Sentences with phrase «into digital companies»

NBCU invested $ 200 million in Vox in 2015, one of a flurry of investments into digital companies by the Comcast (cmcsa) unit, which has put $ 400 million into BuzzFeed and most recently invested $ 500 million as part of Snap Inc's initial public offering last week.

Not exact matches

And while true reform will require all the relevant parties — government, industry, and health care consumers themselves — to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag American medicine into the 21st century kicking and screaming.

For all the hoopla surrounding the digital economy and virtual businesses, the success of many ventures still hinges on serious capital outlay; indeed, a recent benchmark report by the Business Development Bank of Canada identifies «significant» investment in fixed assets as a key variable that helps mid-size companies grow into large ones.

Ecommerce companies should be taking feverish notes: A recent demonstration of AR technology by Florida - based startup Magic Leap showed one way retailers might integrate AR technology into an e-commerce environment: The demonstration showed how a user could superimpose virtual models of lamps and other room décor atop a real - world dresser, with the digital objects shown to scale, to help the user determine how those items might look within the space.

Revenue from digital subscriptions and ads has yet to offset declining print revenue, so it only makes sense that media companies want to turn their brands into new sources of income.

It's part of a wave of Canadian companies aiming to transform health care and bring the country's hospitals into the digital age — a massive opportunity to modernize the country's aging health - care system, and to meet the expectations of a clientele increasingly used to managing every aspect of their lives through a screen.

TouchTunes, a digital jukebox company, has incorporated Foursquare software into its app, so it can push notifications to users when they're at the bar and send them personalized song suggestions.

As the company widens its market, it's increasingly possible that the larger digital imaging companies will move into the space and risk turning awesome little point - of - view cameras into a commodity.

NBCUniversal parent Comcast (cmcsa) has pumped heavily into digital - native companies such as BuzzFeed and Vox Media, partly in an effort to better service existing advertisers.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

EU countries have been looking into methods to tax digital companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc., in a way that captures the true value created in the region.

Three years into his Amgen tenure, Conrad's former Harvard roommate Mike Sha reached out to propose starting a company, and together they brainstormed a digital investment - tracking service.

Tribune spun off its publishing assets into Tribune Publishing in 2014, and renamed the parent company, which houses its broadcasting and digital assets, Tribune Media Co. (trbaa)

In five years, Kunal Gupta has built Toronto - based Polar Mobile into one of the world's leading digital - media software developers, creating mobile sites for clients like Condé Nast, The Wall Street Journal, CBS and every major Canadian media company.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been in a long battle to turn her company into the digital destination it once was.

The other CEOs in the group saw how Steve could partner with a large digital technology company that generated printable content like Adobe or Microsoft, in a way that would make his business the standard by which people turned their online digital information into hard copy.

The deal gives AOL additional tools as it continues its transformation into a digital advertising company under Verizon (VZ), which acquired it earlier this year for $ 4.4 billion.

But after Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009, the company began combining all of these tools into one suite offering that is, in our opinion, the most comprehensive digital marketing solution available on the market today.

The company says it is the first national restaurant company to integrate curated menus into digital ordering.

If we talk to a prospective client and they only want to work on television, they're probably not the best match for me because I look for people who also want to extend into film, or digital, or possibly start their own production company... I love building an enterprise.

ShareScan converts digital copiers into devices that enable users to share documents electronically over a company's local area network.

How can a small B2B - focused company get back into the discussion in this age of digital selling?

That means they can «fail fast,» testing products with the rapidity of a tech company, and tap e-commerce and digital advertising instead of breaking into bricks and mortar and shelling out millions for TV ads.

At the same time, the company also decided to make a much more concerted foray into the global children's entertainment market, setting up a stand - alone division in Los Angeles with a mandate to create TV and digital content to work alongside the company's portfolio of toy brands.

The company that has built and lost fortunes making paper, computer monitors and, more famously, mobile phones and networks, is buying connected - devices maker Withings for $ 192 million) to aid its push into digital health technology.

The startup investment arm of the digital giant is aiming to put support into new European companies.

By activating physical objects into a digital space, gaming companies have the opportunity to reinvigorate the collectible toy market.

It seems obvious that chairman and controlling shareholder Michael Ferro, who took over the company in February, wants to show that Tribune is moving forward into a digital future.

A little - noticed litigation may have a lasting effect on how companies move their marketing initiatives into the digital world.

The Neat Company, which makes smart organization systems, has a product called NeatConnect that scans receipts into digital files, extracts relevant tax information, categorizes expenses and sends the data by email or uploads it to any number of cloud services.

«We launched on Amazon so you could get 512KB of digital data encoded into DNA,» explains Nimesh Pinnamaneni, the company's co-founder.

The two companies will work to integrate their offerings into one, and existing PocketRx customers will immediately have access to the Digital Pharmacist suite.

But bet they did — pouring $ 4.2 billion into digital health companies in 2016 alone.

As FloSports» growth continues and the service expands further into more mainstream sporting events, Floreani looks to position his company to gain a foothold in the increasingly competitive world of digital sports media.

Often this is because many of the modern digital features on companies» sites and systems have been built out into web application, JavaScript, and Ajax layers, which may not be easily adapted to be a web service or API.

Hearst Magazines is acquiring a minority stake in Gear Patrol, a digital and print publication aimed at product enthusiasts, to help the company branch out into more e-commerce efforts to diversity revenue.

As for Cambridge Analytica, only now is Facebook launching an investigation into apps created at a time when the company was promising «easy access» for app developers, including Aleksandr Kogan, whose This Is Your Digital Life quiz app created the data set that was then sold to Cambridge Analytica.

We carry on the legacy of GE founder Thomas Edison in how we have transformed GE into a digital industrial company, truly making it the 124 year - old - start - up,» said Jeff Immelt.

Furthermore, his company's heavy investment into their own virtual currency could lead to similar approaches by companies looking to transform digital commerce.

On Wednesday the Finnish company said it had entered into exclusive negotiations with Eric Carreel, co-founder and former chairman of the digital health business, Withings, a French company Nokia bought in 2016 as its first move into the market.

The episode highlights Alphabet's difficult transition from a digital advertising giant into a diversified technology company with varied groups of employees requiring different incentives.

We carry on the legacy of GE founder Thomas Edison in how we have transformed GE into a digital industrial company, truly making it the 124 year - old - start - up.

Vab Media Digital Agency's creative team located in New York City takes ideas and then sculpts them into a visual concept that will be unique and timeless to brand your company.

The companies provided that information in response to the UK's Electoral Commission, which has been running its own investigation into whether there was any digital misspending relating to the referendum — handing the exact same information to the committee, despite its request for a more wide - ranging probe of Russian meddling.

As we transition into the hybrid phase of transformation — in which digital companies acquire brick - and - mortar businesses, and traditional businesses reorganize from end to end — it would behoove all directors to become more digitally cognizant.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

The company started 2018 by partnering with Narmi, which integrated Billshark's API into its digital banking platform.

Blockchain Mining Ltd. reported yesterday that the Canadian company that was recently merged into it, Backbone Hosting Solutions Inc. (which trades as Bitfarms as a digital currency miner) had decided not to proceed with an offering of convertible bonds announced in March.

Now, the Wall Street giant looks set to take the plunge, having just hired a cryptocurrency trader to help the company expand into digital asset markets.

Telemedicine company American Well and health technology company Royal Philips anounced back in January that they would partner to integrate American Well's virtual care capabilites into Philips» consumer and professional digital health products.