Sentences with phrase «research firm paid»

The app featured a personality test quiz, and the data research firm paid people to take it.

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Latest report from research firm shows pay - TV providers shed another 350,000 subscribers in the last three months.

Meanwhile, a huge amount of video consumption has shifted from TV to the mobile phone (over 70 % of video is now viewed on mobile devices, according to research firm eMarketer), and Legere believes that puts some of the pay - TV industry's $ 100 billion of annual revenue in play.

Futron, a market research firm in Bethesda, Md., did a survey in 2002 that suggested only about 820 people worldwide would be willing to pay $ 100,000, once they understood the likely discomforts.

Furthermore, recent economic research has shown that the main driver of overall economic inequality isn't pay inequality within firms, but between them.

About 3.6 million households subscribe to Netflix in Canada, according to Toronto - based tracking firm Solutions Research Group, and a large majority of those — three million — also have paid TV service.

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

Women are two times more likely than men to think it will take more than 20 years to pay off their loans, according to market research firm ORC International.

But despite that, and giving up $ 41 million, Stumpf is still walking away with a pay package that goes into the nine figures, according to executive compensation research firm, Equilar, showing how large CEO pay packages are, even after executives are punished for significant mistakes.

The greater focus on executive pay means investors also care more about board pay, said Pat McGurn, head of strategic research and analysis at corporate governance firm ISS.

My colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute, our firm's business and economics research arm, have analyzed previous downturns and found that when individuals and governments focus on paying down debt, these efforts curb economic growth for three to five years.

Citing reports that a Justice Department official's wife reportedly worked for a firm that paid for opposition research on Trump, Jay Sekulow told CNBC in a Tuesday interview that «I think these revelations require a special counsel to investigate.»

According to the research firm, there are a number of obstacles facing Apple Pay, including the fact that iPhone 6 penetration is still small among mobile users.

In a report from research firm Corporate Insight, data from July 2015 revealed that the companies were giving paid advice on an impressive $ 21 billion, collectively, in investor assets.

Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $ 160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Here are the 50 highest - paid CEOs of 2013, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm: 1.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.

This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

Other recent research, moreover, indicates that executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled.

«If you looked at Jet from a fundamentals perspective, the company wouldn't be worth what they're paying for it,» said Anand Sanwal, the chief executive of CB Insights, a research firm covering venture capital.

On the list of the 10 highest - paid CEOs in the nation, five run media companies, according to research firm Equilar.

The report, released Wednesday by executive compensation and governance research firm Equilar, examines pay of the 100 largest public companies by revenue, and comes in advance of broader CEO pay rankings that typically arrive later in the spring and analyze the companies of the entire Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.

His latest venture, San - Diego based cancer research firm NantKWest, paid him almost $ 148 million last year, making him one of the nation's top paid CEOs.

The study, carried out by corporate research firm MSCI, found that for every $ 100 (# 76) invested in companies with the highest - paid CEOs would have grown to $ 265 (# 202) over 10 years.

Read the piece on her in New York Mag and tell me you're not rooting for her new eponymous firm, which also aims to go old school, with clients who will actually pay for her research and execute trades with her shop.

The retail industry is the leader in paid online and mobile media spending, according to new data from market research firm eMarketer.

That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.

44 % of shoppers would pay an additional 20 % or more for organic fresh vegetables, and 37 % are willing to hand over that much more cash for organic poultry, found a study by the Hartman Group, a food and beverage research firm in Bellevue, Wash..

But the big soy firm paid ppl off to be quiet and change research studys.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) continued to pay millions to G4S and Serco for electronic tagging over a year after the firms were banned from delivering the work, new research has revealed.

James Lyman, director of municipal bond research at Manhattan - based Neuberger Berman, then testified that the town should have alerted his firm to an acceleration clause, which required the town to pay the entire loan within 60 days of a default.

In the 2014 cycle, GOP congressional campaigns and conservative - leaning groups paid at least $ 729,000 to the firm for a range of services, including research, data analytics and microtargeting.

Over a trial expected to last a month, prosecutors will try to prove two schemes — that Silver helped Taub get $ 500,000 in state research funds in return for referring asbestos patients to a law firm that paid Silver, and also used his legislative clout to get two developers to use a Manhattan law firm that split its fees with Silver.

The campaign has paid $ 2.6 million for polling to Tulchin Research, a firm run by San Francisco - based pollster Ben Tulchin, who worked on the 2004 presidential campaign of former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

By including in her sample all firms that had carried out research for four years or more, Hall accounted for 85 per cent of R&D paid for by industry during the 1980s.

A survey conducted by consulting firm Pike Research found that consumers would pay $ 23,750 for a PEV comparable to a $ 20,000 gasoline - powered car.

IOVATION - Sep 21 - According to Forrester Research online dating is the third largest producer of revenue out of all paid content sites, generating $ 957M in 2008, a figure that the firm predicts will grow 10 % by 2013.

According to Forrester Research, online dating is the 3rd largest producer of revenue among all paid - content Web sites, generating $ 957M in 2008, a figure the firm predicts will grow 10 % by 2013.

Schools in El Dorado Hills, Calif., are paying millions of dollars to remove or cover naturally occurring asbestos that poses no health risk, according to a report from a scientific research firm.

According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 % of all eBooks on devices were actually paid for, with most of the digital books being pirated.

If the pilot goes well, the next step would be to find a third party to audit the data, a challenge unto itself as a research firm would be betting big that the time and resources required to develop a new tool would pay off.

According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 % of all German ebooks on devices were actually paid for, with most of the digital books being pirated.

The lawyer I negotiated with I paid up front 100 % and researched his firm.

Ms Haotanto, 31, helped her family pay those debts when she started work at research firm Business Monitor after university.

Over the past several months I have been pushing myself extremely hard, too hard as it turns out, to try to get as good as possible as fast as possible at evaluating, valuing, and analyzing companies to determine if they are a good investment, in the hopes of either opening my own firm, or getting noticed by a value investing firm and paid for my research.

IMAGIN has been compared to lender - paid mortgage insurance, which made up 19 % of the 2017 industry new insurance written, according to estimates by research firm Compass Point.

The research firm SNL Kagan found that the number of video subscribers for pay - TV dropped from 251,000 to just 100,000.

Before spending millions of dollars on a major - league baseball stadium, Orange County commissioners want to know whether the fans will support a team and whether businesses are willing to pay some of the costs.Today, commissioners will consider spending $ 40,000 to research those questions and to find out how much of the county's resort tax money would be needed to build a stadium if Orlando wins a major - league franchise.The 17 - week study would be conducted by Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia financial consulting firm.