Sentences with phrase «high value of the technology»

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Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

While one might think such a state - of - the - art technology and how it facilitates high - touch customer service would more suitable to upscale stores, eBay thinks the technology could work even in more value - oriented retail chains.

«While many investors are asking whether Apple might price its next line of iPhones much more aggressively, management commentary suggested a consistent strategy of pricing to value with each new iPhone carrying more technology and a higher bill - of - materials,» as she wrote.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

«When I'm thinking about my leadership as a CEO, if trust is not my highest value, especially under the guise of all this amazing new technology and all the changes that it's bringing my customers or my consumers, then how am I leading?»

Pinterest Inc. the online scrapbooking company, is seeking to raise funding at a valuation of about $ 11 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, continuing the soaring values of a group of high - profile technology startups.

Critics say the proposal is short on technical details, and that Telegram's high valuation is being driven by hype and speculation rather than the value of the technology.

A NEW PLAYBOOK FOR HEALTHCARE INVESTING Value Chain Track Capella Room Start with what we do know: There is a flotilla of new technologies out there on the high seas of health innovation and only some of it will make its way to shore.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Hence, Bitcoin should be seen as a high - risk investment like a technology stock, not as a stable store of value.

MaRS clients are making breakthroughs in areas such as healthcare and clean technology that will help improve people's everyday lives and generate high - paying, high - value jobs,» says Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science for the Province of Ontario.

These leading banks are taking advantage of Ripple's distributed financial technology to drastically reduce the time and cost of settlement and optimize high volume, low value global transactions.

It offers a comprehensive range of proprietary solutions and cutting edge services with a high added value in technology based on a unique culture of reliability, flexibility and adaptability to the needs of its customers.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Just look at the list of technology trailblazers whose values have plummeted from record highs during the past few weeks.

The article reports that while the change in value of mergers and acquisitions in «all sectors» is down 51 % in 2008, compared to last year, the value of «high technology» M&A is actually up 132 %.

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Plus, self - driving technology should increase the value of each car and deliver higher margins to manufacturers.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

Research and technology investments have enabled the U.S. dairy industry to launch a variety of high - value protein ingredients, including whey protein concentrates (WPC) ranging from 34 - 90 % protein and whey protein isolate (WPI), which is more than 90 % protein.

Advances in technology and investments in research and development have enabled the U.S. to expand its portfolio of whey protein and ingredients from basic commodities to a variety of higher - valued products.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Flavourtech's Centritherm ® evaporator technology is used for concentration of high - value or viscous juice products for maximum flavour and colour.

«What we've seen is the transformation of a low strategic target into a high value target,» said Levy - Yurista of the technology security outfit Usher.

Because in the twenty - first century, the companies and countries that will succeed will be those who can exploit the huge opportunities the new digital age and the era of big data are bringing — in high - value manufacturing, digital media, education and medical technology.

We need to get behind the industries of the future so we're backing the skilled, high - value industries like green technology, aerospace and life sciences in which Britain has a real comparative advantage.

Professor José Mariano Gago, Portugal's minister for science, technology, and higher education, spoke about valuing science over bureaucracy and the importance of stability for creating important science projects.

In a recent study, researchers found that heavy use of a restaurant technology — such as electronic menu ordering, online reservations or electronic payment methods — doesn't mean the customer holds the technology in high value.

The study also allowed the researchers to make several critical comparisons in order to estimate the yield value of each technology factor when it was a component of a traditional system of lower inputs and when it was a component of an advanced system of higher - level inputs.

A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), and the Prokhorov General Physics Institute have proposed a theoretical model that explains the unexpectedly high values of the linear magnetoelectric effect in BiFeO3 (bismuth ferrite) that have been observed in a number of experiments.

Collaboration with CSIRO has developed the technology to produce a range of high - value materials such as calcined magnesia for treatment of effluent.

Under this programme, joint projects are being initiated between public - sector institutions and private - sector industries for technology - based production of high - value - added goods.

Each applied research project, involving academics, SMEs and industrials partners, is undertaken by a team of high - level scientists and engineers integrating state - of - the - art technological equipment and expertise, dedicated to conceive and to develop new innovative and high value technology solutions.

«The Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation is really focused very heavily on trying to develop a large economic sector in the state of Maine that's driven by a high value science and technology commercialization efforts,» said Kevin Strange, President of the MDI Biological Laboratory.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Creating Biotechnology Solutions Who is SemBioSys SemBioSys Genetics Inc. is a plant biotechnology company with a powerful technology that enables production of high - value pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical products in an affordable and sustainable manner.

Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our home planet.

Using cutting edge technologies experts of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from the UK, Canada and the United States were able to reconstruct pH values of the Northern Pacific with a high resolution since the end of the 19th century.

Because of their long association with value and luxury, we still associate high value with furs — even when most people are now carrying technology in their pockets that costs more than most vintage furs.

We offer the most advanced technology available in online dating today and bring you a high class service with a plethora of like - minded people... making our price to value ratio the best in the industry.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

The network, which is distributed to 100.8 million U.S. homes, can be seen in 210 countries and territories, offering a signature mix of compelling, high - end production values and vivid cinematography across genres including, science and technology, exploration, adventure, history and in - depth, behind - the - scenes glimpses at the people, places and organizations that shape and share our world.

Youngsters show that technology can play an important role in the development and improvement of cities, identifying needs, and proposing creative and innovative solutions of high value.

I have four or five opportunities to assess and purchase new, innovative technologies each year, but I only purchase those that present a clear, proven, cost - effective high value to the education and / or safety of our students.»

If the majority of the initial values are 3, it does not matter which portable technology is adopted — the probability of success is high.

Due to the often high cost of learning technology systems your executives will have to see some real - world value to invest in a new LMS.

In today's consumer marketplace, branding is an essential component to introducing new technologies, and bringing the EcoBoost and Skyactiv brands more high - level racing prestige has the potential to add a lot of value to their respective nameplates.

In their quest for higher technology and easier driving, nearly half of E46 buyers fell for it, only to experience jerky downshifts, tardy upshifts, and lower resale values.

It's a value solution that gives us the ability to answer market trends quickly and provide broad market coverage, a key component of the EcoBoost strategy to deliver an affordable, fuel - efficient engine technology at high volumes.