Sentences with phrase «year improvements with»

Ever since Apple began running away with chip benchmarks a few years ago, the gap has only grown larger between it and Qualcomm, to the point where latter's claims of 25 % to 30 % year - on - year improvements with each Snapdragon revision have become a sign of its inability to topple Apple's custom silicon in this regard.

Not exact matches

Some fixes may come through software updates, but as with cars, the real solutions and big improvements probably will have to wait for next year's refresh.

After years of thriving during a broader retail slump, the home - improvement chain is having a hard time pleasing shareholders with its results.

Mid-tier nickel miner has posted a strong half - year with a 782 per cent surge in profit to $ 23.6 million thanks to lower costs, along with productivity and efficiency improvements.

As Intel moved to a new scale for printing chips, it could would follow for several years with annual «waves» of improvements, he explained.

Deloitte's interest in 3D printing has grown along with improvements in the technology over the past few years that increasingly let companies quickly print custom designed products with materials like plastics, nylon, and other resins.

Before, shavers who required synthetic materials (perhaps due to allergies or a desire for animal - free products) had to suffer with stiff, scratchy nylon, but thankfully, newer material technologies have allowed for radical improvements over the past few years.

For years, it seemed that the software juggernaut was simply maintaining the status quo, with very incremental improvements.

It got there by introducing Panera 2.0 a few years ago, an initiative that was meant to improve the experience at Panera's cafes by adding technology and operational improvements to help keep up with high transaction volumes.

With the company riding out iterative improvements in iPhones, iPads and Macs over the past few years, it's overdue for something new.

With Google's all - important search algorithm in a state of permanent improvement — Quipp says it is updated 550 times a year — the SEP team needs to stay on top of all the technical developments and rapidly adjust the company's advice to clients to reflect those changes in the search world.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

WESTERN Australia's economy continues to perform strongly, with the release of end of year results for 1999 - 2000 showing a substantial improvement on budget expectations.The budget bottom - line for the last financial year shows the total public sector ac

It has proposed funding the improvements with $ 200 billion in tax breaks over nine years that would — in theory — leverage $ 1 trillion worth of construction.

Sandberg, like CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his chat with press on Wednesday, emphasized data management and security improvements will likely take several years and lots of investment.

Sandberg, like Zuckerberg in his chat with press on Wednesday, emphasized that data management and security improvements will likely take several years.

Wireless Carrier Rankings For a second consecutive year, SaskTel ranks highest in customer satisfaction among full - service carriers, with a score of 712, which is a 13 - point improvement from 2012.

Over the next couple of years, commodities will be an area where we'll begin to see a lot of improvement fundamentally, including a better macroeconomic backdrop with rising growth and rising inflation.

Ms. Preston, director of supplier diversity development for the automaker, was recognized — in part — for achieving a record - breaking spend of $ 6.5 billion with certified minority business enterprises (MBEs) in 2013 — a 13.8 % year - over-year improvement.

And with the federal carbon pricing requirement coming into effect next year, Ontario's commitment to cap and trade takes necessary action to cut carbon pollution — leaving room for improvements as needed, and at the least possible cost.

Asked about these matters, Kevin Heine, a Bank of New York Mellon spokesman, said, «We believe an $ 8.5 billion bird - in - the - hand settlement with significant servicing improvements is a far better result for all investors than the likely outcome following years of costly litigation.»

Formerly a senior executive, corporate officer and 30 year veteran of Masco Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of home building and home improvement products with sales approaching $ 8 billion, Mr. Valenti was the youngest person to be named vice president in the 70 - year history of Masco.

Tony has held executive sales and management positions for over 25 years, and is an expert in building Intelligent Sales Solutions with a focus process improvement and performance across multiple industries in the US and abroad.

«The improvement in the overall economic conditions with growth recovering this year — it is expected to be at 1.8 percent — will help them to maintain the pace of Continue Reading

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

There are objective reasons to be optimistic, including ongoing labor market improvements — underscored by falling unemployment and underemployment rates, as well as solid job growth — combined with the Federal Reserve's expectations that conditions will permit further interest rate hikes this year as it continues to move toward policy «normalization.»

Taking a look at our longer - term gross margin trends, it's important to note that this quarter's 10 basis point improvement was against the 50 basis point improvement a year ago, with both front - end and pharmacy cycling strong margins.

Unlike most markets, where connectivity was on the decline over the last year, Atlanta, increasingly known in local techie circles as «Silicon Peach,» saw a 33.3 percent improvement in corporate - to - small - business connections, as well as an 11.5 percent improvement in connections with startup advisors and mentors.

On the other hand if China grew next year by 5 %, with credit growing at «only» 8 %, this would represent a significant improvement in China's medium - and long - term growth prospects.

The News Feed component of Facebook has adapted drastically over the past several years with improvements on the way users can interact and visualize their content.

But with improvements in medicine and lifestyles, average life expectancy for Americans who reach 65 has risen nearly seven years — to 84.3 for men and 86.6 for women — since Social Security was established.

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With a growing backlog of IPOs, and economic indicators continuing to show signs of improvement, Renaissance Capital says it anticipates «another dynamic year for the US IPO market in 2014.»

After disappointing people with the iPhone 4S last year, which was basically just a software update with some internal improvements, Apple will likely make a splash with the next iPhone.

Insisting on the «massive three - year push» to get rid of the plague Facebook is infected with, he has promised that improvements would be visible with each passing month.

France's car market shrank sharply again in June, bringing the decline in registrations of new cars to 11 % for the first half of the year, with the country's auto makers» association warning of only a slight improvement by the end of the year.

That same year, Exide reached an agreement with Texas officials to pay $ 20 million for improvements to its engineering systems at the Frisco plant to cut down on lead emissions.

The Fed's recent announcement that it will roll back quantitative easing, combined with a new year and renewed focus on self - improvement, means saving money has become a top focus for many Americans in 2014.

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

Overall, however, we would agree with the recent assessment by the OECD of only a relatively limited improvement to global economic growth over the rest of this year.

U.K. February mortgage data also showed an annual decline of 5.6 percent for approvals with analysts at Jefferies saying they anticipate a further fall in March given difficult to match comparable figures from last year before an improvement in trends returns in subsequent quarters.

Overall, we would agree with the recent assessment by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of only a relatively limited improvement to global economic growth over the rest of this year.

With the results for 2010 - 11 better than expected, one would expect that all or some of this improvement would carry - forward into future years, thereby impacting positively on the outer year forecasts.

Excluding the volatile fresh food component, consumer prices have been flat over the past year, compared with deflation rates of almost 1 per cent in recent years, although part of this improvement is attributable to increases in administered medical prices and tobacco taxes earlier in 2003.

The benefit for the bond market in the fiscal improvement is clearly illustrated by the fact that, in the current fiscal year, the Government's net call on the bond market for new funds has been only about $ 4 billion, compared with $ 14 billion two years earlier.

The recent improvement has been broadly based, with firms in all states and across most industries reporting better conditions than in the first half of the year; conditions are especially favourable in sectors with significant exposure to the domestic economy.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

We've seen more changes and improvements than in eight years with our custom solution.»

In line with the improvement in global conditions, the Australian economy has picked up significantly since around the middle of last year.

With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.