Sentences with phrase «more dollars by»

Another thing Amazon can and will likely do is pad up the vendor concession cooperative promotion money, extracting more dollars by promising to promote across more platforms.
Although Arizona ranks near the bottom in student funding, we are encouraged by the Governor's discussion of adding more dollars by a land trust ballot initiative and a council to reform school finance.»
His department's budget would borrow half a billion dollars over the next two years and save nearly half a billion more dollars by delaying work on major projects.

Not exact matches

For instance, more than 50 people employed by a medical assistance agency in Anchorage, Alaska, took part in a conspiracy to bilk Medicaid out of millions of dollars by filing bogus time sheets for services not provided to elderly Medicaid beneficiaries.
As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.
More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.
Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.
While Bay's films are hits with audiences grossing more than $ 4.6 billion dollars worldwide, they're not always loved by critics.
«By the time you reach retirement or you reach an older age where perhaps you'll be consuming more healthcare, you've got dollars specifically allocated for that purpose,» Snider said.
Also known as ultra-high definition, or UHD, sets, the devices should bring in more retail sales dollars than any other «emerging technology» gadget this year, as we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on a forecast by the Consumer Technology Association.
Look for more money to be given to the Canada Revenue Agency to fight offshore tax evasion, an investment that has so far helped the CRA reap millions in extra tax dollars while at the same time achieving the aim of discouraging tax evasion by Canadians.
Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.
There are more than 80 immune - related cancer therapies currently in clinical trials, fueled by many billions of dollars in pharmaceutical investment from the likes of Bristol - Myers Squibb bmy, Merck mrk, Pfizer pfe, and dozens of biotechs.
The Canadian dollar quickly dropped by more than a cent against the U.S. dollar, a 1.5 % decline.
Consider our A / C example again: «The energy savings you get by cooling your home with a CryoQuad Quiet - Cool can pay back the cost of the unit by the end of the summer if you get it now... and save you hundreds of dollars more in energy costs over the lifetime of the unit.»
Returning to the projection that there will be 18 million people with a million dollars or more by 2021, we can also project that there will be a slew of new, non-bank financial services that step up to fill the gap.
But by all indications there are thousands of customers affected, thousands or more likely tens of thousands of dollars of overcharges.»
But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.
Her advice: Buffer should convert more nonpaying users to paid plans, and increase the costs of those plans by a few dollars per month.
The yen dove by more than 15 % against the U.S. dollar in three months.
In the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchat.
Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.
To start with, the peso tumbled this year by more than 20 % against the U.S. dollar, curbing the advantage of a depressed loonie for Canadian manufacturers.
The better - educated cohort also sold 53 % more (by dollar value) last year and created 6 % more full - time jobs.
Because it's backed by and tied to the Canadian dollar, Mint Chip has none of the «going rogue» excitement of Bitcoin, which functions more like a commodity and whose value is determined by what people are willing to pay for it.
It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.
By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE), which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.
The pound fell by over 1 % against the dollar and even more sharply against the euro during Carney's press conference.
«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.
Below are some of the more interesting details about the young man who just turned down billions of dollars for his startup (which, by the way, isn't generating any revenue but has raised $ 73 million from investors):
By contrast, college graduates with four - year degrees have average lifetime earnings of $ 2,268,000 — nearly a million dollars more.
In fact, tens of millions of dollars have just been allocated to more than 15 algorithms created by members of Quantopian, a «crowd - sourced» hedge fund.
That effort, which put supply and demand in more of an equilibrium, raised prices by a few dollars (interestingly, before actual implementation).
Increase your income by a factor of ten is, of course, awesome for you, but its not bad for the client either — they may be paying more but they're much more likely to get greater value for their dollars.
Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.
Hard disks, by contrast, are more like 50 cents to a dollar per gigabyte, he said — considerably cheaper, but also significantly slower.
By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.
More than that, you could experience one major medical event, such as a burst appendix, which if uncovered by insurance, could set you back thousands of dollars.
Now Uber is worth more than GM and Ford by tens of billions of dollars, despite generating approximately $ 145 billion less in revenue.
Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.
Yesterday, foreign exchange reserves data from the People's Bank of China showed holdings fell by more than $ 512 billion in 2015 to stand at $ 3.33 trillion dollars at year - end, the lowest level in more than three years.
Think of the multibillion - dollar commitments made by Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and, more recently, Alphabet's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the military by cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.
«Deduct a few dollars - but don't gouge someone by taking out $ 10 or more,» Holden says.
Unlike US dollars, whose buying power the Fed can dilute by printing more greenbacks, there simply won't be more bitcoin available in the future.
The US dollar index has fallen by more than 7 % year - to - date.
The euro fell to its lowest level against the dollar in nine years Monday, driven by fears of political turmoil in Greece and hopes for more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank.
Of course, rock - bottom rates and a strong Canadian dollar, he added, are the opposite of what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investment.
Even factoring in men's tendency to log more hours than women — a reality caused largely by the disproportionate share of home and family responsibilities women bear — women still earn only 87.9 cents for every dollar earned by men.
«Usually when you get a bad year in the dollar, it's followed by one or two more bad years,» Gundlach said.
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