Sentences with phrase «big years ago»

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Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

Since starting CALM as an upstart, bicycle - mounted weed delivery service 17 years ago, the 41 - year - old has served roughly 4,000 customers and become one of Toronto's biggest ganjapreneurs.

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

The company has been a big proponent of the benefits of technology advances since it launched its business 30 years ago from a garage in Tempe, Arizona.

The single biggest difference between now and a year ago, when Dauman appeared to be in full control of Viacom, is the resurgence of Shari Redstone as a factor in her father's life.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

Three years ago, Walmart (wmt) took a beating when it announced big investments and earlier this year the same happened to Target (tgt).

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Between ending its work - from - home policy and acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo has undergone several big changes since Marissa Mayer took the helm just over a year ago.

The biggest problem with comparing Brexit to Y2K is that the global financial markets were far more stable 16 years ago than they are now.

E-commerce in China is nearly 80 percent bigger than the United States», which it overtook some two years ago.

Several years ago, Big Data was the new thing turning every venture capitalist on his (or, only very occasionally, her) ear.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

Yes, big thinkers were asking those questions 16 years ago and have yet to resolve them.

A year and a half ago, J.Crew's CEO Millard «Mickey» Drexler was quoted as saying «I don't know what the rush to be big is for, to be outside the United States,» and noted that growth outside the U.S. can distract from initiatives within the American marketplace.

Schultz said Starbucks identified the single - serve coffee market as a «big opportunity» about two years ago.

After McFall started the sit - down meetings, two years ago, she knew when she could realistically expect each client's check, and she could request a bigger up - front fee if need be.

Since embarking on this initiative, five years ago, Lunar has made five Big Bang investments.

According to Constant Contact, 84 percent of people say that the biggest difference in small businesses between now and five years ago is the use of more online marketing tools.

Given Apple's iPad performance and broader market challenges, it becomes clearer why Apple didn't decide to hold a big iPad event like it would have several years ago.

Once the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection four years ago after disclosing that it lost 850,000 Bitcoins, then worth about $ 500 million.

Yesterday's big box stores are usually still outfitted with Windows computers and POS technology from 40 years ago, making them vulnerable to hacking.

On an adjusted basis to remove one - time items such as the tax charge, Canada's biggest lenders earned roughly $ 11.3 billion, up approximately 12.59 per cent from a year ago

It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now it's gotten frighteningly bigger, and it's no longer wise to ignore it.»

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

CVS's deal was the third - biggest offering on record, beaten only by Anheuser - Busch InBev SA's $ 46 billion offering two years ago and Verizon Communication Inc.'s $ 49 billion deal in 2013.

Sharma says that even just a few years ago, the big industry players gave no respect to mobile.

Nearly two years ago, Whitman led Hewlett - Packard through the biggest corporate breakup by revenue in history, cleaving the $ 103 billion company into two: HP Inc. (hpq), where she recently stepped down as chairman, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe), where she remains CEO.

Using ethnic marketing principles and years of experience, Think Big are proud to represent the professional Polish community around the world and have already carried out over 50 projects since launching six years ago.

EMC bought Virtustream and its big - business focused cloud business for $ 1.2 billion just about a year ago.

«Maybe the reason why the iPhone 7 is not a big design innovation is because it realizes the aging dynamics of the base and saw this coming years ago, choosing to save the true cycle of innovation for when the base would be incredibly ripe.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

«I could have retired years ago, but I didn't because this company is bigger than me,» he says.

Southwest ended the precise mileage component of its big sales a few years ago, but its big sales have continued to closely mimic its previous distance - based promotions.

Verizon's Fios service largely stopped expanding years ago and the carrier sold off a big chunk of the business in 2015.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

To be sure, most of the big point moves are in recent years for an obvious reason: The Dow is much bigger than it was decades ago.

«My biggest regret is that we didn't hand back marketing three or four years ago,» Bitove says.

Even if the Republican - controlled Congress passes legislation to halt the DOL rule - making process, President Obama will veto it, enabling the biggest changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) since it was drafted 40 years ago.

Icahn Associates is Xerox's biggest outside shareholder, with a 9.4 percent stake, and Icahn first disclosed a stake two years ago.

Three years ago, Gartner cloud analyst Lydia Leong took a look at what Verizon was planning and was impressed with its ambitious scope, although even then she was unsure if Verizon could take on the big public cloud players led by Amazon Web Services.

Things have changed a lot for Dyn over the 15 years since its inception — and many of the biggest shifts have come since I joined the company almost eight years ago.

A $ 150 billion valuation would make it one of the biggest public flotations ever, dwarfing this year's launch of Spotify and Dropbox and comparing to the $ 104 billion float of Facebook six years ago or Alibaba's own $ 168 billion valuation in 2014.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

Seven years ago I married fellow Inc. columnist Carrie Kerpen, and she's been a big part of my «why» — personally and professionally — ever since.

«The startups that I speak to feel like we're on the cusp of something much bigger, says Daly, «that is the equivalent of mobile apps of several years ago.»

Four years ago, he created JuicyCampus.com, which quickly became the biggest college gossip website in the country, with one million unique visitors per month.

However, whatever happens with the stock price, this is a big moment for the U.S. auto industry, which was cratering just a year ago, and a big moment for the IPOs, which had dried up almost completely in the wake of the financial crisis.

That's 10 times the attendee count just a few years ago, when the big data and analytics gathering appealed mainly to IT professionals.

When Claudia Mirza and Azam Mirza started a translation business five years ago, they had big ambitions, and for a while, their operation, Akorbi Language Consulting, thrived.