Sentences with phrase «as big a technology»

I am about as big a technology user as you will find, but I also realize the importance of tuning out and unplugging.

I think this makes sense, especially as the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were dramatically better phones than the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, respectively, while the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus don't offer as big a technology / feature leap.

Not exact matches

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

We targeted current leaders, since they exert direct, measurable sway beyond their own boardrooms as they steer their companies to respond to big - picture external conditions: the economy, politics, technology, markets and customers.

The Hong Kong stock exchange has introduced new rules allowing companies with dual - class shareholding structures and biotechnology firms yet to generate revenue to apply for listings from April 30, as it races to stay ahead of competing bourses in Shanghai, New York and Singapore to attract big technology firms and become the world's largest stock exchange.

What's making this revolution possible, as Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee report in «Big Data Meets Biology,» are the extraordinary new technologies that can now begin to make sense of the estimated 750 quadrillion bytes of health - related data we produce every day.

But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

The new contender for Silicon Valley North has displaced Waterloo, Ont., as the country's innovation hub, playing host to some of the biggest names in Canada's booming technology sector.

Instead of just startups, we'll open the competition to any company, small or big, tech or non-tech, that is using technology to make the world a better place as part of their normal business operations.

The test reflects the increasing adoption of technology by big retailers as they try to keep up with online retail giant Amazon (amzn), which uses robots in some of its warehouses in addition to other cutting - edge technology.

As with previous technology jumps, larger data capacities and faster speeds will be big features.

In case you haven't heard, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education is incredibly important to maintaining America's historical role as the world's biggest and most innovative economy.

Joint - venture partner Cummins, a leading engine manufacturer, and big - name clients such as GM, Volvo and Caterpillar give credibility to Westport's technology, notes Mike Newton, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at Macquarie Private Wealth.

As a result, Finnegan is a big advocate of the concept of working backwards, «especially when thinking about building businesses based on emerging technologies and ideas that are truly radical and transformational.»

But in the financial - technology market, the number appears to be twice as big.

Uday Hegde, CEO of USEReady, a firm that helps businesses leverage big data and BI technologies, shares why business leaders struggle to implement BI,» The problem is driving adoption in a large organization, as the data needs to be something each stakeholder can make use of.

As these changes continue to shape the future of big data and business intelligence, organizations will be faced with the challenge of deciding what technologies, and what providers, make the most sense for their operations.

But they can also be weapons — as the actions of big technology companies over the past couple of years have shown.

What has brought big batteries to the fore is not new technology so much as the demand created by the growth in renewable energy.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Much of the company's revenue is coming from licensing the technology to big customers such as Salesforce and Hootsuite, although consumer brands, financial institutions and PR agencies are also subscribing to its $ 99 - a-month direct service.

Reputation and image are becoming more and more important to big brands, so stay tuned for plenty more impressive stunts in the future, particularly as advancing technology allows us to extend further than the confines of the ground!

But some were also concerned it could hinder Europe's biggest carmaker in its efforts to cut costs and improve efficiency, as it embarks on a huge investment in electric vehicles and self - driving technology.

Others have tried to latch onto the newest technological trends, such as investing in big data or AI technology.

To avoid blind ambition, Abbott suggests having an end goal and working backward to address the biggest potential problems such as getting a technology to work or marketing the product.

Yes, the guy you know as will.i.am is a bombastic pop star and the frontman of the Black Eyed Peas, but Adams has established himself as a go - to social and technology consultant big brands trust.

Entrepreneurs have long seen outsourcing as a strategy reserved for big business, but technology has made it a more accessible tool for small businesses — and for some small firms, outsourcing has made a powerful impact on their growth, productivity and bottom lines.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

Ellison has been stepping up the rhetoric against Amazon (amzn) over the past year, as Oracle (oclcf) attempts to make a big business selling computing resources on demand, which technology analysts also refer to as Infrastructure - as - a-service (IaaS).

Technology analysts have credited Cloudera, founded in 2008, as one of the pioneers in popularizing big data technologies like Hadoop, which companies use to store and process massive amounts of data across thousands of computers.

An even bigger question about the financial services industry's adoption of distributed ledger technologies might not be about how this gets implemented and what specific block chains they choose, but rather what happens to the float that savvy bankers and financial firms have taken advantage of as they wait for deposits to clear.

Small business owners fingered social networks as biggest threat to information technology security in 2010, according to a new report.

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The deal was described as the second - biggest technology merger ever by Fortune, behind the $ 106 billion tie - up between AOl and Time Warner in 2000.

The biggest biotech fight of the century thus far, the heavyweight title bout between the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and the University of California over the ownership of the CRISPR - Cas9 genome - editing technology — or the Thrilla in Virginia, as I described it in December — is over.

According to The Wall Street Journal, companies such as Seagate Technology are leveraging data - mining tools like VoloMetrix to quantify the biggest time - suckers in the workplace.

But one big downside is that as Salesforce has grown via (many) acquisitions, Force.com's proprietary nature makes it hard to bring those new technologies in - house and integrate them.

From the cohort, more than 40 Wellington businesses - including big names such as Xero and Datacom — will be looking to fill mid - to senior technology roles, including programmers, integrations specialists, test analysts, network engineers, systems administrators and even chief information officer.

But what if the next big thing isn't so much a technology as it is a way of thinking about business — an angle of vision that promises to create new kinds of markets entirely?

He argues that the big meat processors will be keen on clean technology, whether as licensees, customers, investors, or acquirers.

Each game introduced new technology, just as today's shooters typically do, but the creators took what appears to be big risks to today's thinking by spinning each out into its own new title, rather than continuing them on under one established umbrella.

That may be the biggest fear — do we have the infrastructure as a country to help factory workers or people with limited education receive training for these new high - technology jobs?

Rubicon execs have said the company is «on the cutting edge of leveraging emerging technologies, such as big data and IoT.»

As Lowe's chief development officer Richard Maltsbarger told Fortune at the time of the partnership, «The great part about our proposition and partnership with Matt and Porch is that between our knowledge of home improvement, and the Porch team's knowledge of technology, the Internet, and big data, we have total expertise.»

Truck operators also have a big financial incentive to adopt the technology, as it would bring savings in wages and fuel.

While Google Glass is being touted as the next big thing in technology and much of the media has pulled out their pom - poms, here are a few reasons young entrepreneurs should wait to purchase the devic...

As the next big wave of ecommerce growth happens in the B2B market, these brands are turning to their B2C peers for guidance how to take advantage of modern technology to create buying experiences that differentiate them from competitors and help them seize a greater share of the market.

And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how to present its breakthrough device to the world in a way that will transform it from a slightly scary gadget to the next must - have consumer technology.

Although described as the next big thing in technology, the public has mostly stood by while manufacturers furiously try to refine their devices to make them more appealing.