Sentences with phrase «by millions of dollars of»

When Andersen Consulting recently changed its name to «Accenture», the new name and logo was backed by millions of dollars of print and television advertising, in addition to numerous sponsorships.

In Massachusetts and Ohio, several banks have launched programs where law firms can choose to donate to IOLTA programs some or all of the «cash back» benefits generated by millions of dollars of credit card transactions.

And now finally imagine that the authors of the paper acknowledged that their research had been supported by millions of dollars of research funding from the pharmaceutical industry.

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For instance, more than 50 people employed by a medical assistance agency in Anchorage, Alaska, took part in a conspiracy to bilk Medicaid out of millions of dollars by filing bogus time sheets for services not provided to elderly Medicaid beneficiaries.

The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

O'Reilly, who hosted The O'Reilly Factor, was fired by Fox last week following news about Fox settling sexual - harassment cases involving him for millions of dollars.

However, innovations that sound like the next million - dollar idea during a one - minute elevator pitch may fall flat when their creators get grilled by a panel of investors.

That's part of the reason that even today, rocket launches by SpaceX competitors like the United Launch Alliance can cost hundreds of millions of dollars each.

Look for more money to be given to the Canada Revenue Agency to fight offshore tax evasion, an investment that has so far helped the CRA reap millions in extra tax dollars while at the same time achieving the aim of discouraging tax evasion by Canadians.

That is true, but you also have to know that the vast majority of companies that are funded by VC firms never get close to the million - dollar paydays.

Returning to the projection that there will be 18 million people with a million dollars or more by 2021, we can also project that there will be a slew of new, non-bank financial services that step up to fill the gap.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

The artist is an anti-violence campaigner in his hometown of Chicago, and he was recently praised by former First Lady Michelle Obama for his million - dollar donation to Chicago's education system.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

Over the last five years, Catamaran has grown from an $ 80 million revenue business into a $ 9 billion dollar revenue generating company and he expects it to make $ 16 billion by the end of next year.

«By selling in - game bundles within the mobile game, consumers have spent around $ 6 million dollars in the game to date,» said Peter Warman, founder of Newzoo.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

Today, the future for autonomous vehicles is bright, and it is expected that there will be millions of self - driving cars on the road by 2035, creating a multi-billion dollar market.

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

But given the size of Trump's expense reimbursement, it seems likely that at least some of the nearly three quarters of a million dollars that Trump was reimbursed by his company for expenses should have been included in wages.

Flying to his remote company locations in his private jet, and surrounded by his early employees who were now worth tens of millions of dollars, the mantra of «you really have to want to work here or you ought to leave» rang hollow for the latest employees.

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reports that the social media behemoth is offering hundreds of millions of dollars to the music industry to retain the rights to songs in videos uploaded by users.

«Oh, and by the way, Barclays and JPMorgan are putting out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution for getting caught rigging electricity prices.»

Those who think the market will rise by 10 percent hit double - digits for the first time this year (17 percent of million - dollar account holders).

Mining giant BHP Billiton has contributed about half a million dollars towards the construction of a walk trail on Rottnest Island, making it the largest contribution to the island by a corporate entity.

And the latest GDP number was released after the survey of million - dollar self - directed brokerage investors, conducted by E-Trade and provided exclusively to CNBC.

That's another reason why Amazon's purchase of streaming rights for Thursday NFL games is such a big deal — also evidenced by the fact that Amazon is reportedly charging advertisers millions of dollars for ad packages for those games.

Below are some of the more interesting details about the young man who just turned down billions of dollars for his startup (which, by the way, isn't generating any revenue but has raised $ 73 million from investors):

By contrast, college graduates with four - year degrees have average lifetime earnings of $ 2,268,000 — nearly a million dollars more.

Your company can lose millions of dollars by failing at customer retention.

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has lifted its first - half profit by 74 per cent, to $ 20.4 million, on the back of a weaker Australian dollar.

The quota has even driven theft on a massive scale, such as a 2012 incident involving millions of dollars worth of contraband syrup stolen from the federation's stockpile — as covered in Canadian Business by writer Tim Shufelt in his feature The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

Moreover, a handful of acquisition - happy tech companies have shown a willingness to add services by buying tiny, money - losing start - ups for tens of millions of dollars.

In fact, tens of millions of dollars have just been allocated to more than 15 algorithms created by members of Quantopian, a «crowd - sourced» hedge fund.

The firm reached $ 17 million in annual revenue before being acquired by California Cryobank, one of the world's largest sperm banks, in a multimillion - dollar deal in December.

That company, founded by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Jack Ma, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S tech companies that will be valuable to Alibaba as it continues to expand.

Bell Labs was backed by AT&T, the largest monopoly in the world, which allowed them to spend millions of dollars on research that might never prove profitable — a situation unimaginable for many of today's companies.

The pricing details were an update that Shake Shack provided in its latest regulatory filing, a key step as it moves forward to raise millions of dollars by launching its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

The number of million - dollar listings in Fort Lauderdale fell by 4 percent from 2016 to 2017.

The cybercriminals developed an army of automated web browsers, dubbed «Methbot» by the researchers, that stole millions of dollars per day from the biggest advertisers on the web, according to White Ops.

Imagine an organization where a senior leader develops a creative plan that has a profound impact on the entire organization, such as winning thousands of new customers or increasing revenue by millions of dollars.

Regulators alleged that divisional managers at investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston participated in a «pervasive» scheme to siphon tens of millions of dollars of their customers» trading profits during the Internet boom of 1999 and early 2000 by demanding excessive trading fees.

Wages vary significantly by field and years of service: top businesses professors can earn as much as half a million dollars a year, while some medical researchers also make mid-six figures.

Millions of potential leads are lost by not spending a few thousand dollars to create a foundation online.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

The lenders want the stake to be sold for top dollar but fear it will be sold for less than that to McClendon's wife, Kathleen, because she is family, said a lawyer representing a syndicate of banks led by Wilmington Trust that loaned $ 465 million to a company McClendon founded in 2013, American Energy Partners LP (AEP).

Two members of Congress on Wednesday accused big drugmaker Mylan of «bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars» by underpaying Medicaid in rebates owed on sales of the lifesaving device, as they vowed to recoup that money.