Sentences with phrase «created by billionaire»

A firm that specialises in what it calls «behavioural microtargeting», Cambridge Analytica was created by billionaire Robert Mercer and former Trump associate Steve Bannon, who became its vice-president.

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.

A trust fund created by billionaire shipping tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig ends today with a bang and a gift to research.

«This country is not going to turn to billionaires to solve problems created by billionaires,» de Blasio said of Bloomberg.

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

The ad, supposedly created by supporters of the billionaire candidate, contains various misnomers like identifying Russian President Vladimir Putin as Voldemort Putin and misspelling leader as «leeder.»

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.

Euronews was created in the wake of the 1990 Gulf War as a «European CNN» and used to be owned by a consortium of state - owned European channels before Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris took a 53 percent stake in the broadcaster.

Cambridge Analytica, co-founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and billionaire Trump supporter and extreme right - wing ideologue Robert Mercer, claimed it could create «psychographic profiles» of people based on their Facebook data.

Gates created the Giving Pledge in 2010 with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and they have been joined by 168 others who promised to give the majority of their wealth to charity.

It was created in 1994 by billionaire commodity trader Marc Rich «who was charged with tax evasion and illegal dealings with Iran, but pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001» as he left office.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on US elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

Tastefully created by the world - class design team at DWP, the design concept of Alfresco 64 — A Chivas Bar draws inspiration from the sleek lines of a luxury yacht — the epitome of the luxurious lifestyle of a billionaire.

As far as the club's financials show, the man has only respected the club's tradition / philosophy of self sustainability and that's his offense as we all have been spoilt by other clubs» billionaire / State - aid owners distorting the finances with decisions which don't make economic sense and which create unfair competition.

In recent years, billionaire pharmaceutical executives and hedge fund managers have made billions in profit by creating...

SpaceShipOne, created by aerospace engineer and aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, was launched from a traditional airstrip attached to White Knight, a Rutan - designed experimental plane.

Billionaire Dmitry Itskov and his group the 2045 Initiative want to cheat death by creating artificial bodies to house human intelligence.

November 14, 2006 Ludwig Fund donates $ 20 million to University of Chicago for cancer research The Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research, created by American billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig, today announced that it has donated $ 20 million to each of six leading cancer research institutions — including the University of Chicago — to create Ludwig Centers for cancer research.

WHAT: When he wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy with no memory of the last 48 hours, famed symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) must team up with Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) to stop the release of a deadly virus created by an American billionaire (Ben Foster) who believes that the only way to solve the world's overpopulation problem is through mass genocide.

Side Note: The emails reveal that the person who brought the Connecticut state officials and the billionaire's consultant together was none other than Alex Johnston, who was then the Executive Director of ConnCAN — the charter school advocacy group that was created by Achievement First — the charter school management company.

These neo-gilded age philanthropists claim that the solution is for parents, teachers and education advocates to step aside so that the billionaires and their groupies can transform public education by creating privately owned and operated — but taxpayer funded — charter schools.

The Common Core and the Common Core testing system was developed in conjunction with the federal government and a series of major foundation's created by the country's billionaires and super-wealthy.

By comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireBy comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby one of new Russia's most visible billionaires.

This is a group that has been invited to show at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, do an installation and teach classes at the Russian oligarch - funded New Holland island in St. Petersburg, Russia, and create elaborate installations at the W Hotel in South Beach during art fair week (their opening was attended by billionaire collectors).

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

Startups vying for a piece of the rock include Planetary Resources (tagline: «the Asteroid Mining Company»), backed by billionaires including Larry Page of Google, and Deep Space Industries («Creating Wealth and Opportunity from Space Resources»).

Jia, who goes by the nickname YT, has personally backed Faraday since the company was founded in 2014, but the blows the billionaire's financial portfolio has taken in the past year have created problems throughout his sprawling empire.

«We plan to revolutionize the automobile industry by creating an integrated, intelligent mobility system that protects the earth and improves the living environment of mankind,» Jia Yueting, the billionaire founder and chief executive of Leshi TV, an Internet video service, wrote in a letter to Nevada legislators.

So it created an American subsidiary called Cambridge Analytica that was bankrolled by Robert Mercer, a hedge - fund billionaire.