Sentences with phrase «last year of service»

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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.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

Dwyer, the parent company of eight service - oriented franchises, last year awarded $ 2.3 million in discounts to vets.

The much - ballyhooed bitcoin law, developed and revised by the New York Department of Financial Services and its superintendent Benjamin Lawsky over the last year, was made official on Wednesday.

There appears to have been a surprising shift in the music business last year, as sales of digital downloads fell, with fans turning instead to streaming services such as Spotify and vinyl.

Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.

Last year it commissioned Montreal lawyer Lloyd Lipsett to review Bisha's current practices; his report, published in April, said spot checks of discharge papers and interviews with Segen workers confirmed they'd been discharged from national service.

A Citigroup analysis last year showed that if the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reallocated costs to account for the growing volume of packages it delivers, it would cost $ 1.46 more to deliver each package.

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

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

Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

Campbell added that «South Park» was the service's most - watched show of 2017, as subscribers watched 135 million hours of the animated comedy last year.

In the last few years, we have seen a lot of start - ups emerging in the area of on - demand services.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

After YouTube TV's debut last year, Fortune noted that the service was incomplete compared to most cable offerings because of its lack of cable channels from the likes of Turner and Viacom.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

Prioritize customer service: According to a study of last year's holiday trends, shoppers care as much about the shopping experience as they do about the gifts they buy.

BITKOM, a German IT trade association that represents more than 2,200 international companies operating in the digital sector estimates that 44 percent of all businesses in Germany used cloud services last year.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will likely enter the grid services business eventually, and its acquisition of SolarCity last year gave it even more tools and motivation to do just that.

It expects total monthly active users in March to number 168 - 171 million, including those who use the service for free in return for watching advertisements, up from 157 million at the end of last year.

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.

Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn't afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services.

Monica C. Lozano stepped down last year under company guidelines that limit the service of directors to 15 years.

A KPMG report late last year warned that the total bill, including service and support, could be as much as $ 45.8 billion over 42 years to replace the current stable of CF - 18s, which are due to be retired in 2020.

The top three categories getting most of donations last year were religion ($ 122.94 billion), education ($ 59.77 billion) and human services ($ 46.8 billion).

Last year, London deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and stripped it of its license to operate.

A majority of the bank customers who paid a debit card overdraft penalty fee in the last year, did not recall signing up for this service

John Cook, CEO of the Profit Recovery Group, a financial - services firm based in Atlanta, needed financing last year.

Over the last couple of years we've seen an explosion of box subscription services in niches ranging from beauty to food to gaming to novelty gifts.

«There's definitely a cap on growth at that airport,» says Steve Silverhart of HUBS Aviation Consulting, who spent a year as ground services manager at Billy Bishop, which handled two million travellers last year.

Uber's loss follows an earlier one last year where the Luxembourg - based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) classified the company as a transport service rather than a digital one, which stripped it of protections against undue national regulation that digital services enjoy under EU law.

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.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

Greven points out that when Kube's last company, Performance Software, took the same step, 150 government agencies signed on to their services over the course of three years.

The Commission said that initial findings of an investigation launched last year showed platforms were delisting products or services without due notice, restricting access to data or not making search result rankings transparent enough.

The service, which had a few thousand users at the beginning of last year, had close to 800,000 at the beginning of this one.

Cook told CNBC last quarter that he hoped the company's services division would become the size of a Fortune 100 company by next year.

Think about this scenario: A five - minute outage of all of Google's services last year due to internal network challenges cost the company a whopping $ 108,000 every minute.

These requests are a standard part of the process and ask the applicant for more information, but between January and November of last year, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services department issued about 40 percent more requests than in all of 2016, according to data from the department.

Over the last 20 years, I've met with hundreds of small - business owners in my line of business, offering financial planning services.

Netflix itself finished its transition to AWS servers last year, and has made a practice of filling gaps in those services with its own software, which is available on Github, a sort of library for freely available software.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

He said the company failed to properly pay his taxes on his behalf, made unauthorised loans, and overpaid for «security and other services,» costing him «tens of millions of dollars» and leading to financial trouble, of which he claims to have only become aware of in March of last year.

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.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Shortly after Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama that year, Trump had his lawyers trademark the slogan, «Make America Great Again» for «political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues and fundraising in the field of politics,» The Washington Post reported last year.

Walmart first partnered with JD.com two years ago as both companies struggled to overcome the retail dominance of Alibaba, and Walmart last week announced that it would drop Alibaba's Alipay services in stores in favour of Tencent's WeChat payments.

While the country's economy has shifted inward over the last few years, relying on its own citizens to fuel growth, it still exports billions of dollars in goods and services every year.