Sentences with phrase «as large technology companies»

We expect this trend to continue as large technology companies accumulate significant pools of cash that they can use to satisfy their appetite for growth and innovation through M&A activity.

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The company and its eponymous product, created by serial entrepreneur and technology expert David Gurle, is scarcely out of startup mode, but already it's making waves as a potentially disrupting new force on Wall Street, thanks in large part to support from some of the world's largest investment banks.

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.

There are ever fewer barriers to small and medium sized businesses using technology and data as effectively as the largest companies.

Speaking to the influx of investment by the world's largest technology companies into the U.K. as Facebook, Google and Apple all recently announced greatly expanded plans for London headquarters and staffing levels, Marshall said the technology sector is more able to cope with the uncertainty wrought by Brexit.

He came to CNBC from Fortune magazine, where as a senior writer he covered both large technology companies — such as Cisco, Hewlett - Packard, and Microsoft — and trends, including cloud computing and the smartphone revolution.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

While it's possible the terms of his employment agreement with (and departure from) Facebook could prevent him from taking an active role at a competitor (or any company in the virtual reality space) for several months (or even years), he could reassume his public presence as an advocate for VR technology and its larger potential.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

Apple is always good for a surprise or two, but other than the expected incorporation of fitness trackers, a larger screen and / or some sort of mobile payment technology, it's hard to imagine the company doing anything that will generate the same buzz as its first few iPhone models did just a few years ago.

As part of our re-positioning as a technology platform - based digital interactions company, we are selling this business so we can focus on our large enterprise and government customers,» said David Amoriell, president, ConduenAs part of our re-positioning as a technology platform - based digital interactions company, we are selling this business so we can focus on our large enterprise and government customers,» said David Amoriell, president, Conduenas a technology platform - based digital interactions company, we are selling this business so we can focus on our large enterprise and government customers,» said David Amoriell, president, Conduent.

Increasingly, companies both large and small have been investing in social media strategies — either by tapping influencer networks, or adopting video editing technology to streamline marketing efforts across such platforms as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Large tech companies are harnessing the power of AI as more research developments are making strides in improvement in artificial intelligent technology.

Simon notes that with today's technology, smaller businesses now have the capability of being just as powerful as larger companies.

THE 2000 Asia Pacific IT&T Awards are open for nominations.The Business News - sponsored awards are designed to recognise cutting edge innovations from small to medium enterprises as well as large multinational companies in the information technology and

For instance, as oil and gas companies adopt a more agile way of working, they could become magnets for top millennial talent; millennials will accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, which could facilitate the dismantling of large corporate centers, which in turn allows for an even more agile workplace.

Mr. Hoffman was selected to serve on our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as one of our founders and as one of our largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with technology companies.

Bizongo operates as a B2B technology platform providing one - stop - shop packaging solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large companies.

The best thing about CMIT Solutions, Velasquez says, is that the company recognizes that SMBs have the same technology and computer security needs as large enterprises.

The Hotels Network Founder and CEO Juanjo Rodríguez commented: «The company started as we identified a big gap between the quality of technology used by the large online players and that of hotels themselves, so we wanted to create a product to bridge that gap.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Spencer adds valuable strategic and operational insights to the board as a result of his background as both an innovator and entrepreneur as well as a senior leader and director of other large technology companies.

It is accredited investors that will be investing the largest amounts as they adopt the technology and become comfortable with the investee companies.

The technology for automation is not quite there yet, as a result, it's a race to see which company can survive the longest with the largest amount of funding to become operating profit positive.

In the past, raising money as a start - up required small companies to convince banks, investors and financial institutions to take big risks, by investing large amounts of money into unproven technology and ideals.

Technology represents the highest weighting of the Strategas Repatriation Index, not surprisingly, as technology companies have the largest percentage of unrepatriated foreign earnings as a part of market cap, at Technology represents the highest weighting of the Strategas Repatriation Index, not surprisingly, as technology companies have the largest percentage of unrepatriated foreign earnings as a part of market cap, at technology companies have the largest percentage of unrepatriated foreign earnings as a part of market cap, at over 18 %.

