Sentences with phrase «past year targeting»

This year Amazon filed three separate lawsuits in the past year targeting more than 1,000 alleged fake reviewers.

For investors who do not relish life on the edge, a few exchange - traded funds have launched in the past year targeting the autonomous and electric vehicles trend.

Not exact matches

Despite the exodus, sales have ticked up during the past few years; Target is on track for $ 73 billion in 2014.

Target has grown its digital sales almost 30 % annually over the past two years, a rate it claims surpasses the rest of the retail industry.

Consumer price inflation hit 2.3 percent last month, shooting past the Bank of England's 2 percent target and its strongest in nearly three - and - a-half years.

In the past year the sporty dolls (Skylar, the Snowboarder, and others) have blazed their way into national chains such as Target and Toys «R» Us as well as onto the shelves of hundreds of independent toy stores.

For example, hacks into Home Depot and Target (tgt) over the past few years involved criminals covertly installing malware into store payment systems, which made it easy for them to siphon sensitive customer data.

However, the amount of malware targeting Macs has actually grown at a frightening rate over the past years.

Banks are one of the biggest targets for cyber attacks, which have occurred more frequently over the past two years, security experts said.

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»

Retailers have been grappling with a number of new competitors in Canada over the past year, including the arrival of Target and a more aggressive rollout of Walmart supercentres.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

Big businesses such as Home Depot, Jimmy John's, Michaels and Target have made headlines for credit card hacks in the past year.

It has raised its target for the overnight rate three times in the past year after cutting it in response to a drop in oil prices.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

While the targeting of al Qaeda's branches in Somalia and Yemen has greatly expanded, a new threat has emerged over the past year: the rival Islamic State.

The U.S. and China diplomatic teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese hacking that targets U.S. companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.

The U.S. inflation rate has averaged about 1.7 per cent over the past year, compared with the Fed's target of 2 per cent.

The case, and several like it in the past year, may be harbingers of a new cycle of 401 (k)- gone - bad litigation, this time targeting ever - smaller retirement plans.

The 2 % average inflation target is still lunacy, for the millionth time, inflation at or below 2 % and unemployment below 5 % when the economy was not in a recession occurred only four times in the past sixty years, 1998, 1965, 1955, 1954.

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

Exxon Corp, the largest repurchaser of shares over the past decade, has rejected shareholder proposals that it add three - year targets based on shareholder return to its compensation program.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

The targeted oncology theme has been a winner for us in the past couple years and I expect that trend to continue.

This system has worked fairly well for the past 20 years: the inflation - targeting mandate kept getting renewed and there was little reason to change it.

Over the past couple of years, the prevailing concern was to limit the risk of an abrupt decline in growth, and to facilitate a return of inflation to the target.

The disinflationary forces seen over the past couple of years, both globally and domestically, are waning, suggesting that a fall in inflation back below the target is now unlikely.

Over the past three years, management has exceeded its dividend target.

As equities have ground ever higher over the past year, very large short - volatility positions have been building in the markets — largely in volatility - targeting strategies employed by institutional investors and leveraged exchange - traded products geared toward individuals.

On Wednesday, competitor Target reported sales and earnings results that blew past analysts» estimates, and raised its full - year guidance.

The fall in bond yields over the past year, combined with an unchanged target cash rate, has seen a flattening of the yield curve.

Takeover target Godfreys has warned of soft trading over the past few weeks, which would have caused it to technically breach a covenant, it has already received a waiver from, in a lending agreement with the 99 - year - old major shareholder who launched a cash bid for the company two weeks ago.

First - time homebuyers or persons who have not owned a principal interest in a residence in the past 3 years; Certain areas of the state, called «Target Areas», are exempt from the «first - time homebuyer» rule.

Alnylam, which has been weighed down in the past by drug safety concerns, said it plans to initiate a program targeting cardiomyopathy - another symptom of the disease - alongside polyneuropathy in a late - stage study next year.

Kostin's team has a generally bullish market view but sees the index already past the level where it will end the year — Goldman has a 2,100 target though it says 2,150 is possible before a pullback occurs.

In the past year, DiscoverOrg has rapidly expanded its account - based marketing functionality to enable marketing and sales teams alike to more effectively identify target accounts, prioritize them based on likelihood to purchase, and expand insights — such as in - depth org charts, buying trigger events, and online consumption behaviors — into those target accounts, allowing teams to effectively target the right person at the right account at the right time with the right message.

The church has been doing a large media campaign around the country over the past few years targeting certain cities.

Egypt's Christian minority has been the target of a number of high - profile attacks in the past several years.

and Extra Grainy have been launched in test markets over the past year or so, and both will be available nationally by the end of April, available at Wal - Mart, Target, Kroger and other major chains.

Salt levels in crispbread have hovered around 1.2 and 1.1 g over the past six years, just above the Salt Partnership's target of 1.0 g.

The latest investment follows a series of investments by Ornua to target new bases for Irish dairy products over the past two years.

General Mills has developed gluten - free cereal lines, added protein, targeted adults and re-launched old favorites in a bid to boost cereal business in the US over the past year.

«At the coal face we are still seeing increased confidence from bidders and greater receptiveness from targets than in the past few years.»

In the past year, BMBRI, BA and BMBRI member craft brewers developed breeding targets for the next 10 years that, for the first time, incorporate the needs of all - malt brewers.

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

I'm heartened at the efforts to reduce food loss and waste that have gained traction in the past year, and with even greater action by governments and businesses we can accelerate global progress toward Target 12.3.»

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