Sentences with phrase «from big developers»

There are far more important issues and bad practices from big developers and publishers in the gaming industry that we all should unite against.
The former deputy majority leader, who now heads an independent caucus of Democrats, has received almost $ 320,000 since his election to the Senate in 2004 from big developers with 421a subsidies.
Senator Martin Golden, the measure's sponsor, has received at least $ 80,500 from big developers in the 421a program, though none of the five developers who benefited from his bill has contributed to him.
Has the closure of Xbox Live Arcade stifled the chances for smaller games from bigger developers?

Not exact matches

Listed developer Peet and the state's second - biggest homebuilder, ABN Group, will develop more than 600 housing lots in Midvale after purchasing a parcel of land from the Department of Housing for $ 18 million.
We've had competing bids for sites as big as 50 acres, [from] hoteliers, developers, industrialists... all wanting to invest as quick as possible.»
If support for «2x» part falls apart, either the miners or developers could walk away from the agreement, rekindling worries of a bigger split that rocked the currency in mid July.
Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.
The only way community banks can compete with commercial banks is to undersell them or make an even bigger loan to the developers, and even bigger loans to the people who are trying to buy their apartments to gain security in housing from rent increases by going deeper into debt.
Last week, a three - person crew in downtown San Francisco installed a new billboard for GitHub Inc., a service used by software developers that has raised more than $ 100 million from big - name venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz.
Hosted at the Berlin Cubix UFA Palast Rathausstraße 1, the Berlin Summit is attended by the full gamut of the cryptocurrency sector starting from the biggest exchanges to brokers, payments providers, fintech, miners, traders, ICO participants and cryptomaniacs blockchain developers, entrepreneurs and experts in tax and legislations all together.
You'll find similar results if you look at demographic reports from big tech companies like Google and Apple: the average developer tends to be young, under 30.
Chartock had asked Cuomo to respond to a recent Times story that more than half of the estimated $ 7.1 million his campaign has accepted from PACs, LLCs, associations and other entities has come from big - moneyed special interests in Albany, including the health care industry, labor and real estate developers.
The statewide party committees, which distribute money to their respective candidates, were the biggest combined recipients, with more than $ 1.7 million from the 10 biggest landlords and developers.
Cuomo got a $ 60,000 ride to Hollywood late last year for a big bucks fund - raiser from real estate developer Stephen Green, the brother of one of Cuomo's vanquished political opponents, former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green.
Such a project could cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars - money that might come from SU, a private developer and, like the Carrier Dome, a big, long - term investment from state taxpayers.
No charges have been filed, but prosecutors are examining «substantial payments» from a tax firm that has helped some of New York City's biggest developers (who double as the state's top political donors) reduce the property tax bills on their holdings.
Transmission Developers, Incorporated is proposing a $ 2.2 billion plan to draw power to the Big Apple from Quebec.
Of all the issues that dominated legislative debate in last year's session, rent control and 421 - a tax abatements had the most potential to drive a spike in donations from one sector; the fact that contributions from the biggest real estate developers ebbed made it difficult for 2015 to compete with prior years.
According to a recent filing in the federal case, prosecutors have sought records from more than a dozen individuals, companies and campaign accounts that were not named in a 2016 indictment that alleged key officials and developers were involved in rigging bids for some of the state's biggest projects.
There is no doubt from our discussions that a New York City metro area casino and mega convention center franchise is a most desirable and attractive opportunity for the biggest developers in the world and the state would have an abundance of exciting options.
The Albany Times - Union reported that a Hudson Valley developer with millions in state contracts — and a frequent big - bucks Cuomo contributor — has benefited in spades from government decisions that placed competitors at a serious disadvantage.
The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.
He has received campaign donations from companies and wealthy donors ranging from big Albany, N.Y. lobbying shops and real estate developers to Hollywood moguls and pharmaceutical companies.
I'm tired of hick upstate Senators taking big money from NYC landlords / developers to look out for their interests (force rents higher).
