Sentences with phrase «selling about a million»

After selling about a million records and winning at Christian music's prestigious Dove Awards in 1999, the Grammy - nominated singer / songwriter simply vanished in 2003 - leaving fans wondering where she had gone.

In the United States, anthologies, collections, and chapbooks of them have sold about a million copies — not as many as a John Grisham best - seller, but notable nonetheless.

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I've learned a lot about webinars from Jason Fladlien, who's done over $ 100 million in webinar sales without ever having his own product to sell.

The company announced Wednesday that it will sell off the division to its original owner, Eric Carreel, the co-founder of Withings (which Nokia bought back in 2016 for about $ 200 million).

Life - to - date, Nintendo has sold 14.86 million Switch units, compared to 13.56 million life - to - date unit sales for Wii U. (That said, the Switch has only sold about half as many software titles in its short life, though that number will continue to grow as the catalog expands.)

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has made a profit of about $ 60 million after selling her stake in diversified miner and contractor Mineral Resources.

There are several benefits, including litigation protection, a lower business income tax rate (about 15 %), and the ability to sell your business for up to $ 750,000 tax - free ($ 1.5 million tax - free if jointly owned with a spouse).

And for good reason: Apple sold nine million new iPhones over three days in September; Google earned US$ 14 billion in revenue last quarter; Twitter, it's IPO imminent, is about to mint a new round of tech - age millionaires.

A trustee of defunct Tokyo bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox sold more than 35,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 400 million at the time, to pay off creditors, according to details of the sale published by a company trustee last week.

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

Bradken has sold its Bassendean engineering facility to Sydney property group Charter Hall in an off - market sale and leaseback deal worth about $ 32.8 million, while the Champion Drive Shopping Centre in Seville Grove has been sold for $ 13.5 million.

At Thursday's auction of a 7.37 percent 2023 bond, the Reserve Bank of India was only able to sell about 430 million rupees out of the 30 billion on offer into the market, with the remainder having to be bought by primary dealers.

By one third - party estimate, consumers have sold about $ 23.2 million worth of these CryptoKitties since the platform's inception, resulting in the kitties changing hands 331,269 times since November.

BAA, the U.K. airports operator, is in talks to sell a half - share in a group of warehouses and offices around Heathrow airport for about # 600 million ($ 1.18 billion), the Times newspaper reported.

From February to April each year, the more than one million girl scouts in the U.S. sell about 200 million boxes of cookies, managing nearly every aspect of the $ 800 million business.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

• Warburg Pincus agreed to sell Extant, a Melbourne, Fla. - based provider of avionics, electronics, and electromechanical products for the aerospace and defense markets, to TransDigm for about $ 525 million in cash.

Cook battled furiously against that narrative, pointing out that about 500 million simple feature phones were sold last year.

Rumours swirled this year about possible acquisitions by the Quebec - based pharmacy chain after it sold its remaining stake in Rite Aid (resulting in a gain of $ 158.3 million).

Based on Alibaba's 30 - million - customer count and his analysis of Tmall spending patterns, Peck estimates that international brands sold $ 2 billion worth of goods on Singles Day, with about half of that going to American brands.

The chocolate business, which it is selling for $ 2.8 billion, has about $ 900 million in sales.

• AB Volvo (OM: VOLV B) sold its 25 % stake in Deutz AG (DB: DEZ) for about 1.9 billion Swedish crowns ($ 225 million), according to Reuters.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

There were about 17.2 million cars and trucks sold last year, according to a report by Kelley Blue Book.

As a Boston Consulting Group publication reported, «Grocery retailer Tesco has worked with its Dunnhumby business unit to build a big - data business that analyzes millions of customer transactions and sells the resulting insights about shopping behavior (but not customer - level data) to major manufacturers, including Unilever, Nestlé, and Heinz.»

Mt. Gox's bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, disclosed on Wednesday in Tokyo that he sold about $ 400 million of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash since late September, part of the hoard left behind when the exchange collapsed four years ago.

With about 136 theatres, 1,454 screens and more than 71 million tickets sold, Cineplex saw a 9.4 % boost in revenues to $ 1.1 billion in 2012.

Benchmark, one of Uber's biggest shareholders, is said to have sold off 15 % of its own Uber stake, netting the firm about $ 900 million.

On Feb. 6, they sold the 6,300 contracts at about $ 28 each, leaving them with $ 17.5 million.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

The county seat of Greeley sold 1,575 acre - feet of water last year to contractors that supply fracking companies, and made about $ 4.1 million.

Cooperman also sold about 3.5 million shares in Sprint (S), bringing his total holdings in the telecom to just under 40 million shares, and he took 5.2 million additional shares in grocery chain Supervalu (SVU).

Power Financial sold its shares of Montreal Trust to Bell Canada parent BCE Inc. for $ 547 million in 1989 because of reservations about the ability of a mid-sized company to compete with Canada's large chartered banks.

To get a sense of how this is changing the industry's dynamics, consider that a recent Deutsche Bank study estimates that just 5 % of traditional console games released since 2001 have sold more than a million copies (they typically retail for about $ 60 each).

The Ethereum foundation raised more than 31,000 bitcoin in July 2014, worth about $ 18.3 million at the time, when it first sold the first 60 million ether.

And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

The Montreal - based firm is RIM's sixth biggest investor (10.2 million shares at the end of the first quarter, worth about $ 361 million yesterday), and just sold over half its holdings.

Crown Resorts, of which Packer is the largest shareholder, confirmed in May that it was selling off its stake in Ho's Melco Resorts & Entertainment for about $ 987 million.

Perth - based Altona Mining has agreed to sell all of its Finnish operations and most of its exploration assets to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB for about $ US95 million.

Mineral Resources chairman Peter Wade has sold down a majority of his shareholding in the mining and contracting group, pocketing about $ 8.04 million.

To our credit, two years later we had turned the company around and pulled through all of that trauma and sold the company successfully to Expedia for about $ 700 million.

The company said it sold 3.4 million devices during the quarter, about in line with the 3.47 million that analysts had expected, according to a StreetAccount consensus estimate.

Perth - based Strike Resources has sold its Apurimac and Cusco iron ore projects in Peru for about $ 13.5 million, as the company shifts its focus to other commodities.

Legend Mining has sold its stake in gold and nickel miner Independence Group for $ 4 million, with the local explorer netting about $ 2.5 million profit from the sale.

The ranch sells about $ 2 million worth of meat online annually, making up its fastest - growing segment and 10 % of total revenues.

Carlotta Gall writes that she also learned from sources that Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, had kept bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that the CIA learned about his location from a Pakistani informer who sold the information for $ 25 million — not, as the White House claimed, by tracking bin Laden's couriers.

BAA, the U.K. airports operator, is in talks to sell a half - share in a group of warehouses and offices around Heathrow airport for about # 600 million, the Times newspaper reported.

Three days after Equifax discovered the breach, three top Equifax executives, including Chief Financial Officer John Gamble and a president of a unit, sold Equifax shares or exercised options to dispose off stock worth about $ 17.8 million, regulatory filings show.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

Local oil and gas company Antares Energy has sold its two remaining assets in the Permian Basin in Texas to an undisclosed private equity buyer, for about $ US250 million ($ A360 million).