Sentences with phrase «led by tech companies»

Much of the whole digital entertainment market has been led by tech companies, not by the content creators.

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From there he accepted a lead engineering position at another early - stage tech firm — PayPal co-founder Max Levchin's social media company Slide, acquired by Google in 2010 for $ 228 million.

Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

A handful of tech companies will also report results from their latest fiscal quarters this week, led by Hewlett - Packard (HPQ).

A Subiaco - based piping company led by businessman Andrew Haythorpe has announced plans to buy a New Zealand tech company, in a backdoor listing worth about $ 5.5 million.

A soon - to - be listed tech company led by local entrepreneur Rob Newman and company director Ian Olson has lodged its prospectus for a $ 5 million capital raising, as it proceeds with its reverse takeover of Soil Sub Technologies.

In 2016, Apple led the pack and was the first company to switch its gun emoji to a squirt gun, which has since been replicated by the other big tech players.

Qualcomm and Broadcom round out the subsector's top five companies by market cap, making a failed merger between the two companies particularly painful for the group, according to Scott Kessler, lead tech analyst at CFRA Research.

The company's management team is chock full of tech talent, led by CEO Adam Nash, who helped build LinkedIn and eBay.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has left the realm of niche, experimental tech jargon to be fully embraced by leading companies.

Today, 15 leading transport and tech companies have pledged to abide by her 10 «shared mobility principles for livable cities» — including competitors Uber, Lyft, and Beijing - based Didi Chuxing.

While the company didn't publicly commit to a specific number of new jobs, it quoted market research that calculated that its expansion in the country will lead to 28,000 new jobs and $ 17 billion in new revenue in Canada by 2022, when calculating all things like contracts with Salesforce partners and tech bought by Salesforce customers.

The company was acquired by Google in 2013 during a robotics shopping spree led by Android creator Andy Rubin, but the team struggled to find its place within the tech giant after Rubin's departure, former Boston Dynamics employees said.

According to Bloomberg and research by Lesa Mitchell and Professor Vivek Wadhwa, women - led high - tech startups are more capital efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and generate 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned companies when venture - backed.

Here is a chart to show you the median valuation of late stage private tech companies compared to traditional growth rounds of capital led by VCs and also vs. the public markets.

Real estate tech company Compass is the latest beneficiary of SoftBank's $ 100 billion Vision Fund, receiving $ 450 million Thursday from a funding round led by the tech fund.

Several tech companies, led by IBM, began to develop their own operating system, called OS / 2, to replace MS - DOS.

In addition, in the last two years there has been a steep rise in investment from Asia into North American high - tech companies — led by China.

But, possibly because of ageist policies, that's changing: more and more rising tech companies are led by founders in their 20s.

In San Francisco rising property prices have been blamed on the inflated salaries in the tech sector, and led to company buses carrying employees from the city to the sprawling tech campuses in the Valley being stoned by protesters — what one tech executive described to me as «the Google bus piñata».

I would love to see an increase in dividends, but also investments by the companies into the business for new products that lead these tech companies into the future.

Bering Media, a location - based advertising company, announced last week that it has completed its Series A financing round led by Tech Capital Partners, with participation from GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and from the newly created Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF).

In particular, the GIC believes investors should diversify their tech exposure by owning leading companies in SMAC — security, mobile / social, analytics and the cloud — key tech growth areas that the GIC believes may produce strong returns.

So the pattern is now clear: The tech companies (often led by Apple) change some way of doing something.

Should we all just completely As #metoo forces other companies to follow their lead, big tech companies blaze a fairly common - sense trail by adopting rules to discourage co-worker

Developed by an advocacy organization, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which works with thirty - eight leading American tech companies, the program was designed to inculcate students not only with modern technical skills and a facility for critical thinking but also with the requisite tools for successful citizenship in the global village.

Built by former designers and engineers from world - leading tech companies like Google and Facebook, it improves every day thanks to feedback from readers, authors, and publishers.

In 2016, LoanMart committed to be a leading financial tech company in the non-traditional lending industry by releasing the LoanMart Mobile App.

The city employ 72,000 in the tech sector alone, led by companies like Shopify and QNX.

GREE International Inc.: Director of Viral Distribution and Virtual Goods Monetization: «GREE International Inc. (http://gree-corp.com/) is owned by GREE Inc., the fastest growing tech company in Japan, offering leading social mobile games.

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor whose research led to her founding an innovative biofuels company has been named one of the top 10 «Women to Watch» in New England by Mass High Tech.

GT partners with world - leading companies & institutions including Georgia Tech, SRI International, Corning Technology and costs have been independently evaluated by Det Norske Veritas

SolarCity, a Californian solar leasing company led by billionaire clean tech developer Elon Musk, expects home battery storage to become commercially «viable» in the US within the next 10 years.

The company, which is led by beekeeping CEO Miguel Bento, is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to launch the APiS Tech devices, after which commercial production of these potentially lifesaving bee monitors and hives can commence.

Instead she joined the entrepreneurial bubble by founding the leading legal tech company in Norway: Lawbotics.

Shire's CSO leads tech transformation programme FTSE 100 biopharmaceutical company Shire, led by chief strategy officer Claire Debney and legal strategy manager Ama Zbarcea, has conducted an extensive sandbox exercise to engage its staff in the selection of a contract management system, as part of a much wider technology - led transformation programme.

For six months, our cohort of companies will be immersed in an intensive residency program that assists us in building comprehensive sales, marketing, and financial strategies by connecting them with world - class advisors and CEOs from Vancouver's leading tech companies.

In a world where so many of the legal tech start - ups are still led by their original creators, non-founder CEOs usually indicate that the company has moved well beyond the world of parents» garages and co-working spaces.

Jim Garland and Alex Berengaut are quoted by The Litigation Daily in an article regarding the role Covington and co-counsel Davis Wright played together on behalf of Microsoft that led to a groundbreaking policy memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein curbing the government's use of gag orders on tech companies.

A quick introduction for those of you who don't know about CLOC: CLOC is the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium — a volunteer - driven group made up of legal ops professionals (both lawyers and professional staff) who carry the full - time and multidisciplinary responsibilities of law practice management in legal departments; there's also a robust group of interested parties that orbit around the CLOC membership community — ALSPs (alternative legal service providers) and law firms, consultants, legal tech innovators, and managed service companies; the collective group that many CLOC - ers, led by co-founder Connie Brenton, refer to as their partnering «ecosystem.»

India's top court then scheduled a hearing requesting the presence of leading tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo, and gave Prajwala one week to find out how other countries have addressed this issue, which was when Torys was asked by TrustLaw to get involved.

Europe's top 10 deals during 2016 — topped by Qualcomm's $ 46bn (# 37bn) takeover of Netherlands tech company NXP Semiconductors (see full list below)-- handed 11 lead roles to US firms, including two each for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

-- In the lead - up to Tech5 2018 — the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe's fastest - growing tech companies in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Sweden — we're launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth.

«This is a positive step by Facebook to take the lead to put in place the transparency requirements called for in the Honest Ads Act, but a patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't going to cut it — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act,» she said in a statement.

The data breach has raised investor concerns that any failure by big tech companies to protect privacy could deter advertisers and lead to tougher regulation.

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With China likely to be dominated by Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba, users in India are a big prize for leading tech companies.

The nascent tech has become a hotly contested sector in recent years, with devices from the likes of Nest — which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet — leading the charge.