Elected leaders around New York are trying to figure out what to do with campaign contributions they've received from two big developers — and donors — connected to this scandal, LPCiminelli in Buffalo and COR Development in Syracuse.
A Providence, R.I. - based builder run by the same family for five generations has been making a big push into the New York City market, increasing its share of business from developers of residential, commercial and institutional constructions projects.
Mr. Cuomo received donations from an array of wealthy individuals and companies, from big Albany lobbying shops to real estate developers, from Hollywood moguls to the pharmaceutical industry.
And while some elected officials have credited the tougher negotiations spurred by IZ with yielding greater community benefits, some of the biggest concessions Mr. Constantinides wrung during ULURP will come not from the developer's purse but from the public's.
He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.
Government filings also suggest there will be testimony on matters ranging from lobbying on big - ticket items like rent regulation and real estate tax abatements, to Silver's killing of a Manhattan drug treatment clinic and $ 10 million in campaign contributions from New Hyde Park - based Glenwood Management, one of the real estate developers he allegedly shook down.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner set out Tuesday to kill the biggest Syracuse development in years - the $ 324 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project - after the developer went around the city to negotiate lucrative tax breaks from Onondaga County.
«I'm the only candidate who has not accepted money from Carl Paladino nor LPCiminelli; two of the biggest developers in the city of Buffalo,» Grant told a local news station.
The skepticism was aimed not at Aiello personally, but at big developers in general, following news last week that the city would not get any new property taxes for 30 years from the short - circuited development of Destiny USA.
CITY HALL — After months of heated debate and demonstrations, City Council Speaker Christine announced a deal Friday afternoon on controversial legislation that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than the minimum wage but would exempt their tenants from doing the same.
Three of New York City's biggest developers have been slapped with subpoenas from a state corruption panel investigating huge tax breaks that they received in a law enacted just this year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
«We'll have developers, money people and big corporations that will benefit [from the convention] but the small person that is just trying to get ahead won't,» Barron said.
Companies like 23andMe that offer to reveal your genetic secrets from a spit test can also sell your data to drug developers for big sums
The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.
Looked down on with scepticism by many taxonomists, handling big data efficiently is a huge challenge that can only be met with thorough and multi-layered efforts from both scientists and technological developers.
BIG PROBLEM # 3 - why on earth would Midway give this game to developer Creat Studios??? This developer has made great classics (and obviously im kidding) as Biker Mice from Mars (PS2), Coded Arms Contagion (PSP), and lets not forget the phenominal American Chopper games (PS2 / XBOX).
The first big project from a team of Spanish developers working out of an attic in Seville, Crossing Souls is a passionately made ode to an era, even if it occasionally feels underwhelming.
Speaking in a recent interview with GameSpot, game director and president of developer From Software, Hidetaka Miyazaki, stated that he is «considering Dark Souls III to be the big closure on the series.»
The Switch eShop was quite active throughout the majority of 2017, but one of the biggest releases came from an incredibly tiny indie developer: a one - man studio, ConcernedApe.
E3 2015 Was A Huge Success But Still There Were Some Flop Announcements and it came from some big publishers / developers.
It's unclear what the new patch brings, though we've requested patch notes from developer Big Ant.
As far back as The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, big - name PC developers have been developing PC and console versions of their games simultaneously, and this has not stopped the PC versions of such games from being cutting - edge.
But with the closure of Dead Space developer Visceral and the cancellation of Silent Hills, the bigger publishers seem to be moving away from Survival Horror.
Curt Schilling - led MMO outfit buys Big Huge Games from THQ, averting potential closure of Maryland - based developer.
The chief of staff was hoping to get this evidence from a younger man he mentored in college (James Ransone), who has a bad relationship with his abusive father (Griffin Dunne), a real - estate developer who is the mayor's biggest financial supporter and also his secret business partner in the land deal.
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