Sentences with phrase «billions of dollars a year on»

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

Why should Facebook rake in tens of billions of dollars a year on the backs of its 2 billion - plus user base?

Clifton says decision makers at the top of the food chain spend billions of dollars every year on everything but hiring the right managers.

Leaving billions of dollars a year on the table because we can't get the best price for one of our major resources?

«Industry giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are spending tens of billions of dollars a year on acquiring smaller firms for market entrance, strategic intellectual property and talented employees, but face a real challenge identifying companies with the right products or technology in the vast startup universe,» said Gene Moo Lee, UTA assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.

With Americans spending billions of dollars each year on nutritional supplements, researchers have analyzed popular eye vitamins to determine whether their formulations and claims are consistent with scientific findings.

Therefore, consumers are dumping hundreds of billions of dollars every year on bottled water.

Overweight people spend billions of dollars every year on products and services that promise miraculous results.

Americans spend billions of dollars every year on supplements, and it's very important to understand that not all supplements are created equal....»

Through great marketing, and because the product has such low cost for the manufacturer, Americans now spend billions of dollars a year on whey protein products.

Indeed, although corporations spend billions of dollars a year on training, this investment is like pumping gas into a car that has a hole in the tank.

Though the government spends billions of dollars every year on education, relatively little of the money has gone to figuring out which teachers are effective and why.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) is one of its most vocal detractors, claiming consumers are «tricked out of billions of dollars every year on car loans.»

7) Car Repairs Consumers lose billions of dollars each year on unneeded or poorly done car repairs.

As consumers, we spend billions of dollars each year on goods and services, both online and in traditional stores.

Nowadays people in the U.S. spend billions of dollars every year on their pets.

In fact we are not spending billions of dollars a year on climate research for scientific reasons, but rather for policy reasons.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

That distinction belongs to the insurance trade itself, which spends billions of dollars a year on direct advertising to consumers.

Why should Facebook rake in tens of billions of dollars a year on the backs of its 2 billion - plus user base?

Corporations spend billions of dollars each year on improving their brand images because they know that those images directly affect whether or not people buy from them.

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A grace period on Chinese loans to Venezuela has lapsed, potentially depriving the cash - strapped OPEC nation of billions of dollars in desperately needed oil revenue this year.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Health care fraud is one of the most devastating financial crimes, siphoning billions of dollars from insurance companies and patients who spend a staggering 2.5 trillion dollars each year on health care.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

Aside from discussions on the Aramco IPO, were headlines of the Saudi prince eyeing billion - dollar investment deals for the U.K. Wednesday evening headlines verified the success of the trip, boasting a goal of around # 65 billion ($ 90.3 billion) of investment in the coming years.

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

On Thursday, Argentina sold $ 7 billion in five - year and 10 - year dollar bonds in the international market at interest rates of 5.625 percent and 7 percent.

We have access to thousands of accounts spending billions of dollars on PPC advertising, and over the years consistently found that small to medium - size businesses struggled to manage their accounts in a way that was cost effective and earned them the best results.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

Ten billion dollars is how much will be wagered on the basketball tournament this year, nearly all of it illegally, according to the American Gaming Association.

Everyone's looking to cash in on the next Facebook or Google, where an investment of several million dollars turns into $ 1 billion within 10 years.

But without a majority decision on Halo, it could be more difficult for district courts to award attorneys» fees to prevailing parties in patent troll cases, which every year sap billions of dollars in such fees.

CARACAS, April 27 - A grace period on Chinese loans to Venezuela has lapsed, according to two Venezuelan sources with knowledge of the matter, potentially depriving the cash - strapped OPEC nation of billions of dollars in desperately needed oil revenue this year.

The World Travel and Tourism Council says governments are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tourism this year.

Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this year's Berkshire shareholder convention on Saturday, the opposite is true: The vast majority of the stocks Warren Buffett owns have made money over the past year, helping his portfolio gain some $ 16 billion dollars in value.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

While the country's economy has shifted inward over the last few years, relying on its own citizens to fuel growth, it still exports billions of dollars in goods and services every year.

For years, the Republican majority in Congress blocked President Barack Obama from spending billions of dollars on infrastructure.

Alibaba has purchased the remaining 57 % stake of China food delivery app Ele.me it doesn't already own, bringing the app's valuation up to $ 9.5 b. Tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, which has invested billions of dollars in Meituan - Dianping, are eager to cash in on China's growing online food delivery market, which is expected to grow 18 % to 241 billion yuan ($ 38 billion) this year.

The report points out that, although 68 % of billionaires hold at least a four - year degree, a sheepskin «is not a prerequisite to then go on and amass a billion - dollar fortune,» since one in three billionaires either never went to college at all or didn't stick around to finish.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Indeed, Tanium has raised more than $ 300 million dollars over the course of its nine - year existence at a $ 3.7 billion valuation, ranking it at number 28 on Fortune's list of billion - dollar «unicorn» startups (and leader of the cybersecurity subcategory).

But with the past year of corporate scandals bringing billion - dollar companies to their knees, most business owners are realizing that not having a handle on the company's financial inner workings can lead to disastrous consequences for companies both big and small.

CB: Part of that transformation has been the billion dollars you're spending over three years on upgrading your restaurants.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

The government contends that it loses millions, quite possibly billions, of dollars each year on workers who've been classified as independent contractors but who haven't voluntarily paid self - employment taxes.

Netflix wants everyone in the world to be a subscriber, and will spend billions and billions of dollars per year to get there ($ 6 billion on content in 2017).