Sentences with phrase «businesses spend nearly»

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Today nearly 20 % of all time people spend online is in social networking which means your business simply can't afford to not be doing it.

He spent nearly a year working on a unique business idea - a reverse job board - that he felt could provide a valuable alternative to the array of options currently on the internet.

Puma leads three areas that support all PepsiCo businesses In the global procurement role, she manages nearly $ 25 billion of spend across all lines of the business.

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

Recent surveys highlight how systemic a problem this actually is — in one, nearly three quarters of respondents stated that time spent reconciling expenses kept them from addressing critical business issues, while in another, those surveyed reported that they spend up to 40 percent of their time on tasks not related to growing their company.

Previously, the GBTA forecasted that business travel spending would grow 3.2 percent in 2016 to nearly $ 300 billion and that there would be an estimated 514 million trips this year, an increase of 3.1 percent.

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

That's nearly twice the average amount spent by families in the West — $ 19,181 — while families in the Midwest and the South pay $ 21,577 and $ 20,953, respectively, Business Insider's Tanza Loudenback previously reported.

Other research suggests that 20 percent of small business owners spend 10 to 24 hours a month on accounting, and 50 percent spend nearly ten hours.

Business Insider Intelligence predicts that 20 — 30 billion devices will be connected to the Internet through the Cloud by 2020 and nearly $ 6 trillion will be spent on IoT solutions over the next 5 years.

In other words, nearly half of the dollars customers spend in the business down the street from your business gets re-spent in other local businesses — likely even yours.

When the IT trade association CompTIA asked small and medium - sized business owners recently whether their IT spending would increase from the previous year, 71 percent said yes — and nearly half, 48 percent, said spending would rise 6 to 15 percent.

Employment and business investment spending remain weak given the nearly 30 % lower oil price from year ago levels.

Today about 43 % of all business emails and 57 % of personal emails are first opened on mobile devices and nearly 8 % of time spent on mobiles is either in reading or replying to emails.

Taking a look at the current email workspace, we find that 43 % of all business emails and 57 % of personal emails are first opened on mobile devices and nearly 8 % of time spent on mobiles is either in reading or replying to emails.

Between a hectic work schedule, planning my wedding, and traveling to see my fiancé almost every other week (due to that whole long - distance business), I've been busy in a mostly great way — though I haven't been able to spend nearly as much time here as I'd like.

Sebastien Tribout has spent nearly twenty years creating memorable impressions in the restaurant business.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

The contributions went to the Committee to Save New York, a business and labor coalition that raised $ 17 million and spent nearly $ 12 million in 2011, much of it on campaign - style television and radio advertisements praising Mr. Cuomo and supporting his proposals to cap property taxes and slash state spending.

Paul Speranza, who has spent nearly four decades on Wegmans executive team, knows Cuomo and his top aides through the state's Business Council.

The most recent campaign finance reports, filed Thursday, show that Republican business executive Tom Foley's campaign spent nearly $ 2.3 million in the first 21 days of October.

ESDC today sent us a single - page summary of nearly $ 35 million in committed spending to promote Start - Up NY, which provides full exemptions from state personal and business income taxes to selected firms that locate on or near college campuses.

He encouraged the creation of the Committee to Save New York, a business group that has spent nearly $ 2.6 million on pro-Cuomo advertising and outreach.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

In the case of Alaska salmon, nearly all of the money businesses make selling the fish is spent catching it.

Nearly three quarters (73 percent) of surveyed businesses said they plan on purchasing a tablet within the next year, while 90 percent plan on maintaining or increasing current spending on tablets in the next year.

Evidently mindful of the huge pay - off in well - paying jobs and growth of the nuclear technology infrastructure that the selection of the right partner will bring, a mid-state consortium of business groups, academic institutions, and nuclear operators (called «NuHub») along with statewide counties and chambers of commerce spent nearly two years evaluating the competing SMR technology developers.

Michael Rider, who spent nearly nine years working under Phoebe Philo, has joined the American stalwart as svp and creative director of the women's Polo business.

It must be nearly 5 years since I stopped running my own business from home and much of the clothing I used to wear doesn't really work for me any more as I spend most of my time in office clothes and gym kit.

Online dating is big business, drawing about 4 million U.S. Internet users daily in June 2006 (and 25 million monthly), and they spend a daily average of nearly 17 minutes each on these sites.

«If you look at public education as a business - and with nearly $ 300 billion spent each year on K - 12 education, it's a very big business indeed - it would set off every antitrust alarm bell at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission... Who's better off?

A committee of nearly 300 educators, business leaders and others spent the past 14 months studying education funding in Michigan.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

Employment and business investment spending remain weak given the nearly 30 % lower oil price from year ago levels.

Signing up for the The Business Platinum ® Card from American Express OPEN is a no - brainer if you travel frequently, are already spending on the services the card provides credit for and the credits are enough to nearly offset the annual fee.

Dart's down nearly 20 % on the back of weak consumer confidence and spending — but if these trends are cyclical as I believe, the long - term prospects of the business are as rosy as ever.

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Although she was out of his sales area, Steve spent nearly an hour talking with Bobbie Ruth and explaining the ins - and - outs of operating a pet cremation business.

It found that nearly half of U.S. consumers (46 percent) have actually cancelled plans to spend money with a business after discovering its poor - quality website.

The Pittock Mansion, the product of Oregon craftsmen and artisans and Northwest materials, stands as a living memorial to these dedicated pioneers who spent nearly 60 years building Portland from a forest clearing to a bustling business center with more than a quarter of a million people.

With the only overlapping category being for communications services that nearly every business can use, the other bonus categories can be a quick way to decide between the two business cards — and so can the spending caps.

The short answer, of course, is «a lot»: Gil's spent nearly 40 years in the sustainable business field, so he's able to address questions ranging from the general («What's the business case for green?»)

So when Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, got on stage at CES, he spent nearly an hour talking about an already launched product like it was new.

Gil spent nearly a decade at CBRE where he honed his knowledge of the downtown Seattle business community.