Sentences with phrase «good at tech companies»

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Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

«If you look at the percentage of companies in the tech sector above their 200 - day moving average, it's actually some of the best breadth we see across sectors.»

While the International Mobility Program will certainly help a few American companies to «park» their foreign employees in Canada during this tumultuous time, it's the broader policy changes that will tangibly impact the tech community at home, as well as foreigners seeking a safe and stimulating place to innovate.

«Looking back at the tech teams that I've built at my companies, it's evident that individuals with liberal arts degrees are by far the sharpest, best - performing software developers and technology leaders.

This in turn has led power companies, as well as tech startups, to look at how this new low cost energy storage source could be used in new ways.

Her $ 33 million paycheck this year puts her ahead of tech CEOs like Microsoft's Satya Nadella ($ 18 million), who is successfully steering the company back towards growth, as well as leaders at fast - growing tech giants like Alphabet's Larry Page ($ 1), Apple's Tim Cook ($ 9 million) and Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($ 2 million).

Silicon Valley workers are famously well - compensated: At Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and numerous other tech companies, even interns earn more per month than the average American.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

Colin Gillis, tech analyst at BGC Partners in New York, said BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer John Chen did a good job controlling expenses to boost the company's cash pile.

This is a new planet in the tech solar system: I think you're going to have a company emerge that's really good at emotions that remains independent and provides a tool set or operating system for other companies to incorporate.»

While some venture capitalists have kept secret lists of those declining companies and many insiders have their proprietary predictions, there's at least one good way to predict the overall tech industry slowdown in San Francisco: the state of the commercial - property market.

One interesting debate was whether legacy companies could get good at technology fast enough to fend off the tech companies» invasion of their businesses.

Mutual funds that invest in private tech companies are surprisingly good at predicting what a tech company will be worth when it goes public, an analysis of recent IPOs shows.

Some privacy advocates also bristle at the idea that these new restrictions would help already powerful internet companies, noting that is a well - worn argument employed by tech giants to try to prevent future regulation.

If you remember back in the dotcom era 1999 to early 2000, when people though tech stocks would just go up and up, well I bailed out of two tech companies I had at the time before the crash with a very nice profit and invested it all in Altria.

Canada deserves good marks for investing in tech companies at the startup stage, but we need more money in the ready - to - scale category.

Panel with leaders from various functions at top tech companies discussing best practices in cross-group teamwork and collaboration.

With many large companies maintaining huge cash balances, especially in the tech industry, shareholders fume at the idea that they aren't putting their capital to better use.

In that role she oversaw media and community relations for complex development projects such as Pacific Park Brooklyn, Barclays Center, and Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, as well as directing marketing strategy for the company's multimillion square foot residential, commercial and retail portfolio.

Before buying shares of a particular tech company's stock, it's a good idea to step back and look at how the company fits within the industry.

And it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas wells.

Among their chief concerns: The effects on kids are not yet known, and companies might not have children's best interests at heart when tech for kids is such a lucrative market.

-- ANOTHER UNIVERSE TO CONQUER — «Elon Musk, soccer guru want to bargain with Oakland for the Coliseum,» by SF Business Times» Riley McDermid: «Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's company Tesla and soccer team owner and well - known local real estate investor Mark Hall would also like a swing at negotiating with Oakland and Alameda County for the rights to redevelop the Coliseum site.»

Skip Hop is known for its diaper bags, but its new line of activity gyms truly impressed at this year's expo because of the company's simple solution to a tech problem modern parents know too well.

But the tech companies are good at taking advantage of exemptions like that.

And some of Howe's fundraising occurred at the same time he was working for SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a university built on research partnerships with major tech companies, as well as COR, CHA and other developers that SUNY Poly hired to build multimillion - dollar facilities in Buffalo, Albany and suburban Syracuse.

Cuomo, who until recently had a good relationship with the business community, has also worked to try to encourage more higher paying jobs, through tax free zones at college campuses to attract new high tech companies, and a property tax cap.

Feds in the Northern District of New York (upstate is their beat) were said to be looking at Bruno's home based consulting firm Capital Business Consultants, as well as real estate deals involving Bruno, some family members, and buddy Jared Abbruzzese, part owner of Evident Technologies a nano - tech company in the Capital Region.

If there's one thing that Cuomo is good at, it's throwing money at tech companies,» said E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscal watchdog group.

