Sentences with phrase «sold to the public over»

Yes, they are promotions, but they're not mere commercials, they're carefully - constructed samples which reflect how films have been sold to the public over the years.

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Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

Over the past several years, he had contemplated selling his company or taking it public, but ultimately decided that partnering with a global player and remaining private would give the company the best opportunity to grow.

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

The trend is also helping spur growth at other local online retailers such as Karmaloop.com, which sells urban streetware over the Web and is also considering a public stock offering move to Wall Street in its near future.

The SEC has alleged that the three individuals illegally sold restricted company shares to the public at a time when the stock's price was highly elevated, resulting in collectively reaping over $ 27 million in profits.

They sell cars to independently owned and operated dealers or distributors who, in turn, sell them to the public, usually after some negotiation over the final price.

HOOPP was an initial private equity investor at Teranet's founding, remained the largest shareholder when the company was taken public on the TSX, and eventually sold its stake into a $ 2.0 billion take - over bid in 2008; and Ducati Motorcycle Company, initially an NYSE / Milan listed Italian sport motorcycle manufacturer, which was the subject of a deleveraging capital increase, taken private and eventually sold to Volkswagen / Audi Group in 2012 for US$ 1.1 billion.

HOOPP was an initial private equity investor at Teranet's founding, remained the largest shareholder when the company was taken public on the TSX, and eventually sold its stake into a $ 2.0 billion take - over bid in 2008; Ducati Motorcycle Company, initially an NYSE / Milan listed Italian sport motorcycle manufacturer, which was the subject of a deleveraging capital increase, taken private and eventually sold to Volkswagen / Audi Group in 2012 for US$ 1.1 billion; and Novadaq Technologies Inc., a medical devices company in which HOOPP was the largest private investor, with such company completing an initial public offering on the TSX in 2005 and which continues today with a market capitalization in excess of $ 730 million.

Over the past 10 years, startups such as Dropbox, Fitbit (went public in June 2015), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 billion) and TrueCar (went public in 2014) have presented at Calacanis» events.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

Churches all over the place have become corporations selling their brand of salvation to an American public that is incredibly fickle.

StemExpress, a for - profit company partnered with over 30 abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to harvest and sell aborted baby parts and provide a «financial benefit» to Planned Parenthood clinics, is attempting to use meritless litigation to cover - up this illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence the citizen press reporting on issues of burning concern to the American public.

A Syracuse woman this week sued the state Public Service Commission in federal court over the commission's attempt to stop independent energy marketers from selling to low - income customers like her.

It has led to complaints that the NHS and other public bodies are forced to pay many times the original value of the property over the course of time, while the contracts are frequently sold on by the original consortium.

Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock - down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

Strong opinions were expressed at a public hearing over the Milwaukee County executive's plan to sell 10 acres adjacent to a proposed new Bucks» arena to the team's majority owners for $ 1.

While only one of the three men at the panel discussion, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, has formally declared his candidacy in the race to take over from Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2014, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio were in full campaign mode Wednesday morning, selling their visions of the «Future of New York City» at a panel hosted by the law firm Stroock.

Its first attempt, in 2002, was suspended over questions about the procedures it was using to sell public property.

The public may or may not become engaged over the threat to polar bears, they will surely be aroused to action if they realize the consequences of a warmer world — and that they have been sold out for a few pennies.

The first notice to stop selling Fire Cider was sent to an Etsy business after the Public Opposition was over.

As a result the movie feels delicate and presents certain flatness in its structure, like cracks that have been papered over and held together with superglue so that it may be sold to the public quick, before anyone notices that it's broken.

Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), publisher of The Washington Post, is going over a list of financial and legal documents once again, rehearsing her answers to the questions she will be getting from bankers about selling shares in the company to the public for the first time.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

Diane Ravitch, and author and historian of American education and a best - selling author, writes in In these Times that DeVos and Prince families «have contributed generously to anti-gay and anti-labor causes over the years, but Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, have shown a special passion for privatizing public education.»

Aside from selling more computers (Chromebooks) software and SBAC test analysis ($ 22 - $ 27 per student), new CCSS aligned textbooks, workshops for educators etc. the money to be made lies in turning over public schools to charter schools, which use public funds, in many cases to turn a profit.

