Sentences with phrase «recent years service»

In recent years service dogs for children with autism have become a valuable resource for the autistic community and have been proven to significantly decrease cases of wandering, and increase a child's social interaction.

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Entrepreneurs have been fueled by an explosive enthusiasm for Uber - of - X on - demand services in recent years.

Square has added new services in an effort to diversify its business over recent years.

Spotify, which launched its streaming music service a decade ago, has enjoyed a surge in subscriber growth only in recent years.

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

Few industries have been hit harder in recent years than energy, and the oilfield service provider Schlumberger (slb) epitomizes both the sector's struggles and its opportunities.

Marrying financial services with mindfulness has been something I've been itching to do for years, but it's only become feasible as the latter has gained some traction with the general public in recent years.

Roger Mody, CEO of the Inc. 500 company Signal Corp., a $ 55 million information - technology - services provider in Fairfax, Va., has seen his customers» attire become increasingly insouciant in recent years, so he's allowed his employees to dress more casually, too.

Verizon has shifted its focus in recent years to mobile video and advertising, while scaling back its Fios television and internet services.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

In recent years it has become «harder to keep up with servicing the firms,» says Tammy Proffitt, who supervises the program in Richmond.

In recent years, this has resulted in more and more people becoming financially and emotionally dependent on the service, say the former employees.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

Has the thinking among traditional media giants — who have frequently downplayed the competition they face from services like Netflix — evolved at all in recent years?

Credit union centrals, the wholesale institutions that provide lending, payment processing and other services to credit unions, have also amalgamated in recent years.

Oracle has been playing catch - up in the cloud in recent years, after falling behind Salesforce and Workday in applications and behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in cloud infrastructure.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available) it prevented $ 22.5 billion in attempted identity - theft tax fraud — but paid out $ 3.1 billion in fake refunds.

Joly has reinvigorated Best Buy in recent years with cost cuts and by reinventing stores that showcase specific brands and services.

Although the small businesses owned by women have traditionally been in the service sector, in recent years women entrepreneurs have been moving rapidly into manufacturing, construction, and other industrial fields.

Cloud computing — on - demand, internet - based computing services — has been successfully applied to many computing functions in recent years.

Not to mention that according to Time, Lyft and General Motors are looking to offer driverless car services in approximately one year — though the recent fatality in a driverless car made by Tesla Motors probably leaves that one up in the air.

Carriers expanding flights to the region in recent months include Southwest, which in November announced two new seasonal routes to the Mexican resort town from Pittsburgh and Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina, and deep discounter Spirit, which is adding year - round service from Baltimore / Washington and Chicago.

Apple competes with services like Vudu and Amazon's Prime in the market for digital video rentals and sales, with Apple's share of that market declining in recent years amid increased competition.

A recent study found that McDonald's was slower than ever in 2013, averaging 189.5 seconds, the slowest average speed of service for the burger chain in the last fifteen years.

Netflix has expanded in recent years becoming not only a streaming service for television and film, but also a developer of new movies and TV shows.

Stradley said that the live chat service on her site has seen increased use in recent years.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

Rock Oil suffered along with other oilfield services firms from the downturn in drilling in its home province in recent years.

I said there was a recent study that the optimal service for a director was nine years, beyond which firm value was adversely affected.

The company has dealt with a few high profile customer service complaints in recent years, most notably from a car owner who sued the company after he says it stopped responding to his emails and calls about repairs.

On Tuesday, telecommunications giant Verizon announced that it plans to buy AOL, which has in recent years transitioned from an Internet gateway to a provider of online video services, content, and most notably, online ads.

But in recent years, more than half its annual revenues of about $ 9 billion have come from the sale of subscriptions to Bloomberg services outside the U.S.. Its 19,000 employees work in more than 190 offices around the world.

Because so many of the new jobs created in recent years have been self - employed, it's reduced the amount of tax the government can collect and use for public services.

THERE was a 52 per cent increase in businesses operating in the computer service industry in the three years to June 1999, with 14,731 businesses fitting into this category, according to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

It's made a push in recent years to become a bigger services provider to small businesses, too.

The number of business partnerships in the U.S. has been growing steadily by an annual rate of about 5.6 percent a year to more than 3 million in 2007, according to the most recent records reported by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

Temasek, which has 28 percent of its $ 197 billion portfolio in financial services, has been diversifying its portfolio in recent years, moving into consumer and life sciences.

To be fair, Netflix, the movie streaming service that costs $ 8.99 a month, has seen its popularity rise in recent years, particularly among the millennial generation as they unplug from traditionally expensive cable bills.

On one hand, the streaming service has added billions of new dollars into the television business in recent years, building up its offerings by licensing programs from TV groups.

Since 2009, Sullivan has led one of the world's largest corporate funders and a vast employee volunteer operation that contributed some 2 million hours of service in a recent year.

While the Times was a de facto multiple listings service back in the day, its position has been diminished by StreetEasy and other sites that have popped up in recent years.

Now it's interesting that Canada's international «Brand» has evolved over recent years to increasingly incorporate the attributes of a strong financial services sector and responsible forward thinking public policy.

WhatsApp has had no advertising on its service, but in recent years it has been sharing more information about its users with Facebook.

Other big - name business centre brands to join Regus in recent years include MWB Business Exchange (2013), Evans Easyspace (2014) and in 2015, Avanta Serviced Office Group, Abby Executive Suites and Businessuites.

There are a range of factors that affect the flows of goods and services across international borders, but the sustained outflow of funds from some emerging economies witnessed in recent years may have as much to do with the limited intermediation capacity of the local financial systems as with the scarcity of profitable domestic investment opportunities.

«Canadian banks have made significant commitments to technological investments by digitizing their services and channels in recent years,» said Bob Neuhaus, Financial Services Consultant at J.Dservices and channels in recent years,» said Bob Neuhaus, Financial Services Consultant at J.DServices Consultant at J.D. Power.

The quick service restaurant industry has benefited in recent years from a «wave of refranchising» in which company - owned stores were sold to franchisees, Morgan Stanley said in an industrywide report.