Sentences with phrase «said late last year»

Sean Parker, Facebook's first president, said late last year that the social media platform exploits «vulnerability in human psychology» to addict users.

Apple last summer announced plans for a high end smart speaker, called the «HomePod,» but said late last year that the release date for the device would be delayed until after the new year.

Chamath Palihapitiya, another former Facebook executive, said late last year that social media was «destroying how society works,» adding that he felt «tremendous guilt» for what he helped make.

I think it would be safe to assume that 2019 is when it will be released based on the fact that Neil Druckmann, the game director for The Last of Us 2 said late last year that it was «50 - 60 %» done.

Wang Hanhua, the president of Amazon China said late last year that Kindle products are definitely coming to China.

China said late last year that it was struggling to meet environmental targets for the 2011 - 2015 period, with energy and carbon intensity targets still behind schedule.

Eldridge said late last year that the Garrison property is where «we put down roots, where we want to have a family,» and the location, in the district where tea partier Nan Hayworth won in 2010, fueled speculation among Democrats who'd spoken to him of his ambitions that he was eying her seat.

County Executive Picente said «We said late last year we needed to address the problem of animal cruelty in our county and today we have done that.

Schneiderman is investigating the Trump Foundation and said late last year he won't allow the foundation to close until his investigation finishes.

The government said late last year it would control the prices of 10 essential commodities to help restrain inflation.

After hitting a low in 2012, Colombia's cultivation of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, jumped 134 % between 2013 and 2016, US officials said late last year.

Musk said late last year that his «aspirational» timeline for a first BFR launch to Mars will happen 2022, followed by the first crewed mission in 2024.

Netflix said late last year that it plans to spend a whopping $ 6 billion on content in 2017.

He said late last year that he wanted to «change the world» with start - up investing and that he wanted to see at least one female interviewed for each opening in a start - up.

That means Goldman's project is on track: People familiar with the bank's plans said late last year that firm aimed to have its new business running by the end of June.

Branson said late last year he expects that company to take up its first passengers sometime in 2018.

The good news here is that the Federal Reserve has pegged its target interest rate to the unemployment rate, saying late last year that rates won't rise until the share of the jobless has fallen to 6.5 % (it is now 7.6 %).

The film has been in the works for a while, with Queen guitarist Brian May saying late last year that the film would shoot this past spring for a 2014 release.

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In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Analysts also say Nvidia's competitive advantage is only likely to increase when it moves its Volta chip architecture, launched last year and only currently present in data - center GPUs, into gaming chips later this year.

But Facebook was in the single digits late last year, says Brian Shin, the company's founder.

PARIS (AP)-- Researchers say they've discovered a worrying breed of power grid - wrecking software, saying the program was likely responsible for a brief blackout that hit Kiev late last year.

The boiling point was due sooner or later, Diebert says, because eventually some insiders — such as the NSA's William Binney, who last year spilled the beans on Stellar Wind, and PRISM's Edward Snowden — would find that they could no longer stomach what they were doing.

Irving said that the company is working to incorporate tools from the Video Genome Project, a metadata company Hulu acquired late last year, which could allow it to be more granular in its searches.

Less than a year later, I dropped all the way to dead last at the Olympic trials,» he says.

The chicken producer plunged into crisis Monday after police said BRF executives conspired with laboratories to falsify test results and cover up a salmonella outbreak, the latest fallout from a food - safety investigation that threw the country's meat industry into disarray last year.

As much as 45 percent of shoppers say they plan to get their shopping done before Black Friday, but 54 percent of shoppers do most of their shopping in December or even later, which shows it's an ongoing trend for the last quarter of the year.

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

With this latest infusion of cash, the company will open a third facility in the coming months, which will allow it to serve 98 percent of the U.S. «We have been growing tremendously fast, and we will be 10 times our annual run rate from where we started last year to this year,» said Zbar.

«We realized late last year that moments in games are not really the only place where you're happy,» he says.

But late last year, a Chinese TV report said some of the company's suppliers were giving chicken unapproved levels of antibiotics.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

A second source with leadership ties said Wang's rise had been fast - tracked in the same vein as other allies whose careers had overlapped with Xi in Fujian, most notably the Beijing party secretary Cai Qi, and Huang Kunming, who was promoted to head the central propaganda department late last year.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

Ackman, one of the industry's most prominent activist investors, said in January that redemption requests had been modest late last year when losses were already piling up.

«Depleting reserves in order to protect the current level of USD / MYR could prove expensive as we head into Fed lift - off later this year,» analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note last week, noting that the country has among the lowest coverage of external liabilities in Asia.

Late last year, economists at CIBC said rising household debt was to be expected; Canadians «responded rationally to an era of very low interest rates.»

The Montreal - based company recorded a $ 16 - million non-cash income tax charge to account for lower U.S. corporate taxes but said the change announced by the Trump government late last year will benefit its bottom line going forward.

The third generation, based on the Chevy Bolt, was showcased in San Francisco for the media late last year, so GM Cruise has been able to reveal four iterations in 18 months, Ammann said.

Late last year, a Pentagon report said the Afghan government has control or influence over 60 % of the population, while insurgents had control or influence over approximately 10 % of the population, with the remainder contested.

«While the give - back related to the pull - forward in activity experienced late last year, as buyers rushed to close deals prior to the updated B20 rules, appears to have been largely complete in January, the softness in sales nonetheless persisted this month,» said TD economists Michael Dolega and Rishi Sondhi in a research note.

The lab was set up late last year, soon after Apple revealed its forthcoming smart watch and latest iPhones, the Financial Times said.

Singapore has previously said it would be «unrealistic» to expect an agreement on the code to be reached within a year, after talks began late last year.

-- The Jean Coutu Group (TSX: PJC.A) says it earned $ 51.5 million in its latest quarter, down from $ 55.2 million in the same quarter last year.

The floor of Hitler's bunker where he spent his last days was also said to be littered with medications when researchers entered it years later.

Though he said the 2012 Olympics in London would be his last, he got back in the game two years later to begin training for Rio.

Honda last year recalled some 900,000 later - model Odysseys because of concerns about second - row seats tipping forward if not latched properly, but Martin said there were no seat - related recalls of the 2004 model.

«It was a difficult winter for manufacturers and it appears they are still hurting after the strong run in the dollar late last year,» said Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial in New York.

Amphastar, for its part, told Bloomberg recently that it offers 9 states rebates on its moneymaker, while rival Adapt says it hasn't raised prices since its nasal - spray version, Narcan, won FDA approval late last year.

Baird analyst David Tarantino said this latest round of price increases covers the remaining 45 percent of Chipotle locations that were not affected by price hikes in April and November of last year.