Sentences with phrase «year process by»

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One such firm, Datalogix, was acquired last year by Oracle for a rumoured high nine figures, a tidy sum for a black - box process that, at the end of the day, can essentially only correlate interest and purchase behaviour.

«As each natural disaster goes by, we hone our processes already in place so we can react quicker and faster the next time this happens,» said Pete Capel, a 26 - year Home Depot veteran and merchandising executive in charge of the hurricane command center.

Thanks to the recession, in 2009 consumers used coupons at a faster clip than they did the year before — the first increase in coupon redemption in 17 years, says a new study by Inmar Inc., a company that processes coupon transactions.

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.

The Apple Watch is alive and well thanks to a price reduction and solid craftsmanship, and rumors are swirling that an Apple Watch 2 with GPS and improved processing power would hit the market by the end of this year.

That year, Image One adopted the Entrepreneurial Operating System, or EOS, a process created by author Gino Wickman that involves tracking critical numbers to set priorities and resolve problems.

Maybe you found a way to save the company thousands of dollars a year by shifting to a less expensive manufacturing process.

«The appraisal process — which is exercised multiple times a year by shareholders — allows a court to determine fair value through a judicial process.»

And here's the kicker about all that insurance money — it's generated by millions of agents, with lots of paper, in processes that look much the same way they did 30 years ago.

That doesn't mean Airbnb will go public next year — though it sure sounds like it might — but rather that it plans to be finished the process of getting «ready» by next year.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

Two years ago, North Korea dealt with inflation by undergoing a currency denomination, a process wherein the face value of circulating currency is changed.

It's dictated by how much information we need to process — more information spells more time, which is why our younger years, when we're processing lots and lots of new stuff, seem to pass so slowly.

The company is just starting the matching process on the new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.

And since the process can take several years, you start by filing an «intent to use,» which is an image of the trademark and a sworn affidavit that you intend to use it in commerce.

«The project never changed during the process of five years dedicated to a rigorous work on details, driven by the famous eye and genius of Steve Jobs.»

That's why the bank launched a $ 300 - million revamp of the national currency last year, which will see Canada gradually convert from paper bills to polymer (using a fabrication process pioneered by Australia).

In one year, representing the «tick,» it would improve its microprocessors by printing the transistors on the chips closer together, reducing the scale of the process, say, from 32 nanometers to 22 nanometers.

Known as debt settlement, it's a process by which consumers stop paying unsecured creditors, wait months or even years until creditors have given up hope of collecting, then offer to settle outstanding balances for mere fractions of the amounts owing.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday a new drone registration process requiring owners of remotely piloted aircraft to register online with the government by early next year.

That's why the 21st Century Cures Act, which aims to streamline the drug approval process, was overwhelmingly approved by Congress last year and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The appointment to a seven - year term follows a lengthy five - month search process set in motion by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty after Carney announced he would step down June 1.

Either way, this process has a long way to go: This comment period will last until August 16, then the FCC will make a decision and likely hold a final vote by the end of the year.

Because a legacy is created day by day, year by year, leaders should be constantly engaged in a process of self - improvement.

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

The current offtake partner at Mt Marion, Ganfeng Lithium, has been using the same direct sulphate conversion process tested by Neometals to produce lithium hydroxide from the mine's concentrates in China for more than a year.

The five - year rebranding process focused on bringing urbanites into the fold by introducing more accessible outdoor activity lines for walking, running, and cycling.

After years of optimizing that process, Indochino is making an aggressive push into the real world, with plans to open 150 bricks - and - mortar locations by 2020, in addition to greatly expanding its product line.

I always suggest automating performance management with a software that collects data by tracking task and goal completion throughout the year for a painless process.

For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two or three year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

It's an updated twist on a low - cost, mail - order film - processing service popularized a few years ago by Seattle Film Works, recently renamed PhotoWorks Inc., in its own bid to straddle the digital divide.

Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of all UK debit and credit card transactions, had by 1000 GMT seen a 3 percent increase in spending compared to Black Friday last year and a 29 percent increase in transactions.

By the end of this year, total refining capacity will exceed a million barrels a day — making Singapore the world's third - largest oil - processing center, after Houston and Rotterdam.

Last year, Fang was also tapped by senior management to streamline the bank's deal approval process.

In last year's proxy, the bank acknowledged the issues in Oman's unit: «WFHM's successes were muted by foreclosure process disruptions and related reputational issues.»

For many borrowers, it's a likely an unsatisfying end to a process defined by years of frustration.

The discovery comes at a particularly sensitive time for merchants, not only because this is the busiest time of the year for most, when by some estimates U.S. retailers will notch $ 630 billion in sales, but also because most merchants are now in the process of switching over to terminals that accept chip cards, also known as EMV cards.

By optimizing your space for your writing style, creating a daily writing routine, and gathering and acting on inspiration, you can build a long - term writing process you can rely on for years to come.

For example, she introduced a five - year management - training program that grooms promising employees to become plant GMs by exposing them to various areas of the business — a process loosely based on what she herself went through.

Credit scoring, which has been around for years, is the process by which a computer calculates an applicant's creditworthiness, be it for a credit card or — with increasing frequency — a small - business loan.

The $ 84 million timber processing plant due to be built this year by Denis Cullity's Wesbeam was the first manufacturing project to be covered by the new scheme.

That's why Valero Energy Corp., the largest independent U.S. refiner, is planning to own 9,000 new rail cars by year end to bring in crude from Canada and the U.S.'s equally clogged shale oilfields to processing facilities.

An internal department document obtained by ProPublica also suggests that the slowdown of consular activity may make it difficult for the United States to meet its commitment to processing at least 20,000 immigrant visas for Cubans this year, an annual target that is important to Cuban - Americans seeking to bring relatives from the island.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

The process took about three months, and in the first year after, we increased earnings by 7.5 percent.»

At CES this year we did, however, get a glimpse into what we might be able to expect in the mobile space in the coming year by way of announcements from two big players in the mobile processing space: Qualcomm and Audience.