Sentences with phrase «of stakes for»

Clarification: New York's designation on the map of stakes for student graduation has been changed to reflect nuances in its testing policy.

The building explosions in episode five feel like they should have come in episode two or three, in order to establish some sort of stakes for the series.

The words «to be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant» are blazoned on my favorite coffee mug, reminding me daily of the stakes for which we historical theologians play.

Ethereum's price rise coincides with the release of the Alpha Casper FFG testnet, an ambitious move to proof of stake for the blockchain network to reduce energy costs, centralization and to overcome the obstacles to scaling that come with a proof of work system.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

Warman says Tencent controls a significant share of Glu Mobile and has at least a 10 % stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI), which recently acquired King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion.

The company received $ 3 billion from China in 2007 for a 10 percent stake in the company that had $ 368 billion under management as of the end of March.

Tencent lost more than $ 51 billion in market value in two days last week on news of largest shareholder Nasper Inc's 2 percent stake reduction for $ 9.8 billion, and also management's warning of margin pressure.

In late February, Coke invested $ 1.25 billion dollars in Green Mountain Coffee (maker of Keurig coffee machines) for a 10 percent stake in the company.

For a number of years, the two were estranged, to the point where Sumner tried to buy out Shari's stake in Viacom and CBS (as he bought out her brother Brent).

He's still one of the biggest shareholders in the company, with a 5 % - plus stake that's worth about $ 300 million, according to SEC documents, mostly in a trust for his kids.

This spring, he spent $ 225 million for a 50 % stake in Centro Canalejas Madrid — a multipurpose complex that will replace historic buildings near the heart of the country's capital city.

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.

«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

Aeryon, an 80 - person firm that has staked its business on serving the exacting needs of professionals with products that sell for up to $ 200,000, could end up being side - swiped by producers of the type of flying toy you bought at Best Buy for your kids for Christmas.

«Five or six years ago,» says Pat Perkins, VP of Marketing for HMS, «we really started putting a stake in the ground in terms of Hendrick - generated original content, in terms of utilizing social and digital platforms... and in the process we defined what success would look like, and developed a series of checklist and filters that would guide us in evaluating projects.

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and a large number of wine and spirits labels, purchased a 9.9 per cent stake in Canopy Growth Corp. for $ 245 million this week.

The Andreessen Horowitz backed company with $ 2.57 million in publicly stated funding was unable to interest any of the Sharks in its offer of a 5 percent stake for $ 2 million.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

The company acquired a majority stake (93 %) of Riot Games back in February 2011 for a reported $ 400 million.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adFor its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adfor how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.

If in doubt about which grants your business is eligible for, it is worth taking advice from an organization such as Business Link, or even paying a consultant to guide you through the entire process if there is a large sum of money at stake.

Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is planning to sell a third of his 10 percent stake in the company for about $ 1.4 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Shareholders who held stock on the date of Bertolini's announcement and still hold it today have seen the value of their original stake more than double (compared with the more modest 34 % gain for the S&P 500 during the same period).

The CBO score raises the stakes for Republican senators now working on their own version of the legislation.

But Area 51's approach will differ from that of other prominent incubators, like Y Combinator, where startups trade a stake in their company's equity for a modern workspace and mentorship.

Shell agreed last year to sell most of its stake in the oil sands to Canadian Natural for $ 7.25 billion.

Berkshire's operating profit, excluding investments and derivatives, has fallen short of Wall Street forecasts for eight consecutive quarters, while its cash stake swelled to $ 116 billion because Buffett could not find enough worth buying.

The purchase of the stake means Starboard will become the second activist investor within months to push for a change in strategy.

Succession planning is tough for any business, but try doing it with billions at stake and tens of thousands of jobs on the line.

Big private car retailer DVG Automotive Group has released its results for the 2015 financial year, showing a tightening economy had not significantly hit its sales ahead of the sale of a majority stake to Japanese interests.

• GI Partners acquired a majority stake in Doxim Inc, a Canada - based provider of customer engagement and content management SaaS solutions for financial services organizations, from Strattam Capital.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

Prime position for Seven Kerry Stokes's Seven Network is to make a major expansion into regional television, taking a stake of about 15 per cent in Prime Media Group, the debt - riddled regional affiliate of Seven's metropolitan TV operations.

Each of these seven companies has a large stake in the phone industry, and following the end of the second quarter, it's a good a time as any to see how 2011 is shaping up for them.

• PAG agreed to acquire the collective stakes from the three founders of Chinese industrial gas company Yingde Gases (SEHK: 2168) for $ 616 million, according to Reuters.

Molson Coors sold most of its stake in Kaiser a year later for just US$ 68 million.

The endorsement came despite lingering questions about safety and effectiveness, but also followed a high - stakes pressure campaign in which the manufacturer accused the Food and Drug Administration of gender bias, since several pills were already approved for men with sexual problems.

A key reason for Dataminr's prime position: Twitter owns a stake in it, according to Tom Glocer, another investor in Dataminr and a board member of Morgan Stanley (MS)(which is itself a client of Dataminr's).

By setting up deals in which Lunar would receive equity - based compensation from its clients, the founders could tap into «the power of the multiple» — the ability to turn what might have been simply a fee - for - service payment into an equity stake worth much more in the long run.

Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

• Clairvest Group, which already owns a majority of Discovery Air (TSX: DA.A), agreed to acquire the remaining stake for $ 0.20 per share in a take - private deal.

Around 90 % of all viruses that target mobile phones focus on Android, and that is an opportunity — especially given that the stakes for malfunctioning software are higher in cars than on smartphones.

Now to be clear, this type of test is normally administered for a job interview, meaning the stakes are lower and the accuracy rate is lower.

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

• Providence Equity Partners is selling its 3.3 percent stake in Idea Cellular (NSEI: IDEA) for north of $ 190 million, according to Reuters.

Its also a reminder of how much more is at stake for Chinese companies.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).