Sentences with phrase «stake in it as»

Two years later Shallenberger took an ownership stake in it as well.

Also, it sort of invalidates your comment about feeling sorry for atheists when 1) you are also on this blog so you have about as much of a stake in this as any atheist here and 2) if agitating christian ranks only takes asking for proof and debating religion in a coherent matter, christian foundation must be pretty shaky indeed.

Keen to seize a controlling stake in this as yet unconquered region, the global superpowers have raced to build orbital elevators, swiftly turning the emptiness of space into a tangle of surveillance satellite networks and military way stations.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

The company received $ 3 billion from China in 2007 for a 10 percent stake in the company that had $ 368 billion under management as of the end of March.

His departure comes as Google is facing growing threats of regulation in Europe and a high - stakes negotiations with record labels in the US.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

According to data from Sentieo, nearly 75 % of publicly traded companies with some stake in the marijuana industry deemed Trump's election important enough to mention it as a risk factor to their shareholders.

Rumours of Verizon's entry into Canada recently subsided with the company's purchase of Vodafone's 45 % Verizon stake, as well as statements from Verizon's CEO indicating that the company wasn't particularly interested in going north.

For a number of years, the two were estranged, to the point where Sumner tried to buy out Shari's stake in Viacom and CBS (as he bought out her brother Brent).

Watsa held a small stake in 2010, increasing it as others fled.

That section laid out that a change in accounting rules now required Alphabet to include the change in value of any shares it owned in private companies, such as Uber, in its profits even if just held onto to its stake and didn't buy or sell any more shares.

Among the interests Mnuchin sold were stakes in a Hollywood financing company known as RatPac - Dune, Treasury spokeswoman Molly Meiners said in an email.

«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.

As of yet, their stakes may not be worth a whole lot: In an April tweet, Jay Z valued Tidal at $ 60 million.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Flipkart had vetoed an approach from Amazon for a 51 to 55 percent stake in the company two years ago, a source told Reuters, judging its offered price as far too low at the time.

-- Springer is actually only buying 88 % of Business Insider, because it already owned a 9 % stake as a result of an investment round in January (which valued the company at less than half what Springer is now paying).

«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

Under the new accounting rules, that meant Google had to mark up its stake in Uber, likely by a considerable amount, and report the unrealized gain as income.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Larsen personally holds 5.19 billion XRP crypto coins as well as a 17 % stake in the company he cofounded, Forbes reported Tuesday, citing sources close to Ripple.

If in doubt about which grants your business is eligible for, it is worth taking advice from an organization such as Business Link, or even paying a consultant to guide you through the entire process if there is a large sum of money at stake.

Applecross - based Mineral Resources is looking to sell a 49 per cent stake in its Wodgina lithium project, as work to investigate the feasibility of a lithium hydroxide or carbonate processing plant at the site continues.

In 2004, the family sold an 80 % stake to Bain Capital for a reported $ 1 billion, but Larry Rossy remained as CEO at that time.

But as the day's final speaker, he couldn't leave the stage without blowing one more kiss at Ackman: Icahn disclosed that he has now asked his company for permission to take up to a 50 percent stake in Herbalife, the supplement company over which the two have battled so publicly.

Altaba was created amid Yahoo's sale to Verizon as a vehicle for stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.

He's taken a stake in TYT Network, one of the top online - video political news networks, as part of $ 20 million in funding led by growth equity firm 3L Capital with participation from Greycroft and e.ventures.

In April a 40 % stake in its parent, Glencore Agriculture Products, was quietly repatriated by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for US$ 2.5 billion as Glencore shed assets to pay down debIn April a 40 % stake in its parent, Glencore Agriculture Products, was quietly repatriated by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for US$ 2.5 billion as Glencore shed assets to pay down debin its parent, Glencore Agriculture Products, was quietly repatriated by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for US$ 2.5 billion as Glencore shed assets to pay down debt.

While the chief investment officer of Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) can buy things most people can't — toll roads, office towers, stakes in private companies — he takes a value approach to buying, just as many retail investors do.

That's why you need to have frequent feedback sessions with others who have a stake in the goal - setting process, and encourage constructive criticism, as well as celebrate their achievements.

Federation Centres, formerly known as Centro Retail, has sold half stakes in its Mandurah and Halls Head shopping centres as part of a $ 371.4 million deal with property fund manager ISPT.

UPS took a stake in Optoro last year, as the company, like FedEx, tries to generate revenue from not only returns but from placing unwanted items in channels where they're most likely to sell.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital has a 6.2 percent stake in the company — a $ 3.3 billion bet that was worth as of Wednesday afternoon $ 618 million.

Since then, starting with its 2001 purchase of a 51 % stake in independent U.S. ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky, MDC Partners has built up an impressive roster of creative ad agencies, increased its revenues and established itself as a major player in global marketing.

Each of these seven companies has a large stake in the phone industry, and following the end of the second quarter, it's a good a time as any to see how 2011 is shaping up for them.

As a neutral observer with no stake in this issue either way, I can't say I particularly care whether Google or Apple is the more influential and important company of the past decade.

As part of the deal, Arsenal Capital Partners will retain a minority ownership stake in Certara.

(It currently holds stakes in high - profile startups such as quantum computing company D - Wave Systems, energy firm General Fusion and e-commerce enterprise BuildDirect.)

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

It asks those taking it to rate how likely it is that they would engage in a list of risky behaviors, such as wagering a day's income on a high - stakes poker game, choosing a ski run that's beyond their abilities, or driving without a seatbelt.

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

But it's all too possible that everything he has accomplished to date has delivered Zuckerberg to a place where he simply has too much at stake to accept the painful tradeoffs required to solve what he has correctly identified as Facebook's most pressing problems in 2018.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Clark has staked her political legacy on the success of the LNG industry, which she has cast as a once - in - a-generation opportunity on the same level of the moon landing.

At stake is more than $ 20,000 in cash prizes, as well as a chance to have a private dinner with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The deal comes not long after Bell teamed up with Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) to buy a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.32 billion, largely as a play for valuable sports programming.

It may surprise some to learn that he ultimately decided not to take the $ 460,000 that he was offered, as he didn't want to give up a 50 percent stake in his business.

It's an ideal time to reduce the stake as Yakult shares have gained 29 percent in the past year, he added.