Sentences with phrase «of billions of years old»

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Cruz, along with Texas Representative Jeb Hensarling, was part a congressional push to end the 81 - year - old Export - Import Bank, which supports thousands of businesses in their exporting endeavors, and which has returned an estimated $ 7 billion to Treasury in recent years.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

The 20 - year - old social media maven and entrepreneur tweeted on Wednesday that she doesn't use Snapchat anymore and the next day, shares of Snap dropped 6.1 percent, wiping $ 1.3 billion of the company's market value.

Those competitors include BuzzFeed and Vice, both of which now have private - market valuations that are greater than that of the 93 - year - old publisher, whose market value stands at $ 1.7 billion.

At the 40th celebration of Virgin Records, the 63 - year - old who has helped shape the music, space and airline industries, recalled crying when he sold the record label more than 20 years ago for $ 1 billion.

This 5 - year - old maker of enterprise data - storage equipment is taking on the industry's market - share leader — EMC — in the $ 24 billion corporate data - storage industry.

«All of the information of how a planet formed is still there, whereas with much older planets it could be harder to [work out] how it formed, or how it got there because it could have changed over billions of years.»

The internet has been a-buzz since news broke yesterday that 23 - year - old Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and chief executive of messaging service Snapchat, turned down a $ 3 billion offer to be acquired by Facebook.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to abandon the 23 - year - old pact unless it can be rewritten to reduce U.S. goods trade deficits of about $ 64 billion with Mexico and $ 11 billion with Canada.

The division is one of the industrial conglomerate's oldest and reported $ 4.7 billion in revenue last year.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

A 35 - year - old company with 31,000 employees in 15 countries, CGI generated revenue in 2011 of $ 4.32 billion and now ranks among the world's leading providers of IT and business processes.

Just three years old as a separate entity, it's growing at a 16 % clip, with projected 2013 revenues of nearly $ 1 billion, according to Doctoroff.

Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (the universe itself is 14.8 billion years old), that clump together due to gravity, and are found circling cores of galaxies.

That's a lot of money, but the real reason for the Facebook brouhaha is the valuation: $ 15 billion dollars for a company that has revenues estimated at $ 150 million, profits of approximately $ 30 million, a flip - flop wearing 23 year old of a CEO.

The 200 - year - old business went into compulsory liquidation at 0600 GMT after costly contract delays and a slump in new business left it swamped by debt and pensions liabilities of at least 2.2 billion pounds ($ 3 billion).

The founder and CEO of Facebook has often been characterized as a wunderkind, earning his first billion at just 23 years old, and his college - sweetheart wife, Priscilla Chan, has been by his side since the start.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

For Larian, that fight has largely centred on a crowdfunding campaign he launched on Mar. 21 in hopes of raising $ 1 billion to salvage the business» 70 - year - old U.S. operations.

«It was my first big promotion,» says Bernard J. Tyson, the 57 - year - old CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a health care company with nearly $ 60 billion in annual revenue.

In the early hours of Monday morning, French drug giant Sanofi said it would buy hemophilia drugmaker Bioverativ, a Biogen spinout that is less than a year old, for $ 11.6 billion.

Like Sutphen, Charles Phillips, the 56 - year - old CEO of Infor, a $ 2.8 billion enterprise software firm, has an informal network of his own — a supper club of two dozen business leaders and professionals, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous, who have raised millions of dollars for causes they care about.

Case Farms, which produces nearly a billion annual pounds of chicken for both mega-chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and for federal lunch programs, hired Guatemalan asylum - seeker Osiel López Pérez when he was just 17 years old.

But that victory hardly signals an end to the litigation surrounding the declining 92 - year - old billionaire, whose holding company controls 80 % of a $ 40 billion empire consisting of CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIAB).

What's more, the maps hint that shallow pools existed between about 3.5 billion and 3 billion years ago; in an older yet similar blink of a geologic eye, life on Earth may have appeared.

More from @Work: AT&T's $ 1 billion gambit: Retraining nearly half its workforce for jobs of the future Get ready, this year your next job interview may be with an A.I. robot «Autonomous weapons are among the world's dumbest ideas»: A.I. CEO At FCCI, a Sarasota, Florida - based company that provides commercial property and casualty insurance through independent agents, 34 percent of the workforce is age 50 and older.

Former Canadian Tire CEO Michael Medline has been handed the duty of steering Sobeys onto stronger footing as the grocer struggles to digest its three - year - old $ 5.8 - billion takeover of Canada Safeway.

The firm, a so - called quantitative hedge fund that uses computer models to drive trading, is shuttering the eight - year old, $ 1 billion portfolio at the end of the month, according to a letter sent to investors on Tuesday and read to Reuters.

The 49 - year - old has a net worth of $ 1.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The NASDAQ - 100 is also the underlying for one of the oldest and most popular ETFs; PowerShares «QQQ ETF (QQQ, B +) will enter its teenage years in March of 2013, and has more than $ 33 billion in assets.

Grail, a year - old, Menlo Park, Ca. - based early cancer screening startup that spun out of the DNA - sequencing giant Illumina is reportedly looking to raise up to $ 1.7 billion in fresh funding to launch a large - scale clinical trial.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

Just today, five - year - old VIPKid — which reportedly raised $ 200 million in fresh funding last summer at a $ 1.5 billion valuation — listed openings for thousands of U.S. teachers, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Carmel, Indiana.

Among the invitees: Palmer Luckey, the 22 - year - old co-founder of Oculus Rift, a virtual - reality company bought last year by Facebook for $ 2 billion, according to someone involved in the event.

The five - year - old company which lets people summon rides at the touch of a smartphone button is valued by investors at nearly $ 51 billion, making it the world's most richly valued private company.

Its model seems to be working: The four - year - old startup already has a market cap of around $ 1 billion.

But Elliot Weissbluth, CEO of HighTower Advisors — a nine - year - old national financial services company with more than $ 30 billion in assets under management that has long adhered to the fiduciary standard — says it's like the difference between getting dietary advice from a butcher or from a registered dietician.

Less than 0.1 % of the 6 billion people on earth live past 110 years old.

When it inked a $ 4 - billion leveraged buyout deal back in 2010, it became the latest in a long line of suitors that had promised to «fix» the 60 - year old chain, which was flagging in the face of stiff competition from a reinvigorated McDonald's and a new crop of rivals like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

With a market cap of $ 17 billion, the 20 - year - old company is no longer an underdog.

Even though the industry is only four years old, the top 10 bitcoin casinos have processed a combined 27 billion bets (most of these are very small bets; average size is about 5 cents).

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

The Gateway Project would add an $ 11 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River to complement deteriorating, century - old tunnels that are at risk of closing in a few years.

The 87 - year - old Buffett has previously lamented missing out on investments in Google (GOOGL) and Amazon, but now owns about $ 28 billion worth of Apple (AAPL) stock.

Tudor Investment Corp., founded by Paul Tudor Jones and one of the oldest hedge funds, dismissed about 15 percent of the workforce after more than $ 2 billion in investor withdrawals this year, Bloomberg reported recently.

For the second quarter of this year, the 114 - year - old retailer reported a same - store sales drop of 1.1 % and revenue of $ 16.17 billion, down 7 % from the year - earlier period.

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Mr. Zuckerberg, a 33 - year - old Harvard dropout, has encountered doubters every step of the way since starting Facebook in his dorm room and building it into a juggernaut valued at more than $ 500 billion.

NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Twitter Inc shares jumped 73 percent in a frenzied trading debut that drove the seven - year - old company's market value to around $ 25 billion and evoked the heady days of the dot - com bubble.