Sentences with phrase «controlled by billionaire»

(Bloomberg)-- Hyatt Hotels Corp., controlled by the billionaire Pritzker family of Chicago, is in talks to sell some properties as it weighs purchases in the most attractive markets for expanding its brands, Chief Executive Officer Mark Hoplamazian said Tuesday.

Both campaigns pumped millions into the company, controlled by billionaire Robert Mercer — a key patron first of Cruz and then Trump in 2016.

Modi's solar program in Gujarat lured investment from Essar Group controlled by the billionaire brothers Shashikant and Ravikant Ruia, and SunEdison (which recently agreed to sell solar power from a 150MW power plant in Texas for less than 5c / kWh)

IAC, based in New York, is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller.

Parent company IAC / InterActiveCorp, controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has been snapping up online dating sites as the industry grows in popularity.

IAC, controlled by billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, says its online dating businesses had revenue of more than $ 500 million in 2011.

RIL, controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, derives a majority of its revenue from its refining and petrochemicals business and also operates a large retail chain.

Tinder, the hookup app whose corporate parent, Match Group, is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has cited as evidence an October 2015 story in The Post that interviewed 3nder's founder.

Koch Industries is one of the largest privately owned companies in the U.S., and it is controlled by billionaire brothers Charles Koch and David Koch.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

Leading the pack is Match.com, owned by IAC / InterActiveCorp, the Internet holding company controlled by billionaire Barry Diller.

An investment fund controlled by billionaire George Soros has acquired a once high - flying enterprise technology company.

Not exact matches

DST Global, an investment company created by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, funneled hundreds of millions into Facebook and Twitter, but the funds came from two government - controlled financial institutions.

Of the 12 companies hit with sanctions in Friday's action, the Treasury Department said seven are either controlled or owned by Deripaska, the billionaire who emerged as a central figure in the U.S. probe of possible election interference by the Kremlin and its associates.

Being a public company controlled by a Hong Kong billionaire didn't really help either.

Despite its public listing, Husky is controlled, to the tune of some 70 %, by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka - shing via his companies LF Management and Investments, and Hutchison Whampoa Luxembourg Holdings.

The Luxembourg - based supplier of glass and metal containers, controlled by Irish billionaire Paul Coulson, has announced - and then delayed - a stock market debut several times, but said last month that it intended to float this quarter.

MEXICO CITY Funds controlled by the family of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim are set to acquire a large chunk of an investment trust to fund Mexico City's new airport, three sources with knowledge of the deal said, as doubts hang over the project's future.

This would mean everyone except those in the «three - comma club» (billionaires) and the political puppets controlled by the ultra-wealthy.

The company is controlled by Li Ka - shing, the Hong Kong billionaire who has close ties to the Chinese government.

Altice, controlled by French billionaire Patrick Drahi, wants to buy U.S. cable group Charter Communications.

Rio Tinto is set to invoke a clause that will allow the miner to walk away from contracts with a giant metal refinery in Ireland controlled by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

The Canadian oil producer controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka - Shing would support a tax if it's applied broadly and at least includes the rest of North America, Ghosh said Friday on a conference call to discuss third - quarter earnings results.

We should design the biggest protesting plan that the world of football has ever seen, we should show the world that even in the era that money and billionaires are trying to corrupt football, fans still can take control, when we don't buy tickets or any merchandises the board wont profit, Emirates Stadium should be filled with very few people all holding banners with «Kroenke out» written on it, we should use ArsenalFanTV to destroy Kroenke, we have the tools, we should just use them in the right way and then we will defeat Kroenke, from last season i stopped buying anything Arsenal related and just watched Arsenal getting trashed by teams and it just made me extremely sad!!!

you realize know other manger has done as much with so little in comparison, as wenger has at arsenal.Fact is to compete at highest level consistently you have to spend, and you have seen it time and time again arsenals lack of willingness to do so, we have a russian billionaire, who makes chelsea owner look like a regular joe, and wants to take control of arsenal and spend to compete but is left out in the cold by kroenke.For all the money mourinho has had as his disposal to buy players where ever he has been exception porto his best managerial job to date, what has he really done a few league titles no champions league titles a very poor return.

To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became billionaires during the collapse of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control of some 40 % of the country's GDP.

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Rudy Giuliani $ 563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

The second highest recipient of hedge fund largess was «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany,» an independent expenditure committee backed by ten billionaires that helped flip the New York State Senate to Republican control in 2014.

The idea is to use the Independence Party, which was founded by billionaire governor - aspirant Tom Golisano in the nineties and is today controlled by Bloomberg allies, to back favored candidates.

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Giuliani $ 563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

Opponents of public education — led by a handful of hedge fund and Wall Street billionaires — bought control over the New York State Senate this past election with millions in corrupting campaign cash.

CANADA JOURNAL - Jan 13 - Beijing Kunlun Tech, which is run by billionaire Zhou Yahui, paid $ 93M for a 60 % controlling stake in the company — a significant sum for what is Grindr's first outside investment.

It attempted to tell of a star - crossed romance between two conservative young adults from not - all - that dissimilar backgrounds (played by Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich) set in the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood movie - making scene and all of its well - known tropes, while under the controlling — and perhaps crazy — command of billionaire Howard Hughes (Beatty).

Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people against each other.

In the book, when main character Parzival / Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) passes the first of three tests created by a billionaire loner (Mark Rylance) in order to win control of the internet of the future, it's by walking through a total 3D recreation of War Games and delivering every line and gesture first delivered by Matthew Broderick in that film.

Reuters is reporting a group led by Fisker Automotive co-founder and namesake Henrik Fisker, in partnership with Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li is hoping to buy out the Department of Energy loan, giving them effective control of the company's assets.

The industry has always been volatile, but it has never before been so controlled by one eccentric billionaire.

A 2014 report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works titled The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA features the Energy Foundation.

It has received at least $ 34 million since 2010 from organizations financially backed by the Koch brothers, including at least $ 15.7 million from the Koch - controlled «Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce,» a new entity from the Kochs and their billionaire allies that shuttled a couple hundred million into the 2012 election cycle before anyone other than insiders knew the group's name.

Louisiana Senator David Vitter made headlines with conservative websites in the last few days by releasing a report called Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA.

How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA by: Anthony Watts.

FSU had accepted a $ 1.5 million grant from a foundation controlled by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch on the condition that Koch's operatives would have a free hand in selecting professors and approving publications.

A new report by the Senate minority's Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee called «The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA» says yes.

On this Halloween eve, it is truly frightening to grasp the extent to which America's politicians, policies, laws, regulations, energy, economy, jobs, and future are controlled by a cabal of stealthy billionaires — who receive billions from state and federal government agencies, and use those riches to become even wealthier, more powerful, and more in control of our lives, livelihoods, living standards, and liberties.

Likewise, the MSM alarmist choir has almost totally ignored Howarth's ties to funding from the radical Park Foundation, as exposed last year in a report by the Republican minority of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee entitled, «The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA.»

How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).

Paul - Olivier Dehaye, co-founder of PersonalData.IO, a service that helps individuals regain control over their personal data, also giving evidence to the committee, added that he had heard reports that Muresan was being paid by an Indian billionaire who wanted Congress to lose elections.

How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).

The firm is partly owned by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who founded e-commerce giant Alibaba, after Ma spent more than $ 500m in mid-2014 to buy a controlling stake, per reports at the time Past statements from Hundsun indicate that it has been looking to invest in financial technology startups since as early as January.

They have also partnered with well - funded liberal groups such as Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control advocacy group founded by former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg.