Sentences with phrase «of last number of months»

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Fox last month parted ways with its most popular anchor, Bill O'Reilly, amid a number of harassment claims that he has denied, and network chief Roger Ailes resigned last year after he was sued by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

And interest isn't just coming from wealthy energy entrepreneurs anymore; in the last two months, a «significant» number of Wall Street investors have begun inquiring about the boutique venture.

The latest release contains data for May 2015 and shows the number of beneficiaries has risen by 15,400 and the number of claimants has risen by 24,090 over the last 12 months.

Despite the sheer number and size of spending announcements in today's Ontario budget, a lack of detail and the fact that the bulk of the budget was leaked last month leaves few surprises.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

The number of Canadian homes sold in March plunged 23 per cent and the national average price was down 10 per cent from the same month last year amid double - digit plunges in most housing markets across the country, according to the latest monthly sales data released Friday.

Bailey told CNBC that increasing numbers of wealthy individuals — defined in Knight Frank's report as those with at least $ 30 million in investable assets — had shown interest in the space industry over the last 12 months.

Last month, a bill that would cap the number of for - hire vehicles given permits — including the cars of people who drive for Uber and Lyft — was defeated after vocal protests by Uber drivers and its supporters.

However, the data reveal that the number of foreign - born Mexican women giving birth in the last 12 months (presumably within the U.S.) is only 7 % of all foreign - born women Mexican immigrants.

The cleanup and rebuilding will create jobs beyond the 200 workers on staff before last month's fires forced most to flee the region, but the number of new hires isn't known yet.

The governor announced last week that 57.4 million visitors came to the state during the first six months of the year, the highest number ever, according to the report.

«The idea of taking the actual account number out of the flow... common sense says that's a good thing, especially in the light of the data compromises that we've seen,» said Visa CEO Charles Scharf at a payments conference last month.

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

«I do think more issuers will move to the tokenization concept,» said Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com «The incredible number of data breaches in the last 12 months has played a part in this.

If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

You might have heard last month about the Box CEO's plans to throw a fundraiser for Clinton, a candidate Reuters reported was courting a number of young Silicon Valley executives.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

The star broke his own record last month for the number of three - pointers made in one season; he's already netted 339 balls so far this season, well exceeding the 286 he made in the previous year.

SEC chairman Jay Clayton said in November that he had «yet to see an ICO that doesn't have a sufficient number of hallmarks of a security,» and testified in a Senate hearing last month that he believed ICOs were in violation of the law.

From mid-May through July, an as yet unidentified hacker group gained access to a large swathe of this data — including names, birthdates, street addresses, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers — the company disclosed last month.

And it's more effective: in the last six months of 1999, IMC made only seven police calls, fewer than half the number for the same period in 1998.

LATEST APPLE PAY DEVELOPMENTS: Last week, Apple announced a number of forthcoming changes to Apple Pay, including synchronization with rewards cards and its launch in the UK next month.

And in the last six months of 2009 we had a number of instances where really cool things were going on, but they weren't in budget.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

By choosing to include the number of donors and the amounts of some of its larger donations, including one of $ 10.1 million in the first year and another of $ 10.1 million in the last seven months of 2011, the group was somewhat more transparent than the IRS requires.

«While home sales were below what's typical for March, we are seeing more balance between the number of sales and listings on the market in the last two months, which is having a stabilizing impact on home prices,» said Sandra Wyant, president of the Vancouver board.

In the last two months, Fidelity, which has invested in a number of startups, marked down the value of its shares in big - name startups like Snapchat, Dropbox, Zenefits, Dataminr, and Blue Bottle.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

In the last few months, we have already helped our community double the number of connections between people and our representatives by making it easier to connect with all our representatives in one click.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

With a healthy bump in traffic from Playboy's popular Facebook page, the number of unique visitors per month has quadrupled since June, a Playboy representative notes, from a low of 4 million uniques to an estimated 14.5 million last month.

Offered on an annual basis (four rounds of positions lasting for three months), the number of unemployed youth in any given month would fall by 46,500 or by one in eight (12.2 %).

New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay said he had talked with a number of TPP - member ministers at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week and he expected they would meet over the coming months.

Revolut's CEO is a supporter of digital currencies and last month told CNBC they were «definitely not a fraud,» contrary to the views of a number of executives from big banks on the subject.

The payments firm had tested the feature with a number of Cash users last month, and said in a tweet Wednesday that it planned to expand the feature to «more of our most active customers.»

A report last month from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that between 2007 and 2011 the «number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent.»

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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.

The number of applicants underscores the interest in the contest, which Seattle - based Amazon announced last month.

When her father got seriously ill for two months before passing away last summer, she was able to cut back on the number of clients she was working with in order to spend more time with him.

Just imagine if you combined your Uber rating with the amount of likes you got on Facebook and the number of replies you received on Twitter in the last month.

So, based on a number of trends he has noticed in the last few months, Cramer compiled a list of six distinct reasons for the sell - off.

Economic conditions have made it more difficult to close deals; however, business brokers are reporting a record number of buyer inquiries as a result of the huge number of corporate layoffs over the last six to nine months.

Make certain the present number is in the ballpark of your current meter reading, and verify that the previous number matches the present reading on last month's bill.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

That may explain why Japan's Suntory jumped ahead of a number of European suitors, including France's Pernod Ricard, to bid for Beam last month — offering to pay Beam stockholders $ 83.50 per share, a 25 % premium over the stock's then - market price of around $ 67, in addition to assuming some $ 2.4 billion in company debt.

«I think we have all the pieces, and it's just about refining those pieces, putting them in place, and making sure they work across a huge number of environments — and then we're done,» Musk told Fortune last month.