Sentences with phrase «followed by billions»

What have you done lately that will be followed by billions of people and remembered 2000 years from now?

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But here — as elsewhere in a tech sector that's being driven by billions in less - than - discriminating venture capital dollars — revenue hasn't necessarily followed.

The Liberals produced a modest $ 600 - million surplus in 2017 - 18, but it will be quickly replaced by a total of $ 31.9 - billion in deficit spending over the following six years.

Just ask Krispy Kreme, the iconic doughnut maker that will go private by early summer, following a buy - out from JAB Beech, a private equity firm that announced it will acquire the brand for $ 1.35 billion.

Similar disdain followed January layoff announcements from Pfizer, Walmart, Microsoft, Coca - Cola, and many less prominent employers, coalescing into an angry narrative: Greedy companies are firing workers just days after getting a historically giant tax cut that will save them billions — a tax cut that was promoted by President Trump and Republicans as a job creator.

It was last valued at $ 2.3 billion following an investment round led by Iconiq Capital, and has since been encircled by rumors of going public.

This is on top of Trump's earlier proposed tariffs on $ 50 billion in Chinese goods, which was also followed by a retaliation pledge by China.

Monsanto, which is being acquired by Bayer AG (bayer - ag) for $ 63.5 billion, has said its dicamba herbicide is safe when applied properly and that U.S. farmers failed to follow label instructions.

Huawei Technologies, the globe's second - largest equipment telecommunications supplier by revenue following Ericsson, has increased its annual R&D expenditures fourteen-fold in the past ten years, from $ 389 million in 2003 to $ 5.46 billion in 2013.

It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.

He chugged along for the following decade, reaching $ 4.4 billion in 2007, gradually rising to $ 18.4 billion by 2012, ranking him 26th on the list.

Even so, the company believes Athleta's online following is strong, and is sure to grow — Gap estimates that Athleta will be a big part of doubling e-commerce sales to $ 2 billion by 2014.

Didi's latest cash infusion, received from investors including Japan's SoftBank Group and Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi state fund, follows a $ 5.5 billion fund - raising round in April, also led by Softbank.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

Following Moore's Law, coined by one of Intel's founders, Intel Core M Processor contains 1.3 billion 14 nanometer transistors in a dual - core that increases power while reducing cost.

Russia and the U.S. were followed by China at 32 billion, Argentina at 27 billion and Libya at 26 billion.

He was followed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has an estimated net worth of $ 81.5 billion.

Construction is officially underway at Gindalbie Metal's $ 1.8 billion Karara iron ore project in the Mid West following an official ground - breaking ceremony held on site this morning attended by Premier Colin Barnett.

The product dovetails with AOL's stated focus on mobile video following its $ 4.4 billion acquisition by Verizon — which was largely viewed as a play by Verizon for AOL's highly progressive video advertising technologies.

And let's not forget Yahoo's confession that hackers actually managed to pilfer data for all 3 billion of its users in 2013, followed by the international Appleby law firm announcing the loss of 13.4 million legal documents known now as The Paradise Papers.

Carlsberg is aiming to cut the best part of 2 billion kroner of costs by the end of this year to defend against an enlarged and more profitable rival following the combination of AB InBev and SABMiller Plc..

SINGAPORE, April 29 - Noble Group will set a date for a special meeting to seek shareholder approval for a $ 3.4 billion debt restructuring after a Singapore court blocked its scheduled annual meeting following legal action by a dissident shareholder.

In a domain devoid of industry titans such as Taylor Swift and Adele, the Canadian rapper has just been named Spotify's most - streamed artist of 2015, with more than 1.8 billion spins — followed closely behind by Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Maroon 5 and Kanye West.

Facebook set tongues wagging when it paid $ 19 billion for instant - messaging startup WhatsApp last March, then followed it up a month later by shelling out $ 2 billion for virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR.

The reading on the economy follows a report Thursday by Statistics Canada that foreign direct investment in Canada amounted to $ 33.8 billion, the lowest level since 2010 and well off the record of $ 126.1 billion set in 2007.

According to consumer research outfit NDP Group, toning shoes took the shoe market by storm; sales rose from US$ 17 million in 2008 to $ 145 million the following year, and peaked last year at nearly US$ 1 billion.

