Not exact matches
We want them to play
Call of Duty
year - round.
Originally planned as a five -
year competition, the deadline shifted a number
of times before being
called off in January.
Under the plan, which launched last
year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks
of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group
of a few dozen employees at a specific
call center.
On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally
call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies
of their
years in office for any wrongdoing.
-- Blodget said on the conference
call that the company still has about $ 22 million
of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple
of years.
The so -
called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark
of the eight -
year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.
«Despite the temporary pullback in production in the first quarter, we still expect our oil sands volumes for the
year to be within our original guidance
of 364,000 to 382,000 barrels per day,» he told a conference
call with analysts.
This 88 -
year - old structure, which carries no external signage
of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165 -
year - old inventor
of the blue jean,
calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.
Forty - five percent
of us go so far as to
call it the most stressful day
of the
year.
T - Mobile now deploys a social media team
of about 300 people (up from 23 four
years ago)
called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.
The Small Business Success Index, as it's
called, is the third in a series
of surveys the pair have done over the past
year.
And so it is no surprise that a four -
year - old gene - editing tool
called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough
of the century.
Amazon now joins Apple, Google, PayPal, Visa, and a scary - sounding consortium
of telcos who started something
called Isis, who have all toiled for
years to bring the idea
of a digital mobile wallet to fruition.
Oregon's legalization
of recreational pot two
years ago created room for entrepreneurial cross-pollination in this fertile region abutting California's so -
called Emerald Triangle, a well - known nirvana for outdoor weed cultivation.
When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza,
called Bleed for This, Verdi was out
of town, but sent the then 22 -
year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.
Andrew Pask, a 44 -
year - old City
of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are
called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.
The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle,
of the so -
called «black spider memos» sent by the Prince to ministers over several
years.
While even a few
years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless
of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so -
called social influencers.
The 12 -
year - old company, which
calls itself «the front page
of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation
of nearly $ 1.8 billion.
A study
of increases or decreases in rates
of a disease across
years, calculated for groups
of people, is
called an ecologic study.
Saujani also
called out the bias
of tech - related curricula — and culture more generally — which she says is almost invariably written to «speak to a 13 -
year - old boy from Silicon Valley.»
As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that
calls into question the very principles
of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief
of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half
of what students learn in the first two
years of a four -
year technology degree will be out
of date by the time they graduate.»
The Fed is forecast to hit its so -
called terminal rate in the third quarter
of next
year.
The J.P. Morgan representatives on the
call said they plan to open source the documentation and code base behind Quorum by the end
of the
year.
Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half
of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts
of investors so far this
year through so -
called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.
President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to
call the Department
of Justice last
year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president
of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.
In an Entrepreneur article last
year defending Donald Trump's long trail
of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey
called failure «a badge
of honour.»
Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number
of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort
called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two
years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction
of the site.
As you'd expect from the founder
of Facebook, he started a book club
of sorts
called A
Year of Books on — you guessed it!
Last
year, Greenblatt's network was one
of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake
of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he
called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»
Not many CEOs have engineered the kind
of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 -
year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he
calls it — transforming an Old World maker
of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.
Activision Publishing has the $ 3 million
Call of Duty World League launching in 2016, an expansion
of the publisher's five -
year commitment to eSports.
TORONTO — Ontario will be the first in Canada to issue so -
called green bonds next
year to generate the billions
of dollars that's needed to expand public transit, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday.
When Guy Laurence, the former CEO
of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins
of the telecom three
years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to
call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.
Last
year, the CBO published what it
called «115 options for reducing the deficit,» and all
of those painful suggestions were among them.
Acting U.S. Secretary
of State John Sullivan
called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven -
year - long conflict.
On a conference
call to discuss RIM's fiscal third - quarter results in December, the co-CEOs revealed that their newest smartphone line, dubbed BlackBerry 10, will not be available until the latter part
of the
year.
The whiskey,
called «Jameson Bow Street 18
Years» is a cask strength whiskey that represents the brand's strongest globally available whiskey ever, and its new top
of the line.
NEI filed shareholder resolutions last
year with five
of the largest Canadian banks
calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks
of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.
The «Orange Is The New Black» star and her girlfriend
of four
years, Chelsea Fairless, released a funny announcement
calling off their engagement in January.
Since the Southern California native has been 13
years old, she has been
called the future
of women's snowboarding.
In what one software engineer
calls «the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in
years,» researchers at the University
of Michigan have developed a way to insert a hidden security flaw into a microprocessor chip that can't be detected by any known method
of security analysis.
Called Pulse, this event is YouTube's version
of upfronts, that time
of year when traditional television networks hold splashy events, trot out their stars and pitch advertisers on upcoming programming.
It solidified that mandate in June
of this
year by buying out FipkeCo's 10 % interests in the mine, bringing Dominion's stake to 90 %
of Ekati's core and 68.8 %
of the so -
called «buffer zone» surrounding it.
For example, at the end
of last
year, Bank
of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz
called the risk
of war between Russia and Ukraine a grave threat to his outlook.
The ride - hailing service published details
of its «on demand aviation» ambitions last
year which it has
called Uber Elevate.
While the short position Chanos has in Alibaba has not worked out, Yusko was right on one
of his most bearish
calls in recent
years: In early 2015 he predicted oil would hit $ 30 when many thought crude had already hit a bottom.
But despite the Trump administration's
call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for
years and now hovers near the bottom
of a 40 -
year low.
This
year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall
of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails,
calls and tweets from members
of Global Citizen.
Investment bank Jefferies
called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most
of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half
of this
year.