Sentences with phrase «own origin»

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.
«It's important to us to keep the origin story alive.
The origin story of that macabre death machine is fascinatingly told by The Paris Review.
The Intercept's Lee Fang last month traced the origins of various sites known for peddling misinformation about U.S. politics to «experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump's political advisers and consultants.»
Inspired by the company's origins in Waterbury, Connecticut dating back to 1854, the Waterbury Traditional Chronograph has a timeless design that's fit for any occasion.
It might seem an odd way to describe a third - generation CEO, but Arcand may have been referring to Joseph Kruger II's expansion of the company's scope beyond its pulp and paper origins.
It enables banks to track the progressive history of every transaction on their systems to ensure that the origin, the ultimate destination, and the use of funds are traceable and clear.
CNN said it scoured internet records and analyzed code to determine the origins of the game and the identities of those responsible for spreading it.
MONERO A virtual currency that uses «ring signatures,» which make it hard to pinpoint the origin of a transaction among a group.
We now finally get to the earliest known origin which was from the Hellenistic Greek «mustax», meaning «upper lip», which may or may not have come from the Hellenistic Greek «mullon», meaning «lip».
Lyft's path forward could look a lot like its origins.
Canada and Mexico have said they are happy with the «rules of origin» as currently written, and that they would oppose any attempt by Washington to insist on a specific quota for any one country.
With 47.7 % of its population of non-Dutch origin, Rotterdam is proud of its multiethnic makeup, and in 2009 it further cemented its multicultral status after Ahmed Aboutaleb became the first Muslim mayor of a major Dutch city.
It's a plan Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has touched on in discussing moving big industry into space.
The Canadian - born Stanford computer science prof has quietly invested in nearly two dozen tech startups over the years — including Google, which is the origin of his fortune — but he appears to be taking a more active role in one of his portfolio's firms.
They see a president committed to the advancement of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or economic status.
Whatever the origin, the homes are a bright spark on the island, particularly when the gray days of winter set in.
What's more, the currency's strange origin story, with only six founding formulators, leaves something to be desired.
Nor did Ross acknowledge that strict rules of origin could backfire, because much of the electronics in new cars and trucks is made in Asia.
Higher rules of origin might create more jobs, but in China, India, Thailand and Vietnam.
The co-founders conceived of the idea while working in the space industry shortly after college — Ellis with Blue Origin, Noone with SpaceX.
My curiosity for pizza's origins had been spurred innocuously enough.
Three - dimensional printing's origins can be traced to Japanese researchers, who printed the world's first 3 - D objects three decades ago.
New space start - ups, including Blue Origin and SpaceX, have raised $ 2 billion in funding from private investors this year.
New country - of - origin food labelling laws agreed to by the Australian and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council are welcome news but don't go far enough, according to Agriculture Minister Kim Chance.
«Regardless of the origin of a conflict, a country may involve the entire world simply by threatening to spread the war with an ICBM.»
The World Bank estimates that this sub-heading generated only $ 4.2 million in (estimated) tax revenue for the Canadian government, as 91 % of Canada's imports of these items were manufactured in the United States and are eligible for tariff free status under NAFTA, though this requires companies obtain certificates of origin and wade through NAFTA rules - of - origin regulations that are over 500 pages long.
From what I know of Casamigos Tequila's origin story, it seems the exact opposite of a celebrity slapping his name on a product.
The origins of the popular Internet phenomenon, and three tips for creating shareable content for your company.
He said Blue Origin also hopes to launch tourists to space before the end of the year on the New Shepard rocket.
Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.
«We want our work to have a positive impact,» Asha Curran, director of the Center for Innovation and Social Impact at 92Y, says, explaining the origins of the contest.
CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith about the company's new engine for its latest orbital rocket and new opportunities in space exploration.
Regardless, Laliberté has come a long way from his origins as a busker: He used to earn money juggling, fire eating and playing accordion on the streets of Quebec.
The company's BE-4 engine, the thunderous staple of Blue Origin's propulsion business, has demonstrated that it «works, and works well,» CEO Bob Smith told CNBC's Morgan Brennan at the 34th Space Symposium at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
While rocket building and space tourism are exciting to Smith, Blue Origin, at its core, is «a propulsion company,» he said.
-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.
Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin is quickly headed toward commercial operations as it nears the end of testing for several major projects.
By law, when interviewing a candidate you can not ask about race, creed, country of origin or religion.
Blue Origin recently test fired a BE-4 engine for nearly two minutes at nearly three - quarters of full power.
The best thing about Ultron is that his origins paved the way for Stark and the heroes in the MCU to face serious consequences for their actions, starting with «Captain America: Civil War.»
Progress on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is «going very well,» Smith said.
Netflix description: «A single mom must hide her young son's superpowers to protect him from exploitation while investigating their origins and her husband's death.»
The idea for it had an all - too - familiar origin — the founders» own experiences.
Blue Origin expects to find out the decision «very soon.»
He then gave some background on the origins of this debate.
Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.
The short - lived first logo reflected these cultural origins with an ornate logo bearing the company's name and a depiction of the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.
We explain the origins of Black Friday and its connection to Thanksgiving, which dates to more than a century ago.
With such little - understood connections between diseases and their origin — and between one pathological breakdown and another — it's an awfully slippery slope to deny health coverage to someone «who sits at home, eats poorly» and gets sick.
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