Sentences with phrase «number of companies report»

The reason could be that because of vacations an unusually high number of companies report their employment data too late to be included in the first release.

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This appears to be the «time out» feature that a number of users reported seeing recently after they posted certain tweets considered by the company to be in violation of its rules.

If for instance, you are a building company with a contract offer from a gym and the gym's credit report reveals a number of CCJs incurred for lack of payment, you may wish to reconsider accepting the contract.

According to a number of reports from within the company, Allbritton and VandeHei clashed numerous times over the latter's hands - on control of the newsroom, and the former's desire to assume some of that control.

Many of those companies have promised to do better, but change is slow, as shown in the diversity reports that a number of tech firms now regularly publish that detail the demographic makeup of their employees.

«I can't count the number of times I brought the CEO of a company along on [consumer] interviews and it changed their entire view of the company vs. what was in their reports.»

In so - called diversity reports detailing employee demographics, a number of major companies have confirmed that men vastly outnumber women at all levels.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan on a report by Birinyi Associates that a record number of companies have announced buybacks.

But the company's latest diversity report showed stagnation in its advancement of diversity numbers.

The research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible idea from a business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing finding.

That's more than double the number of companies that went public in the first quarter of 2013, and the highest number since the same period in 2000, Renaissance reports.

The company's AI product, Quill, can essentially turn numbers into stories: The box score from a baseball game becomes a written report of that game, for example, detailing player performance as if you were reading a sportswriter's coverage in the newspaper.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

Kathleen Edmond, the company's chief ethics officer, maintains a blog that educates employees on handling ethical quandaries, and the company provides a number of channels for reporting problems that are more welcoming to its young workforce.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

The burger chain is cutting eight items from the menu in addition to reducing the number of Extra Value Meals from 16 to 11, the company said on Wednesday, as reported by Reuters.

The latest hackings, which included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, and certain passwords and security questions, comes amid a company culture that The New York Times reported was «slower to invest in the kinds of defenses necessary to thwart sophisticated hackers.»

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, some details of those arrangements finally came to light, when Reuters reported that the company has committed to buy or license both short - form and longer - form video programming from a number of players — including BuzzFeed, Vox Media, ATTN, and Group Nine Media, a New York - based outfit that owns short - form video producer NowThis.

(The company, which reports its financial results in euros, says currency fluctuations make its recent sales and profit numbers look worse than they are; it says its 2014 net sales of 14.8 billion euros were actually up 2 % from 2013.)

And despite the increasing number of companies choosing to reveal their diversity numbers via annual reports, there hasn't been much — if any — improvement in recent years.

As the number of reported data breaches continues to blitz U.S. companies — over 6 million records exposed already this year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center — IT budgets are ballooning to combat what corporations see as their greatest threat: faceless, sophisticated hackers from an outside entity.

A recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined a number of problems it found with the big three consumer reporting companies along with suggested reforms that could help consumers improve the accuracy of their own credit reports as well as those all - important three - digit scores.

The government also laid out a number of ways to improve the accuracy and operation of the credit scoring companies to prevent or fix the errors in the reports that lenders use to assess borrowers» creditworthiness and set rates.

For the first half of 2014, the number of technology companies that received first - time financing in excess of $ 1 billion more than doubled to 14, according the report.

There have been a number of recent surveys and reports showing the value top talent puts on the opportunity for career advancement in their organizations — and how a perceived inability to do so drives them to leave their companies.

The company said in November when it reported its third - quarter earnings that it was facing a slowdown in the number of people visiting its brick - and - mortar stores, although a stronger housing market seems to have helped lift its sales over the holiday season.

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

That's the conclusion of a report released Monday from IT security company Sophos, which found that the number of firms suffering attacks through social media jumped 70 percent between 2008 and 2009.

The report points to a number of factors driving big pharma companies» struggles with netting strong returns, including a dearth of late - stage pipeline candidates and diversified product portfolios that aren't necessarily spreading risk.

But it has also published a number of inaccurate reports about Apple, a notoriously secretive company.

According to a former Credibility employee, the company's salespeople misled entrepreneurs about the state of their credit report and the number of inquiries it had received from other companies.

A recent Reuters report described how a number of Valeant employees helped to start Philidor, and were active in the day to day operations of the company.

You can tell that this kind of concern is weighing on the minds of Disney (DIS) investors, because the stock dropped by close to 10 % following the release of the company's quarterly financial report, despite the fact that the overall numbers for the entertainment conglomerate were pretty good.

And now, according to a number of reports, either the company or Ma are in talks to acquire the South China Morning Post.

Netflix reported strong numbers for its first quarter, but a couple of Wall Street analysts see risks for the company moving forward.

Still, the increased number of women among the pool of nominees seems to indicate a commitment to improving gender diversity at the top of large U.S. companies, according to the report's author, Edward Kamonjoh.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

Over the past few days, a number of Twitter users have reported getting warning messages from the company saying: «We've temporarily limited some of your account features.»

And yet the bots march on, aided by a double whammy: murky laws governing their creation and sale, and social media companies that have too often turned a blind eye to the veracity of their reported user numbers.

The company listed a number of diversity - related initiatives it intends to put in place in its report.

The vast majority of companies on the list that report their full diversity numbers are in the tech sector.

«As the baby - boom generation approaches retirement age, the number of cases of impotence will [likely] increase,» noted the company's annual report in 1996.

On Monday, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced an 18 - month pilot program where shuttle companies will be charged based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

B.C.'s Liberal Party, like its opponents, received a number of corporate donations during the 2013 provincial election, but the companies making them often did not report those donations to shareholders.

While some estimates peg the number of total accounts at somewhere around a billion, the company reported in its filings last week that only 218 million were active in a given month.

Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple have released reports on the demographics of their workforce in recent years, so it may be unsurprising that 75 % of Fortune 500 firms publishing their numbers are in the tech space.

The company has been hit by negative headlines since a number of media publications reported that the data of millions of users were improperly harvested by controversial political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

A number of retail companies report their financial results this week as the latest earnings season winds down.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.