When asked, years ago, why he held a large stake in a boring company such as Gillette, at a time when high - tech companies such as Amazon and AOL were all the rage, legendary investor Warren Buffett replied, in essence, that when you control one - third of the market for a product that half of the world's population uses every day, you're in pretty good shape, businesswise.

Q: Many social scientists worry that getting a job at a tech company pays well, but then you spend all your time tricking consumers into clicking on advertisements, buying things, or giving away private information.

I love that being a nerd has garnered me an amazing tech job at an amazing company that pays me so well.

But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research We are beginning to understand that tech companies don't have our best interests at heart.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a coder at a Google - like company called Bluebook, wins an employee lottery to spend a week with CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), an eccentric billionaire genius who lives in a remote, high - tech house on a mountain estate, the better to conduct his mind - blowing experiments without scrutiny.

I know a few really good VW / Audi techs who got burned out working for dealerships and found their next level at a scan - tool company.

They have had the Area Tech look at it, and also gotten the Engineering & Parts Development Dept's involved, as well as the company that designed the suspension system.

It's definitely the best so far due to that fact that it is only the Taiwanese company that has played its launch hand at the metaphorical Vegas blackjack table that is the world's biggest tech expo.

Oh well, I'll have to look at the tech companies I do own to deliver something for me.

MSFT is hands - down the best tech company I know of in terms of dividend growth and safety, even better than AAPL (to me at least).

«Years ago I remember using a home equity loan to purchase my new car because I could get a better rate and a lower payment,» Joe Tyrrell, executive vice president of corporate strategy at the mortgage tech company Ellie Mae, recalled in an email.

Ended the year with the TFSA at $ 122903... I think it will be a good year for the venture exchange, so almost fully invested in junior oil and tech companies.

whom has done nothing with their gaming budget other than throwing it around as handouts in order to share PS3 games... and all the while closing numerous in house studios... a lot of MGS games are even based off of UE3... instead of MS building a proprietary middleware product line shared throughout their internal studios... they license 3rd party middleware instead... an easy way to make a decent looking game quickly... but never a way to push ANY envelopes, at least not after the engine is already 3 years old... but Sony does this each generation... the 1st party stuff initially shows off what the system can do earlier on than any 3rd party software (well mostly, MGS2 was one of the first to push the PS2, MGS4 ditto for the PS3)... and 3rd pary stuff gets up to speed afterwards... you WILL see some incredible 3rd party content eventually, but for now... SCE is the only company pumping millions into the tech side of game development... MS isn't... and Nintendo doesn't even know what any of that is...

Nick West, Chief Strategy Officer at Mishcon de Reya, said: «We've put together an International Advisory Board for our MDR LAB programme to enable us to know more about what's happening on the ground in these key tech hubs, and better understand how to attract the most innovative companies to come and work with us.»

As AI tools become more mainstream at law firms, it's important that legal tech companies continue to facilitate open comparisons between products, provide transparency around what AI can do today and will be able to do in the future and push each other to build the tools that do the best work for their users.

With more than 20 years of experience at major high - tech companies and in private practice, Jeff has supported a broad range of legal issues including, technology licensing, commercial transactions, commercial litigation, open source, product and M&A technology due diligence, as well as legal operations matters.

«We thought this accelerator needed a corporate business law firm because they are strong on the art product side and we thought because we are mid-market and entrepreneurial it was a good fit,» says Jamie Firsten, partner at Cassels Brock who focuses on early stage financing for emerging tech companies.

That structure is no longer sustainable because: (1) much of the «leveraged» work is now performed outside law firms (disaggregated); (2) at the lower rungs, machines, paraprofessionals, and / or lawyers operating in lower - cost structures and / or markets are now performing the work; (3) many «legal» tasks have been transformed from «services» to «products»; (4) law companies that are well - capitalized, tech and process savvy, and with customer - centric models aligning provider to consumer economically and culturally have migrated up the complexity chain.

This year: Legal tech companies are getting better at demonstrating value and some are having the kinds of success that means that they can be confident about their futures.

We've just gone through the new products from the major tech companies at the show, and we're ready to reveal our Best of MWC 2016 awards!

While some in the tech world throw shade at Samsung because QLED looks and sounds a lot like a competing TV technology, OLED, we'd like to point out that quantum dots — the technology which has transformed the performance of Samsung's LCD / LED TVs from good to great — starts with the letter «Q» and it makes sense the company would use that letter to help differentiate its premium line from other TVs which don't use the technology.