“…Learning and Development is an 80 billion-dollar industry, and every valuable employee represents a sizable investment on the part of your company. …”

“…According to The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, health care fraud alone causes the nation around $68 billion annually. This statistic does not include the numerous other industries where fraudulent activities occur daily. …”

“…Last year, US companies spent over $165 Billion on training; while many training programs themselves provide valuable skills and concepts, even the best-designed programs are ineffective because the learned behaviors are not reinforced. …”

“…Write Windows 8 Metro apps capable of running on one billion devices -- and do it with familiar HTML5 and JavaScript technologies! …”

“…Description Tap into Google's $50 billion dollar advertising stream by creating original content and monetizing it with ads through Google’s AdSense program! …”

“…Especially when it adds up to $4 billion. That is roughly the sum the 13 internet entrepreneurs featured in this book lost in 1999. …”

“…Nowadays we are able to integrate more than a billion transistors on a single chip. However, the term “VLSI” is still being used, though there was some effort to coin a new term ULSI (Ultra-Large Scale Integration) for fine distinctions many years ago. …”

“…A picture is worth a thousand words, but what if there are a billion words? When analyzing big data, you need a picture that cuts through the noise. …”

“…—Jane Gleeson-White, Wall Street Journal With staffs that are collectively larger than the Russian army and combined revenues of over $130 billion a year, the Big Four accounting firms—Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG—are a keystone of global commerce. …”

“…By the end of his tenure, 12 years later, the Nation had grown its assets from $150 million to $1.2 billion, increased business profits 2,000 percent, created 6,000 jobs, and dramatically advanced its education, language, and cultural preservation programs. …”

“…Nokia reinvented itself and is now the second-biggest player in the $100 billion-dollar global wireless market. In Transforming Nokia, the man who orchestrated and led Nokia's comeback-Chairman of the Board Risto Siilasmaa-reveals the story of Nokia's fall and resurrection. …”

“…Facebook accounts for one of every seven minutes spent online. More than one billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook. …”

“…In fact, most startup origin stories are very different from the famous "unicorns" that have achieved valuations of over $1 billion, from Facebook to Google to Uber. In The Unicorn's Shadow Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship. …”

“…In just over 10 years, Google has become the world’s most valuable brand, consistently dominating its category and generating $6 billion in revenue per quarter. How does Google do it? …”

“…Throw in the app's more than 1 billion active monthly users and its powerful business tools-including shoppable posts, devoted business profiles, and advanced analytics-and you have an unmissable opportunity to tell a gripping story that bonds you with your customers and makes your business an integral part of their social media lives. …”

“…In the basic scenario to restore capital to a market based leverage ratio of 3%, EUR 84 billion of extra capital would be needed for the largest 60 banks. …”

“…So, what gives Chinese founders and their companies the advantage in becoming multi-billion global enterprises? How does their leadership set strategies? …”

“…Over 1 million years of life are lost each year in the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) alone due to antibiotic resistance, and it costs healthcare systems about €1.1 billion annually. These health and economic impacts are expected to worsen. …”

“…Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. …”
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“…The present volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game: France, the world's second-ranking exporter of agricultural products and headquarters of a number of very active agro-business companies; and India, crossing the one billion population mark while emerging from its traditional protectionism, and legitimately concerned about preserving the interests of its huge farming community and not falling victim to the profit logic of the multinational corporations. …”