Sentences with phrase «massive quaalude»

As Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday in March 2016, we've seen it grow into a massive social network with 320 million monthly active users and 1 billion unique visitors monthly to sites with embedded tweets.

But while these massive acquisitions may be good for the entrepreneurs, the question remains, would Facebook have become Facebook under Yahoo's leadership?

The CEO called his massive aircraft manufacturer a «big growth engine for the economy,» in which passenger traffic growth is currently outpacing the growth of the U.S. GDP.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

The North American tradition of presenting diamond engagement rings has now spread to China's massive middle class too, and, after taking a hit during the recession, the American luxury economy is rebounding.

Despite often referencing his aim to reach Mars within a few years, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has shown little hardware for the massive rocket to send humans to the red planet.

«I have three major clients here in the UK who have contacted me recently, personally, and said brand safety is a massive issue and they don't agree with what you just said.»

Today, there simply isn't enough demand and confidence to shrug off a massive crack in one of foundations of globalization.

Their research also found that industries such as financial services, healthcare and manufacturing experience the highest level of attacks given that they have massive financial assets, a rich vein of personal data to be tapped, and physical inventories that hold significant value.

Recently, in a move that is wonky but has massive repercussions, Shell enlarged the accounting toolbox it uses to decide which oil projects to invest in.

The ability to get links from external sources is a massive SEO factor.

After the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee announced that under Japan's bankruptcy code, creditors were not entitled to Bitcoin's massive price appreciation in their claims, Richard Folsom took it upon himself to change that.

Linus C. Pauling won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry but went on to make statements about the supposed health benefits of massive doses of vitamin C that were both beyond his ken and widely discredited by the scientific community.

«The American healthcare system requires massive amounts of federal funding, yet remains one of the least - efficient healthcare systems in the world,» says Doctor on Demand CEO Hill Ferguson in a statement.

Dale Partridge is an incredibly successful serial entrepreneur who has not only made several fortunes, but has spoken on stages like Facebook HQ, created a massive social media following, and is a new author.

Going from two products (powder and bottled Soylent) to four in just a month is a massive change for Soylent.

He claims that replicating his massive experiment in consumer preferences would cost about $ 30 million.

The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Yahoo — well, the business formerly known as Yahoo — $ 35 million for failing to promptly disclose a massive 2014 data breach that affected hundreds of millions of user accounts.

«We're seeing a massive decentralization of startups,» he says, with more and more meetings and deals occurring online instead of in person.

Despite the massive (and, at the time of this writing, unextinguished) forest fire that ravaged parts of Fort McMurray, Alta., forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and took an estimated 1.2 million barrels of daily capacity — 1.4 % of the global supply — offline, it has been quick to resume operations, even while the town remains deserted.

Language holds massive, colossal power to manifest change, whether it's good or bad.

This 25 - year - old's mission: convince companies with massive headquarters to host a few beehives — and, in the process, help rebuild the bee population.

The election of Donald Trump as president sparked an exodus from the US Treasury market in the final months of 2016 and early 2017 as investors prepared for the possibility that Trump's plans for a protectionist trade policy, tax cuts, deregulation, and massive infrastructure spending would bring inflation back to the US.

«Google has released AMP Pages, their tool to allow web designers to quickly optimize their pages for mobile devices, and Apple is building their entire algorithm based on the actions of mobile users, based on their massive mobile phone market share.»

In 2016, he bought the former Textile Museum, a 27,000 - square - foot mansion in Kalorama, and last year he began a massive renovation and expansion — the plans for which foretell the ambitiousness of the life he intends to have here.

When you're working toward a massive sale, you can afford to invest time and money in a more personalized approach.

So, when word came in 2012 that BHP Billiton was looking to sell its 80 % stake in the core zone of the region's massive Ekati mine, the prospect seemed too promising to pass up — especially since watchmaker Swatch was sniffing around the Harry Winston brand.

Chitale Dairy in India has built a high - speed network that supports massive growth in operations.

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

Though centralized services frequently mean scripted responses, Cappelli maintains those responses are more accurate and lead to better overall service — especially in America, where professional services like payroll, benefits and compliance — once the domain of in - house staff — are becoming massive industries in and of themselves.

Even if you are not in the beauty industry, you are likely aware of how massive it is.

Instead, Gelsinger is referring to four massive computing trends: mobile, cloud, Internet of things, and artificial intelligence.

The project, which was funded on Kickstarter, took about three years of research and development, but Roosegaarde was finally able to show off his massive machine in September 2015 in Rotterdam.

By setting goals that are realistic and achievable you'll be setting yourself up for smaller, continued success, rather than one massive failure.

Rudd plans third stimulus Treasury is preparing the ground for a massive new burst of fiscal stimulus in next month's budget, declaring that the measures to date have averted a plunge in consumer spending.

Since the 18th century the world has undergone massive change through a series of industrial revolutions, from the advent of water and steam power to electric power to the rise of electronics and computers.

Being able to give massive political contributions actually pales in comparison to the impact of being able to destroy a publication you don't like by combining the machinery of the courts with anonymity and unlimited funds to bleed a publication dry.

«The project manager from ZenHub — which is enterprise software with massive customers — just took me to school,» Flavelle recalls.

I hope the podcasts will demonstrate that one piece of information shared with the police can make a massive difference.

This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success.

«I think... this business from a commercial standpoint had a fantastic legacy but a real latency as relates to the business side, so there was a massive opportunity.»

Altaba, the holding company that houses the remnants of what was once Yahoo, will pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $ 35 million to settle charges relating to its handling of a massive data breach dating back to 2014.

In a sense, what Silver is pointing out is similar to what we see in the rise of so - called «fake news» that circulates through Facebook and other social platforms — namely, a massive case of confirmation bias.

The company forms after Marathon buys Andeavor will have a diverse portfolio and massive geographic footprint in the U.S. that should let it operate more efficiently.

«It was like a massive black hole,» says a former employee.

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

According to a Kremlin translation (PDF) of Putin's remarks, he said the autonomous drone would quietly travel to «great depths,» move faster than a submarine or boat, «have hardly any vulnerabilities for the enemy to exploit,» and «carry massive nuclear ordnance.»

Despite the massive breach, «Game of Thrones» achieved its best - ever ratings last season, according to Variety.

It's always seemed like more socializing than business, but you can't deny that it's a massive community and a place to reach people.

The event, staged on a U.S. bomber under a massive banner that screamed «Mission Accomplished,» overshadowed the years of conflict and bloodshed that followed.