Sentences with phrase «for big dollars»

Forecast: The reason for the big dollars is obvious: The movie has an up - and - coming star, a name - brand producer in Judd Apatow and a kind of irresistible likability.

Teixeira is an exception to the China rule in that he was ripping it up at Shakhtar Donetsk before he pied off Liverpool for big dollar.

You never know when a sh*t bag of an agent is dangling his client in public and waiting for a bigger dollar shark to bite.

His ploy regarding NYC schools has always been fronting for the big dollar charter advocates.

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.

Capybara's big break came with Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery, a quirky adventure game that sold for a few dollars on the iPad, in 2011.

This shameful investment ratio — 15 dirty dollars invested for every clean one — shows that the perverse relationship between big government and big oil has not changed.

But as creative as those attempts are to woo Amazon for its second headquarters, it's far more likely that the big dollars that Amazon has asked for will be a major deciding factor in its location.

Segura won't put a dollar figure on what Completely Normal did for his career (he retained 35 percent ownership of the program), but he says it paved the way for bigger paydays — and that's been the case for other comics as well.

The reason is that, «aside from Netflix and HBO, we can give buyers a bigger bang for the buck» when it comes to spending their programming dollars, says Volk - Weiss.

But the Accenture report suggests — and, I think smartly — that the biggest returns on investment for healthcare AI are likely to come from areas where the density (and dollar value) of deals isn't that substantial right now.

David Swensen, the head of Yale University's $ 25 billion endowment is calling out some of the biggest players in finance for shelling out billions of dollars for what he calls «kickbacks» to attract business to their trading venues.

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

«People looking for a big bounce in the dollar from the volatility spike must be feeling pretty depressed right now,» said Kit Juckes, chief FX strategist at Societe Generale in London, referring to the dollar's losses in recent sessions.

The currency, which was down on the day against the dollar, was on track for its biggest daily loss in more than four months.

VC arms are a trendy way for Big Food — multibillion - dollar legacy players like Tyson — to participate in disruptive food startups.

Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

, powerfully minty and invigorating oral care products; Wanderer, shower products that hydrate; the DSC Traveler, a high quality travel bag specially designed to take Dollar Shave Club on the road; Big Cloud, never greasy, never shiny skin protection from the elements; Boogie's, hair styling products for every head of hair and every hairstyle; One Wipe Charlies, peppermint tingling butt wipes for men; and Dr. Carver's, premium shave aides for a delightfully gentle shave from start to finish.

Not only is Amazon providing access to more than a terabyte of memory for just a few dollars an hour, but big corporate customers are able to buy physical boxes that provide relatively low - cost access to terabytes of non-volatile memory that developers can use instead of storage.

That kind of trading up was easier for customers in 2002, when the Dollar Menu launched and a Big Mac cost $ 2.49.

By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE), which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.

And despite the growing share of marketing dollars spent online, television is still a favourite medium for the brands spending the biggest bucks.

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.

Not only the face of the ten dollar bill and the inspiration for broadway's biggest show, Hamilton is also a watch brand.

The euro fell to a two - week low versus the dollar, for its biggest weekly drop in two months, as investors trimmed record high bets before a European Central Bank meeting next week where policymakers are largely expected to signal no change in policy.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

«After seeing how they're sold for $ 500 or $ 1,000 dollars, we thought there was a really big opportunity to sell these shoes at a really low price.»

The biggest contract was for the multi-million dollar installation of its video surveillance system in 2,700 buses in Brisbane.

Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for «peanuts,» only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars.

These big - dollar private equity funds are trolling the business landscape for new investment opportunities — and that means you.

NEW YORK, Dec 29 - The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months against a basket of major currencies on Friday, on track for its biggest annual drop since 2003, on doubts over durability of a pickup in U.S. economic growth in wake of last week's tax overhaul.

«The core Rent the Runway business, which was renting dresses and accessories for special events, is on this nice trajectory, that's probably a couple - hundred - million - dollar business in the next few years,» he says, «But Unlimited, this subscription business for everyday fashion, is a far, far bigger additional opportunity.»

In starting up, paying top dollar for the biggest and best tools, gadgets and the like could cost you even more in the long run.

If you were surprised to learn that Barbie could get the R&D tax credit, then maybe it's time to rethink whether your company could be eligible as well for the biggest tax credit for business — approximately $ 10 billion dollars a year.

But with the past year of corporate scandals bringing billion - dollar companies to their knees, most business owners are realizing that not having a handle on the company's financial inner workings can lead to disastrous consequences for companies both big and small.

Priceline.com founder and entrepreneur Jay Walker launched a new company Tuesday that uses big data analytics, cloud computing, and a mobile app to turn flexibility into dollars for business travelers.

Imagine you don't like the way your physician is imposing his view of the world for you, and worry that his view is unduly influenced by the the marketing dollars of big pharma.

The strength of the U.S. dollar has been a big headwind for Tiffany, says Nagel.

Think of this as fair warning — your competitors are dropping big dollars for data.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

Posting has become a big lab experiment for Madison Avenue, and the social media companies are eager to prove their relevance to corporations, specifically, in terms of return on investment for ad dollars.

«The biggest issue for those companies is that the dollar will strengthen, and that will lead to a fall in competitiveness,» says Roberto Rigobon, a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In the mobile top - up space, for example, Payment Source's two biggest competitors are billion - dollar global players, says DeMarchi.

It was my biggest sale still to date, not in dollar volume but because it was so much fun and I got paid so much money — $ 16,000 — which was a lot of money for me.

Robert W. Bly explains how you can develop big - picture marketing plans for pennies on the dollar with his 12 - step marketing plan.

Leaf peers are both appreciated, for bringing in the big tourist dollars, and despised for chugging along the roads, rubbernecking, at five miles per hour.

«If you incentivize a company like Lockheed Martin [with] billions of dollars in sales to invest in Canadian companies — for example, to give a virtual - reality company its first big sale — it could have a really positive effect,» Verkindt says.

So while it's true that weaker global demand and the stronger dollar is a headwind for big American manufacturing companies, hiring data suggest domestic consumption will continue to expand.

The same dualism — the need for safety and excitement — in the bedroom that she talks about in her book and in her TED talk has relevance for entrepreneurs looking to launch the next big company, the next great idea, the next billion - dollar startup.

Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped to lift assets priced in the U.S. currency, with gold last week registering a fourth straight weekly gain for the first time since April.