Sentences with phrase «of early number»

Just talking to children about numbers is «a strong predictor of early number knowledge,» Gunderson added.

Slack stands poised to grow and become a real player in the enterprise group collaboration and chat market in 2018, so I wanted to take a quick look at some of their early numbers.

BetOnline has had their win totals up for a couple of months now and we watched as some of their early numbers were initially hammered.

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To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

The shift is reflected in Canada, where the total number of employees in the industry in 2012 rose 5 % to 16,500 over a year earlier, according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

So Benchmark is setting things up where growing numbers of well - intentioned third parties, including early investor Shervin Pishevar, are demanding that it sell its Uber position, (lately worth about $ 8.4 billion), and get off the board.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

Tasmanian company Gunns is moving towards gaining control over several of Great Southern's early timber schemes, according to proxy numbers, although later schemes are still under a question mark.

The LME is itself planning to launch an alumina contract either late this year or early next year, in theory doubling the number of hedging venues.

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.

Advertisers pay based on the number of viewers or listeners for a show, and Stern learned early on that the people who hated him actually listened to his show more than his fans.

WHILE it's too early to gauge the long - term prospects of subscriber - based online DVD rental companies, the increasing number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.

And, despite Meyers» insistence that Trump would not have appeared on his show anyway, the GOP candidate is a frequent media presence who made a number of late - night TV visits in the early months of his campaign, including with Meyers» NBC colleagues like Jimmy Fallon, on The Tonight Show, as well as a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.

Even if it's just a chance to win something small like a gift card or early access to the new feature, it will make a huge difference in the number of people who actually participate.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

This number is phenomenal in itself but more so for the fact that the medium of social networking was largely unheard of until the early 2000s.

Runway operations at Dublin airport were suspended early on Wednesday with a number of flights cancelled and others diverted before the snow was cleared shortly after 0730 GMT to allow services to resume.

Insurance Bureau of Canada spokesperson Steve Kee says that, while the market has already begun to consider the potential high levels of claims, it's still too early to be able to accurately predict what the numbers will look like.

I think five years from now there will be a number of S&P 500 CEOs that will wish they'd started thinking earlier about their AI strategy.»

The automated customer - service robots that help navigate you through those seemingly endless phone trees when you call an 800 number were an early form of chatbots.

The trouble with inflation numbers up now and further Fed hiking is that it just means a sugar rush before the end of the cycle and an earlier recession,» he said.

Licensing a technology to establish early market share in an emerging product market is a time - honored strategy that's been executed by a number of well - known companies:

That was down from $ 123.3 million or 50 cents per share a year earlier when the Montreal - based company recorded a number of favourable non-operating items.

While roommates are often thought of as a reality that recent college graduates and early 20 - somethings have to endure, there is an increasing number of New Yorkers sharing apartments with friends, lovers and sometimes strangers, deep into their adult lives.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

An earlier Gallup poll found that the number of Americans who want inequality to be «fixed» has declined since 1998.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

In order to accomplish that growth, Sutterfield made a number of key hires early in his tenure, including operations and human resources managers.

She was able to experiment in online marketing early on at startups in Toronto and San Francisco, when numbers of followers and likes weren't crucial to anyone's bottom line.

«In the early stages of building out a network, you need a diversity of cuisines, you need the very best across cuisines, and you need a certain number of restaurants to deliver to a certain address.»

Startups, which generally tend to have lean teams, can sometimes face the brunt of employees quitting their jobs very early due to number reasons.

Friday's report will follow the disappointing numbers released earlier this month, when the Labor Department estimated that the U.S. economy added just 142,000 new jobs, below expectations of at least 200,000.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

Angkor Wat hit the tourist map in the early 1990s, when it became a World Heritage Site — but it is already the world's top - rated tourism destination, based on a combination of the number of reviews and what they say, according to TripAdvisor.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the number of black and female partners currently working at Lazard.

Pre-money valuation is the «magic» number that everyone hypes because we're led to believe that it validates the existence of early stage ventures.

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

Mitchell was one of a number of pollsters who had already reckoned with a surprise in the Wolverine State earlier in the cycle.

However, the number of moviegoers during that period dropped to 17.8 million, down nine per cent from the 19.6 million who headed to theatres in the year - earlier period.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

Seeking to provide classes for kids eighteen months and up, she founded Little Kickers, a program that promotes a curriculum of early learning skills (colours, numbers, etc.) alongside a love of sport.

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.

There's a blog for a product that doesn't really exist yet, a growing number of early adopters who are waiting, like you, for the app to come out; you're commissioning great content and paying out of pocket for it, and shopping around for an office space because your data is telling you that as soon as you get the product out, people will be positively chomping at the bit to get to it.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services has won a number of new contracts and renewals with Newmont Mining, with 15 rigs expected to be in operation by early next year.

But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the small number of consoles available.

Coke said impact from the new U.K. sugar tax is still too early to tell, but it has reformulated a number of its brands to reduce sugar level.

That's when Doron Petersan, the tattooed, raven - haired owner of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, where I had had the cookies - and - cake number earlier, leaps onto the top of the bar and shouts for attention.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

(Neither league has confirmed those numbers; Bettman said at the news conference that early reports «on the economics of this deal» were wrong.)