Sentences with phrase «from making the biggest bets»

Seeing a decline in portfolio and corporate - level activity, RCA Senior Vice President Jim Costello notes that «in 2016, people pulled back from making the biggest bets.»

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For IBM, Watson Jr. was making big bets, shifting the company from mechanical tabulating devices to a new thing called a computer.

Arkadium was scrambling to fill in for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of big bets on new games that had vastly underperformed.

But in 2001 to 2003, the airwaves were pretty empty from travel advertising and that was a big bet that we made, and it paid off.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

Pressure from platforms has forced big media conglomerates to make massive bets, such as Disney's deal with 21st Century Fox.

who would of guest City would make an offer of 60 million in the summer for Sanchez with only a year left on his contract, i'm guessing we could get an offer of around 30 million from City in January so he wont be persuaded by the likes of PSG with a signing on fee in the summer, but who knows what goes in the mind of Alexis or what kind of injuries some big clubs could have from now until January for them to make ridiculous offers to a world class player with no CL conflict of interest, lets say Real Madrid loses Ronaldo, Bale, Karim to long term injury you bet they will come ceiling with baring gifts for Sanchez's services or even Barca with Messi or Suarez

Cosenza says he knew he was violating NCAA rules that prohibit athletes from gambling on college or professional sports events when he made a handful of bets with Sheerin this fall, but he never thought it was a big deal.

Despite the facts about his injury, the England international has been slashed from 8/1 (9.0) to 3/1 (4.0) to make the big switch back to United, but I would happily lay that bet with anybody who wished to take those odds.

The biggest loser in all of this, aside from all of the East Coast sports bettors hoping to make legal wagers, is the state racetracks and casinos that were banking on the sports betting bill passing and being put into motion.

The two biggest daily fantasy sports companies have agreed to stop taking bets from New Yorkers while lawmakers debate whether to make the popular games legal, the companies and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Monday.

Our goal: to separate the safe bets from the big risks, helping you make an educated choice as to how to blow your paycheck at the multiplex this fall.

This was extra terrible for me because I made a very dumb bet with Eric Stonestreet from «Modern Family,» who is a big Royals fan,» he revealed.

But in hindsight, considering the backlash from Congress and from parents upset about standardized testing, and looking at what the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association and the National Research Council have said about the problems of using value - added models to make personnel decisions... do you feel like those were the right big bets?

Bought a Chrysler 300 from Garrett Dieb Internet sales had a great experience would highly recommend him to anybody looking to purchase a vehicle I drove down from San Luis Obispo to purchase from them over 250 miles away worth the drive you may think you'll get a better deal or experience at some big name dealerships in the area but trust me they put in the extra effort and the general manager lost a bet because of me so that made it even more fun

If you do that all along the way, that is going to protect you from ever having to make that big hail mary bet that you sometimes see companies make right before they fail or go out of existence.»

She's just one example, of course, but I bet the stats would show more authors make very little from self - publishing than big or even moderate bucks.

I'm not out to make big macro bets; I will make a small bet that the market is high, and carry above average cash, but it will all get deployed if the market falls 25 % + from here.

On the Alphabetization of Google from a venture capitalist: «The way I see it, Google is the cash cow that finances all the big bets Larry and Sergey are making inside Alphabet... For $ 445bn, you get $ 70bn of cash, Google, which does $ 70bn of revenue and produces $ 20bn of operating cash flow (probably more now that is it not going to burdened by all of these other investments), and all of these big bets, including Google Ventures and Google Capital, which are about the biggest investors in the VC sector right now.»

And in this saturated and competitive market, Okwu Mobiles, a mobile startup from India plans to make a big bet.

The big bet that MoviePass — and HMNY — are making is that the company will eventually be able to sell the data and insights gained from its subscriber base to studios, who could then do targeted marketing for their films to the most active movie - goers.

If you were to alter your resume to make it appear that you were in your 20s, I'll bet you get the same Big Silence from the job market.

There were three panels held yesterday at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate - as - a-Service Fintech and The Built World Economy I'll start with a few thoughts on 3rd panel, FinTech and The Built World Economy (the other two will come next week): A look at how fintech has disrupted almost every sector of the real estate... Read More»