Sentences with phrase «from large technology companies»

What the team is known for Joint Moscow - St Petersburg IP team with a strong reputation in high - profile litigation instructions from large technology companies.

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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.

After graduating from high school (he played percussion in the marching band), Surace earned an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began his career working for large companies: IBM, Seiko Epson, and National Semiconductor, which relocated him to Silicon Valley.

Despite most the world's largest technology companies harking from the U.S., Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the contribution made by the developing world in a speech Tuesday.

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.

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.

But startup companies are also the beneficiaries of perks, often in the form of discounts from service providers, larger technology companies — even other startups.

There are substantial strengths in transportation, logistics and technology from these companies and large regional or US headquarters for other corporations (Dallas can make a similar claim).

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

He has a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and retired after 34 years with a large technology company.

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.

People familiar with the development told VCCircle that the objective behind the exercise is to help the new e-commerce company raise larger investment from its existing investor Alibaba and also, Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp, which owns more than 32 % stake in Alibaba.

For instance, you have new technologies spin off from BlackBerry, which end up in all automobiles, and so you get this partnership between a really large company like Ford and that emerging technology.

But in the late 90s, when small technology companies with excessive valuation premiums displaced big businesses from the large - cap universe, investors who thought large caps were low risk got a double whammy — large - cap stocks» earnings and P / E multiples both declined sharply.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a California - based technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016 and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

However the largest increase was in clean technology with 48 companies represented in the rankings, up from 13 in 2014.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a Culver City technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016, and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

Tribune Publishing also announced it received a $ 70.5 million investment from Nant Capital in a deal that makes the California - based technology investment firm the company's second - largest shareholder, edging past the 4.695 million shares owned by Oaktree Capital Management, which has pushed Tribune Publishing to negotiate a sale to Gannett.

From Brazil, Totvs, a developer and marketer of software solutions; Wajax, a Canadian multiline distributor active in the sale and service of mobile equipment, power systems and industrial components; Italy - based Davide Campari, the sixth largest spirits company in the world; and Sulzer, a Swiss company specializing in industrial machinery and equipment, surface technology and rotating equipment maintenance.

Our clients range from mid-size companies to large corporations with a focus on the technology industry.

Not only does the company have the largest footprint in Puerto Rico, it owns 49 percent of Puerto Rico's biggest technology company, EVERTEC, a business that grew from within the Popular organization.

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

The governor received large sums from three hedge fund managers, two other individuals involved in finance, a lobby firm and a technology company's CEO.

And in April, IBM launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health Cloud, services that use the company's cognitive computing technology to process large amounts of health data from diverse sources.

And although companies like Twist could stand to benefit from large orders of DNA from GP - write, she notes that «to do the kind of science that the GP - write is talking about, there needs to be a massive technology improvement.»

The firms using the largest number of H - 1B visas, the type of immigration document that admits highly skilled temporary residents to the U.S workforce, are not supposedly talent - starved American technology companies but Indian - owned firms in the business of outsourcing work from American companies to the subcontinent.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

The NNCI sites provide researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with access to university user facilities with leading - edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.

David's strengths in effective client liaison, project management and internet technologies have been essential ingredients in our firm's provision of advisory and analysis services to senior management at large corporations and smaller young companies seeking to create competitive advantage from technology.

The range of titles we evaluated, from large technology and media companies to self - published authors, was impressive, but they all had one thing in common — in their own way they're all great stories well told, using the latest digital technology to go beyond print.»

A reliable source from the company confirmed to me they were working at the project for the last two years, and now all the pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together: better technology (Processor, RAM and flexible plastic screen), ripe software, an affordable price for the customers, and a generous investor believing in the future of large e-readers.

By Hannah Johnson LAS VEGAS: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) concluded on Saturday with over 140,000 total visitors and 2,700 exhibitors representing a huge range of products and companies, from the largest technology giants like Microsoft and Sony to small startups — and now, media companies.

David Steinberger from comiXology, the provider of the technology behind both Marvel and DC's iOS offerings, diagnosed the situation primarily in terms of the disconnect between the speed of technological developments online and the business pace of the large companies and their licensing requirements.

It uses a large, flexible electronic paper display based on technology from E Ink (the same company that makes the displays for Amazon.com's Kindle and Sony's Reader), but the device overall is remarkably thin and light.

Navient, the largest student loan servicing company, is aiming to improve customer experience with the launch of Navient Labs, which will test digital ideas and technology based on the feedback from surveys of student loan borrowers, focus groups, and usability testing.In Wednesday's press release announcing the new initiative, Navient said the ideas that come out -LSB-...]

Most of our underweight comes from our lack of exposure to more expensive and very fashionable technology companies as well as lower quality larger auto manufacturers.

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The Patriots are of course finished, though this unfortunately hasn't resulted in all around global merriment, with large Private Military Companies that were affiliated with The Patriots in ruins, though rouge entities boasting cyborg technology have risen from their ashes.

The solar thermal technology is from BrightSource Energy, the same company behind Ivanpah, the world's largest solar thermal plant, located in the California desert.

In contrast, successful rent seeking from technology companies may mean that large amounts of capital are steered to dead end firms and ideas, leaving less for real prospects.

This month's third - largest gainer is a U.S. residential and commercial solar installer that is technology and manufacture agnostic, which allows the company to benefit from the decline in solar module costs.

While most of the technology is years from being proven on a large scale, startups are raising funds — Secure Energy, a St. Louis - based coal gasification company, has raised $ 5.5 million of an $ 8 million Series A round, according to PE Hub.

Some of the startups on this list have received large investments from leading venture capital firms and technology companies (e.g., Google has invested in LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer).

«For well over 40 years, Foley Hoag has been a leading law firm representing technology clients, from startup companies and their investors to large - cap public companies.

Technology companies that enter the E / N platform receive access to the full spectrum of corporate counsel: from dedicated, responsive early - stage focused attorneys to late - stage M&A partners who've managed high - stakes transactions as partners at the country's leading large firms.

The AI company added in a statement that the certification program originated from Kira's experience with large companies, which often wanted to leverage Kira's AI technology, but lacked the internal resources to use and train the solution.

Our lawyers have counseled clients across the spectrum from new, innovative green technology companies to large utility - scale power projects.