Sentences with phrase «dollar industry last»

Amazon is the dominant bookseller in the United Sates with over 70 % of books purchased online — it's a 28 billion dollar industry last year alone.

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A forum held in Cannes, France, last month of key decision - makers in the television and audio - visual content industry could help Perth company Storyteller Media Group access the new billion dollar «mobisode» market.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

The last wireless auction back in 2016 cost the wireless industry approximately $ 20 billion dollars collectively.

While fluctuations in the global price of coffee on the commodity markets led industry behemoth Starbucks to boost its per - cup price tag last month, a growing share of consumer dollars are going to higher - cost specialty or craft coffee.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

In the third quarter of 2013, O's ad dollars were $ 34.1 million, down 22.2 percent from $ 43.8 million the same time last year, according to The Association of Magazine Media, a non-profit industry association for multi-platform magazine companies.

The multibillion - dollar industry, where players draft fantasy teams for sports including football, basketball and baseball, has drawn increased scrutiny since last year with the attorneys general of several U.S. states, including New York, Illinois and Nevada, questioning the legality of the games.

The multibillion - dollar fantasy sports industry has drawn increased scrutiny since last year, with the attorneys general of several U.S. states including New York, Illinois and Nevada questioning the legality of the games.

Scrap iron and steel, a half - billion - dollar business in 1929, which provides the steel industry with half its metal requirements, is owned 90 per cent by Jews, being an outgrowth of the junk business, which at the end of the last century was in the hands of Russian Jews.

Last week a Reuters report that PepsiCo was in talks to acquire Vita Coco maker All Market Inc. had the beverage industry buzzing over what could be yet another billion - dollar acquisition of an entrepreneurial beverage company by a strategic giant.

I have spent the last 12 years of my life in the health and fitness industries, whether it was playing professional sports in the NFL, being a professional trainer, owning and operating a gym or consulting for billion dollar companies in health and ergonomics.

Over two million dollars in campaign contributions from the gambling industry to Albany politicians in the last two years, plus $ 2.6 million to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York.

State lawmakers in the budget last month approved a provision that allows for a 12 - month pilot program for testing self - driving vehicles, which automobile industry observers expect will be a multi-billion dollar business in the coming years.

The chairman of the Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, J. Gary Pretlow, a Democrat from Mount Vernon, announced on Thursday that there would be a vote on a bill to legalize daily fantasy sports, the multibillion - dollar sports - betting industry that was bulldozed from New York last year after the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, ordered its two largest purveyors, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop operating.

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

Coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry that has changed drastically in the last decade (and unfortunately not because coffee drinkers are moving back to real french press coffee makers).

The multibillion dollar gluten - free food industry has exploded over the last few years, to the point that you now can...

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

In response to this demand, a billion - dollar character education industry has cropped up in the last few decades, including myriad organizations marketing packaged character education programs to schools.

The education technology sector chalked up $ 1.42 billion in investments last year, the most amount of dollars booked since 2000, the peak of the dot - com boom, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource.

The newspaper industry has lost billions of dollars in the last 10 years, which is directly proportionate to the sheer growth Google has garnered.

The newspaper industry has lost billions of dollars in the last 10 years in advertising revenue due to Google and has seen a decline in subscriptions.

The newspaper industry has lost billions of dollars in the last 10 years, which is directly proportionate to... [Read more...]

The comic book industry made over a billion dollars last year and print sales generated $ 900 million dollars.

The global audiobook industry is currently worth 2.6 billion dollars and part of the reason why we have seen a dramatic increase in profitability is due to digital In the first eight months of 2014, sales were up 28 % over the same period last year, far outstripping the growth of e-books, which rose 6 %.

Maybe this new book he wrote will be his last, the narcotics industry is worth trillions of dollars and many of the key players are celebrities on the local level, but do not want to be known internationally.

All of those cartels are raising their prices trying to squeeze every last dollar they can out of an industry whose days are numbered.

Taiwan last year announced it would invest 2.13 billion Taiwan dollars (66 million US) over five years in digital publishing in a bid to boost the 100 billion Taiwan dollars industry.

«But now,» says Dana Beth Weinberg, a sociologist at Queens College who is studying the industry, «the self - published authors walk into the room, and they say, oh, well, «I made a quarter million dollars last year, or $ 100,000, or made $ 10,000.»

«An NPR story last year thrashed the company for «pouring millions and millions of dollars» into dozens of groups, «some of which were transparently industry front groups, and some of which were right - wing economics advocacy groups, that themselves spent decades in various degrees of climate denial.

The U.S. shale oil industry hailed as a «revolution» has burned through a quarter trillion dollars more than it has brought in over the last decade.

The last thing Congress should do is continue allowing industry to bend the rules, block common - sense measures, and inflict this devastating disease on workers, just to add a few more dollars to their bottom line.

The nuclear industry, too, has benefited from billions of dollars in subsidies — including loan guarantees — over the last half - century.

In the last year, her office has been responsible for handing out fines in the millions of dollars for price - fixing in the gasoline and auto - parts industries.

«These legislators are putting a campaign contribution over someone's life,» referring to the millions of dollars the nursing home industry has spent over the last decade to lobby the state legislature.

Over the last few years, a new opportunity has evolved, called a life settlement and has created a multi-billion dollar industry known as the life insurance «secondary market».