Remember how WhatsApp vowed that it will never share user data with Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg and Co. announced the multi-billion
dollar purchase of the popular chat app a few years ago?
Confirmed or not, it would hardly be surprising to see Microsoft pull the plug on the Lumia brand, given the downward spiral Lumia devices have found themselves in since Microsoft's multibillion -
dollar purchase of Nokia's phone and services division in 2013.
The megabillion -
dollar purchase of Skype was a worse decision than the New York Yankees» signing of never - playing pitcher Carl Pavano.
I leave the house for a little bit this morning and the tech world goes bonkers with Google announce a $ 12.5 billion
dollar purchase of Motorola Mobility.
The public will have more time to comment on a proposed $ 4.1 billion
dollar purchase of First Niagara Financial Group by KeyCorp.
The Northbrook Park District may be a step closer to creating a long - discussed community recreation center, which could happen with the potential multimillion -
dollar purchase of another health club in town.
Judge Rakoff had this to say at the time: «The notion that Bank of America shareholders, having been lied to blatantly in connection with the multibillion -
dollar purchase of a huge, nearly bankrupt company, need to lose another $ 33 million of their money in order to «better assess the quality and performance of management» is absurd.»
Nearly 43 % of its $ 215 million in daily transactions were U.S.
dollar purchases of bitcoin.
Not exact matches
Have someone stay constantly on top
of the situation so that you can kill off the bad spends and double down quickly on what's driving actual results and
purchases; and (b) use these channels and your content to drive traffic from the big guys to sites you own and control so that all your efforts and all your
dollars aren't wasted just working to make money for Zuck.
For some, Twitter's potential remains so bright that they could see a buyer putting up dozens
of billions
of dollars to
purchase it.
While they opted not to pony up tens
of thousands
of dollars for an exhibitor booth, they
purchased airfare, hotel rooms and tickets to the show, planning to walk the convention center floor with their stuffed toy in hand, wearing cute matching hats.
Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire
of products we constantly
purchase and deploy for millions
of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple
of people to maintain a catalog.
For example, you could lease a photocopier for several hundred
dollars a month rather than financing the entire $ 3,000
purchase price, or you could lease your automobile or van instead
of shelling out $ 25,000 or more for the full
purchase price
of the car.
Alibaba would not break out
dollar values but says that 33 %
of its Singles Day shoppers, 30 million in all, made at least one
purchase from international brands or merchants.
This year alone, online shopping cart ditchers will bail on some $ 4 trillion
dollars worth
of potential
purchases.
That's about $ 17 billion
of purchasing power today Resuming cultivation
of hemp, America's original cash crop, is a multibillion -
dollar opportunity.
Lastly, investors with capital in U.S.
dollars can make cheaper
purchases in U.K. property due to the recent depreciation
of sterling.
In 2015, only 3 percent
of customers had visited
dollar stores for a meat or poultry
purchase in the previous three months.
After a few days traipsing through New York City, I ended up with eight purely free items and four discounted
purchases, and spent about 15
of my own
dollars.
Because the Freedom Unlimited earns 1.5 points per
dollar spent, it's perfect to use for
purchases that aren't dining or travel when paired with one
of the other Chase cards.
There were also
purchases totaling more than $ 10,000 at Chanel in New York and thousands
of dollars at luxury - goods stores like Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Brioni and Christian Dior.
So private equity firms need to use their balance sheet skills and they have to be more ruthless in wringing every last
dollar of synergy out
of the
purchase for a company that they possibly can.
The multi-billion —
dollar firm
purchased more than 1,300 hectares
of undeveloped land on the coast and started touting ambitious, if eclectic, plans.
That's another reason why Amazon's
purchase of streaming rights for Thursday NFL games is such a big deal — also evidenced by the fact that Amazon is reportedly charging advertisers millions
of dollars for ad packages for those games.
If you (a) forego 10 hamburgers to
purchase an investment; (b) receive dividends which, after tax, buy two hamburgers; and (c) receive, upon sale
of your holdings, after - tax proceeds that will buy eight hamburgers, then (d) you have had no real income from your investment, no matter how much it appreciated in
dollars.