While often true, at important turning points such as 2000 when overvalued small technology companies achieved large - cap status, investors were hit by the double whammy of risky small businesses combined with excessive valuations.

As the former head of European software giant SAP (SAP), Apotheker was a curious choice to lead HP (HPQ, Fortune 500)-- the largest U.S. technology company by sales — since it is predominantly a hardware company.

Many new players are likely to enter the payment industry and those can be online payments providers, virtual marketplaces and large technology and social media companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Amazon, and Apple, etc..

Prior to GoodData, Ryan built service and support organizations across multiple technology startups including Clearwell, Financial Engines and Arbor Software (now Hyperion) as well as large public companies including Verint Systems.

For companies seeking the latest technologies targeting the beverage segment, PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2017 (Sept. 25 - 27; Las Vegas Convention Center) will offer 800,000 net square feet of innovations and solutions and serve as North America's largest packaging event.

Santa Monica is also a part of the growing larger region known as «Silicon Beach,» an L.A. Metropolitan collection of more than 500 startup tech companies, as well as major influencers in the fields of web technologies, the gig economy and the ever - expanding video game market.

«It's a very, very large company that sees itself as a technology company, and therefore provides a platform, but does not view their drivers as employees,» said Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan).

He has worked as an information technology professional with several large private sector companies, and currently works in information technology with Queensland's Education Department.

Mosquet expects that next generation to start in 2014 or 2015, with contracts getting signed as early as late 2012; he predicts a «shakeout» of companies that have neither large contracts nor new technology.

Perhaps partly as a consequence, many large technology companies are moving their R&D centres out of the Netherlands.

According to Jennifer Flexman, a bioengineer who now works in technology transfer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, large companies such as Genentech have a strong basic research component that is not so closely related to the pipeline.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

PRESS RELEASE — Nov 12 — ActiveSymbols has just released a facial - recognition search engine that gives online daters the ability to search for mates who look like celebrities, but the company ultimately hopes its technology will be used for larger issues, such as helping law enforcement track down child molesters.

The announcement reportedly signified a changing trend in the technology industry, as large corporations like yahoo, facebook, and google acquired start - up internet companies that generated low amounts of revenue as a way in which to connect with sizeable, fast - growing online communities.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

Minimum Requirements: Relevant undergraduate degree 2 + years of practical Instructional Design work experience Experience working with eLearning software such as Captivate or Articulate Preferred: Master s Degree in Instructional Design or related field Knowledge of Human Performance Technology (HPT) Experience deploying performance solutions to a large workforce in multiple locations Knowledge of selling skills programs in a large retail environment Related industry certifications or credentials Lowe s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving more than 17 million customers a week in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

As an extension of the NMKV minicar project that has already birthed the Japanese - market Nissan Dayz and Mitsubishi eK wagon, Masuko told AN that the company is considering using EV technology in a larger vehicle that would be developed with Nissan - Renault.

We evaluated many potential partners, but we specifically chose Travel Planners because they have the experience and technology that will make the housing process easier for both our individual participants as well as our larger exhibiting companies.

Other industry watchers speculated that although the publishers and bookstores can not slow down Amazon, the large technology companies, such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Google, who may be threatened by dominant Amazon's Web Services unit, might enter the book publishing market as competitive counter measures.

«We have aspirations for our company and certainly look to other companies like Netflix, one of the largest technology companies in the world, and see that as a great indicator that a company like ours can grow.»

All of the companies involved in this new breed of technology developed e-readers as small as six inches and as large as 21 inches.

As the staff of GoodEReader pack up and head off to Las Vegas for the 2012 International CES, the largest consumer technology showcase available, a full schedule of tech companies and designers are already slated to show us the latest in tablets, e-readers, mobile devices, and more.

Thus in the Preface to Person and Object (1979) he writes «The book would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standard.