Sentences with phrase «new public good»

All of that processing power and electricity is, essentially, being used to create a new public good — the blockchain.

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To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

His first presentation in the series was about New York's Central Park, which was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to show that America could create beautiful, natural public spaces that rivalled the best of Europe.

Thanks to some new data from Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West, we're starting to get a better idea of what the 2016 market for initial public offerings might look like.

«For setting up a new tone, it's a good start,» said Sun Zhe, the co-director of the China Initiative of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Bill English, New Zealand's deputy prime minister and finance minister, says the country is doing well because of tax and public sector reforms.

The state government has revealed four possible locations for a new public secondary school in Perth's western suburbs, but the opposition says the plans are well behind schedule.

The chart highlights positions such as logistics and public relations that both new hires and employers might not immediately consider, a valuable recruitment tool for employers to assess where talent can be best put to use.

«We're developing a new way of typing and notoriously the public doesn't really respond well to wanting to learn something new.»

MuleSoft had one of the best opening IPO days of 2017 when it went public a year ago on the New York Stock Exchange.

Catherine Allen, vice president at SHIFT Communication a public relations agency with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and New York, suggested offering guidelines or best practices.

But, imagine you could build a better public transit system inside New York that saves every metro passenger 10 minutes every trip.

That's not to say these aren't good companies, but they're not exactly the new blood the public markets need either.

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Public - sector unions have orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth away from the less well - off to their members, claims a new book.

They came with nothing but each other and a lot of gratitude... Well that young man, who is not so young anymore, was joined by his life partner three days ago as they stood on the perch of the New York Stock Exchange, rang the bell and took their company public.

New York City Parks Advocates had argued the event was taking away public space from, well, the public, by setting up on Damrosch Park, an area of greenery on the Lincoln Center compound.

So maybe he's the perfect new public face for Best Buy!

«New research on learning shows that the public is largely ignorant of, well, research on learning,» she writes before offering a quick quiz that can diagnose whether you've fallen for any of the seven most common and most destructive misapprehensions about learning and education.

Thanks to its philanthropic status, as well as New Orleans» «strong mayor» model of government, the agreement never passed through a public procurement process.

Instead, Singapore is focusing on public transit — S$ 20 billion ($ 14.7 billion) for new railway infrastructure and $ 2.9 billion on upgrading existing train lines, as well as another $ 2.9 billion on bus contract subsidies over the next five years, according to LTA.

Often these tokens are a sort of public IOU intended for redemption in a future new chain, or some other digital good.

Innovation is transforming how doctors do their jobs and giving the public new ways to look after their own well - being.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams, reported to be the top pick to replace the retiring head of the New York Fed, failed to stop widespread customer abuses at Wells Fargo, the public - interest group Better Markets alleges.

Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for the public interest on Wall Street, says a potential promotion by Williams to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would reward failure - because the San Francisco Fed failed to prevent widespread customer abuses at San Francisco - based banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), which it's supposed to supervise.

Aside from hiding from the public the fact that Cambridge Analytica took hold of a treasure trove of user data from Facebook accounts sans their permission, new scathing discoveries now show that the company was collecting other stuff as well.

New Carrollton, Greenbelt and College Park are also better connected to public transportation, with Metro stations close by, Irani said.

The company, whose low - cost smartphones have won a loyal following not just in China but in other emerging markets like India as well, said it would raise an unspecified amount from the public in order to fund the development of new smartphones and other devices like household gadgets.

Hugo's background in public relations, communications and politics, together with his graduation from the McGill - HEC Montréal EMBA Program in 2016, prepares him well for this new and important role.

Canada's cities will be the next frontier for risk - sharing public - private partnerships, bringing new players and new complications into the now well - tested infrastructure model.

«What we're building is unprecedented, and we're going to need new models to be able to get input and for the public to be able to trust that what we're doing is good,» he said.

After more growth and acquisitions, including Bank of Florida and a commercial finance group as well as GE Capital Real Estate, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.

The promise of a new and better decentralized internet, created by the public for the public, is perhaps the best hope for salvaging the original ideas embodied by the internet.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

Ensuring the economic well - being of Canada's growing population of seniors is an important and complex public policy challenge that the new federal government must grapple with.

There are several sites and programs that allow you to generate a new private and public address for your funds, as well as corresponding QR codes, which you can then print onto paper and store somewhere safe.

This shared public ledger enables people to make transactions with each other over the network, opening up new global marketplaces for small businesses as well as a number of transactions all together.

But the real attention came in October, when the new company got a cease - and - desist order from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, as well as the California Public Utilities Commission.

An ICO combines elements from traditional fundraising methods — public and private — as well as newer methods like crowdfunding.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Regulation A of the JOBS Act (also known as the Mini-IPO or Reg A +) allows a company to use online equity crowdfunding to raise up to $ 50,000,000 in new capital, online, from anyone in the general public, not just the rich and well - connected.

Similar to other agencies, Equifax also offers paid credit monitoring services for $ 5.99 per month, allowing you to track changes to all three scores as well as any new credit or public record activity.

Morgan Stanley Public Finance, the firm's municipal banking team, coordinated a comprehensive pre-pricing marketing effort that leveraged the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, Wealth Management Financial Advisors, as well as Institutional sales teams and syndicate desks in New York and London.

There's nothing better from a public relations standpoint than whipping the public into a frenzy over a new product or service.

Reuters News PE Hub — IPO (Canada) Ping An's Good Doctor online healthcare platform has raised US$ 1.12 billion in its initial public offering, pricing its shares at the top of its range in Hong Kong's largest new listing this -LSB-...]

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

Silicon Valley is preparing for a slew of new initial public offerings, as some of the well known and most highly - valued technology...