Sentences with phrase «fund those efforts as»

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NEW YORK, April 25 - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, as part of a settlement freeing the billionaire from possible lawsuits for having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

Meanwhile, GSK said it would launch a review of its consumer healthcare nutrition products, such as Horlicks — a malted hot milk drink that's particularly big in India — in order to help fund the joint venture buyout, and to focus its efforts on over-the-counter medicines and the oral health category.

In addition to funding new episodes, Hodgson told EW that he hopes the crowdfunding effort will serve as a promotional tool as well as a siren song of sorts to gather together those who have contributed to the show in the past, including cast and crew members.

As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the rare - earth metals with other materials.

But think about how it can affect your efforts as an entrepreneur — you answer only to yourself (and possibly your staff and funders).

Convinced they could have done better, Huffington's co-founders, Jonah Peretti and Ken Lerer, threw their efforts behind Buzzfeed, which quickly eclipsed HuffPost as the hot social - news juggernaut, and was valued at $ 850 million in a funding round last year.

May 3 - Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier Inc has agreed to sell its Toronto aircraft assembly site to a pension fund as part of efforts to raise extra cash under a five - year recovery plan.

May 3 (Reuters)- Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier Inc has agreed to sell its Toronto aircraft assembly site to a pension fund as part of efforts to raise extra cash under a five - year recovery plan.

Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma City, from passing local sales taxes to fund those programs.

In addition to funding expanded marketing, sales and customer service efforts, Kindler says the $ 10 million investment will be used to develop deeper analytics and more features, including tools to detect malicious fake sites that often are created as part of cyberbullying campaigns.

There are venture capital efforts that are trying, such as Matter.vc and the Knight Foundation's Enterprise Fund, run by Benoit Wirz.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

Mycoskie imagines all his efforts (he also funds one employee - suggested social venture project a month, at $ 10,000 a pop) as part of an expanding ecosystem.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

The Harper government has repeatedly cited the RCMP - funded studies as justification for its repeated efforts to close Insite.

South African technology major Naspers announced on Friday that it has raised $ 9.8 billion from the sale of 2 % of its holdings in Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent as part of efforts to strengthen its balance sheet and fund growth in its e-commerce businesses.

It may seem strange to focus marketing efforts on people who have already received your product as a reward for funding you, however in most cases, this isn't the case for every campaign.

Franklin Templeton is firmly committed to international efforts to combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist and criminal activities, and as such it makes every effort to remain in full compliance with all applicable anti — money laundering («AML») and anti — terrorist financing («ATF») laws, rules and standards adopted in the jurisdictions in which it does business.

In another effort to fund offsets, as predicted, the Senate increased the deemed repatriation rates on accumulated retained foreign earnings to 14.5 % on cash - backed earnings and 7.5 % on all other earnings, from 10 % and 5 %, respectively.

Perth - based hedge fund investor NWQ has signed up former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens as it ramps up efforts to attract offshore investors to the Australian hedge fund scene.

For example, there are environmentally focused funds, funds that concentrate their efforts on finding companies who have sound corporate governance policies, others that look at the impact a business has on society as a whole, and this is just to name a few.

Morningstar rating: In an effort to classify funds by what they own, as well as by their prospectus objectives and styles, Morningstar developed Morningstar Categories.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

In 2005 his effort to establish and implement the Partners Innovation Fund at Partners HealthCare was the culmination of his success as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and executive.

The foundation funded a task force, known as the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, to launch the effort.

Your objective as an entrepreneur should be: — to reduce the sense of insecurity and lack of control over the company's use of funds and general financial direction that your VC might feel (they wont accept it but its always there)-- to reduce to a minimum the amount of time and effort used to collect the needed information

The OJK plans to also issue a new regulation for crowdfunding platforms this year as part of efforts to protect customers» funds, Eko said.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

While there are many steps that you can take to line up funding you need to get your new business off the ground, the reality is that your quest for startup funding is only as beneficial as your budgeting efforts allow for.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

Recent revelations of funding deficiencies at FHA and spiking delinquency rates for many of the marginal borrowers in the program could spell trouble for FHA borrowers as additional efforts are undertaken to shore up FHA's finances.

As Congress continues to consider hurricane relief funding, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget re-released its «A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget» proposal with a new plan to help finance disaster relief efforts.

It was the time when a great shift was recorded as brands, marketers and publishers had started diverting their marketing funds and efforts from Google Search to Social Media.

Now, an institution that has the unlimited ability to create new money can never run short of money and will therefore never need to borrow money to fund its operations, but the Fed sometimes borrows money via RRPs as part of its efforts to manipulate interest rates.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is said to meet activist hedge fund Starboard Value next week as part of its efforts to avoid a proxy battle, according to a New York Post report.

As compensation for the work they perform in those efforts, the funds charge a fee — in our hypothetical example, the fee was 1 % of assets.

We believe that additional regulatory efforts will be focused on two areas: ICOs, and cryptocurrency - related packaged products (such as exchange - traded funds, or ETFs).

The purpose was — as we warned and the pro A. 2 debaters denied — to set the stage for state funding of Stowers and other efforts in the fields of ESCR and human cloning.

As a result of her efforts, women were eventually appointed full - fledged foreign missionaries and various social services for women finally received funding.

As you know, our fund raising efforts were part of a larger campaign to raise $ 50,000.

It would fund campaigns to educate consumers about food waste, as well as promote efforts to teach kids in schools about waste.

In the beginning of the process, critics viewed it as a balkanizing of the fund - raising effort.

As it happens, Clare's fund - raising efforts set wheels of violence and tragedy in motion, stirring up the dust on the graves of four long - dead children and reviving old questions about their father's sudden disappearance.

Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor — crafted so that each «fits» the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America — strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine's principle of subsidiarity.

Jules Might I suggest that the Christian Left could accomplish this by directing ALL of its charity efforts and funds towards actually helping the poor, as opposed to wasting them fighting the culture war against gays, women, and science like the Right does?

That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.

We choose to pay taxes to fund our collective efforts by electing governments who impose and spend them the way we want — not that it let's us off the hook for our individual actions, or what we do as the church.

Planned Parenthood has also faced ongoing efforts by some states to limit the government funding the abortion provider receives through Title X and Medicaid, as well as state laws restricting abortion.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.