Sentences with phrase «to last year»

North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

Investors and hedge funds were freaked out last year when the price for Arabica beans shot through the roof, thanks to a drought in Brazil.

Another member of the Russian delegation, Alexey Urivskiy, told the Russian newspaper Vedomosti last year that the delegation at the I.S.O. committee was supposed to get Russian cryptographic algorithms into the standard.

The results of his inquiry appeared in the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences last year.

That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Comey made those comments during an ABC News interview that aired Sunday, his first major TV interview since being fired in May last year.

Russia also accounted for approximately 12 % of all tourists to Turkey last year.

Mueller's office has been in negotiations with Trump's personal lawyers about interviewing the president since late last year.

There's even a chance the dreamy Prime Minister will provide some free publicity, as Justin Trudeau did for Microsoft Corp. when it opened an office in Vancouver last year, for example.

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva graduated from the University of Southern California last year having earned not just a degree, but perhaps a more important credential: their own business.

Money for the original program — which helped to lend $ 22 billion to some 55,000 small businesses — was included in last year's economic stimulus bill.

* Philippines was top nickel ore supplier to China last year.

When the federal government dropped the budget last year, the Liberals put a big emphasis on helping Canada become more innovative.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wrote in a blog post that last year in particular, he and Whitman's relationship deepened when the online - file storage company worked with HPE to build its own data center infrastructure.

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

In New York City last year, an environmental organization called Feedback fed 5,000 people free meals cooked from produce that otherwise would have been wasted.

Last year, companies raised $ 3.8 billion via ICOs, and this year alone they have already raised $ 2.8 billion, according to data from CoinSchedule, a site which tracks the activity in the space.

(Last year, amid the knotty negotiations with Sprint, he got to only two, something he's rectifying this year.)

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

The Terawatt Workshop, convened last year by the Global Alliance of Solar Energy Research Institutes, recently published its findings.

Branson said late last year he expects that company to take up its first passengers sometime in 2018.

Last year the group warned of «unscrupulous» parties who might try to use the yet - to - be-defined crowdfunding rules to steal from investors.

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

Manafort's ties to Russia came under scrutiny in August of last year, when The New York Times discovered that a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine designated him $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments.

Fortune Global 500 companies had revenues that equaled 37.8 % of World GDP — down from 40.1 % last year.

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

The company has built on the lead with an avalanche of new hardware released in the last year: The tablet - like Echo Show, which has a screen; the Echo Look fashion camera; the Echo Plus home hub; the Echo Spot alarm clock; the redesigned Echo.

«One of his repeated phrases was «the best,»» David Jr. recalls of his dad, who died last year at age 101.

Paradoxically, the city's latent racism hasn't affected mayor Aboutaleb's popularity among supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV)- the Dutch nationalist rightwing party led by Wilders, who, on 9 December last year, was convicted of inciting discrimination.

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

Late last year, private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners agreed to buy Ikaria for $ 1.6 billion.

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says that U.S. electricity consumption amounted to around 3.85 trillion kilowatt hours last year.

Last year, celebrities participated in 101 deals totaling approximately $ 2 billion.

George Zachary, a partner at Charles River Ventures and the first institutional investor in Pebble, said Wednesday that the company's revenue hit $ 43 million last year and will double in 2014.

He thinks that the COO had a free pass last year with holiday mishaps that caused the stock to drop.

According to internal documents released last year, BuzzFeed was already generating revenue of about $ 100 million in 2014 and was profitable.

The company recognized revenue on only 1.1 million handsets, down 31 % over last year.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

Ask him how many nights he spent away from home last year, and all he has to do is consult a spreadsheet.

The trio launched Alert Labs last year in response.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

Last year, MLB and YouTube TV signed a marketing partnership in which the MLB promoted YouTube TV during the 2017 World Series, which YouTube TV subscribers could watch via the Fox broadcasting network.

Perhaps not surprisingly, VC funding for ed - tech startups was estimated to approach $ 3 billion last year, according to CB Insights.

As an entire company, the Priceline Group was second last year worldwide in market share behind Expedia, Euromonitor data showed.

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

Prince Alwaleed had sold most of his stake in News Corp last year.