Sentences with phrase «last year and the year»

One year I shared a lovely gluten free clementine cake then I shared my family's traditional Christmas cake with you last year and this year I am sharing my Last Minute Gluten Free Vegan Christmas Cake!

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LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

Investors and hedge funds were freaked out last year when the price for Arabica beans shot through the roof, thanks to a drought in Brazil.

That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva graduated from the University of Southern California last year having earned not just a degree, but perhaps a more important credential: their own business.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wrote in a blog post that last year in particular, he and Whitman's relationship deepened when the online - file storage company worked with HPE to build its own data center infrastructure.

Last year, companies raised $ 3.8 billion via ICOs, and this year alone they have already raised $ 2.8 billion, according to data from CoinSchedule, a site which tracks the activity in the space.

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

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.

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

Wynne also appointed a panel last month to examine those proposals, which included a jump in the HST, a five - cent - a-litre regional gas tax, a $ 350 - million - a-year business parking levy and $ 100 million a year in development charges.

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

George Zachary, a partner at Charles River Ventures and the first institutional investor in Pebble, said Wednesday that the company's revenue hit $ 43 million last year and will double in 2014.

According to internal documents released last year, BuzzFeed was already generating revenue of about $ 100 million in 2014 and was profitable.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

Ask him how many nights he spent away from home last year, and all he has to do is consult a spreadsheet.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

Last year, MLB and YouTube TV signed a marketing partnership in which the MLB promoted YouTube TV during the 2017 World Series, which YouTube TV subscribers could watch via the Fox broadcasting network.

According to the same report, over last 10 years, the cities with the fastest growing rates of wealth were San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Sydney.

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

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.

Currently, no U.S. carrier has made the change, though a few international airlines — including Air Asia, Malaysia Airlines, and Singapore's Scoot Airlines — have created policies in the last few years.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

Apple's iPhone event today was as much about the highly - anticipated iPhone 8 and iPhone X as it was an homage to the company's impressive feats with consumer technology over the last 10 years.

Given the nature of defensive stocks, it should come as no surprise that six of the names that were on this table last year pop up again — and most of them are banks.

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).

Maddock and Weir bootstrapped the company until last year, when it raised $ 15 million from Philippines - based private equity firm Navegar.

Ad costs have gone up like crazy over the last few years, and we expect this trend to continue.

Uber earmarked more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam, over the last year.

Earlier this year, Elton John announced his next tour would be his last, and now another legendary songwriter, Paul Simon, is following suit.

Craig Fehr, Edward Jones's Canadian investment strategist, points out that every other sector besides utilities and telecoms posted double - digit gains last year.

Cyran, the Reuters columnist, pointed to quarterly mergers and acquisition (M&A) statistics from PricewaterhouseCoopers, showing that Canadian M&A volumes retreated 21 % compared to the same quarter last year.

Last year's food trend predictions heralded the dawn of a coconut craze and taco fever.

«Over the last couple of years [3D printing has] gone through this massive hype cycle where it's going to print you a cup and fill it with coffee,» observes Ben Wynne, chief Technology Officer at Vancouver - based Wiivv Wearables.

And that was after a disappointing auction that raised less than $ 20 billion, half to one - third of what some on Wall Street predicted last year.

But our analysis found that this was no longer true: In the last five years, the once - reliable correlation between age and happiness among adults has vanished.

The San Francisco - based start - up moved to store its Chinese data locally in 2016 but China further introduced a strict cybersecurity law last year that requires foreign and local tech firms to offer technical support to authorities who wish to access it.

Late last year, Wheeler floated a «split the baby» approach, whereby ISPs might be regulated under Title II in their dealings with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's YouTube.

DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman retired last October as the result of the impending merger with Dow Chemical, and Hindustan Petroleum CEO Nishi Vasudeva retired in March of this year.

You're a 30 - something entrepreneur who has toiled long hours over the last five years with a dedicated group of software engineers, designers and marketing people to create the next mega app.

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

Globalive invested seed capital into Revlo last year, and the startup is raising a follow - on round.

Last year, Alexa was the clear winner of CES, with companies like Ford, Huawei, and LG agreeing to integrate their products with Amazon's virtual assistant.

I have spent the last seven years studying these questions and searching for both the truth and the correct answer.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Spotify, which charges users $ 9.99 a month for its premium service, has continuously stressed that its payment system is fair and released a detailed breakdown of the process last year.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.