Sentences with phrase «last year of calls»

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Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.

In an Entrepreneur article last year defending Donald Trump's long trail of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey called failure «a badge of honour.»

Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»

Last year, the CBO published what it called «115 options for reducing the deficit,» and all of those painful suggestions were among them.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

For example, at the end of last year, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz called the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine a grave threat to his outlook.

The ride - hailing service published details of its «on demand aviation» ambitions last year which it has called Uber Elevate.

Researchers who've pored over the data since last year now think the collision also made 1 - 5 Earth masses of a very rare element called europium, according to a recent study in The Astrophysical Journal.

It was, in fact, his last such call before retiring as CEO of Home Capital Group, the company he had co-founded 30 years ago.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

Glenn Cole, co-founder and chief creative officer of Call of Duty «s ad agency 72andSunny, told Fast Company the goal behind the campaign wasn't «to just exceed last year's results, they wanted to crush them.»

Rep. Frederica Wilson made headlines last year when she criticised President Trump for remarks he made during a call to the widow of a fallen soldier.

For instance in 2015, it launched an app called EyeIn, a photo service for publishers that let them find photos of events shared on social media sites, launched last year.

My co-founder Nicole had called me in April of last year and literally said, «I've got this idea.

The firm's analysis of the so - called Equilar 100 (top 100 companies by revenue) finds that the female CEOs in this group earned an average $ 22.7 million last year, while the male chiefs took home an average $ 14.9 million.

This is just the latest in a series of blows for the company, which began with a high - profile exposé from The Wall Street Journal last year that called the company's underlying technology into question.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

Late last year, officials in Utah moved to ban Zenefits; the state's insurance commissioner, Todd Kiser, sent a letter to the company calling its business model a violation of state laws.

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

Last year New York City - based Adafruit did a booming $ 10 million trade in sales of DIY open - source electronic hardware kits, so - called because project designs are free and publicly accessible, and customers are encouraged to modify or «hack» the final product.

But the news is particularly ironic for Bitstamp, which gained popularity after the collapse of another exchange called Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy last year after losing approximately $ 650 million in a cyber attack.

But the sales numbers posted by «Advanced Warfare,» which has been a critical hit, were 23 percent lower year over year than those posted by last year's «Call of Duty: Ghosts,» according to Edward Williams of BMO Capital Markets.

When Kat Cole traveled to Egypt with the international director of Cinnabon last year and the call - to - prayer came on over the speakers, she stopped and said, «That is so beautiful.»

He also had two previously undisclosed phone calls with Kislyak between April and November of last year, according to Reuters.

Last year, Ubisoft released the Montreal studio's first mobile - only offering for the iPad called Monster Burner, an arcade - style game where you flick fireballs at descending crowds of monsters.

In defending its merger plan, Comcast is saying its real competition is no longer other cable companies, but rather so - called over-the-top Internet service providers such as Netflix, which is the same rationale Bell used in Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last year.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Just 3 percent of all Hong Kong - listed stocks, by capitalization, come from so - called «new economy» sectors — tech as well as biotech — according to a report last year by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse operator.

It took years for Radiohead to agree to put its music on Spotify in 2016, after frontman Thom Yorke once called it «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

Last year, Sawyer Sparks, 23, turned down a $ 500,000 offer from Hasbro, maker of Play - Doh, to license his patented gluten - free modeling clay, called Soy - Yer Dough (that's blueberry blue, above).

If you owned bitcoin prior to July, you received an «airdrop» last year when a group of miners introduced a so - called fork and created Bitcoin Cash.

Last year, Vice took a majority stake in U.K. production studio Pulse Films and the company said earlier this year that Viceland had ordered six episodes of a scripted comedy series from actor James Van Der Beek and musician / DJ Diplo, called What Would Diplo Do?

Some may mock, but over the last couple of years, Google raked in so much so - called earned media that the invoice to cover an equivalent amount of ads would have been staggering in the cost it represented.

Trump's positive outlook on relations with Kim Jong Un is a marked departure from social media taunts in November of last year, in which he called Kim «Little Rocket Man» and noted that his people and military «put up with living in such horrible conditions.»

Analysts are now calling for earnings per share of $ 12.79, up 4 percent from the same period last year, according to crowdsourced data.

Last year, the company surveyed a portion of its call - centre staff on health and wellness with the help of Scienta Health and found many suffered from headaches, obesity and other preventable problems.

After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

However, not all of Alphabet's ambitious projects make it that far, and what the company calls its «other bets» — anything outside its core advertising business — together accounted for roughly $ 3.6 billion in operating losses last year alone.

Apple released the iPhone X last year with a variety of new components, including an organic light - emitting diode (OLED) screen and a face scanner the company calls Face ID.

Indeed, much of what Whitman has accomplished over the last five years involved reversing what her predecessors did — or unlocking value, as so many financial analysts call it.

Jeffries left the company last year amid tanking sales, and in the earnings call this week, the current executive team didn't have much of a strategy to revive the flagging brand.

Last year, President Trump called himself a «true friend» of the gun industry.

Last year it was «Call of Duty: WWII,» as seen above — a throwback to the many previous «Call of Duty» games set during the events of World War II.

But «Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,» last year's entry in the series, has fallen far short of its predecessors.

And it could convert some pirates to paying subscribers — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes admitted on an earnings call last year that «Game of Thrones» is the most pirated show in the world, which he said was «better than an Emmy» for driving interest in the network.