Sentences with phrase «makers device business»

The layoffs will be in Canadian smartphone makers device business.

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Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

-- Mark Schulze, VP of business development of First Data and co-founder of Clover, maker of an all - in - one point of sale terminal that was acquired by First Data in 2013 and that has sold more than 750,000 devices and processes approximately $ 50 billion in annual sales

Medical device maker Stryker (syk) announced on Tuesday that it plans to buy Physio - Control International for $ 1.28 billion to expand its emergency medical services business.

The bigger companies are also more stable and have a long track record with device makers, so there's less risk that they will lose business.

But even if the decision stands, it's more likely that Samsung and all Android device makers will keep doing business mainly as usual.

Fourteen months ago, when Canadian Business first took a look at Kobo, the company was partnering with booksellers and device - makers in North America and abroad; its platform would power their e-book stores and it would become, as one observer put it, the «Intel inside» for the e-reading sector.

Nokia kick - started its digital health business about a year and a half ago with the $ 170 million ($ 200 million in today's currency) purchase of French smart health gadget maker Withings, which had made a name for itself in activity trackers, smart scales, blood pressure monitors and other health and fitness devices.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

In addition to all the money it spent to win business for its tablet chips, Intel invested a fortune to make sure that Android worked well on its processors and to make life easier for device makers that went with its chips.

Barnes & Noble's losses are prompting the company to consider scaling back its Nook business to instead focus on licensing its content catalog to other device makers, according to The New York Times.

The application is available also for rebranding and preloading to Android device makers, mobile operators, media companies, retailers and other business customers, and as a free download worldwide in the Android Market.

BlackBerry's final years as a device maker were catastrophic, and it switched to a licensing model last year, exiting the hardware business for good.

Digital Book World noted that the «sweeping upgrade for the e-book retailer and device - maker across its business is part of an effort to help it build market - share in the U.S. and to continue to expand globally.»

Digital Book World says that, «The sweeping upgrade for the ebook retailer and device - maker across its business is part of an effort to help it build market - share in the U.S. and to continue to expand globally, according to Kobo executive vice president and manager of devices, Wayne White.

DaySmart Software, makers of 123Pet (123petsoftware.com), has introduced a suite of products that makes it easier for salon owners to run business via computers, smartphones and other mobile devices.

Found via the wonderfully titled Ecosnobbery Sucks, the makers of Mark Your Territory (MYT) envision a day when everyone carries personalized business cards that they inset in the ground, connect to their android device, and then pee on to simultaneously generate a digital and real - world territorial claim.

«BlackBerry devices are the most mature when it comes to security,» Leung says, noting that their maker, Research in Motion (RIM) has been catering successfully to the business market for much longer than the competition.

Arguably, the D - Link suit puts all lax IoT device makers on notice — potentially holding them accountable for security holes that leave businesses and consumers vulnerable to attacks.

It also brings improvements for business customers, really accelerates opportunity for developers, and enables device makers to offer lower cost devices.

Demand for these products has been so light that Samsung, maker of one of the tablets, decided in January not to introduce it in the U.S. Samsung has also stopped selling the device in Europe, Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business, said in an interview in Seoul.

Elgato was not anticipating having to go make these modifications initially, and now the company hopes to make a side business selling its tweaks to other device makers wanting to build HomeKit devices with Bluetooth LE.

The HTC U11 Life does suggest that the Taiwanese phone makers may continue making lower - budget phones — in some markets, it's an Android One device — but that still leaves the future of HTC's premium handset business in question.

Other apps built by larger companies are seen more as the cost of doing business — if you're Uber, for example, or a smart home device maker or a news publisher, you have to establish your presence on the platform.

But even without its own devices or brand on the market, Nokia still stands to gain significant revenues from the smartphone business through patents it has licensed, rather than sold, to Microsoft: $ 1.65 bn of the $ 5.44 bn purchase price gives Microsoft a 10 - year non-exclusive licence to Nokia's smartphone patents — some of which it has been using in litigation against various Android smartphone makers — and reciprocal rights related to Here mapping services.

Without a doubt, this is the best Android One phone Google ever made, a device that probably wouldn't be possible without a partnership with Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone maker whose business is to sell top smartphones at cost.

Doug Miller, head of business development at KeepKey, the Washington - based maker of one of the few premium hardware wallets on the market today, explained, security and user - friendliness were core factors in their device's design.

By switching to a proprietary Dock Connector, Apple could not only allow accessory makers to easily make their devices communicate with an iPod without drivers, they could also launch a profitable «Made for iPod» licensing business.

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