Sentences with phrase «have another year as»

April 2016 Quick Hits: This month marked the last big stock purchase I had this year as I've begun saving up cash for a 2017 transition to the civilian sector.

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After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

The company, which started out primarily as a flash - sales site for high - end women's fashion, has diversified its product offerings over the past few years to include houseware items and travel packages.

If you count early cave paintings as infographics, then humans have been making and consuming this type of content for the past 32,000 years.

The loonie has hit its lowest low in two years, but as far as economists are concerned, Canadians have little to fret about — unless some State - side shopping is on your to - do list.

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Adena Friedman's first year as CEO of Nasdaq has been pretty remarkable.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

In the two years since Watson Health launched, it has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

Ontario has set out a target to balance the budget within a few years, as has Quebec, whose debt burden is slightly heavier.

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

It's no secret that the venture capital industry, as an asset class, has seen spectacularly mediocre returns over the last 10 years or so.

For years I've heard complaints from merchants, both large and small, who blame Amazon for the destruction of brick - and - mortar retail as we once knew it.

For years now, emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India have been the go - to place for many investors seeking growth.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

(Years later, he would describe his decision to accept the job as a «Vermont leap of faith.»)

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

The Cannabis Cultivation Summit met at the Marriot in March of this year, and the most recent National Cannabis Industry Association conference has emerged as a foundational event in cannabis space.

For much of its 40 - year history, the medium has been ruled by huge console makers and mega-publishers, such as Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts and Activision.

As I have discovered over the years, however, there is a happy — and effective — medium.

As of March 2016, Express Scripts began amortizing the contract over 10 years, rather than over 15 years as it had been doing, the company said in its annual filing in FebruarAs of March 2016, Express Scripts began amortizing the contract over 10 years, rather than over 15 years as it had been doing, the company said in its annual filing in Februaras it had been doing, the company said in its annual filing in February.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

It's five times as many people as watched the Super Bowl last year, and twice as many as Twitter has on its entire platform.

Since starting CALM as an upstart, bicycle - mounted weed delivery service 17 years ago, the 41 - year - old has served roughly 4,000 customers and become one of Toronto's biggest ganjapreneurs.

As a CEO of an online community, I've researched successful audience builders for years.

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

Rasool is a 25 - year - old freelance journalist and also a student in international relations at a university in Istanbul, who has worked as a translator and fixer for VICE and other media outlets, including Al Jazeera and Associated Press.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

As a result, a new job has risen to the top this year: lawyer.

The machine could be a successor to Google's own Chromebook Pixel 2, which was discontinued almost a year ago, but other manufacturers could have a hand in its development as well.

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

The BlackBerry had been entrenched in the corporate world in North America for years before the company actively courted consumers, whereas it was already equipped with consumer - oriented features such as music and social networking capabilities when it entered new markets more recently.

AFTER 30 years of designing products such as kettles, bike racks and even bra holders, Perth - based industrial designer Edward Khoury has decided the lure of the mining boom can be ignored no longer.

Moaza Al Matrooshi, a 24 - year - old from Dubai, had one of her ovaries frozen as a nine - year - old and is thought to be the youngest to have had the tissue stored for future use in a pregnancy.

Spacey, who stars as President Frank Underwood in the acclaimed series, has been accused of making unwanted advances on Anthony Rapp, who at the time was 14 years old.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 - As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

The PQ has laid out plans to reduce that pesky deficit as well, stating the government would balance the budget by the 2015 - 2016 fiscal year.