Sentences with phrase «of his biggest deals from»

He actually made one of his biggest deals from the study room in his dorm complex.

Miller said one of the biggest deals from the last quarter was acting for the management team in its # 255m buy - out of Ainscough Crane Hire, the largest crane hire service in the UK.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

One of the first big deals I did was buying a secondhand 747 from Boeing.

And while they highlight celebrity endorsements for big companies (with the exception of Rebecca Minkoff, who was making clothes out of her studio apartment at the time), the good business lessons learned from setting up and cashing in on such high - vis endorsement deals can easily be applied to small companies.

But the Accenture report suggests — and, I think smartly — that the biggest returns on investment for healthcare AI are likely to come from areas where the density (and dollar value) of deals isn't that substantial right now.

There were 20 deals worth nearly $ 1 billion in the space industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites.

Part of why craft is struggling is because buyouts of bigger craft players — like Constellation's own $ 1 billion deal for Ballast Point — have hurt the industry's trajectory because sales from Ballast and others that have been acquired are no longer deemed «craft.»

The deal means Nike (NKE) has stolen the contract from one of its biggest rivals, German company Adidas, which signed an 11 - year contact with the league in 2006.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

The deal is among the biggest health - care mergers of the past decade and would create a behemoth that will try to shift some of Aetna customers» care away from doctors and hospitals and into thousands of CVS stores.

Now, Munoz finds himself in the midst of one of the company's biggest challenges: dealing with the fallout after a cell phone video showing a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from a plane went viral.

Generally speaking 2014 was a big year from a deal point of view.

And on Tuesday, BAM announced its biggest deal yet: It will power all of the National Hockey League's digital properties, from its web sites to its mobile apps to its video.

Forget worrying about the best deal on converting your pounds to dollars, some of our biggest mistakes are painfully simple to make but can physically stop you from getting by, if you're not careful.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

Amazon is already offering a variety of deals as part of its celebration ahead of Black Friday, but that's not stopping the company from offering specials on the big shopping day.

In June, Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest gaming group, agreed to buy a majority stake in Clash of Clans mobile game maker Supercell from SoftBank Group Corp in an $ 8.6 billion deal.

While most of our conversation revolved around start - ups, seeing as Monday's deal was Google's biggest acquisition ever, I thought I'd post a quick excerpt from our chat:

On June 10 SoftBank increased its bid to $ 21.6 billion from $ 20.1 billion and raised the cash component of the deal for shareholders by $ 4.5 billion, trumping Dish's bid and gaining support from Sprint's second biggest shareholder Paulson & Co. which had previously said it preferred Dish's bid.

Make Mobile Security a Big Deal The app rush is far from over, and the growth of both smartphone and tablet PC platforms is about to create a bonanza for malware creators looking to cash in via the back door.

All the talk of takeover deals shouldn't detract from the biggest earnings week of the year, Jim Cramer of «Mad Money» said.

From enterprise software synergies to semiconductor consolidation, these are the seven biggest deals in tech M&A of the quarter.

Hart said that the problem of insider threats is as «old as the hills» and that every organization, from big businesses to the National Security Agency, has to deal with the possibility.

As part of that bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rates.

BIG AI DEAL: Element AI, a Montreal - based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $ 102 million ($ 137.5 M Canadian) in Series A funding led by DCVC with participation from BDC, Fidelity Investments, Hanwha, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Nvidia, Real Ventures, Tencent, and multiple sovereign wealth funds.

As for Fred's, the deal would turn it from a small regional player into one of the biggest national players.

The deal is the biggest to date under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, and the logic, according to some reports, is that Microsoft (MSFT) would be able to swell the already formidable ranks of Minecraft players by its position in computer and console market, and increase revenue from licensing for merchandise and other spin - offs.

In his feature published today on the Canadian - made sports drink Biosteel, John Lorinc recounts how Biosteel — unable to secure endorsements from big - name NHL players because of pre-existing sponsorship deals with giant competitor Gatorade — is making inroads with promising up - and - comers instead:

Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.

According to Forbes» list of the world's highest - paid TV actresses in 2017, Vergara's big financial gain this year comes not only from her role on the hit series «Modern Family,» but from two licensing deals, and her uber - popular line of perfumes.

It's also a break from the food business, where Berkshire (BRKA) has done a string of big deals recently, including Heinz and Kraft, as well as providing financing for Burger King's acquisition of Canadian doughnut chain Tim Horton's.

This might not seem like a big deal, but it played a big part of lifting computer science enrollment to 40 percent women from just 10 percent.

To win any new deal, Greece will have to overcome deep distrust among partners, above all Germany, Greece's biggest creditor and the EU's biggest economy, where public opinion has hardened in favour of cutting Greece loose from the euro.

In a show of good faith, Musk, who is the chairman and biggest investor in both companies, recused himself from voting on the deal at the Tesla board meeting.

It is the development of community - based clinics — capable of delivering care with the technology and health information available from both parties — that could prove to be the biggest change brought about the deal.

Under the terms of the deal Seven gain rights to all home Test matches and 43 matches from the Twenty20 Big Bash League, while Foxtel would have rights to broadcast every ball bowled, simulcasting what is on free - to - air, and taking 50 over one day and Twenty20 international matches exclusively.

He brought in about $ 100 million in 2015 which is one of the biggest pay deals in U.K. corporate history, which drew some backlash from shareholders.

-- The war on organized labor to reverse new deal protections continues to benefit from the 1947 Taft - Hartley act which can stymie efforts to effectively combat the power of big business.

Car tariffs would be a bigger deal than steel tariffs, and would naturally prompt a new round of retaliation from Europe.

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A deal of, say, $ 1.5 billion would rank as the seventh - biggest U.S. - listed IPO of 2014, and that's not even counting the $ 1.2 billion or more from Uber's June fundraising round.

The biggest value of this private members community comes from the networking, deal - making, support and insights that come from the engagement among other sports executives.

Old news, you might say, and no big deal, but remember that these kinds of problems when they arise tend immediately to be suppressed, and only become public when there is no way to prevent information from leaking out.

The most salient lesson learned from the show is that the biggest influencer of the overall deal price is the initial anchor price set by the entrepreneur.

Major benchmarks have had to deal with big whipsaws in light of ongoing earnings releases from some of the nation's largest companies,...

The deal, which is likely to face close scrutiny from competition authorities, would create a grocery giant overtaking Tesco as the biggest in the market with combined revenues of # 51 billion.

... Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world's largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo's real estate lending arm... An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $ 325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

A more pessimistic take, from someone who would like the deal to go through: A threat of a lawsuit is a very big deal, because if the DOJ carries through, it can tie up the deal for years.