Sentences with phrase «many giant tech companies»

It's a way many legacy companies are attempting to compete against giant tech companies — and in many cases protect their industry.

Amazon and other giant tech companies are trying to become synonymous with the internet in users» minds.

My bet is that Omega gets a few deals, invests heavily in its NLU and is then acquired by a giant tech company that is looking to make up ground in the space.

Meanwhile, giant tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple that used to be on the sidelines are getting closer and closer to the action.

The names in this battle range from giant tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Alphabet, to upstart competitors focusing on small niches within the home.

Their goal: to have their now - giant tech company feel once again like a scrappy startup, with Page focused on expanding the businesses and Brin touting their most ambitious projects.

Like many giant tech companies, Facebook also offers a cash reward to tech geeks who can identify any flaws on the site.

Or, ultimately, with some giant tech company, since iRobot CEO Colin Angle told Reuters this week he was looking to strike a deal with one in the next few years.

OpenSSL is an important encryption library used by many giant tech companies and hundreds of thousands of web servers.

AI assistants are clearly the future for these giant tech companies.

My bet is that Omega gets a few deals, invests heavily in its NLU and is then acquired by a giant tech company that is looking to make up ground in the space.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

The program resembles Amazon's Alexa Fund and reflects the extent to which Google sees the success of its smart assistant as a driver of future growth, as both companies (and other tech giants) vie for dominance in the home.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

The communications company's interest in Yahoo was for the assets and the brand of the struggling tech giant.

With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high - end devices.

The now iconic image of an apple with bite taken out of it has been with the company since 1976, but the tech giant ditched the rainbow colors for the current slick chrome shade in 1998.

Besides it tech giant challengers, Dropbox also said that smaller companies like work software companies Atlassian and Box are also a threat as well as unnamed private companies.

There, he headed several software companies including SAP, Zuora, and Savvion before joining Larry Ellison's tech giant in October 2014.

Companies like tech giant Alibaba and Internet company Tencent are bringing their investments and technology to the region, Santitarn Sathirathai explained.

After a year of mounting bad press about the tech giants, the companies are feeling the impact in different ways.

At the company's annual analyst summit in Shenzhen, Changzhu Li, vice president of the consumer business group's handsets strategy, said the U.S. had effectively «locked the door» to the tech giant.

PayPal may be able to carve out an advantage among merchants that wish to avoid credit card companies and tech giants.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

And while the iPhone ultimately beat their effort to market, the pair helped turn the once - unknown Asian computer company into a tech - industry giant.

Tech giants like Intel, Dell and AMD all have strong track records with their proprietary funds, and more companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are now entering the venture - fund game.

On Thursday, the online retail giant announced its partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor to start an apprenticeship program that will provide paid, on - the - job training for tech careers at the company.

But the tech giants are increasingly encroaching on each other's turf with duplicative services, leading to a sort of department - store - ification of the internet where single - purpose specialty companies are becoming a rarity.

The company has the funding to go head - to head with tech giants, and is on target to raise a billion dollars by the end of 2017, she said.

Her $ 33 million paycheck this year puts her ahead of tech CEOs like Microsoft's Satya Nadella ($ 18 million), who is successfully steering the company back towards growth, as well as leaders at fast - growing tech giants like Alphabet's Larry Page ($ 1), Apple's Tim Cook ($ 9 million) and Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($ 2 million).

In the meantime, this week brought fresh evidence of China's rising prowess as the country's two tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, reported record quarterly earnings, prompting the New York Times to point out that the two companies now rank alongside Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon as the world's most highly valued companies.

According to a recent report from Reuters, the tech giant is signing deals with companies like BuzzFeed, Vox, and Group Nine (the publisher behind brands like NowThis and The Dodo) for more TV - style video, both short clips of about 10 minutes in length and longer shows of 20 minutes or more.

This follows on from EU proposals to remove barriers in online services to improve European companies» chances of competing against U.S. tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook.

Tech giants such as Sony, Samsung and Panasonic along with thousands of smaller consumer - electronics companies descend on Las Vegas for the week, where they'll make arguably some of the largest tech announcements of the year and show off not only what we'll see in stores this year, but what we can expect to see for years to cTech giants such as Sony, Samsung and Panasonic along with thousands of smaller consumer - electronics companies descend on Las Vegas for the week, where they'll make arguably some of the largest tech announcements of the year and show off not only what we'll see in stores this year, but what we can expect to see for years to ctech announcements of the year and show off not only what we'll see in stores this year, but what we can expect to see for years to come.

More businesses are buying computing resources on demand from tech giants like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft), which has hurt big data center hardware companies like Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe).

The tech giant is planning to bring «digital pen» support to iPhones starting in 2019, Korean news outlet The Investor is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the company's plans.

Tencent, the Chinese tech giant with little business outside its home country but a stranglehold on social media within it, passed Wells Fargo yesterday to become the world's tenth most valuable public company.

And it's not just tech giants — companies of all stripes have become more flexible, actively seeking to keep employees happy and engaged, whether through work - life balance initiatives or management strategies that encourage employee feedback, input and advancement.

To seek out the counterweights to this argument, Cramer zoomed in on the 10 best performing tech stocks in the S&P 500 for the first half of 2017 — gaming giants Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts, software players Adobe Systems, Red Hat and Autodesk, semiconductor - related companies Micron, Nvidia and Lam Research, payment provider PayPal and the Apple - involved Broadcom.

The tech giant invests in Calico, a new company aimed at combating aging and improving people's health and wellness.

More than 170 companies are expected to have released their quarterly results by the end of the week, including tech giants Amazon and Facebook.

The survey bodes especially poorly for tech giants like Google's Waymo, as only 20 percent of people surveyed said they would trust an existing tech company to safely execute on the futuristic vehicles.

Not so fast, says JPMorgan, which argues the likelihood of a full rebound will remain low until investors get more clarity on Facebook's relationship with political - research company Cambridge Analytica, and how much liability the tech giant has.

«Once you get into a public company, if you're not throwing a lot of ability to do R&D, and to progress your technology at a very fast rate, then it's difficult to compete with [the tech giants],» he said.

Media giant Time Inc.'s acquisition by Meredith is key to boosting its digital business, offering it a fighting chance against «giant tech monsters» like Facebook and Google, the company's chief content officer, Alan Murray, said Thursday.

Insiders tell Bloomberg the tech giant is partnering with Hulu to create 360 degree promotional videos for Daydream, Google's hybrid store and user immersive software platform, which is designed to display on smartphone screens and plug into the company's cardboard VR headsets or visors.

Smaller companies are starting to follow tech giants» examples to increase their growth and make themselves more attractive to potential employees.

The tech giant will air 16 half - hour episodes of Carpool Karaoke exclusively on the company's Apple Music streaming service, Variety is reporting.

«Tech companies are blind to this,» says Wu, who is also the co-founder of Giant Spacekat, a company that makes games with female protagonists.

Now, thanks to the cloud, you have numerous options from companies that include Inc. 5000 company Box and Dropbox, as well as tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google.