.

I think these banks / funds are the next big thing as a hybrid between venture capital firms and venture debt... actually looking to raise money that way myself.

Let's raise a toast to the latest round of Super Bowl commercials, often as widely anticipated as the big game itself.

July was the biggest month for coin offerings, with 34 projects raising $ 665 million, Tokendata.io data shows — or twice as much money as was raised in the first five months of the year combined.

So the big question in the world of economics is whether or not the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and end their bond buying program known as quantitative easing.

Gaebler lauded the law's language allowing the SBA to raise its loan guarantee from current levels to as much as 90 percent for some loans, but said «this latest, new rule negates some of those provisions and... doesn't offer much respect to the small business economy, especially when you consider the big role that small business plays in an economic recovery.»

U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower taxes and cuts in regulations.

The Fed is expected to continue raising rates, while Congress needs to wrestle with big - ticket issues such as tax reform, the debt ceiling, and the federal budget.

Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's Biggest [funding] Round.

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

The technology has already gained momentum, raising funds from blockchain investment companies including Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital and Fenbushi Capital and the release on the 28th is already tipped as one of the biggest Altcoin releases of the year.

He explained that Coin Center «has nothing against the consortia projects like R3... But the technologies that we believe are both truly more disruptive and exciting as far as future betterment, [as well as] raise the biggest policy questions, are the open networks.

U.S. stocks surged Monday after a Federal Reserve official said the central bank shouldn't raise interest rates too soon, which came as a big relief to investors.

But in another sense, Uber keeps raising billions of dollars from investors to pay for its losses as it grows, so it can't easily afford to alienate all the big investors it already has.

Homejoy was able to raise funding, but not enough to grow the company as big as its founders and backers had hoped.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $ 4 billion at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam Neumann said at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 that it's not quite as simple as betting big on enterprise deals.

Twice, which had raised more than $ 23 million, sells used clothing and accessories from mainstream brands such as Zara, Ann Taylor and Gap, but failed to build a big enough customer base and had been shopping itself to potential buyers, sources previously said.

The authorities should instead welcome the rise as prodding big exporters to raise their game.

Toyota Motor Corp., which plans to build a new $ 1.6 billion factory in Alabama with Mazda Motor Corp., said the administration's decision will «adversely impact» auto companies by raising costs and prices of cars and trucks sold in the U.S.. That's even as more than 90 percent of the steel Asia's biggest carmaker needs in the U.S. is from the country.

The big push for utility stocks came from interest rates, which unexpectedly dove in 2014 as the Federal Reserve's end of quantitative easing didn't have the rate - raising impact that most investors had believed it would.

The S&P 500 had its biggest weekly gain since April in the period ended Friday after the Federal Reserve signaled it won't be raising rates quickly as officials hold out for more decisive evidence of an economic rebound.