She wasn't able to recoup the
purchase price — but at least she saved tens
of thousands
of dollars in monthly storage fees.
The author, Catherine Jheon, recounted the «nightmare» renovation she and her husband undertook, sinking hundreds
of thousands
dollars into a «crack house»
purchased almost on impulse, with seemingly little to no concern for the low - income tenants who were evicted in the process.
There are many «experts» and «gurus» that talk about making a million
dollars and this usually leads you down a path to
purchasing an online course just to learn tactics which aren't necessarily proven to stand the test
of time.
Alibaba has
purchased the remaining 57 % stake
of China food delivery app Ele.me it doesn't already own, bringing the app's valuation up to $ 9.5 b. Tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, which has invested billions
of dollars in Meituan - Dianping, are eager to cash in on China's growing online food delivery market, which is expected to grow 18 % to 241 billion yuan ($ 38 billion) this year.
As for the type
of multimillion
dollar home
purchase made, it's largely dependent on the client themselves, said Molloy.
A generic form
of a similar cream that also contains iodoquinol costs less than $ 30, and a tube
of aloe vera can be
purchased for just a few
dollars.
Republican lawmakers argue that the BAT would offset the price increase since the shift in the trade balance would cause the
dollar to strengthen, improving the
purchasing power
of Americans and scaling back the effect on consumers.
Especially for online
purchases or high - value or high -
dollar purchases, this type
of comfort is essential to avoid
purchase regret.
So, they flew back to India — where they ultimately wound up
purchasing one - way tickets to the U.S. on Qatar Airways, at a cost
of several thousand
dollars, to avoid having to travel through Russia again.
Consumers
of Beck's, with valid receipts dating back to May 2011, may be awarded up to 50
dollars or 10 cents for every individual bottle
purchased.
«To achieve a high savings rate, start viewing your
purchases in terms
of units
of your time rather than
dollars,» she tells CNBC Make It.
Revenues should come in at around $ 290 million — $ 168 million in box office
dollars and $ 87 million in concession
purchases (and $ 34 million
of «other»)-- which would be a 24.4 % increase over Q1 2013, he says.
If you were importing from the United States and you had not hedged your next year's
purchases or a portion
of them, with the drop in the Canadian
dollar, you could be in big trouble.
«If you look at our holdings, you would assume that we like them in the order in which they rank by
dollar value
of holdings, but if you look at them in terms
of recent
purchases over the last year we've bought more Apple than anything else,» he said in a wide - ranging interview Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»
GLG's Henry Dixon also highlighted to CNBC that on a
purchasing power parity basis - which evaluates a currency's theoretical equilibrium versus other currencies based on the price
of a basket
of goods - the British pound looks very cheap against the U.S.
dollar and «fractionally» cheap against the euro.
There are lots
of dollars — and buyers — looking to
purchase companies these days.
When a fifth investor
purchased a share in 2015, Reuters reported that the valuation
of the restaurant and hotel chain was a half - billion
dollars.
The auction house said in a release that they expect the notebook to be
purchased for more than a million
dollars, and a portion
of sale will go to charity.
Let's assume that if every one
of those 19 transactions had a
purchase amount with one penny over the
dollar (e.g., $ 3.01) with a 99 - cent round - up, the average American would save just $ 18.81 per month with Acorns.
BXI members earn barter «
dollars» by swapping their own goods and services for credit toward the
purchase of goods and services from other members.
Instead
of using complex analytics to determine your ideal savings amount, Acorns rounds up every
purchase to the nearest
dollar and transfers the remaining difference from your checking account to your Acorns savings account.
Procurement professionals spend trillions
of dollars a year
purchasing products and services — many
of them from small, entrepreneurial companies.
After the penny - pinching
of the financial crisis, a larger number
of Canadians grew more comfortable
purchasing cheap products, leading
dollar stores to meteoric growth.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount
of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability
of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP
purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction
of generic versions
of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect
of lowering prices or reducing the number
of insured patients; the possibility
of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels
of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits
of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages
of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development
of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate
of the U.S.
dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Examples include special financing offers on
purchases above a certain
dollar amount and monthly payment options over a period
of time, typically six, 12 or 18 months.