Sentences with phrase «launched a year after»

This month marks the 50th anniversary of NASA, which was launched a year after the Soviet Union lofted Sputnik into orbit, a feat that threatened to accelerate the communist rival's lead over the U.S. in spaceflight technology.

Initial schedule was to launch it a year after the new generation debuts.

The Passat is Volkswagen's second major launch this year after the Tiguan SUV and shows that the company is not afraid to enter premium segments though the sales in these segments have suffered in India post the introduction of GST.

The Passat is Volkswagen's second major launch this year after the Tiguan SUV and shows that the company is not afraid to enter premium segments though the sales in these segments have suffered in...

I remember when the Xbox first launched a year after the PlayStation 2, and I thought again, «Wow the future sure is coming fast!»

The PS3 launched a year after the Xbox 360, and whilst the system has been successful, Ryan admits Sony does not want to give Microsoft another head start with the next generation.

Blogs have prospered throughout the legal profession worldwide: the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 (which launched a year after the Clawbies) is now a veritable institution for the legal profession south of the border.

Not exact matches

This is why so many entrepreneurs treat their start - ups as moonlighting gigs for months and, in some cases, years after they launch.

According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in business after five years are founded by «user entrepreneurs.»

After several years of research, in 2011 De Brouwer launched Scanadu, a start - up he believes can be instrumental in solving one of modern health care's major flaws: that humans rely too heavily on the expertise of doctors and not nearly enough on data.

Within a mere year and a half after launch, Slawsa gained placement in the relish aisle in over 4,200 stores in the US and Canada with rave reviews from critics and consumers alike.

Saudi Arabia is revising its major reform strategy just over a year after its launch, extending the timeline of some targets and removing others entirely, according to reports.

Fourteen months after the Chengdu launch, that market was already 100 times bigger for Uber than San Francisco was after a year of doing business there.

The year after the campaign launched, Intel became the world's biggest semiconductor company, a position it hasn't relinquished since.

A little over a year after Shine's official launch in March of 2016, Naomi Hirabayashi and Marah Lidey, also its co-CEOs, have significantly grown its user base.

Two years after we launched the company — this was 1995 — Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus decided they were going to order bags for all their stores for the holidays and Christmas.

Seven years after its launch, most major motorcycle manufacturers haven't bothered to produce a three - wheeler of their own.

In February 2014, BarkCare, an in - home veterinary care division that launched as an «Uber for vets,» went to the happy hunting grounds after a fitful year.

That is exactly what we faced at my online - certification startup eCornell (a subsidiary of Cornell University) about three years after launch.

Within a mere two and a half years after launch, Slawsa gained placement in the relish aisle in over 6,000 stores in the US and Canada with rave reviews from critics and consumers alike.

After selling Pixamo in 2007, the two focused their efforts on developing Lexington, Mass. - based HitBliss, which launched in private beta earlier this year.

It's no wonder that, almost a year after launch, this phishing scam is still going strong.

«And the risk of having money locked up for almost a year until launch, and up to 18 months after that launch - I've personally made the decision to sit on the sidelines.»

After 10 years of growing grapes for some of Washington's most prestigious wine labels, the Milbrandts decided to launch their own.

CurrentC's delay will have an especially big impact on mobile payments volume this year and next because member merchants can not accept mobile payments from other wallets until months after CurrentC's launch.

The fundraiser tool for users is the latest product from Facebook's social good team, which launched last year and is responsible for the social network's safety check technology that's switched on after natural disasters or emergencies and lets users notify friends that they're okay.

Two and a half years after launching Iodine.com, we're finally getting around to fixing a few things that have bothered us since day one.

It's not clear, however, that the company learned its lesson: After eliminating the Extra Value Menu last year, it launched the Dollar Menu & More, which is another hodgepodge of offerings McDonald's (at least) considers good deals.

After the Wii U faltered on its own launch, it sounds like Switch will rapidly deliver most of Nintendo's heavy - hitters by this time next year.

For years, private space programs consisted of daring engineers in the middle of the desert attempting to launch one rocket after another.

According to research conducted by University of Florida Professor Jay Ritter, stocks newly listed on U.S. exchanges from 1970 to 2008 trailed stocks of similar market capitalization by an average 4.7 % one year after launch, and by 4.0 % three years after.

Now, two years after its 2013 launch, health insurance brokers, by the company's own account, are running scared.

Icahn, holding roughly 19 % of the company, launched the bid after talks to gain board representation broke down earlier this year.

One year after Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died, the world saw one of his last passion projects quietly launched in the Dutch shipyard of custom yacht builder Feadship.

Launched in August after a year - long clinical study, MoodHacker is essentially a Fitbit for the neck up, tracking a person's emotional mood as opposed to their physical fitness (though that is part of it).

Poste Italiane jumped almost 6 percent after announcing that it was launching a five - year strategic plan that included a group - wide transformation initiative looking at the company's employees and technology systems.

Motorola's Moto G series has produced the uncontested best budget phone year after year since it first launched.

Their dedication paid off when they sold a majority share of the company at a valuation of $ 105 million, a mere five years after they launched.

To compound matters, on March 7, mere weeks ahead of the reported early - April launch of its much - anticipated PlayBook tablet, RIM chief marketing officer Keith Pardy announced his resignation just over a year after joining the company.

Bee launched her show in February after 12 years as a correspondent on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, and the fervor of her advocacy has already outstripped that of her mentor.

In fact, it was burnout and exhaustion that led her to collapse and break her cheekbone two years after launching Huffington Post.

Penny didn't continue her paper bag business after that year, but Clark's brother Jon used her recipe when he launched Kodiak Cakes in 1995.

But four years after its launch, only 9.3 million people had registered, a far cry from the 25 million TSA had expected.

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

After two years of trial and error and the help of Jason Squire, creator of Canada's first 4G network, Misek launched what many outlets regard as the Shazam for mobile payments.

The battle began after Depp launched a $ 25 million lawsuit earlier this year against TMG, claiming «gross mismanagement» of his affairs.

After over a decade of development hell, the game finally launched this year to critical acclaim.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

Silk Road 2.0 was launched late last year, weeks after authorities had shuttered the original Silk Road website in October and arrested its alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht, who went by the online alias, Dread Pirate Roberts.

As I said when we launched this exciting project: after more than 100 years, we can not delay, so the next bill to be redesigned must include women, who for too long have been absent from our currency.