Sentences with phrase «in the summer of»

In the summer of 2015, Wilcox had sunk most of his money in a decentralized file storage company he founded called Least Authority.

The California - based toy maker on Tuesday confirmed it won the key toy license for the Jurassic World property beginning in the summer of 2017, taking over a business that had previously been owned by rival Hasbro (has).

In «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White» journalist Michael Wolff's report of the internal workings of the West Wing, Bannon is quoted as saying that Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian attorney in the summer of 2016 — where he was joined by top campaign staffers Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort — was «treasonous.»

Most people working in the oilpatch in the summer of 2014 had never known a prolonged downturn.

In the summer of 2015, she spent a full month in Greece.

But while our primary focus was on traditional threats, we also saw some new behavior in the summer of 2016 when APT28 - related accounts, under the banner of DC Leaks, created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists.

In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.

The company has since fixed the obvious issues such as input controls, Kagan said, and is constantly working with users toward a wider - scale launch across the U.S. in the summer of 2018, with the end goal of allowing users to «never feel the latency.»

Altaba was officially created in the summer of 2017 when Verizon completed its $ 4.5 billion purchase of Yahoo's core internet business.

The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011.

Pokemon Go took the gaming world by storm in the summer of 2016.

When boot maker Vans signed on as a partner in the summer of 1995, Switch agreed to produce 6,000 bindings, which cost Switch $ 50 a pop.

«This was a mistake from an investigative point of view,» Means told Business Insider, before explaining that she had taken up the position in the summer of 2017, six months after Beth had filed her formal report.

In the summer of 1993 Martin Connolly presented graphic designers Robin Perkins and Clifford Selbert with a simple request.

In the summer of 1945, the six women were sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground to learn how to use IBM punch cards and wire up plug boards.

The plane underwent a routine check in Duesseldorf on Monday, and its last regular full check took place in the summer of 2013.

In the summer of 2014, the company abruptly slashed its projected 2016 profits by a third.

He does not appear to have sounded any kind of alarm as the problems began to mount in the summer of 2007.

Alexander noted that tighter mortgage rules (i.e. the new 25 - year mortgage regulation implemented by Flaherty in the summer of 2012), and increasing mortgage rates have both played a role in «dampening» buying activity in the real estate market.

Current market expectations suggest that the first Fed hike might occur in the summer of 2015.

In the summer of 2016, Ripple's former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision: he signed a deal with a bank consortium R3, that included an option for its partner to buy 5 billion units of its currency for less than a penny.

However, in the summer of 2015, after the 49ers went 8 - 8 and Kaepernick threw just 19 touchdowns to 10 interceptions and completed 60.5 % of his passes, the NFL began to turn on him.

In the summer of 1999, Sequoia Capital, the legendary backer of Oracle, Apple, and Cisco, led an investment of $ 25 million in Musk's new financial services firm, X.com.

CHESKY: In summer of 2008 I meet a guy named Michael Seibel.

It is what was discussed in Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 — the meeting that made Donald Trump Jr. exclaim, «I love it.»

Carly Gloge, a Canadian website and application design professional and the co-founder of Ubooly, got her sea legs with the toy at the famous TechStars accelerator program in Boulder in the summer of 2012.

Over the holiday, a house - full of people at various parties and family events were taken by the bot, even though it actually came out in the summer of 2018.

This was demonstrated clearly in the summer of 2005 when the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was stalled in Congress for lack of support.

Meanwhile, Harvard's Rock Summer Fellowship program has seen MBAs launching ventures jump from 18 in the summer of 2011 to 52 this summer — largely thanks to boosted funds, points out Tom Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of Harvard's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

In the summer of 2013, with Twitch already the kind of hit that would soon compel Amazon to purchase it for a massive sum, Vogt struck out on his own.

The Alerian MLP Index, which tracks about 75 percent of the market capitalization of MLPs operating in energy - related businesses such as pipelines or energy storage, was down more than 30 percent this year through Nov. 13, and even more from its peak in the summer of last year.

But in the summer of 2015, Romney publicly criticized Trump after the then - presidential candidate attacked Arizona Sen. John McCain's military service.

Last summer, 47 full - time MBAs participated in the Entrepreneurial Summer Internship Program, which only provides a living stipend for some students working at early - stage startups, compared to 40 students in the summer of 2011.

In the summer of 1995, Carver Skateboards founders Greg Falk and Neil Carver were disappointed with the lack of surf, and skateboarding wasn't the same: So they created a skateboard that mimics the feel of cutting water.

Remember, plenty of other experienced investors are buying in at this valuation expecting asset - light Uber to be worth at least $ 100 billion at IPO — and many pundits called Fidelity nuts to invest at a $ 17 billion pre-money just six months ago (similar accusations were hurled at TPG and Google Ventures for giving it a $ 2 billion + mark in the summer of 2013).

In the summer of 2015, president Heather Hunt and her leadership team set what she calls an «ambitious but achievable» target for Fluid Life: to help its customers save $ 250 million by 2025.

Chuck Weisenfeld opened the first Crown Trophy store in Brooklyn, New York, in the summer of 1978.

Sunscreenr launched a Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2016 and got $ 119,629 after setting a goal of $ 45,000.

In the summer of»98 the auditors, KPMG, moved in.

In his best - selling book, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi, author David Maraniss explains what happened when Lombardi walked into training camp in the summer of 1961.

In the summer of 1980, IBM was developing a personal computer but needed an operating system to run on it.

It seems that, in the summer of 1968, when he was 19, Stack and a bunch of his pals from suburban Elmhurst, Ill., piled into four or five cars and headed for Chicago to sample the commotion surrounding the Democratic National Convention.

In the summer of 1983 Foster's leveraged net worth paid for 500,000 square feet of medieval - looking foundries, 200,000 square feet of ramshackle storage warehouses, a couple dozen creaky overhead cranes, four two - story electric furnaces, and countless other pieces of aging appurtenances.

Then in the summer of 2011 came a key moment when he decided to quit his job as «a junior VC» and devote himself full time to his own company.

Shane Buckley put his own spin on enacting dramatic change, by using seven steps, after becoming the CEO of Xirrus in the summer of 2012.

A new report from NBC News said Mueller was scrutinizing what Trump knew about the Russian - backed campaign to hack into the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016, and whether Trump had any role in the radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks» subsequent dissemination of the stolen emails.

In the summer of 2002, right after I turned 21, I joined AmeriCorps.

Hudson Square Research analyst Jeffrey Logsdon points out that this year's movie crop is smaller than in the summer of 2013, but the bigger factor behind the current summer slump could be quality.

It was delivered in the summer of 1963 during the March on Washington, a rally for civil rights and against discrimination.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy eventually completed the three - part Chartered Financial Analyst program in the summer of 2014, and was principal and portfolio manager at OSAM before becoming CEO.