Sentences with phrase «of millions of that money»

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Those hundreds of millions of dollars looked good on paper, but all that money has had a limited effect on gross domestic product so far.

If I spend a million dollars explaining that to the public, I've just wasted a million dollars of my shareholders» money.

A defined benefit exchange backed by $ 35 million in venture funding, Liazon offers products that cater to small employers who give workers a fixed amount of money each year toward health coverage.

That money is in addition to $ 7 million that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing to finance improvements.

J.P. Morgan (jpm) and many of its competitors have invested millions of dollars in the technology in hopes that it can be adapted to simplify and lower the costs of processes such as securities settlement, loan trading and international money transfers.

Forty million dollars is a lot of money to invest in anybody, especially three dudes in Williamsburg who are better known for their misbehavior than their business acumen.

In the former year, it agreed to «forgive» a $ 3 million loan to Trump — for money he'd spent developing the riverboat casino — if sometime over the next two years, the stock price exceeded $ 25 for ten of 15 trading days.

Former agribusiness heavyweight Great Southern was losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the months leading up to its collapse as it continued to raise money from investors.

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

The Justice Department's civil case filings say more than $ 700 million was transferred from bank accounts used in the money laundering to the bank account of «Malaysian Official 1.»

But a new study from consumer lender Earnest shows that the vast majority of those 4 million people aren't making very much money by working on any of the major gig economy platforms.

Look for more money to be given to the Canada Revenue Agency to fight offshore tax evasion, an investment that has so far helped the CRA reap millions in extra tax dollars while at the same time achieving the aim of discouraging tax evasion by Canadians.

Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly has raised $ 2.5 million in venture capital money and just recently blown its second Kickstarter campaign out of the water.

In September, Gilbert agreed to pay $ 1.25 million of his own money for a road project to widen downtown Detroit's Interstate 375 exit from one lane to three, a move to help alleviate traffic jams heading into the Greektown Casino - Hotel, which he also owns.

Today, Nader Al - Naji is the CEO of Basis — a hot cryptocurrency startup, with grand ambitions to replace regular money, and which recently took in a $ 133 million investment round from firms including GV (formerly Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

None of the other many players in the space are making money, including Spotify — despite its 20 million paying customers.

«If he's so concerned about the financial health of his players,» wrote Merrill, «maybe he should spend more of the millions he has made / makes from League of Legends on paying them instead of investing in other e-sports where he is losing money.»

Another is Montreal - based iNovia Capital, which raised $ 110 million for its third fund in December 2011, $ 10 million of that coming from Alberta Enterprise, an Alberta government - funded corporation formed in 2008 that gives money to VC funds.

OMERS also handed out $ 20 million to research firm Vision Critical, $ 16 million to online retailer BuildDirect, $ 12 million to Wave Accounting, and seed money to a handful of smaller startups.

Consider all the money RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis has donated to the University of Waterloo ($ 123 million) or to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, which he helped launch ($ 150 million).

Stingray is modestly profitable (it earned $ 9 million in its last quarter), whereas some of its peers are perennial money - losers.

Every hospital «gets a big chunk of money upfront — between $ 20 million and $ 35 million, depending on the institution,» says Jeff Bluestone, a UCSF scientist who's now the Parker Institute's president and CEO.

«He'll pledge proudly $ 1 million of his own personal money to help the people of both Texas and Louisiana,» White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

Andreessen agreed to invest $ 50 million of his venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

«But I know of many companies who raised money at $ 1 billion valuations last year that are now being told that, to raise money now, they need to take around $ 700 million or $ 800 million.

New Money: Headspace, a Los Angeles - based maker of a meditation app, has raised $ 36.7 million in funding from Spectrum Equity.

The CPPIB, one of the world's largest pension funds, invests money not needed by the Canada Pension Plan to pay benefits for some 18 million current and retired contributors.

The company maintains that it sends millions of clicks that allow news sites to make money via online advertising.

WSJ notes that, of 294 startups that raised more than $ 50 million in the easy money years, 216 are still private and haven't raised more money since.

More than 1 million additional customers are expected to come from Goldman's acquisition of personal finance start - up Clarity Money, announced earlier this month.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the labels, recently released a report arguing it takes $ 1 million to break a new act, including money for recording, touring and marketing.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.

In order for a few million dollars to go «missing» here and there, and end up in the pockets of local politicians or shady middle - men, you've pretty much got to be mislabelling the money at the very least.

But instead of rebounding, assets under management shrank over the following years, as sales lagged, investments soured and investors pulled their money — to a total of $ 210 million as of Sept. 30, 2014.

Facebook and Google were the victims of an elaborate $ 100 million phishing attack, according to a Fortune report, with employees at both companies tricked into sending money to overseas bank accounts.

But Glencore, under London Stock Exchange reporting obligations, said it would only contribute 300 million euros in equity (taking a tiny equity interest of 0.54 %, and even that only «indirectly»), while the rest of the money was provided by «QIA and by non-recourse bank financing,» the latter being a loan that effectively insulates Glencore against most of the risks of owning Rosneft shares.

He was incredibly successful in raising money for this Better Place thing, like $ 400 million or $ 500 million, but the board of directors weren't happy with the performance of the company, which has only sold 500 cars.

And here's the kicker about all that insurance money — it's generated by millions of agents, with lots of paper, in processes that look much the same way they did 30 years ago.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

The company is still losing money, though, posting an operating loss of $ 7.4 million for the nine months that ended Sept. 30.

«However, I have never thought, in a million years, that somehow Apple had become a bad actor because of its conservative ways of handling its money.

That's the point, of course: You want to conceal the money's criminal origins and then stir it into the rivers of legitimate cash that course around the world every day: $ 60 - odd million here, a few million there.

Because Homeland Security has forced the investor to provide detailed information concerning where his $ 10 million came from, even to the point of asking the next two sources beyond the investor where they got their money.

For someone supposed to be laundering millions of dollars in stolen funds, with investigators from three countries scrambling to track the money, Ding Zhize was a surprisingly unhurried man.

You will make more money selling these trackers to millions of users waiting to purchase these devices.

While digital money was once seen as the province of cranks and computers geeks, it's now so mainstream that investors see it as a new asset class and are creating hundred million dollar hedge funds to acquire it.

The hackers originally intended to funnel $ 951 million of Bangladesh Bank's money into phony accounts, according to various investigations.