CDP's move follows a decision by TIM to put its network - its most prized asset which analysts have valued at up to 15 billion euros - into a legally separate company (NetCo) fully controlled by the phone incumbent.

The combined company could initially have annual sales of over $ 65 billion, but there has been speculation that the merger could quickly be followed by a spinoff of some lower - margin businesses, including drugs that have lost patent protection.

That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.

The investigations follow complaints filed by two former Theranos employees, casting even greater doubt upon the honesty and accuracy of the $ 9 billion blood test startup.

Cisco (CSCO) pledged $ 10 billion in capital spending over several years earlier this year in what some watchers described as a desperate play for relevancy in China after Cisco's sales have plummeted following Edward Snowden's disclosures two years ago that Cisco's customers» products were used by the NSA.

The government is forecasting a shortfall of $ 18.1 billion for 2018 - 19, which will be followed by annual deficits set to shrink each year to $ 12.3 billion in 2022 - 23.

Microsoft founder Gates tops the list with $ 84.5 bn, even after donating billions to charity, closely followed by Amazon founder and chief Bezos on $ 81.7 bn.

This was followed by the $ 1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens» health information technology business unit, Siemens Health Services, by Cerner, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions.

By repeating this like a mantra, tech companies have been able to amass hundreds of billions of dollars, as they pick and choose which laws they follow.

First, by the end of 2014, following the large - scale asset purchase programs, the Federal Reserve balance sheet was funded by about $ 3.1 trillion in liabilities other than Federal Reserve notes, which were mostly in the form of reserves in excess of the amount banks were required to hold; in contrast, there were only $ 64 billion of non-Federal Reserve note liabilities in June 2007, of which only about $ 2 billion were excess reserves.

For example, 1 billion information reports would have to be filed earlier and processed much sooner by the IRS in order to complete returns by April 15 (with refunds to follow later).

Subtracting the cost of policy announcements to date would increase the deficit to around $ 2.0 billion in 2015 - 16, followed by three more years of deficit and a surplus of around $ 2 billion in the fifth year.

American ride - sharing company Uber is projected to gain as much as $ 10.84 billion this year and around $ 26.12 billion by the following year in global bookings, according to a recent presentation for potential investors.

The major issuers in this market are asset - backed issuers (with $ 20 billion outstanding), followed by financial institutions ($ 17 billion), corporates ($ 11 billion) and non-residents ($ 7 billion).

In your Update, you are now forecasting a «budget planning deficit» of $ 3.0 billion for 2015 - 16, followed by deficits of $ 3.9 billion, $ 2.4 billion and $ 1.4 billion in the following three years.

Followed by Merrill Lynch ($ 7 billion), Bank of America ($ 5 billion), Citigroup ($ 2.3 billion and the much - loathed junk - mortgage lender Wachovia ($ 1.5 billion).

This decision follows an announcement by Toshiba, owner of bankrupt Westinghouse, which was building the plants, that it would make a final payment to Santee Cooper and SCANA of $ 2 billion to cover its guarantees on the project, an amount significantly below the $ 11.4 billion required to complete the project.

Following the October 2010 Update, both the PBO and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)[5] forecast that the federal government would still be in deficit in 2015 - 16, by $ 11.0 billion and $ 5.4 billion, respectively.

Although Hershey reports annual sales exceeding $ 7.4 billion, its growth pace slowed in 2013 and 2014, followed by a 0.5 percent sales decline in 2015 and a rise of just 0.7 percent in 2016.

The PBO forecast, including a contingency reserve, shows a balanced budget in 2015 - 16, followed by deficits of $ 16.5 billion, $ 19.4 billion, $ 17.1 billion, and $ 14.2 billion in each of the following years.

The following day, the President of the Treasury Board, Scott Brison, tabled the Main Estimates for 2016 - 17, showing total expenditures for 2015 - 16 at $ 250.7 billion ($ 42.4 billion lower than forecast by the Minister of Finance) and $ 250.1 billion for 2016 - 17 ($ 54.4 billion lower than forecast by the Minister of Finance).

In February, travel firm TUI Group, which has a turnover of $ 20 billion ($ 22 billion) a year, reported a 40 % fall in bookings to Turkey following a series of attacks by ISIS.

Following the stress tests, Bank of America boosted its dividend by 50 % and added a $ 5 billion share repurchase program to boot.