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What's more, the waterproof Vivofit's battery can last up to a year on a single charge, so you'll almost never have to take it off, ensuring you'll always know how active you've been.

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The company is increasingly crunching data to determine the optimal product mix at individual stores and the ideal locations to set up new outlets (it relied on data to figure out the best place to open its first American Girl doll boutique last year).

New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.

And we're looking at that over the last several years to tell you whether we think that price is going to go up,» Patrick Surry, Hopper's chief data scientist, told CNBC's «On The Money» in an interview.

Spending on this type of software was already projected to hit US$ 2.5 billion globally at the end of last year, according to Deloitte, up 52 % from 2012.

Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

Obamacare enrollment was off to a red - hot start when the sign up period began on November 1, far outpacing the rate of last year's enrollments.

Advertisers will spend US$ 7.8 billion on digital video ads this year, according to eMarketer — up 34 % over last year.

A former Web designer who grew up in the Bay Area, Sutherland founded Peninsula Shops last year to be something of a «chamber of commerce on steroids,» he says.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

Also impressive to Golden was that Nexage had signed up major customers, including CBS and Internet video company Divx, despite a shoestring budget — ey'd lasted two and a half years on $ 2.5 million in angel funds raised when the company launched.

Store owners in some cases report up to doubling traffic levels across the weekend with peaks in traffic hitting on the Saturday before the weekend winds down, last year alone the NFIB reported independent merchants saw record Saturday sales with consumer spending close to $ 5.7 billion.

Another example: On a trip to Guatemala last year — Liu frequently travels to source countries to meet with suppliers — he struck up a conversation with an older American gentleman while having dinner.

We used the same methodology to crunch Combs and Weschler's investment performance in 2014 that we used in an article on the two Berkshire up - and - comers last year.

The two - year yield touched 2.500 percent, which was last seen in September 2008 before subsiding to 2.483 percent, up 1 basis point on the day.

It is also planning to drill up to three new oil wells on a new project in Colorado after strong results from its first well drilled last year.

The U.S. networks increasingly are reliant on these retransmission fees, estimated at $ 3.3 billion last year and going up to more than $ 7 billion by 2018, according to research by SNL Kagan, which analyzes media and communications trends.

The company expected NemaStrike to launch across up to 8 million U.S. crop acres in fiscal year 2018, Chief Executive Hugh Grant said on a conference call last month.

This right lasts 14 years for design patents and up to 20 years for patents on useful inventions.

In a report last year, the Conference Board of Canada summed up Ontario's dilemma succinctly: «Either we become a leader in the development and commercialization of these technologies, or we rely on others to sell them to us.»

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

So when he was named last year by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to chair the federal government's blue - chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, nobody who knew him was surprised that Barton set goals of scaled - up ambition.

The average American has a credit card balance of $ 6,375, up nearly 3 percent from last year, according to Experian's annual study on the state of credit and debt in America.

But while thousands of clinical trials on immunotherapy drugs, of which many are predicted to fail, are springing up, the depth of information on neoantigen vaccines is much shallower: Just two studies on neoantigen vaccines for melanoma, recently profiled in Nature, were completed last year in Boston and Germany.

Nasty Gal, which started out auctioning vintage items on eBay, now sells unselfconsciously sexy clothing to 18 to 24 - year - old women and reportedly racked up sales of over $ 100 million last year (the number has been widely reported, but Amoruso would not confirm it).

Barbara Corcoran on Projecting a Big Image and Living Up to It Highlights from Corcoran's keynote speech at Entrepreneur Magazine's Growth Conference in Dallas early last year.

Reuters surveyed 119 firms to determine its figures, following up on a survey it carried out in September of last year.

Last month it announced a 94 % year - on - year increase in second - quarter revenues, up from $ 44.5 million to $ 86.2 million.

Having battled throughout his life with depressive episodes, the Foundry Group managing director publically owned up to his struggles last year on his blog.

Or your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.»

Over the last two years, Apple (AAPL) has allowed Beats to live on under its own banner, offer up new products, and continue to sell headphones.

In a market update on Tuesday, the Perth - based integrated screening and verification company said quarterly revenues lifted to a record $ 3.3 m in the third quarter of this financial year, up 21 per cent on the same quarter last year.

Given the softening economy in the latter half of last year and first months of 2013, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's target of getting back to balance by 2015 — after piling up $ 172 billion in debt in eight years — will depend on three assumptions all coming to good.

Add to that a focus on innovation (some 960 employees filed a patent last year), and you get people who «truly feel lucky to work» here, and a stock price that's up nearly 400 % in the past five years.

The yield on the Merrill Lynch junk bond composite is up 205bps from last year's low of 5.16 % on June 24 to 7.21 % currently.

Like last year, retailers including Amazon and market leader Tesco, are stretching promotions by up to two weeks, hoping to smooth out demand and reduce pressure on supply and distribution networks.

The digital currency exchange Coinbase has been on a rocket ship ride for the last year, signing up a flood of new retail and institutional clients eager to be part of the ongoing crypto craze.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

Baker won't reveal the details, but the company is said to have pulled in revenue of around $ 70 million last year, most of it from a deal with Google in which the search engine giant kicks back a commission on ad revenue obtained when a Firefox user enlists the browser's Google search bar and ends up clicking on a sponsored link.

Last year, revenues almost doubled year - on - year to $ 350 million and the company has been profitable since 2011, a feature many of the world's biggest start - ups would love to boast about.

Last quarter was the best quarter for blockchain and bitcoin VC funding on record, more than doubling the amount raised in the first quarter and up 89 % year over year, according to CBInsights.

Altogether, more than half of all consumers plan to celebrate by buying something, spending an average of $ 143.56 on flowers, jewelry, candy, clothes and other gifts, up from $ 136.57 last year, according to the National Retail Federation's Valentine's Day consumer spending survey.

«Applications had a fantastic quarter, growing to $ 1.3 billion, up 27 %, this on 16 % growth last year.

For the longest time they had what they called division 1 stores, which were not focused on food, and only in the last 5 to 10 years did they open up superstores.

According to an annual survey by Wall Street recruiting firm Options Group, total compensation for equities professionals in the US will be up 9 % from last year on average.

In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this month.

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