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This combination provides unique opportunities for the tech sector companies here, as well as for other companies.

While innovation is a broad term, the questions outline potential federal measures, including support for the tech sector, research and development and encouraging geographical clusters of expertise.

But Square's lowered IPO share price is a bit of a downer for the tech sector in general.

• The outlook for the tech sector is strong for investors, companies and corporates because we expect VC fundraising will increase and be in the $ 35 - 40B range, VC investment will be consistent with 2017, late stage valuations will increase, CVC investment will increase, and M&A will be between 600 - 700 deals.

Buybacks are a positive sign, but there are question marks for the tech sector, says Marc Franklin, senior portfolio manager at Conning Asia Pacific.

Appetite among U.S. investors has been strong this year for tech sector debuts by Dropbox, Spotify and Zscaler, easing concerns raised by the fall in Snap Inc's shares last year.

And while plenty of old - economy industries might object to any special treatment for the tech sector, it may be unavoidable if politicians actually want highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs to come to Canada.

It's another strong IPO for the tech sector, following fellow cloud company Zuora's 43 percent opening jump and cloud storage provider Dropbox's 35 percent debut spike.

The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

While tech IPOs are at their lowest number since 2008, health care, including biotech, is one of the hottest sectors of the year for number of filings, per Renaissance Capital's third quarter report.

The tech sector in general dominates the list, accounting for nearly half of the ranked companies.

Canada has become an unlikely hub for the development of e-commerce platforms, with market leader Shopify, big - brand focused Elastic Path and small storefront ShopLocket all coming out of this country's tech sector.

A comprehensive research briefing last September by CB Insights tech analyst Deepashri Varadharajan, for example — which tracked AI startups across industries from 2012 through the fall of 2016 — showed healthcare dominating every other sector, from security and finance to sales & marketing.

To boot, new venture capital funds, growth initiatives and a decentralizing tech sector are providing grounds for optimism.

Large companies attract talent to the city in which they're located, creating a better ecosystem for the local tech sector.

Since I'm writing for Data Sheet this week, and not CEO Daily, I should point out that all of this Change - the - World - Don't - Be-Evil stuff started in the tech sector — even if some players (looking at you, Facebook) have wandered astray.

It certainly seems like this is the beginning of the downturn in the private tech sector that VCs like Benchmark's Bill Gurley have been warning about for a year now.

This appears to be retaliation for the White House's Tuesday announcement that the U.S. aims to slap tariffs on Chinese products in the robotics, tech and aerospace sectors.

More good news for Canada's tech sector: Toronto - based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $ 46 million in Series C funding.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

Also counted in the study were 83,000 non-technical jobs in the tech sector, say, being a receptionist at Google or selling advertising for Foursquare.

Wekerle, probably best known to Canadians for his role on Dragons» Den, raised $ 185 million to launch Difference Capital to capitalize on a shift of investment dollars from the resource industry to the country's burgeoning tech sector.

Markets may have soared higher, but were dragged down by losses in the tech sector — an industry that has come under criticism by Trump during his campaign — as investors worried the president - elect's policies may lower profits for Silicon Valley.

So yes, it's encouraging to see an array of new companies from the consumer and tech sectors come to market — but the TSX is going to continue to be dominated by struggling resource stocks for some time to come.

But the S&P 500 total return and equal weighted indices have already broken through their 2007 highs, as have the sector indices for Discretionary, Staples, Health Care and Tech (and the NASDAQ).

Paul Meeks, Sloy, Dahl, & Holst chief investment officer, and Dan Morgan, Synovus Trust senior portfolio manager, discusses Qualcomm upping its acquisition bid for NXP Semiconductors and the impact it could have on the tech sector.

The company is the symbolic (if arrhythmia - stricken) heart of the country's tech sector, and Chen is galvanizing support for it again.

He also said he'll look for limited partner investors, particularly corporate investors who are outside the tech sector and want an entry into Silicon Valley.

Yet one of the areas that gained hiring momentum in 2014 was the technology sector, where tech companies and startups have been increasingly aggressive about hiring BBAs for entry - level jobs, schools said.

But in recent years a host of other, lesser - known companies (for now) have sprung up across various tech sectors.

Wharton is among a number of leading undergraduate business schools that reported strong job numbers for the 2014 class in recent career placement reports, driven by a robust hiring market for finance, steady internship to job conversion rates, and an increased appetite for jobs in the tech sector.

The likes of ex-RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie have suggested the tech sector needs to lobby governments more actively, and 29 - year - old Litt believes there's a place for his fresh - faced cohort of entrepreneurs to make their voices heard.

Tech stocks took a beating in what could be an ominous sign for the sector, while health care and utilities also fared poorly as investors demonstrated a preference for cyclicals over defensive.

While tech turned lower over the past two weeks, the first quarter proved profitable for the sector.

In fact, Hub Ventures sees the tech sector as a vehicle for social impact.

While the immigration actions include more support for highly skilled foreign students and entrepreneurs, Obama did not expand the number of available start - up or H1 - B visas — a blow to the tech sector in particular.

Decode Dubai is one of DIC's initiatives that are, similar to Drones for Good, HackaMENA and in5, a step to aligning with Smart Dubai's aims in fostering entrepreneurship through the tech sector.

In recent years, it's become all the more important for the U.S. defense industry to tap into America's commercial tech sector.

Because energy and tech are globalized industries that aren't tethered as closely to the U.S. economy as many other sectors, they weren't hit as hard by the recession, and can afford to shell out more money for attractive office space, says Ryan Severino, senior economist at Reis.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

One point of concern for Maley is that the stocks propping the tech sector up are few and concentrated.

It's one reason he's never invested in the tech sector, for example.

A beleaguered Canadian tech sector was overcome with joy this week when Ottawa - based Shopify filed for an initial public offering.

As Nitasha Tiku and I discovered in our reporting, Malaysia presents other opportunities for entrepreneurs: strong high - tech and telecom sectors, as well as lots of incentives for foreign companies.

Shopify's pending IPO is significant for what it says about the future of the Canadian tech sector.

Health care and tech continue to be the strongest sectors if you're looking for a well - paid career with lots of opportunities, though CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson notes «there are also plenty of opportunities in areas such as marketing, sales, and transportation.»

In the rapidly growing tech sector, where companies are constantly on the lookout for talent, both employer and candidate stand to gain from Hired.

Their struggle to obtain entry for employment epitomizes how stalled immigration reforms in the United States, along with several other factors, may be galvanizing Vancouver's tech sector into becoming Silicon Valley North.