Sentences with phrase «bought tucsons»

Accounting giant KPMG has bought mining - focused management consultancy firm Momentum Partners in a transaction estimated to be worth about $ 5 million, adding to the flurry of recent professional servi

Hastings, a former ninth grade math teacher, bought the Bellevue, Washington - based start - up for an undisclosed price in April 2010.

And when he got out, he bought his first plane and flew privately.

Levandowski left Waymo in January 2016 and started Otto, a self - driving truck startup that Uber bought for $ 680 million in August.

Next, I bought a small, waterproof digital camera to take on a beach vacation.

If you bought, say, a small single - engine turboprop aircraft, that would be $ 1.5 to $ 2 million.

«We found that our students are happy with Lululemon clothing they bought maybe four or five years ago, but they aren't as happy with the selection or quality of what they bought in the last year or two.»

We bought professional cameras, great lenses... quality mattered from the beginning.

In 2013 he bought another.

CEO Rob Peabody said Husky cut back heavy oil production by about 5,000 barrels per day in the first quarter and substituted mainly blended bitumen bought from other Alberta oilsands companies to send to its U.S. refineries in Ohio and Wisconsin or to the refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

He pointed out that his wife said at the time he acquired the magazines, in 2005, «at least he hadn't bought a sports team.»

The company announced Wednesday that it will sell off the division to its original owner, Eric Carreel, the co-founder of Withings (which Nokia bought back in 2016 for about $ 200 million).

Her album «1989» was the top - selling album in 2014 with 3.66 million digitally downloaded copies and physical editions shifted, followed closely by Disney's «Frozen» soundtrack, with 3.53 million copies bought, according to Nielsen.

Until the 1950s, the bulk of popcorn was bought in movie theaters and other venues outside the home.

With the investment package I purchased, which varies per franchised business, I was also provided with an initial offer of customers based on the franchise package size I bought.

I bought several new vests recently.

Four years after grocer Loblaw Cos. bought drugstore Shoppers Drug Mart, rival Metro is following suit, making a bid for the Quebec - based pharmacy chain Jean Coutu.

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $ 19 billion in 2014, though without ever devising a clear strategy for how that service would make money.

He headed up Bausch & Lomb until the eye care specialist was snatched up by the (now - infamous) Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); sat at the top perch of Forest Laboratories before becoming CEO of that company's acquirer, Actavis, in 2014; and, finally, took over as the top dog at Allergan after Actavis bought it and adopted the Botox - maker's name.

More recently, the videoconferencing startup Skype was bought by eBay for $ 2.6 billion in 2005; later, in 2011, U.S. computer - maker Microsoft acquired Skype for $ 8.5 billion.

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

The energy maven bought into the fund in its infant stages, becoming a partner on the condition that Ellis quit his Wall Street job and focus on the ranches full time.

Toronto - based design and engineering services provider WSP Global has bought Balfour Beatty's New York - based professional services subsidiary, Parsons Brinkerhoff, for $ 1.45 billion.

A year after Couture and Laforce bought the business, Artika's products were being offered across Canada and the U.S. at such retailers as Costco, Home Depot and Lowe's.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

Kansas City's mayor Sly James apparently really wants to get the retailer's attention, so he bought 1,000 Amazon products on Wednesday, and reviewed each and every one of them.

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

Their first sale came when someone bought the sunglasses off their own faces that they had made by hand.

«I bought [Mariah Carey's] new greatest hits, and her new «Infinity» record yesterday, and I was just in there with my top off, just like painting and doing all this artsy fartsy stuff.»

We move through the world feeling in control of our actions; and the decision to purchase something is no different: We think we bought that new product because it had the best features, the best price or the best look.

But keep in mind approximately 70 percent of all freight in the U.S. is moved by tractor - trailers: Whatever you just bought, whether at a store or online... chances are it got part of the way to you on a tractor - trailer.

«I actually bought the Bodum glasses,» Hunter says.

First, it depends on the probability that something bad will happen to the product you've bought, multiplied by the cost of repair.

In 2004 the company bought four snowboard lines — Forum, Special Blend, Jeenyus and Foursquare — from Four Star Distribution.

The quest to regain the top producer spot in one of the most - prolific U.S. shale basins had eluded Hamm's Continental since at least 2014, when Whiting bought smaller rival Kodiak Oil and Gas.

It also opens shoppers up to trying things they otherwise wouldn't have bought.

Better yet, if you bought it at Walmart, it came with a $ 25 credit towards Walmart orders on the Google Shopping Express service.

Although the name has changed, it's still the same industry once denoted as «leveraged buyouts» — that is, the business of buying companies with a thin slice of nonpublic equity and mountains of debt, in which fund managers grab richly generous (to themselves) fees.

Buffett might have picked the wrong railroad to buy, but he knows a great business when he sees it.

You keep looking at sponsorship and I think it gets the point where we're almost anyone if they saved up, and this was their goal, they could ultimately save enough money to buy a ticket and move to Mars.

«It was a crazy process that led me to buying a plane and I haven't looked back» Myhrvold, who later went on to found Intellectual Ventures, said.

And that in itself is likely a show vote since it has little chance of passing in the House; rather, it may provide an avenue for keeping the legislative process going, buying time to iron out a new Senate - House deal on health care.

The system would allow companies to buy and sell permits amongst themselves.

Investors are proving resilient on the heels of last week's global market correction, buying on the dip and pushing U.S. stocks higher for the best two - day gain since Brexit.

For example, if a new company emerges on the market that's strikingly similar to yours, users might be confused as to which company to buy from.

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

For the likes of a Verizon or Comcast, buying Twitter provides an instant and massive new - media audience that allows an old - media company to go toe to toe with Facebook and Google, which have been steadily diverting advertising budgets.

Being «engaged» with a brand meant buying it, and little else.

Customers buy for their reasons, not ours.