Sentences with phrase «of the largest purchases of»

Home inspection is a professional consulting business that allows inspectors to work in the field, providing key information at a critical time for consumers who are making one of the largest purchases of their life.

You are — in many cases — making one of the largest purchases of your life.

Not exact matches

The patent purchases and the new prior art tool are thus part of Google's larger strategy to lower the number and the value of patents affecting the tech industry.

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.

Also, let's not forget that Google recently purchased Waze for $ 1.1 billion, reaffirming the company's willigness to shell out large amounts of cash to boost its local division.

But he has a «pattern» of using shell companies to purchase homes «in all - cash deals,» as WNYC has reported, and then transferring those properties into his name for no money and taking out large mortgages against them.

The convenience of credit card purchases may also attract new business from travelers who do not wish to carry large sums of cash.

This also receives a large degree of press, and examples abound, with the most obvious being online grocery and subscription services, which allow the automation of many regular purchases, be they annual birthday presents or weekly deliveries of various grocery items.

Investing for a future large purchase, your retirement, or to simply build your wealth is a smart financial decision, but factors such as lack of general knowledge and high costs of investing often deter people from jumping in the investment world.

And we used the largest day of consumerism to instead of purchasing a spot on the Super Bowl, to really kind of do something very different.

Starting this month, four of the largest credit card companies — Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover — will stop requiring signatures on purchases.

When you think about the cost of real world advertising, which does not have the large scale potential of internet marketing, and the cost of building, purchasing, or renting a physical store, you begin to see the incredible potential of the internet, where everything that isn't free is still so much cheaper.

The positive economic data, which included the release of better - than - expected purchasing managers» index (PMI) readings last Wednesday, and a large current account surplus in some euro zone economies, have given confidence to investors to buy euros.

«We expect the ECB to continue net asset purchases until around the third quarter of 2018, while the Fed will likely begin reducing its stock of quantitative easing assets early in 2018... These opposite moves mean that the ECB's balance sheet could be around 20 percent larger than the Fed's by around end - 2018, assuming constant FX rates,» he noted.

Three days later this week, in China, news surfaced that the country has removed from a central government purchase list some of the largest U.S tech firms implicated in the very affairs revealed by Snowden, including most notably Cisco Sistems (CSCO), but also Apple Inc (AAPL), Citrix Systems (CSTX), and Intel's (INTC) McAfee security business.

Linden Lab operates the virtual world called Second Life... Bolstering its rep for brash - to - the - point - of - crazy dealmaking, AOL purchased Bebo, the third - largest social network in the U.S., for $ 850 million.

Consider Putzmeister, a cement - pump maker in southern Germany, that was purchased last year by China's Sany Group, one of the world's largest heavy - equipment manufacturers.

In Oval Office talks, Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed an agreement last year for $ 200 billion worth of Saudi investments with the United States, including large purchases of U.S. military equipment.

He decided it was time to ramp up for the next stage of growth and purchased a large volume of cameras and other electronics for the holiday shopping season, working with consumer reporters to promote the deals.

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

Analysts arewarming to the idea, as the network already had a large audience base of more than 80 million subscribers when Lions Gate purchased it.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

«In contrast, I disagree with the notion that the large quantity of reserves resulting from our asset purchases poses some special barrier to removing policy stimulus when the right time comes.

Perth - based explorer Goldphyre Resources has entered into an agreement to purchase a large area of potash - prospective land near Kalgoorlie, which is owned by prominent prospector Mark Creasy.

Satterley Property Group will build its largest residential estate in Victoria after purchasing 214 hectares of land in a deal believed to be worth $ 100 million.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

Amazon, which forayed into brick - and - mortar retailing with its purchase of Whole Foods, could upend the grocery industry and undercut traditional retailers by using its deep pockets and large presence, analysts have said.

Verizon, if it chooses, appears to have a lock on purchasing one or more of the smaller regional Canadian telcos such as Wind Mobile, Public Mobile or Mobilicity, an option so far denied the large Canadian telcos by the Harper government.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

Recent reports that China's large state - owned oil companies are considering an outright purchase of 5 percent of Saudi Aramco, a move that Saudi Arabia is rumored to be considering in lieu of the Aramco IPO, should be seen in this context.

But a current Softbank offer to purchase a large chunk of Uber at a discount would lower Uber's valuation to less than $ 50 billion.

The company achieves this in large part by beginning the design of every product with a low price in mind, and by building its furniture using low - cost medium - density fiberboard (MDF), which the company purchases in large volumes.

Northern Gateway's proposed routes includes large areas of native's traditional territories that were never purchased by or ceded to the Crown — one of six factors that could still impede Enbridge's project.

«This suggests that homebuyers are purchasing homes with larger down payments and that existing homeowners are taking advantage of low interest rates to pay off their mortgages at a faster rate,» the budget says.

The purchase instantly makes Meituan one of the two largest bike - sharing operators, along with Alibaba - funded Ofo.

Though Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

In 1994, St. Jude, under pressure to diversify, completed a $ 500 million deal with Siemens to purchase Pacesetter, then the world's second - largest producer of pacemakers.

A large portion of the spread compression happened in reaction to two events: the Fed's decision to begin winding down its large - scale asset - purchase program known as quantitative easing on Dec. 18, and Janet Yellen's first meeting as Fed chair on March 19, which coincided with the release of forecasts by Fed officials who anticipated earlier rate hikes than before.

«In lieu of making a large purchase and consuming debt, he started with a two - passenger plane.

A potential media mega-deal involving Walt Disney purchasing some of the key assets of 21st Century Fox would be among the 10 largest media deals on record, according to Dealogic data.

Amazon is a large retailer of DVDs and Blu - ray discs and also offers online rentals and purchases of digital video products.

«It has more [monetization] than we expected; as users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,» Macquarie Securities said in a note to clients, adding that purchases so far in Australia were not being driven by big spenders but by a large number of users.

Two large distribution deals await approval from U.S. antitrust regulators: Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable and AT&T's purchase of DirecTV.

The Fed's taper, combined with weaker foreign purchases of treasuries, will leave private domestic investors to take on an increasingly larger portion of treasury purchases.

This 150 - year - old paper - printing giant has navigated the decline and consolidation of the printing industry deftly, by selling itself as a one - stop shop for large, corporate printing needs and by purchasing smaller rivals.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

As the Twitter story showed, having a large number of followers is not a sign of success if those followers would never purchase or influence your target market to try your services.

In June, Icahn presented the board with a counteroffer that would value shares at $ 14 and informed the board that he had purchased 72 million shares of Dell Inc. stock from Southeastern Asset management, the PC manufacturer's largest outside shareholder.

Most agree that a foreign - owned mobile provider should be able to grow a purchased Canadian company to larger than 10 % of the total market (61 %), and 4 - in - 10 agree strongly (39 %).

«It's this massive purchase, in many cases, the largest purchase of your life at that point, and it's something that you know nothing about,» he said.