Sentences with phrase «by big tech»

For further information on the response to this Wi - Fi vulnerability, and how it's being addressed by the big tech companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft, read our follow - up story here.

The revelation has knocked nearly $ 50 billion off Facebook's stock market value in two days and hit the shares of Twitter and Snap over fears that a failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.

Android Wear (now Wear OS) smartwatches have been all but abandoned by the big tech companies.

The data breach has raised investor concerns that any failure by big tech companies to protect privacy could deter advertisers and lead to tougher regulation.

To the degree that people are concerned about the amount of data being collected by Big Tech, Apple would seem to be the big beneficiary.

I'll dig deeper into the data later to build a true S&P 500 ex-FAANGs index, but this initial look would suggest that the this market is indeed narrow, being held aloft by Big Tech.

In an interview with the Bookseller, Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said «People write on Huffington Post, they write for Goodreads, they write for Medium.com: valuable sites owned by big tech companies that make a lot of money for those companies.

Other featured articles examine the risks posed by big tech stocks and why oil refiners have a profitable future.

The company has lost more than $ 45 billion of its stock market value over the past three days on investor fears that any failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.

But even the tiny cars use software and sensors that is similar to the technology used by big tech companies and well - funded startups road - testing full - sized cars, he said.

As one of the first pairs of «smart» glasses created by a big tech brand, Google Glass was created in 2013.

I would not at all be surprised to see NFLX picked up for its brand name by a bigger tech firm.

Not exact matches

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Insiders believe a slew of big - money exits will strengthen the scene by funding new tech entrepreneurship

In fact, in a world characterized by mobile, social, big data and endless tech availability, customer - centricity and marketing ROI can and should overlap.

International Editor Clay Chandler explains in the Dec. 1 issue of Fortune, is due to a big, concentrated push by the Chinese government to invest in developing home - grown tech industries, from robotics to A.I. (Please subscribe here, if you don't already — and give a subscription to a loved one for the holidays!)

This year's event, convened by scholars Luigi Zingales and Guy Rolnik, focused on the threat of concentration of Big Tech, otherwise known as the Big Five: Facebook, Amazon (amzn), Apple (aapl), Netflix (nflx), and Google (googl).

One panel, expertly moderated by Rana Foroohar of The Financial Times, explored how regulation of Big Tech might proceed.

In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

For tech execs accustomed to playing by their own rules, the tightly regulated markets where the next big business opportunities lie present a special challenge.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

Great swaths of a once - diverse tech ecosystem are now largely controlled by one or two of the Big Four — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

Research last year by Credit Suisse called wearable tech «the next big thing» and predicted the industry was set to grow from around $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion today to $ 50 billion within five years.

The day before the big game was all about the 1st and Future contest, a sports - tech startup showdown organized by the National Football League, Comcast NBCUniversal, and the Mayo Clinic.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

In 2016, Apple led the pack and was the first company to switch its gun emoji to a squirt gun, which has since been replicated by the other big tech players.

Unlike every other fast - growing market in tech, crypto and blockchain aren't dominated by the big incumbents.

Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy of a bug?

«I'm in,» said Inwentash, and by the time he parted with Ballard and Cohl, he was on his way to a seven - figure investment in the biggest thing ever to sweep up the Great White Way: a high - tech spectacle called Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Holland's eager yet awkward Parker delivers big laughs as he navigates the many offerings in his high - tech suit from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), tries (and fails) to make a meaningful connection with Stark's assistant Happy (Jon Favreau) by calling and texting at all hours, and debates a high school crush with his virtual assistant, Karen.

This obsession with metrics has led to initiatives like affirmative action hiring programs set up by some of the biggest names in tech, which, unfortunately, have failed to perform as hoped.

Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out by their first initials, were due for a fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...

In June, Imagination Technologies put itself up for sale after it lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by its biggest customer Apple, in a disappointing end to a once - great European tech success story.

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

In early January, Hachette will publish Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo, an insidery look by tech reporter Nicholas Carlson about the celebrity CEO's two - and - a-half-year tenure at the helm of one of America's biggest internet companies.

The move represents the first big reversal of the controversial dual class stock structure that has been embraced by tech executives from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Snap's Evan Spiegel.

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation became America's biggest by getting huge gifts from tech execs — and acting like a startup.

A committee in the U.K.'s House of Lords has called on regulators to review the «potential monopolization of data» by big U.S. tech firms in Britain.

One person who certainly comprehends that is Peter Thiel, Trump's biggest (by far) supporter in the tech industry.

It also has an aggressive culture and growth strategy set by a CEO who is so headstrong, so enthusiastic, and so combative in defense of his big idea that he is at risk of seeming like a parody of today's tech entrepreneur — up to and including having a thing for Ayn Rand.

By simply investing in what you know, identifying a pain point and using tech to alleviate it, you can be a part of something bigger than yourself.

Though the technology hacked together by these weekend enthusiasts is not as sophisticated as the systems big tech companies are creating, Anderson is excited by how fast it is improving.

By the end of either year five or their latest price, whichever is longer, the biggest U.S. tech IPOs posted a median gain of 29.1 %.

By Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel

Big Tech is sorry.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

The tech giant has, so far, had the biggest dollar windfall, seeing its tax bill plummet by $ 1 billion.

HONG KONG Ant Financial's rapid climb to become the world's biggest super unicorn valued by some investors at around $ 150 billion showcases investor enthusiasm for the biggest Chinese tech companies and also how quickly valuations can shift.