Sentences with phrase «sold by the millions»

The chicken tax explains why interesting, diverse, drivable pickups that sell by the millions in the rest of the world are unavailable in the U.S. market, like the Toyota Hilux, VW Amarok and the Mercedes X class.

Oughtn't poetry books to be selling by the millions by now?»

At issue is whether Procter & Gamble has the patent rights to what it calls the best disposable diaper made today, and whether Weyerhaeuser copied Procter & Gamble «s design to market a disposable diaper that Montgomery Ward and Penneys have sold by the million.

With a product that spawned various lines of toys that sold by the millions, and had television shows and an animated movie to its name, The Transformers: The Movie in 1986, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned it into a hugely profitable film franchise, having now made over $ 3.7 billion across its four recent movies.

At this moment, Android and iOS - based tablets are selling by the millions and taking over the market, while Windows 8 - tablets are still in their infancy.

Yet it's selling by the millions.

I am sure that they would sell by the millions so I'm not sure what they have to lose.

Given how great the past Mario games have sold, a bundled Mario title for the Wii U launch could easily get the console selling by the millions within days or weeks.

Less efficient T12 fluorescent tubes are still sold by the million because of a loophole in a 2012 Department of Energy efficiency standard.

In a post published to his personal blog, Saleem Rashid demonstrated proof - of - concept code that had allowed him to backdoor the Ledger Nano S, a $ 100 hardware wallet that company marketers have said has sold by the millions... (continued)

Not exact matches

The SEC says that Garza made $ 20 million in ill - gotten gains by selling customers shares in «hashlets.»

Pharrell Williams» «Happy» — the theme song to animation film «Despicable Me 2» — was crowned America's best - selling song of 2014, after selling more than 6.4 million copies, followed by John Legend's «All of Me» and Katy Perry's «Dark Horse.»

But Senator Investment Group cut its position by more than half when it sold 875,000 shares and Third Point trimmed its holding by selling 400,000 shares to own 5 million.

Her album «1989» was the top - selling album in 2014 with 3.66 million digitally downloaded copies and physical editions shifted, followed closely by Disney's «Frozen» soundtrack, with 3.53 million copies bought, according to Nielsen.

The government estimates that as many as 7 million electric cars could be sold in China annually by 2025.

«I bootstrapped with a laptop and my brain, and I brought [the company] up to really high revenue numbers» — $ 65 million a year by the time she sold it, says Roth.

Passport Capital sold 1.2 million shares, cutting the firm's stake by 27 percent.

Morneau's regulations, as well as earlier lending restrictions, are aimed at homes that sell for under $ 1 million, which tend to be acquired by the sort of middle - income buyers most likely to become dangerously over-leveraged.

Holders of the cryptocurrency Ethereum had spent more than $ 2 million on virtual kittens by Sunday night, bought and sold over a new blockchain - based game called CryptoKitties.

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.

Sold by San Francisco entrepreneur David Friedberg to Monsanto in 2013, the agricultural data company meshes old ideas into a new, valuable package that attracted $ 109 million in four investment rounds.

Roar drinks are sold in more than 4,000 retail doors throughout the U.S., and the company says it has grown year over year by more than 300 percent with $ 3.5 million in revenue last year.

UBM (ubm - 2) said it would sell its press release distributor PR Newswire to Cision, a business controlled by GTCR Canyon Holdings, for $ 841 million, to focus on its events business.

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.

By 2006, they sold their chain of 26 stand - alone retail stores and the men's line Jack Spade to Liz Claiborne for $ 124 million.

A Nomura Securities analyst told the Journal that the Switch could sell more than 115 million units by 2023.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has also opened an investigation into Facebook and its role in the siphoning of 50 million users» data by an academic who then sold the information to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica without those users» knowledge.

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.

The company is expected to report sales of 51.9 million iPhone units from the fiscal second quarter, along with an average selling price of $ 740, according to average analyst forecasts compiled by Bloomberg.

TD's new acquisition had become the largest trust company in Canada largely by selling itself as the anti — big bank, offering its 3.7 million customers revolutionary (for the time) services like 24 - hour telephone banking and extended branch hours.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

At the same time, iPad sales dropped again in the second quarter, falling by almost 23 % to 12.6 million units sold, which brought in $ 5.4 billion in revenue.

But, by late 2015, Rdio was bankrupt, its intellectual property sold to Pandora for $ 75 million and its service shuttered.

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).

By the time he was 30 years old, Omar Amanat had sold off his brokerage firm, Tradespace, for $ 100 million.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

So far, the Assassin's Creed franchise has sold more than 38 million games and by the looks of things, should be adding to that total significantly by the end of this year.

The company is seeking to raise as much as $ 370 million by selling 16.2 million shares priced between $ 17 to $ 20 each.

Meanwhile, Mac sales improved by 10 %, to 4.6 million units sold in the second quarter.

By outsourcing development wherever possible, conducting rigorous market testing and selling exclusively online, he's turned Paretologic, which specializes in online security, into a company with $ 88 million in annual revenues, and profit margins that regularly exceed 50 %.

By 1996, with sales soaring to nearly $ 6 million, Pac - Van — which sells and leases mobile offices, modular buildings, and storage trailers — was in desperate need of more room.

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

To date, Telegram has been funded by Pavel Durov, who four years ago sold his 12 percent stake in VKontakte for reportedly around $ 300 million.

«By selling in - game bundles within the mobile game, consumers have spent around $ 6 million dollars in the game to date,» said Peter Warman, founder of Newzoo.

Skylanders Swap Force sold most on the Wii at 1.6 million units, followed by the Xbox 360 (0.9 million) and PS3 (0.7 million).

Block claims that the $ 231.1 million in revenue Sino - Forest made by selling timber in China's Yunnan province is grossly exaggerated.

Even though the $ 3.5 million - a-year wholesaler's selling prices are locked in by contract, founder and CEO Jim Gilson, 50, can minimize those impacts by hedging coffee futures on the Chicago Board of Trade.

These acquisitions may revive ailing towns» hopes of rescue by the rich, deals that got a bad rap after Kim Basinger bought Braselton, Ga., for US$ 20 million in 1989, then had to sell it to a developer four years later for just US$ 1 million.

Ma reaped more than $ 800 million selling shares in the company he set up 15 years ago as Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, based on company filings, with the value of his remaining stake of 7.8 percent surging to more than $ 17 billion by Monday.