Sentences with phrase «year to year led»

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Still, over the years, Kinect's importance in Microsoft's broader gaming ambitions has declined, leading to the rather decision to kill it.

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.

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

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.

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

In 2011, similar squabbles led to credit agencies downgrading the nation's debt from its triple A status for the first time 70 years.

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

Thiel Fellow and 19 - year - old Harvard drop - out Connor Zwick will explain the «democratization of hardware over the next decade» that led him to leave school and found Milkshake Labs, which is building a game controller for smartphones.

Health insurance giant Aetna pulled in more than $ 63 billion in 2016 revenues and $ 2.9 billion in earnings despite a year that would lead to the demise of its planned $ 34 billion merger with rival Humana.

LONDON — Pierre Andurand, a leading oil fund manager, said that lack of investment in new production could lead to a situation where $ 300 per barrel oil is «not impossible» within the next few years, Bloomberg reported.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the program led average weekly loan approvals to leap by 87 percent compared to the weekly average before the passage of last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

These missed appointments can lead to poor health outcomes, increased emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and lost revenue for health systems — as much as $ 150 billion in the US every year, according to Health Management Technology.

The Justice Department says the merger could lead to $ 463 million in extra fees being passed along to cable subscribers each year.

This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilege.

«Strong economic momentum and accelerating price and wage gains should lead to three more Fed rate hikes this year,» Kathy Bostjancic, head of U.S. macro investor services at Oxford Economics USA, wrote in response to the survey.

«I'm asking a simple question, «what about your analysis was wrong [from the last five years] that leads you to believe you're more informed now?»»

We recently caught up with Bryan Silverman, named Entrepreneur's College Entrepreneur of 2012, about what lessons have led to his company's success and his plans and goals for the coming year.

Stevia was approved by the Food and Drug Administration nearly six years ago, and since it comes from the leaves of a plant and has no calories, it has led the charge in the search for more natural alternatives to sugar.

WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead to better ties after a year of strains.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

April 30 - Strong compliance with OPEC - led production cuts, robust demand and supply disruptions in the Middle East are likely to lift oil's average price this year to above $ 67 a barrel, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.

Google has acquired 11 AI startups over the last five years, leading the pack of corporations hungry for artificial intelligence, according to CB Insights.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.

A leading organization of financial journalists unveiled its picks for the year's best business writing, and we're delighted to announce that Fortune brought home seven honors.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

He launched Canadian Hunter Exploration in 1973, a year characterized by an oil crisis abroad that led to shortages at gasoline pumps in the U.S. Closer to home, confrontations intensified between the federal and provincial governments over managing Alberta's energy resources.

The company posted three - year revenue growth of 1,325 %, leading to 2016 revenue of $ 4 million.

For more than five years, researchers have been able to demonstrate that women - led tech businesses, though rare in the industry, tend to outperform their male - led competitors.

With manufacturing already stagnant, the likelihood of falling into a new recession next year increases greatly (remember that interest rates are a long leading indicator, and increases tend to take a year or more to be felt in the real economy).

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

The 32 - year - old Ramaswamy has been able to sway a slew of biopharma vets to lead his companies and take a chance on his audacious, risky approach to drug development.

While «Jurassic Park» was able to sucessfully pull off a sequel 20 years later with Chris Pratt, «Independence Day» couldn't do the same without a big star and its former leading man Will Smith.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

I've learned over the years that when you're leading larger companies, you need to have a focus.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

M&A activity also boomed in the years leading up to 2000 and 2007, coinciding with the two most recent big stock market tops.

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

The committee's increased scrutiny of foreign acquisitions led to delays in closing HNA's deal to purchase Scaramucci's ownership in SkyBridge last year.

Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Corporate America has led the way in passing on the problem of its surplus capital to investors via share repurchases, with around $ 530 billion spent on U.S. buybacks last year and $ 800 billion expected in 2018, according to JPMorgan.

A more nagging problem is that «failure to launch» has led to more people in their prime earning years working minimum wage jobs.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

Garmin reported a higher - than - expected profit for the eighth straight quarter, selling more of its GPS - based outdoor activity gadgets such as underwater watches, leading it to raise its full - year revenue forecast.

Our management team has a good track record of making the right bets, which has led to a greater than 1,000 percent average annual growth over the past three years and enabled us to make the Inc. 500.

Overcapacity in recent years and a preference for rock - bottom costs of sending goods by sea had led to a slump in air freight rates.

Shares of pioneering CRISPR gene - editing firm Editas fell 7 % in early Tuesday trading after the company announced that it would delay an initial FDA filing for clinical trials of one of its lead drugs, LCA10, to the middle of next year (Editas had originally planned to file by the end of 2017).

Problems with one of the 2013 models led BRP, in February of this year, to issue recall notices for 5,165 units due to excessive heat and a potential fire hazard when rolling at low speeds in high heat.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.