Sentences with phrase «company some time ago»

CEO Mark Zuckerberg even tried to buy the company some time ago.

I signed up for a membership service with an HVAC company some time ago, and I've now decided its time to cancel my membership due to lack of use.

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«Something I learned a long time ago, but has recently been reinforced, is that a company's success is largely driven by two underlying traits: adaptability and a focus on people.

An investor who bought Google stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth about 22 times their original investment.

Flipkart had vetoed an approach from Amazon for a 51 to 55 percent stake in the company two years ago, a source told Reuters, judging its offered price as far too low at the time.

It was just a few weeks ago that Whitman was gunning to be the CEO of the embattled ride - sharing company Uber — despite saying several times that she didn't want the role.

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

The CEOs of the largest companies in the U.S. earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at least 10 times more than 30 years ago, according to a new report.

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

I think that even companies we invested in two years ago that did not specifically focus on AI or machine learning at the time are now increasingly looking at assets that can now become that much more valuable when you apply machine learning to them.

That's one - third at a time when more and more companies demand and value data literacy in their employees — and 76 % of employees report they are working with a higher volume of data today compared to three years ago.

Likewise, compared with the figures from the list just two years ago, nearly three times as many companies, or 11 %, found a sugar daddy in strategic partners and customers.

It was a blockbuster product for Nintendo a few years ago, but the company sold fewer than 900,000 in the last quarter, down from 1.4 million at this time last year.

The company should have re-oriented its business to focus on such services a long time ago, but it didn't, which allowed competitors to catch up.

Ballon and Botterell are MBAs who served time on Bay Street before founding a baby - fleece products company, Admiral Road Designs, a decade ago.

It might be difficult to recall, what with a hit movie out and LEGO sales near an all - time high, but just a decade ago the company was on the brink, bleeding $ 1 million in cash a day and posting record deficits.

Soon after Brown took leadership of Arby's three years ago, the company began pushing different kinds of sandwiches — all super meaty — with a special focus on quirky limited - time - offerings like the current King Hawaiian Fish Deluxe.

Because somehow «entrepreneurs still face confusion» about what the venture arm does... The company says that Microsoft Ventures was used as an overarching term to encompass its accelerator programs, which spun off and was renamed some time ago.

Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, and medical device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this time four years ago.

The company says the performance of it self - driving technology is working four times better today than it was a year ago.

Apple has received more than four times as many national - security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday.

Milner's companies owned more than 8 percent of Facebook and 5 percent of Twitter, but sold the holdings several years ago, according to The Times.

Montreal surpassed it in terms of total companies and jobs some time ago.

Box.net CEO Aaron Levie founded the company just six years ago, but in that time he's built the company into a mini-empire based on two principles: work hard and play hard.

Example again from 20 years ago: I started a company (risky) while I was at my full time job but I stayed at my full time job for another 18 months.

«Time Warner is a weaker company today than it was three years ago because Jeff Bewkes has run it to maximize its sale price for the past few years.

An eternity ago in Uber time, about two years back, the company referred internally to its U.S. business as the «Golden Goose.»

Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman faced this conflict a few years ago, when the company realized that its then - new product, Honest Fizz, would not carry the USDA Organic seal — the first time Honest Tea would not have that label since 2004.

Fourteen years ago I was employed by a large company that let me work from home several times a week but at the time I felt insecure about the privilege.

New research from Play Bigger, which advises business leaders on creating new markets, found that tech companies today achieve market - cap milestones — $ 500 million, $ 1 billion, $ 5 billion — three times faster than they did 15 years ago.

That accessibility can be traced back to the time, about two years ago, when Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, and the company they formed developed VisiCalc.

«I sold my last company about two and a half years ago, and 2016 is the first time I've been back at it as an entrepreneur since then.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

This is probably the best time for a startup to be raising and or seed capital since 1999, if not the best time ever when one factors in the amounts needed to build a viable company nowadays versus in a decade ago.

«I signed on with the company almost four years ago and it has truly been the experience of a lifetime helping Uber become the fastest growing company of all - time — spanning 75 countries with over 14,000 employees,» Michael wrote in his goodbye letter, first posted on The New York Times.

And I've spent over 300 hours with Motif Investing, who during this time raised a Series E round led by Renren of China, a company I ironically helped take public years ago.

The last time the company raised the annual fee was four years ago.

By contrast, 20 years ago, companies spent four times as much on such investments as they did on buybacks.

The company closed its flagship store in Manhattan's Times Square, a huge tourist destination that featured its own Ferris wheel, about two years ago.

He and his top lieutenant Emil Michael, who was forced to leave the company just weeks ago, belittled and ridiculed Lyft's president for an hour when the two companies met to discuss a potential deal, according to a recent New York Times profile (paywall) of Kalanick.

Amazon's workforce is nearly four times the size it was three years ago, in part because the company absorbed about 89,000 employees from Whole Foods

When the company tried to find a female director three years ago, he was told it would have a tough time competing with Fortune 500 companies that could pay qualified female candidates lucrative salaries.

Adjusted for one - time items, the company earned 53 cents a share, compared with 45 cents a share a year ago.

For the quarter, the 3D printing company's year - over-year revenue increased 2.3 %, its loss per share narrowed, and earnings per share (EPS) adjusted for one - time factors rose to $ 0.16, from $ 0.15 in the year - ago quarter.

The company came to public attention in March when Facebook announced — on the eve of two explosive newspaper reports in The New York Times and the U.K.'s Observer — it had learned Cambridge Analytica and its parent company had failed to delete personal data that the social network knew it had improperly obtained on Facebook users three years ago.

Social media visionary Oliver Luckett predicted it some time ago, way before company's current woes.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

Similarly, another blockchain project has decided to migrate to Stellar, in fact, a week ago the project Heir chose to take a try into the platform of the company, and the results were beyond the expected — which proves that every time developers turn to it, they are more grateful for how valuable the platform is for smart contracts.