Sentences with phrase «as early technology»

Not all self - identify as early technology adopters, participate in hackathons, or call themselves lawyerpreneurs.

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This is the first space - related investment from lead Accel, which held early investments in technology companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify and Venmo.

When asked whether technology also had a negative impact, especially with regard to destroying jobs, Schmidt echoed Sandberg's early statements that technology doesn't just create jobs for coders but in other sectors as well.

Co-founder Wade Barnes, an agronomist by trade, says advances in geo - mapping and analytics technology have transformed a once cumbersome and unreliable process — early attempts by such ag giants as John Deere and Trimble to market monitors and GPS systems were met with a tepid response — into something intuitive and, crucially, effective.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks clawed back early losses Tuesday as Apple led a rally in technology companies.

As for me, I am still a little wary of being an early adopter of this technology.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

He named U.S. technology millionaires as early movers in investing in the space.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

VR is still in its early stages, but as we see it advance, we'll see more businesses jump aboard Considering VR can also provide real - time data collection and an estimated 43 million people were actively using the technology in some way as of June 2016, there's no reason not to attempt to embrace it.

Verizon showed interest in Yahoo's core business as early as December, when Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said the company would «see if there is a strategic fit» for Yahoo's holdings, which include mail, news, sports and advertising technology.

The company said in a blog post that news articles using the AMP technology would begin appearing in search results as early as late February.

Earlier this year, FindTheBest, a comparison engine that helps consumers find things such as the best deals on hotels or great recipes for particular food allergies, found itself served with a cease - and - desist letter for the technology it uses to create matches on searches.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Having this clearly defined mission statement has been essential for our growth as an early - stage B2B technology company.

The Energy Department's ARPA - E program has conducted early - stage research into technologies such as advanced batteries, fusion and nanotechnology.

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.

Indeed, Josh Bersin, an analyst at Bersin by Deloitte who tracks workplace technology, believes that the rise of VR as a training tool mimics the early stages of how companies first used YouTube to show training videos.

Earlier this November, Cornell Tech, a joint venture between Cornell University and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, said Denise Young Smith would join the engineering school as its executive - in - residence starting Jan. 2018.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

He continued working on Minuum through the University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST) program, which acts as a pre-incubator research space for budding entrepreneurs to develop their products.

Prematurely investing in technologies when you can not afford to, or that markets aren't ready for, will lead to early demise as well.

The fruits of the consortium were announced earlier in the month, as part of Kauffman's seventh - annual state of entrepreneurship address, in Washington, D.C. And this week the organization rolled out a website with dozens of essays on topics including economics, entrepreneurship trends, technology, and politics.

As for the company's auto - pilot system, Musk said early data indicated that many accidents had been prevented by the technology — and no accidents had been created by it.

FTSE is lagging, as Technology shares remain under global pressure, off 1.4 % in early London trading.

She took over as CEO of the company in early 2012 while the former CEO moved into a more product and technology focused role.

Earlier in her career, Manus worked in banking and media, serving as an M&A co-director of the technology, media and telecom group for Credit Suisse Zurich.

Three - dimensional printing technology was patented in the early 1980s by Chuck Hull, who co-founded 3D Systems, but it's just now emerging as a trend.

«We are looking at investment and research as leading indicators of who is going to win that disruptive race, much like investing in the early days of internet technology would have led you to companies like Amazon,» he said.

Yoshua Bengio is known as an early leader in deep learning technology.

Aside from technology, the company is also expected to benefit from a contract it landed with the Ontario government, which said earlier this week that it would use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.

Apple Inc's healthcare technology is spreading quickly among major U.S. hospitals, showing early promise as a way for doctors to monitor patients remotely and lower costs.

If you were a calculator manufacturer in the very early days of this new technology and defined your target market as all people who used slide rules, you would have sought to differentiate calculators from slide rules.

That's rapid progress and a testament to a critical early design and engineering decision: to pair Cruise's technology, optimized for complicated urban environments such as San Francisco, with GM's ability to develop and manufacture vehicles at a massive scale.

Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said the company plans to pick up investment in 5G technology in 2016 and that sales of 5G - ready equipment capable of future upgrades could begin as early as 2017.

Bush also hinted that AI technology such as IBM's Watson might be used in conjunction with Athenahealth's technology, which could electronically survey patients in order to collect data points that might be early warning signs for disease.

She's happy with the early results, but as YouTube's functionality and viewer habits change, so too will her company's technology.

Millennials may be better educated than earlier generations, but Credit Suisse's researchers said they expected only a «minority of high achievers and those in high - demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the «millennial disadvantage.»»

Online initiatives like online renewals and online reservations enhances customer convenience and positions us as a cutting - edge supplier in a market largely populated, especially in the cycling segment, by customers who tend to be early technology adapters.

Common themes among the companies Amazon has brought into its inner circle: startups that adopted the retailer's technology early on; that help put it in direct orbit of Apple, Google, and Netflix; or that vault it into a new geography or category, as it's doing with its more recent Alexa Fund, which is funneling $ 100 million into artificial intelligence startups.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

«Mainstream commercial launches of uncoupled - technology offerings from companies such as Energous, Ossia, Humavox and uBeam would add further diversification to the market too, although most likely will not occur before 2017 at the earliest,» Green said.

Jeb Miller joined Icon Ventures in 2009 as a General Partner, bringing over fifteen years of experience working with early - stage technology companies as a venture capitalist, operating executive and investment banker.

Technology shares erased an earlier climb as Apple trimmed its advance.

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of a new company, EvoTeq, and signed two new business agreements as part of an investment in technology aimed at improving the lives of people living in the UAE.»

Snapchat is also dealing with the snafus that sometimes afflict young and fast - growing technology companies, including having to apologize for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users» phone numbers to be exposed.

Marriott expects to decide whether to adopt the technology for one or more of its chains as early as mid-year, potentially boosting sales for the device of choice.

Peter Kirby, CEO of Texas blockchain - focused start - up Factom, likened the technology's stage of development to that of the internet in the early 1990s, when it was seen as little more than a way to send emails.

The five shareholders who demanded Mr. Kalanick's resignation include some of the technology industry's most prestigious venture capital firms, which invested in Uber at an early stage of the company's life, as well as a mutual fund firm.