The Z28 was re-introduced, as a model and not a RPO, to the buying public in the spring of 1977 as a 1977 1/2 in response to dramatically increasing sales of Pontiac's Trans Am, which sold over 46,000 units in 1976 and accounted for half of all Firebird sales that year.

GMC introduced the first truck to the public in 1912 and sold over 22,000 units.

Annemarie has been working in the digital marketing space for over fifteen years, beginning her career with a small dot - com startup; moving to the role of web strategist, media and public relations at Simon Fraser University; starting and selling her own business, yoyomama.ca; and handling marketing for small - to medium - sized businesses.

We meet such characters as Nian Guangjiu, an aspiring entrepreneur who sold melon seeds, and was arrested for «corruption,» «misuse of public funds,» and «hooliganism» over the course of his career, before finally being named in 1998 as one of ninety - six «Heroes of Reform»; and Li Xiaohua, the first man in China to buy a Ferrari, who was arrested for peddling watches before a hair - restoring potion made him a millionaire.

But after much litigation over the ownership of public domain works, Google decided to the other route, and deal with publishers, and authors directly to sell copyrighted work and get a take.

«Over a billion people can deliver their text to a very broad public,» he wrote at the time — but how does it affect those people who actually sell their writing for a living?

We know that public libraries enhance the sale of books; but does this benefit outweigh publisher concerns about piracy and the business opportunity to sell the same content over and over again, monetizing library lending?

Over the years, we've refrained from recommending, or advised selling, a number of stocks, including blue chip stocks because we felt their capital structure or promotional materials were designed to make it easy for insiders to mislead or take advantage of the investing public.

Puppy mills are mass production facilities that crank out an estimated 4 - 5 million dogs annually that are sold in pet stores, over the Internet, at swap meets and direct to the public.

The puppies are sold either directly to the public via the Internet, newspaper ads, at the mill itself, or are sold to brokers and pet shops across the country.The documented problems of puppy mills include over breeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of socialization with humans, overcrowded cages, and the killing of unwanted animals.

With public awareness growing over the past decade, mass breeders have been exploiting a loophole in federal regulations: Those breeders who categorized themselves as retail pet stores, selling dogs directly to the public, were not required to be licensed in a way that would subject them to USDA inspections — unlike large - scale breeders selling puppies to pet stores.

Our mission is to raise awareness and educate the public about puppy mills and their connection to puppies sold in pet stores, over the internet, and through other outlets.

Puppy mill puppies, often as young as eight weeks of age, are sold to pet shops or directly to the public over the Internet, through newspaper ads and at swap meets and flea markets.

No person that breeds, buys, or sells dogs retail, wholesale, or to the public shall maintain more than twenty (20) dogs, excluding dogs which are spayed or neutered, over the age of six (6) months at any time.

707, the «PUPS Act» to expand the reach of the Animal Welfare Act to include kennels that sell large numbers of puppies over the internet or directly to the public.

«High volume retail breeders» would no longer be exempt from Animal Welfare Act licensing and other regulation if they sell dogs directly to the public, whether over the internet, telephone or through newspaper ads.

The federal USDA does not, however, require licensing of commercial breeders that sell dogs directly to the public through newspaper ads or over the Internet.

The seller of the 25 percent Hilton stake — for which HNA paid a premium of almost 15 percent over the going price for Hilton shares — was the same firm that sold Strategic Hotels to Anbang: the giant U.S. investment house Blackstone Group, which took Hilton private in 2007 and then took it public with an IPO in 2013 that raised $ 2.3 billion.

Its predecessor, Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS, sold over 2 million copies in just a few days, whereas perhaps due to the Japanese public's aversion to MMOs, this title has yet to break half a million two weeks after release.

It amounts to many a postmodern critique of art institutions and arts funding — starting well before Jeffrey Deitch took over LA MOCA, the New Museum sold out to the Joannou collection, or the New York Public Library unloaded a great American landscape to Wal - Mart as, in time, the core of a new museum.

Over 60 artists will open their live - work studios to the public, showing and selling work in a wide variety of media and formats.

A portrait by the British artist Francis Bacon which has not been seen in public for over 55 years is to be sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction

From graffiti's humble beginnings in 1967 to the first painting being sold in 1973, Wall Writers reveals the context of the start of a movement that would eventually grow to transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over.

The underlying question is not whether anomalies are consistent over large distances, but whether average temperatures are, because that is what is being sold to the public as the basis for public policy.