Sentences with phrase «early year numbers»

Earlier this year a number of retailers told The Bookseller that they would not stock titles from Amazon Publishing, with independent bookseller Ron Johns saying «We absolutely hate Amazon and what it has done to the high street and the book trade.»

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To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

The shift is reflected in Canada, where the total number of employees in the industry in 2012 rose 5 % to 16,500 over a year earlier, according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

The LME is itself planning to launch an alumina contract either late this year or early next year, in theory doubling the number of hedging venues.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

I think five years from now there will be a number of S&P 500 CEOs that will wish they'd started thinking earlier about their AI strategy.»

That was down from $ 123.3 million or 50 cents per share a year earlier when the Montreal - based company recorded a number of favourable non-operating items.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

However, the number of moviegoers during that period dropped to 17.8 million, down nine per cent from the 19.6 million who headed to theatres in the year - earlier period.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services has won a number of new contracts and renewals with Newmont Mining, with 15 rigs expected to be in operation by early next year.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

Today, Brazil sits at No. 5 in a 2010 UN ranking of countries receiving FDI, and early numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil put the economy on pace to eclipse the previous year with US$ 43 billion in FDI for the first six months of 2011.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

In 2013, the number of use - of - force complaints in Oakland, California dropped by 1,350 compared with four years earlier before VieVu equipped every officer in the city with a camera.

Perhaps the fear of Web 2.0 isn't that surprising when you consider that a similar survey from IT security company Sophos earlier this year found that the number of firms suffering attacks through social media jumped 70 percent between 2008 and 2009.

Current retirees can collect as early as age 62, but their benefit will be permanently reduced by a percentage based on the number of months before they reach full retirement age, which ranges from age 65 to 67, depending upon birth year.

In the past, Chadwick served as the finance chief at a number of high profile companies, including Skype leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft (msft) in 2011, at McAfee leading up to its acquisition by Intel (intc) that same year, and earlier at Cisco (csco).

Statistics from the Korean government showed that Chinese visitor numbers fell by close to 70 percent in August compared to one year earlier.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

It's the first time that the streaming service — which has endured a rocky start since it was relaunched by rapper Jay Z early last year — has hit number one on the app rankings, a point that West himself championed on his ever - active Twitter account:

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

Furthermore, earlier this year the FBI noted that the number of Americans losing money to ransomware is increasing; in 2016, we also saw the first functioning Mac ransomware.

Last year, a number of stores, including Walmart, Macy's, Target and Toys «R» Us, caused a buzz by opening earlier on Thanksgiving Thursday than ever before.

Southwest said it hopes to increase capacity ± the number of seats on its planes — by 8 % this year, up from its earlier goal of 7 %, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The fresh numbers come as an international financial group owned by the world's central banks says Canada's credit - to - gross - domestic - product and debt - service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the banking system in the coming years.

Earlier this year, however, Medium announced that it was pivoting its business away from advertising revenue to a subscription - based model, which reportedly took a number of its publishing partners by surprise and made them rethink their desire to be hosted there.

«People indulged Unilever on USLP in the early years when the reporting numbers were going well,» Deboo says.

The closeness between the two men changed earlier this year, however, at about the same time that Redstone started to become closer to his daughter Shari, who had been estranged from her father for a number of years.

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

In 2014, Nielsen reported 22 % of respondents had begun holiday shopping by mid-October, suggesting the number of early shoppers doubled in a single year.

The total number of drilling rigs, reported in December last year, went down to 313 from 327 a year earlier.

As we learned from Facebook's fMC marketing conference earlier this year there are a number of new marketing offerings, and they may seem disparate, but Facebook sees them as being connected together by a company's Facebook page.

The number of users who view and apply for jobs at the company increased by 35 % year - over-year, according to LinkedIn, while «unique job appliers nearly doubled in February from a year earlier.»

Five years earlier, Netflix's total subscribers numbered 4 million.

Incentives for early and late retirement will be modified to decrease the attractiveness of early retirement and increase the attractiveness of late retirement; phased retirement will be facilitated by allowing people to collect benefits while contributing and earning new claims on CPP retirement benefits; and the number of years of low earnings that can be deducted from the calculation of a CPP retirement benefit will be increased.

OTTAWA — When Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz veered off script earlier this year to deliver a stunner that Canada's first - quarter numbers would look «atrocious» — he wasn't kidding.

Earlier this year, however, BusinessWeek still ranked Kellogg as the number one EMBA program, with Wharton in third place.

«Sales volumes for new - energy vehicles exceeded 700,000 last year, and this number is further expected to increase to more than 2 million in 2020, and to more than 5 million in 2025,» Kevin Li, a senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, told CNBC early this week.

The numbers exclude the finances of rival titles including the Daily Express and the Daily Star that Trinity Mirror bought from media tycoon Richard Desmond in a # 127m deal earlier this year.

But on Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that pretty much all of those jobs will effectively disappear from the data when it revises its numbers early next year.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

Netflix telegraphed the move earlier this year, asking investors to boost the number of authorized shares to about 5 billion from 170 million.

Snapchat is also dealing with the snafus that sometimes afflict young and fast - growing technology companies, including having to apologize for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users» phone numbers to be exposed.