Sentences with phrase «company claimed the number»

By some calculations, as many as 48 million of Twitter's reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts designed to simulate real people, though the company claims that number is far lower.

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This is because many companies could easily say that the number you give is only an average number, or even claim that those numbers are not reliable.

Alcoa had voluntarily shut - off the plant's burner in 2002 after a number of multi-million dollar compensation claims were made against the company by workers relating to adverse health effects.

Under the leadership of CEO H. John Oechsle, Denver's third fastest growing company, Swiftpage, also claims number 440 on the Inc. 5000.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

He claimed that going forward, the tech company will more closely monitor vendors scraping massive numbers of profiles and audit any suspicious app activity.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

Several months later, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified a number of compliance problems with the company — problems that the CMS claimed were putting patients in immediate jeopardy — and imposed serious sanctions on the firm and its leaders.

Other car insurance companies will be focused on the transition and will use the lower number of claims as a way to be aggressive on their pricing.

To put this number in perspective, it's more than the 12 million people the venture capital community claims works for U.S. venture backed companies (which includes firms like Fed Ex, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, etc.).

Companies calculate risk based on a policyholder, the number of claims and their severity — how those came to be to is not relevant in their eyes.

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

For background, the lawsuits claimed that after declining a request to purchase advertising on Yelp, a number of positive reviews from businesses» listings on the reviews site mysteriously disappeared, downgrading the company's rating on the site.

Companies claim there just aren't enough highly skilled IT workers in the U.S. to fill the number of available tech jobs.

Led by Los Angeles and San Francisco, California claims a high number of ultra-wealthy families and, with the recent series of acquisitions and IPOs of California - based companies, that number is growing still.

Earlier this month, consumer research group, Valuepenguin, published a report claiming that the number of consumer complaints involving cryptocurrency company filed with the U.S Consumer Financial Protection Bureau increase by 669 percent following the post-December 2017 crash in the cryptocurrency markets.

The company produced this video aimed at highlighting the number one cryptocurrency's growth despite naysayers claiming otherwise:

Many backpacking companies in particular pride themselves on the number of bar tacks integrated into their products, claiming that they will wear harder and longer than the competition.»

He had claimed # 2,157 for «re-wiring» his London home, but the company's invoices carried a bogus VAT number, false postcode and inaccurate address.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week he thinks it's a «great idea» to have the government force private companies that do business with the city to disclose the number of claims of sexual harassment against their employees.

The Business Secretary clashed with his Labour opposite number, Chuka Umunna, in the House of Commons, with Mr Umunna claiming the low initial share price for the company meant investors were «laughing all the way to the bank».

Currently, the agency accepts the job and investment numbers provided by companies receiving benefits from the agency but does not require them to document their claims.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

In one paragraph, auditors said the number of damaging incidents was so large that the company was open to claims of a «systematic failure» to stop the risks of fraud.

These includes a proposal for legislation preventing the use of public money in settling sexual harassment claims, removal of forced arbitration provisions from employee contracts and a requirement that companies doing business with the state disclose the number of sexual harassment adjudications and nondisclosure agreements they've carried out.

Suffolk County is suing Connecticut - based Purdue Pharma along with a number of other pharmaceutical companies for deceptive practices that it claims led to the county's opioid and heroin epidemic.

In addition, the state Department of Financial Services will post on its website a report card on insurance companies, grading companies on the number of claims handled and closed, average home inspection times and the number of consumer complaints, among other factors.

This phenomenon needs to be understood by individuals, academic institutions, companies, and federal agencies who claim that they want to see the numbers of women and minorities going into science and engineering careers increase, because unfortunately «stereotype threat» is alive and well in the scientific community.

E.U. governments asked companies to provide their own, unverified historical emissions data, and many inflated their numbers so as to claim more free allowances from government.

A growing number of companies and universities are claiming to have devised such marvels, ready to perform vital analyses from detecting biological warfare agents in a soldier's bloodstream to identifying toxins in a tainted package of hamburger meat.

Also at stake are a number of high profile U.S. politicians who have staked, to a large degree, their upcoming reelection by campaigning on the claimed successes of the oil and gas companies operating within their state's shale formation.

Every day, those looking to stay healthy with diet and exercise are bombarded with endless claims from an overwhelming number of supplement companies.

The High Court rejected claims made by US online dating company Plentyoffish Media that it was entitled to assert rights over UK - registered trademarks because it had high UK visitor numbers to its website.

The company uses those addresses to back its claims of growing membership at a number of Division I universities.

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The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

We now know the fate of those dot - com companies: A very small number, such as ebay.com and Amazon.com, have prospered; some others have survived; and a great many have vanished into bankruptcy as it became apparent that their claimed potential would never be fulfilled.

The company has been in business for 17 years, claims the 240 racecars it produces annually outstrip even Porsche, and has been shipping Radicals Stateside in tiny numbers for a decade.

BMW claims a zero - to - 62 mph time of 6.1 seconds with a six - speed manual, and while the company isn't talking about fuel economy numbers, we expect the X1 with an eight - speed automatic to return about 22 mpg in the city and 29 mpg on the highway.

If they won't cover you at all — or you would rather not risk your no claims bonus — there are a number of companies who specialise in track day cover.

This milestone is the highest number of cars being delivered by a manufacturer in the state during the Chingam celebrations, claims the company.

Unfortunately this company too has been taken to court, and has offered a fund to compensate drivers who can not achieve claimed efficiency numbers.

With so many vehicle launches and participation from a large number of automotive companies, the organisers, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), is expecting an average daily crowd of 100,000, which it claims will be the biggest among all auto shows globally.

Claims of fake reviews, plots to buy your own book in bulk to manipulate the sales numbers, and an overgrowth of companies that sell guaranteed increases in rankings have basically spoiled the system for everyone, from the most talented but undiscovered writer to the most supportive reader who can't find the great books in an ocean of titles.

The FBI has arrested the owner of Phantom Secure, one of a number of phone companies that it claims sells customized BlackBerry and Android devices for use in international criminal organizations.

While Amazon still hasn't released any comprehensive numbers in regards to its Kindle sales, the company has claimed that the eReader and tablet devices have been selling like hotcakes this -LSB-...] Read full article

But the increasing numbers of self - published authors have also led to increasing numbers of companies claiming to want to help these budding entrepreneurs.

Any company which charges to publish books under its own name or prints an undisclosed number of copies which it claims are their property is a vanity publisher - whatever it may try and tell you to the contrary.

Though Amazon does not release sales numbers, the company did recently claim to own 22 percent tablet market share, which Anthony Diclemente of Barclays Capital estimates as 7 million tablets sold.