Sentences with phrase «move surprising move»

In a move surprising move that is massive for PS Vita owners, Sony has announced and immediately implemented that almost every single PlayStation Classic game on PSN and (possibly) almost every single PSP game released, along with PSP demos is now available for download and for cheap available to be played on the PlayStation Vita.

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Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

I was stunned by the surprise move, as was the entire organization.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue...

In a surprise move in October, Airbus swooped in and said it would take a majority stake in Bombardier's C Series program.

Should the House succeed in creating pressure on the Senate to act on a version of the FORM Act, it would not be surprising to see the discussion move away from the Taylor rule to NGDP targeting - with advocates selling its broad appeal as its leading virtue.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue M&A opportunities along the energy value chain and acquire marginal oilfields to boost its upstream business.

The government said the surprise move is to help protect future generations from climate change.

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

The move was made that much more surprising by the fact that Netflix had not previously confirmed its acquisition of The Cloverfield Paradox from Viacom's Paramount Pictures, which produced the movie.

Jack Dorsey took to Twitter on Thursday to acknowledge his company's failures and, in a surprising move, invited users and experts to help improve the social media platform.

One sign of the studio's surprise at the overwhelmingly positive reaction to «Wonder Woman» was its decision to move up the review embargo.

So it's not surprising to see retirees move, at least part time, to a dream locale.

«About 80 percent of people sitting on the aisle moved at least once during their flights, compared with 62 percent in middle seats and 43 percent in window seats,» writes the New York Times, reporting the findings (and surprising no one who's been on a plane).

The move isn't terribly surprising, especially given that Fossil has been ramping up its smartwatch ambitions lately with several product announcements, not to mention that Misfit has seen limited success compared with competitors like Fitbit and Jawbone.

The investment bank is as Wall Street as you can get, but the rationale behind its move to lend to Main Street isn't surprising.

Google kicked this week off with a bang with a surprise announcement that it was acquiring cellphone maker Motorola for $ 12.5 billion, a huge move that will boost the search engine company's employee headcount by 60 %.

The move itself didn't surprise Cramer.

But he said that Sedol played a «brilliant move» on turn 78 that took AlphaGo by surprise.

While moving just over a month ago, I was surprised by some of the old junk I found in my closet.

With Snapchat recently amping up its streaming music and entertainment content, Spiegel's rumored eyes for his ex's record label comes as no surprise and could prove to be a smart move.

We are in uncharted waters because the Dow 25K move has come so fast — the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise.

There will be occupations in 2012, but I think the focus of the movement will move into surprise occupations of banks and corporate headquarters and economics departments of universities.

If the surprise switch goes ahead, it would see 5 - Star enter mainstream European politics and move away from the anti-system fringes, a shift that might reassure other EU capitals that have grown uneasy about its rising popularity.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the recent return to stability has brought with it a wave of job - hopping: everywhere from North America to Asia to eastern Europe, there have been reports of an uptick in the number of workers that are either considering or making external moves.

Near 7:50 p.m. ET, S&P 500 futures were down as much as 9 points to below 2,100 on Thursday evening after having moved higher earlier tonight following surprising results from Newcastle and Sunderland.

The surprise move led to chaos at a checkpoint in Paju, named «the city of Korean Unification» in the sign in this photo.

This sudden move was somewhat surprising.

In a move that comes as a great surprise to just about everyone, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has announced he will be stepping down to take the same position at the Bank of England in 2013.

That's not entirely surprising, given the simple number of refugees moving through and to the regions highlighted.

The Chinese central bank cut interest rates again in a surprise move as the nation pursues ever more aggressive measures to rev up economic activity.

The Internet video service debuted in 130 countries Wednesday in a surprise move likely to reel in millions of new subscribers.

«I've given up anticipating what their next move is going to be,» she says, nodding to surprise steps from the Trump administration such as the implementation of a sweeping travel ban in January of 2017.

The surprise move silenced critics of the program (at least temporarily), incensed the legions of businesses who'd come to rely on it and, perhaps most importantly, told the world that Kenney — who's only been helming the prestigious jobs portfolio since July 2013 — is a man capable of enacting changes that have a massive effect on the 1.1 million employers under his jurisdiction.

* S&P cuts Turkey rating deeper into junk in surprise move.

TORONTO — In a surprise move, the head of one of Canada's biggest retailers, Canadian Tire, is leaving the top job after less than two years.

BEIRUT (AP)-- Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri has announced he is resigning in a surprise move following a trip to Saudi Arabia.

In a surprising move, Chris opened C. Wonder — a preppy clothing retail chain.

NEW YORK, March 6 - Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, has cut staff by more than 30 percent in one of its stock - picking units in what several people with direct knowledge of the layoffs described as a surprise move.

After Switzerland's surprise move to unpeg its franc, speculators are eyeing Denmark's currency peg, but the Danes likely won't follow suit, analysts say.

In fact, the most surprising aspect about the Morgan Creek sale is that it isn't a move of desperation, it's actually a shrewd business play.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast has offered to buy Sky for $ 31 billion in a surprise move, posing another hurdle to tycoon Rupert Murdoch's attempts to buy the broadcaster.

The move is hardly a surprise given the recent mania that has seen companies use ICOs (also known as token sales) raise tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars even though, in many cases, their business consists of little more than grand ambitions and a white paper.

The move is surprising for 73 - year - old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

In a larger sense, Snap's move into video is not surprising.

Begun back in 2011, the quarterly parleys with reporters rarely provide any market - moving news, instead serving as an opportunity for central bank chiefs to carefully convey monetary policy direction without dropping any surprises that could jolt investors.

In a surprise move last summer, president and CEO Eric Kuhn announced to a gathering of 250 lead campus reps that they would also receive company stock options.

So it comes as no surprise that Bettman moved player salaries to the forefront of yesterday's talks.

The surprise move comes one day before shareholders at consumer products company Procter & Gamble Co will decide whether to elect Trian Chief Executive Nelson Peltz to its board.

«Waiting too long to begin moving toward the neutral rate could risk a nasty surprise down the road — either too much inflation, financial instability, or both,» Yellen told the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.