Sentences with phrase «billion dollars»

«After investing $ 700 million in the region, we will hold a stake worth several billion dollars, and strategic ownership in what we believe will be the winner in an important global region,» Khosrowshahi wrote in his missive to staffers.

Magic Leap has raised $ 1.39 billion dollars in venture capital, valuing the company at $ 4.5 billion, from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Google, JPMorgan, Fidelity and Alibaba.

With residents gobbling up more pizza, burgers and fries, that's good news for the likes of McDonald's, KFC and the rest as the country's industry will soon be worth more than a billion dollars.

The available short - term capital resources Bombardier needs to stay in the air fell by a billion dollars at the end of the last fiscal year, to 3.8 billion dollars.

He estimates that private equity firms have made more than $ 2 billion dollars in transaction fees over the last 10 years without being properly registered as broker dealers.

In 1979, the company scored a billion dollars in profit.

But after Trump called out Pakistan on New Year's Day for providing «safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan» and saying «33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years» has «given us nothing but lies & deceit,» it can be expected that the US will resume targeting jihadists with increased zeal in 2018.

«I have deep concerns and am opposed to the Senate bill,» she continued, adding that the bill would «make sweeping changes to the Medicaid program,» and «would take out of the Medicaid program more than $ 700 billion dollars.»

But the announcement of a refinancing plan of up to 2.1 billion dollars (including 1.5 billion refinancing debt and 600 million dollars from issuing new shares), along with suspension of dividends to shareholders, is making financial analysts» concerns look justified.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and Citigroup extended loans totaling more than half a billion dollars to Kushner Cos last year after their officials held separate meetings with Kushner.

Last year companies paid outside consults $ 39.3 billion dollars according to Business Week.

The Financial Accountability Office has issued a report saying the government pumped about $ 22.9 billion dollars into dozens of business support programs between 2012 and 2017.

Posing awkwardly for Vogue is very low risk for that kind of story compared to acquiring Tumblr for a billion dollars.

And, earlier this year we moved nearly a billion dollars in electronic rent payments in a single day, beating the previous record from May 2014 by 24 percent.

The final sale price is expected to be well north of a billion dollars, which would make it the largest real estate transaction in Canadian history — possibly double the previous record of $ 618 million that CIBC fetched in 2000 for its Commerce Court complex in Toronto.

It refers to a short list of companies who have a valuation of over a billion dollars.

This led it to conduct a mass attack that meant over a billion dollars was stolen.

The da Vinci masterpiece's road to fetching nearly half a billion dollars began in 1958 — when it sold for less than $ 200.

It pumped in more than $ 200 billion dollars to support stock prices, suspended all initial public offerings, and arrested more than a dozen executives in the financial industry on charges of «malicious manipulation of the market.»

That billion dollars the government is spending is from Medicare Part D, a program for elderly Americans (not infants) that spent more than $ 500 million on the drug in 2015 alone.

As Fortune has reported, League of Legends has seen its user base increase rapidly as more and more gamers flock to the growing eSports market, which is expected to approach half a billion dollars in global revenue this year alone as tournaments continue to move into the mainstream.

A study conducted by the European Travel Commission found that the value of m - commerce in the Middle East is estimated to reach US$ 4.9 billion dollars by 2015.

Currently, he claims to have a net worth «in excess of ten billion dollars.»

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

Auctioned off to an unknown buyer on the phone after a protracted, 19 minute bidding war, the masterpiece's road to fetching nearly half a billion dollars actually began in 1958 — when it originally sold for less than $ 200, an art dealer who once owned the piece told CNBC.

One billion dollars.

In one well - publicized deal Motorola was pumping more than a billion dollars into Iridium, a satellite - based phone and paging company aiming to span every inch of the earth.

All told, the company's 60 engineers and 40 data scientists generate over a billion dollars in annual revenue through product subscription services — think along the lines of Dollar Shave Club, Proactiv, and Birchbox — for their clients.

Saunders» goal is to be in a thousand regions by 2020, with a million investors, and a billion dollars in funding for ten thousand entrepreneurs.

Startups like HootSuite, now likely worth a billion dollars, blossomed blocks from the famous steam clock, emitting a mist of talent that settled over the neighbourhood in the fast fashion of the industry to which it belongs.

You don't need an LLC or a billion dollars to gift stock that you intend to sell to a charity.

Le brought in another friend: Neil Weste, a prominent Australian chip designer who had sold his last company to Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) in 2000 for several billion dollars.

«By the time it's over I think they will have blown $ 7 billion dollars in Canada,» says Kniffen.

Bell also argued in a recent essay in the Columbia Journalism Review that technology companies such as Facebook and Google should donate several billion dollars to fund a non-profit journalism entity similar to the BBC, as a way of helping to repair the media industry that they disrupted.

By the end of last year, Big Ass Solutions» revenue had grown to a quarter of a billion dollars and our payroll to a thousand.

In 2016 losses to ransomware were somewhere around a billion dollars, and spread across verticals.

The product was pulled from the shelves, and the crisis cost the company close to half a billion dollars, with a damage to the brand that could last for years.

The closure of Silk Road in October, the online marketplace that allegedly allowed more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency, is cited as another major driver.

Khodorkovsky was stripped of the bulk of his assets but is using his remaining fortune — around half a billion dollars — on a plan to re-imagine the Russian political system.

Public service aside, the LinkedIn executive chairman's main focus seemed to be the size of the loss — nearly a billion dollars in a single year.

Ninety billion dollars of books are going digital, and we're in the first inning of that.

The latest cash injection elevates Duo into the rarified ranks of the so - called unicorn club, a collection of prized startups privately valued at a billion dollars or more.

I never saw a billion dollars.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

Today, we have almost a half - billion dollars invested with diverse asset managers, roughly a quarter of our endowment.

In May, Airbnb was reportedly close to closing half a billion dollars in financing from TPG Growth, which would value the company at $ 10 billion.

Another detail that made me (and some of the VCs I spoke with) pause: While notable investors have participated, including Goldman Sachs, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Promecap, not a single top - tier VC firm chose to invest in a tech company valued at more than a billion dollars.

Their plan to balance the budget involved 18 billion dollars in spending cuts, along with $ 16 billion in additional revenue gained from economic growth.

A billion dollars.»

Hundreds of projects have collectively raised more than a billion dollars through «initial coin offerings» (ICOs).