Sentences with phrase «than news about»

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Chief Executive Officer Bruce Broussard was asked several questions about news reports the company had discussed a deal with retailer Wal - Mart Inc during a 45 - minute conference call to discuss better - than - expected first - quarter earnings.

But even apart from its news chops, no one can deny that BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti understands content and how it functions on the Internet better than just about anyone in the media.

The good news about this truth is that, in comparison to simple mental horsepower, which is larger set at birth, it's far easier to «get smarter» about emotions than it is to just «get smarter» generally.

Oil and gas traders, Bailey says, received alerts about the death of the King of Saudi Arabia more than four hours before crude prices spiked on the news.

Mylan drew major flak last year after news broke that it had steadily increased the list price for an EpiPen two - pack from about $ 100 to more than $ 600 in less than a decade.

«This is more than just about a victory for «eat more kale,»» Shumlin said in a news conference on Friday.

That's the finding of a survey of more than 3,000 people conducted in mid-January by CoinDesk, a New York - based provider of price data, information and news about digital tokens.

According to a recent poll reported by The Verge, about 61 percent of Americans think news outlets produce «less complete» work than ever before.

John W. Schoen is an award - winning online journalist, who has reported and written about economics, business and financial news for more than 30 years.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

The RCMP devoted more than a dozen investigators to the complex file and interviewed about 200 people in three countries, but Potter dismissed the probe as «flawed, unduly delayed and without merit» in an interview with Halifax business news website allnovascotia.com.

In the case of Apple News, it's all about keeping customers on iOS, rather than switching to Android.

Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

Similar to recent research showing that fake news spreads faster than facts on Twitter, these findings about YouTube's algorithm can't be blamed on any nefarious plot to destabilize the world.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

YouTube told the Journal that it had a harder task than Google because of the smaller selection of videos about breaking news events, as compared to written stories.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

That expert also said, «The good news is that parents know more about child development than ever before.»

Newspapers and magazines have spent more than a decade now hemorrhaging revenue, staff, and reach thanks to the collapse of print advertising, but recent outcry about the spread of «fake news» may have motivated Google and Facebook to provide more support to trusted publishers.

It's enormous news for a startup that has grown from about 150 employees a year ago to more than 400 today.

Another study found that viewers of Colbert Report knew more about campaign finance and super PACS than cable news viewers — perhaps because comedy gets people to pay attention to unpleasant but valuable information.

The videos themselves didn't get much more traffic than other posts about company news on their blog, but they offered a huge qualitative impact on brand awareness.

First the good news: It's $ 242 million in revenues beat consensus estimates by about $ 22 million and it made a whopping 116 % more than it did the year before.

And I went on a diatribe about how most of the news media is focused on all the negative stories all day long, because we pay 10 times more attention to negative news than positive news, because we're evolutionarily advantaged to do that.

What Beijing seems not to understand is that current pessimism about the Chinese economy has less to do with the recent spate of bad news than with the lack of reliable data on the Chinese economy and the opacity of Beijing's process of economic policymaking and its intentions.

Her news story about an increasing number of seniors declaring bankruptcy in the U.S. was read by more than 40,000 people in one month.

Question: What about news blogs that don't have time to do more than post press releases?

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CBS News explains if your credit is merely good, not excellent, «you'll pay about $ 30,000 more over your lifetime than that individual with excellent credit.»

After a massive study from MIT found that fake news traveled faster than accurate news on Twitter, the Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan told me: «We can study Twitter all day, but only about 12 percent of Americans are on it.

In terms of executive news, most of it in the last six months has been about departures rather than hires.

The YouGov BrandIndex universe of more than 1,100 brands was measured with the company's Buzz score, which asks respondents «If you've heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?»

Advice: CNBC was criticized for its coverage of the dot com bubble during the late 90's because it took more of a cheerleader role than as an objective news source.Now, the network is required to report whether analysts it has on its shows do banking business with the stocks they're talking about.

Monday afternoon, when asked during a press conference if he had timed his pardon of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Friday evening so that storm news might push it under the radar, Trump replied that he «assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally» on Friday as the storm was about to hit the Texas coast.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 percent of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news (such as PBS) increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»

But, younger Americans age 18 - 34 are more likely than any older age groups to say they only bump into news rather than seek it out (6 in 10 vs. about 4 in 10).

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By the time Daulerio published the post, it had been seven months since TMZ broke the news about the existence of the sex tape and more than five months since gossip website The Dirty had published grainy screenshots from the video.

The impact of Facebook's News Feed changes on the media is far less interesting than what the changes — and their stated purpose — say about Facebook itself.

News outlets consistently published more articles and, in turn, received a bigger share of page views for pieces about Trump than any other major topic we searched, according to Parse.ly Insights, a tool that measures how much attention articles receive across hundreds of major global publishers.

At a news conference, ECB President Mario Draghi seemed relatively confident about the economy and less inclined to hint at more stimulus than some analysts had expected.

That's why it makes sense (in fact, that's more than worth it) to know what exactly Ripple is and be aware of the most recent news about it.

Investors deal better with knowing about specific bad news rather than uncertainty, and that's what we're seeing play out now.

«People on TV news shows spoke significantly fewer sentences about Hurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Florida.»

The result is that they are able to spread the news about their project much further — ICOs typically don't see more than 30 or 40,000 buyers.

4X as many consumers would prefer to watch a video about a product than to read about it — and the same goes for news stories.

It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 % of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»

We've talked about trading the news in the past, but when you recognize that volatility is a larger factor than normal, you need to pay even closer attention to your news feeds than you typically do.

Facebook shares, pummeled by news about the company's mishandling of user data, ended a two - day slide by climbing more than 4 % to $ 159.79.