Sentences with phrase «first pioneers in»

Coursera was one of the first pioneers in this space, and this model has been rapidly adopted by some other players.

She is one of the first pioneers in eco makeup artistry.

At the time, French - designed automatic public conveniences (APCs), first pioneered in Paris, were beginning to replace those Victorian underground temples of porcelain and shining copper plumbing.

The PRISM reactor builds on this sodium - cooled reactor experience first pioneered in 1951 to turn the binding energy of the atom into electrical energy.

Apparently, Oyster is not the first pioneer in the business when it comes to offering eBooks for a small fee, Amazon offers similarly alluring business model that goes by the name of Kindle Owners Lending Library which you can access through KDP Select.

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Pioneer, for example, has released its first in - car radios with touch - screens that will support CarPlay.

These jokes have subtly highlighted Virgin's pioneering spirit — and in fact, some in the media speculated that Virgin Galactic and Oceanic were pranks when first announced.

The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.

«Since the first edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John Bogle.

Perth - based financial services group Pioneer Credit has delivered full - year profit of $ 4.6 million in its first year as a publicly - listed company on the back of strong gains in customer payments.

(However, TIAA — which offered its first SRI product in 1991 and described itself as «a pioneer» in the field — launched its TIAA Personal Portfolio account last June «with the Gen Y audience in mind,» according to a company spokesperson.

«Back in the 1980s, actually, I gave my first talk at TED,» says Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, writer and pioneer of virtual reality.

Schulich is a pioneer in international business education, having offered one of the world's first International MBA programs in 1989.

Though China superseded Tiangong - 1 in 2016 with Tiangong - 2, space experts hailed the first space station as a major achievement for the nation, since it helped pioneer a permanent Chinese presence in orbit.

Given that Amazon founder and warehouse - automation pioneer Jeff Bezos was the first to invest in Rethink, there's probably more to Baxter's future than picking things up and putting them down.

Marc was a pioneer in the asset - backed securities industry with transactions including the first - ever securitization of precious metals.

This is not the first seismic shift to shake the storied tech pioneer — it spun out its bread - and - butter test and instruments division as Agilent (A) in 2002 — but it is definitely the biggest.

The U.S. pioneer in luxury electric cars charged by batteries was one of the first companies to offer steering that could be operated hands - free, one of the first steps to full self - driving that industry experts say may be available by 2020.

William Macaulay, chairman and CEO of PE energy pioneer First Reserve, agreed that natural gas will be a «dominant factor» in 25 years.

The companies jockeying for a first - to - market advantage in the space have encountered plenty of twists and turns along the way — and it appears that pharma giant Novartis may well achieve its original goal of a pioneering FDA approval for its own experimental treatment.

Vixar was founded by pioneers in the VCSEL industry, having first brought VCSEL to the data communication market in the late 1990s, and more recently by founding Vixar in 2005 to pursue sensing applications.

«Since first pioneering the vacation exchange concept more than 40 years ago, RCI has continually found new ways to evolve and grow its own business while also propelling the exchange industry further,» said Gordon Gurnik, president of RCI, in a statement.

She was a college student in Cairo in the late»90s when she first learned of some of the pioneering work on emotion - sensing computing being done by MIT professor Rosalind Picard.

After the Great Recession, Gilt was among the first companies to pioneer the «flash sale» ecommerce model in the U.S., which sells heavily discounted fashion items for a limited time to members.

The pioneering commitment of Ausdrill Limited's group exploration drilling consultant David Stevens to the evolution of the exploration drilling industry in Australia and overseas has been recognised through the award of an Order of Australia — the first

The smart glasses would be Apple's first in a category of product that was originally pioneered by Google with its Google Glass product.

Baldet first heard about Bitcoin in 2011 from friends in the information security industry, long before J.P. Morgan would make a name for itself as a pioneer in the space.

Anton Nossik, an Internet entrepreneur who pioneered some of the country's first digital news sites, said that the Russian government could be emboldened by successes in forcing social networks to censor content.

He was part of Stanford's Pioneer cohort — the first group of leaders to engage in this leadership program.

I chose Brian and Dharmesh, founders of HubSpot, to write the first book in the series because they are social media marketing pioneers and have tons of amazing ideas for companies to get found online.

The company connects to the world's first borderless payment network by partnering with Bitpay the pioneer and the most experienced company in bitcoin and blockchain payments.

Norway was a pioneer of official quotas, which the country first introduced in 2006.

Pioneer (ticker: PXD) and XTO (ticker: XTO) are tied for first place in the basin, with 100 drilling permits each.

At Evol8tion, she helped startups secure their first customers through brand partnerships, and as a VP at Zenith Media was recognized an industry pioneer in the mobile space; her cutting edge collaborations were often featured in Mashable, Adage, Mobile Marketer, and Mediapost.

On July 3, 1972, the first automated checkstands were installed (One of RCA's pioneer checkstands is in the Smithsonian collection.)

Gilead $ GILD has agreed to buy CAR - T pioneer Kite Pharma $ KITE — which is likely just months away from its first approval — for $ 11.9 billion in cash.

In the first episode of a new podcast series from The Bridge, we talk with Peter Lawrence, principal owner of the pioneering Wythe Hotel.

Back in 2009, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he successfully pioneered India's first solar incentives.

The first 6 legs involved Ride25 «Pioneers» cycling from Parmoor in Buckinghamshire to Thessaloniki in Greece via Paris, Geneva, Milan, Rome and Bari — covering a total of 2,200 miles.

BGC was the first to introduce non-deliverable Eurex basis, pioneering real - time Fixed Income pricing in Europe.

Around Allwork.Space, we've always heard that Fegen's Law Suites were THE pioneers in our industry and the first to establish in 1966.

Formerly a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC Market Data first pioneered live pricing data for fixed income markets 30 years ago and now provides data priced from over $ 720 billion in daily fixed income transactions.

Yaser Moustafa, Senior Managing Director, NBK Capital Partners stated, «In a pioneering move, NBK Capital Partners was one of the first private equity firms to invest in the fast growing Mediterranean aquaculture spacIn a pioneering move, NBK Capital Partners was one of the first private equity firms to invest in the fast growing Mediterranean aquaculture spacin the fast growing Mediterranean aquaculture space.

Austin's pioneering venture capital firm, True Wealth Ventures, founded by women to invest in women, announced on Tuesday the close of the firm's first fund with $ 19.1 million.

The idea of a drone taking care of the exchange of laboratory samples in a city is a first in Switzerland — and also means that Swiss Post is playing a pioneering role in drone logistics worldwide.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

As Japan's first Reach - Certified Personal Branding Strategist, Peter Sterlacci is the pioneer of personal branding in Japan.

[117] An important pioneer in this, Ibn Al - Haytham is regarded as the father of the modern scientific method and often referred to as the «world's first true scientist.»

The first Mormon pioneers were known for rejecting Protestant denominations and founding their own religion in their own US state.

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