Sentences with phrase «hold big technology»

The Global Fund doesn't currently hold big technology companies like Facebook or Amazon on account of them being too expensive, but the team does a lot of research to understand how advances are changing industries.

Not exact matches

But an equally big part of the consulate's strategy in the Valley has involved mobilizing the 300,000 - strong Canadian contingent that lives and works there, many of whom hold executive positions at the biggest names in high technology, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.

Murphy has held management positions at many big technology companies including Yahoo (yhoo), Microsoft (msft), and Symantec (symc).

GSR, which has invested in clean technology and electric cars, is also looking to buy a substantial holding in Chile's Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM), one of the world's biggest lithium producers, Reuters reported in July.

The technology industry has a big problem with diversity, one that seems to be getting worse: In 1991 women held 37 % of computing jobs; today they hold only 26 %.

At the forefront of blockchain developments, Glance Technologies earlier this month announced a definitive agreement with Cannabis Big Data Holdings to provide technology allowing marijuana retailers and producers to handle cryptocurrency transactions.

Even though Apple is a «big five» technology company, Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note that it's not in the «top five» holdings by hedge funds, according to news from CNBC.

When it comes to the big business of autonomous hauling of big business products, Europe is at the forefront of the technology as it holds the European Truck Platooning challenge.

It has big positions in KWEB's top two holdings — Internet giants Baidu and Tencent — but just 38 percent of the portfolio is in technology firms.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe's largest engineers» body, with 150,000 members in 127 countries, has commented on the recent summit held by Prime Minister David Cameron, and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, with the six biggest power firms, consumer groups, and the regulator Ofgem.

«We'll be using interactive technology to let people - both inside and outside the conference hall - voice their opinions on the big screen throughout all the sessions, and we'll be holding a live vote at the end of the shorter debates.»

At its first big conference, held just 10 years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the startling initial premise was that life is simply too complicated for biotechnologists to easily modify and that it would be better if engineers rebuilt life from scratch so the created organisms did exactly what was required.

To engage the public in a dialogue on this rapidly growing field, the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a public event on April 1 on «Big Data, Life Sciences, and National Security.»

Speaking with sister site FoodNavigator - Asia, Dr Antonio Alfonso, leader of the Philippines research, said it is simply not true that that big corporations would hold more patents in golden rice technology.

January 2, 2017 • Technology was front and center in many of 2016's biggest stories; 2017 is likely to hold more of the same.

With questions of human worth, value, choice, and sacrifice, it's what big sci - fi should be: holding onto humanity in the shadow of technology.

A special event was held spotlighting how Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technology and tools were used to bring THOR to the big screen.

Technology can be held responsible as a big influencing factor when it comes to the decline in outdoor play.

As Klein told me in an email last night, «This is the right time — it gives someone three years to move the agenda forward and I have been offered an opportunity at NewsCorp to have a big impact in the area of educational technology, which holds out enormous opportunity for transforming education.»

Held daily in tandem with the Summer Institute and led by project staff with guest presentations by experts in a variety of fields, teachers meet from noon to 2 p.m., Monday through Thursday, to gain greater insight into the big ideas in their content areas of expertise, in the sister subjects, and with various types of technology.

Educators have long held new technology at arm's length, and probably for good reason: For more than a century, they have looked on as reformers pushed a series of mostly ill - fated technical innovations, each touted as the Next Big Thing.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

A collaboration like this makes sense for the CIA, given the U.S. government's big «cloud first» initiative, which holds that the use of cloud computing technologies will save money and make government more responsive and flexible to its constituencies.

and some other try desperately to hold onto their outdated modes of operation, just adding improvements along the way in a piecemeal fashion, while the big players (the technology folks) change the publishing paradigm, provide authors with tools that will likely use XML (authoring, content management and delivery).

It is still being paid licensing fees continuously from all the big name companies, mainly through the patents Neonode holds on touchscreen technology.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUâ $ ¦ The future of Augen holds a key to develop market conscious products with a vision of delivering the latest and emerging technologies, being available and affordable to every household, big / small corporation in the United States of America and worldwide.

As a result, technology is the sector with the largest amount of cash held overseas and would be one of the biggest beneficiaries of repatriation.

While the big names in comic book publishing — just like their mass market book counterparts — are rushing to hold onto their footing as eReaders and iPads edge out the paper - and - ink book market, there's one group of comic creators that is embracing technology and all its benefits: Indies.

Confirmed guests include Matt Held (I'll Have my Facebook Portrait Painted by Matt Held), Paddy Johnson (Art Fag City), Sharon Kleinman (author of Displacing Place), An Xiao (Thatwaszen), and other... read more... «Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology»

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, repeated the widely - held opinion that there is no way China will stop building coal - fired power plants, so the technology «had better work or we're in such a big mess we're not going to get out of it.»

It remains to be seen how well this technology works in practice; even if Burchill's claims only hold partially true, however, it could prove to be a big step forward in alternative energy production.

Ulster's Legal Innovation Centre will hold courses in technology aimed particularly — but not exclusively — at the needs of the two big firms in town.

By leveraging modern big - data technology masked by functional and intuitive user interfaces that provide role - based access control, teams can easily manage preservation, collection, legal hold and export without relying on IT.

Big data trends range from the explosion of data, through to the increasingly sophisticated discovery and analysis technologies that may be applied to structured data such as that held in databases, and unstructured data stored in audio or video format, SMS and social media.

Our workforce is so global and the remote access technology is so advanced that big US meetings can be held anywhere really.»

Having held senior management positions within privately owned software companies and international technology corporations, coupled with a Big 4 public accounting firm background, she possesses a wealth of expertise and industry knowledge.

Tapscott, whose Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World is coming out in April 2016, referred to blockchain as «the biggest innovation in computer science in a generation» which «holds the potential for unleashing countless new applications and as yet unrealized capabilities that have the potential to transform everything in the next 25 years.»

A big part of that was a long - term bet on blockchain and digital currency technology, which we thought held the potential to provide the missing layer of protocols needed for open value exchange.»

Before the announcement, China held the biggest political event known as the «Two Sessions» where Chinese policy advisers commented on the development of blockchain technology during the first few days of the event.

The valuation makes it one of the biggest players in the entire blockchain industry and one of America's largest privately held technology companies.

Summary of Experience: Decades of experience in information technology, holding staff, supervisory and management positions in major divisions of Fortune 100 companies and a Big Six professional services firm, involved with the following industries: * Consumer Products * Financial Services (banking, brokerage, * Retail insurance) * Pharmaceuticals * Telecommunications * Automotive * Entertainment * Transportation * Publishi...

The commercial real estate sector has been one of the biggest industries to hold out on improving productivity and efficiency by embracing new technologies, and as a result has missed huge opportunities in the market.