Sentences with phrase «new tech sector»

hi there Nick Pastore, the rental market is very hot here in kitchener / Waterloo market due to this area being the new tech sector of north america, with employment opportunities with google and facebook, and other start up App companies such as kik and others.

Cal - BRAIN will also train a new genera: on of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers, positioning California to pioneer the new tech sector of Neurotechnology, which will spur growth in economic activity and job creation.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

A new report offers mostly good news about the province's high - tech sector, but pay still lags comparable regions elsewhere

To boot, new venture capital funds, growth initiatives and a decentralizing tech sector are providing grounds for optimism.

«Last year, Parkwood Entertainment created new departments and recruited new executives from the tech, business and entertainment sectors who joined the team to help grow Parkwood and its interests,» Beyoncé's rep, Yvette Noel - Schure, said in a statement to Page Six.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

«Today the tech sector is stocked with good companies,» says John Backus, founder and managing partner of New Atlantic Ventures.

The tech industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of doing business.

Just 3 percent of all Hong Kong - listed stocks, by capitalization, come from so - called «new economy» sectors — tech as well as biotech — according to a report last year by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse operator.

Outside of the tech sector, 150,000 tech workers are employed in New York City.

Clinton's apparent popularity likely stems from her developing connections in the tech sector over a longer period of time than other Oval Office contenders, according to Mark Schmitt, director of the political reform program at independent think tank New America Foundation.

«Shenzhen companies are more concentrated in emerging industries including tech, media, and healthcare (a.k.a. New China) whereas the landscape in Shanghai is more oriented towards the «Old China» sectors including Financials and Energy,» Goldman Sachs said in a note Wednesday.

So yes, it's encouraging to see an array of new companies from the consumer and tech sectors come to market — but the TSX is going to continue to be dominated by struggling resource stocks for some time to come.

Shares of Alphabet underperformed the already sagging broader tech sector following a New York Times report that some advisers to the president are discussing subjecting Google to more antitrust scrutiny.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - Wall Street fell on Thursday as losses in industrials and interest - rate sensitive sectors offset marginal gains in tech stocks.

Over pizza at New York's Eataly, Coneybeer discussed what's exciting him now in the tech sector and why some technology trends, like wearable smart devices, seem like they're getting more attention than they merit.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters)- Wall Street's main indexes seesawed in choppy trade on Thursday, as gains in tech stocks offset losses in interest - rate sensitive sectors.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - Wall Street's main indexes seesawed in choppy trade on Thursday, as gains in tech stocks offset losses in interest - rate sensitive sectors.

Mandel sat down with Inc. staff reporter Abigail Tracy and discussed why New York City has seen so much growth in the tech / information sector and what other cities can learn from the city's progress.

Though relatively new to the scene, OMERS has been making some big bets on Canada's limping tech sector.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

A brief swoon in publicly traded tech stock prices last April — particularly in the enterprise sector — was seen industrywide as a warning shot that startups should control their «burn rates» and raise as much new money as possible to protect against a future funding drought.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

He has stepped up to chairman to lead that strategy and has recruited Jeff Kelisky, another New Yorker with tech - sector experience, as chief executive.

«There's a whole sector of new tech products that let you take quick pulses of employee happiness,» says Roberge (TinyPulse, Talmetrix, and Culture Amp, to name a few).

When sitting in my dark gray cell with my books, newspapers and magazines, while writing, reading and researching the tech sector, I would visualize myself in Silicon Valley at partner meetings, with my new startup, raising capital from prominent venture capitalists.

«Antitrust enforcers may need to take a close look to see whether competition is suffering and consumers are losing out on new innovations as a result of misdeeds by a monopoly incumbent,» Delrahim said of the tech sector.

It also provides several hundreds of millions in support to clean tech in sectors like transportation and clean energy, and offers a new tax break to geothermal energy, a renewable energy source with big potential in Canada.

We've heard an awful lot about entrepreneurs attempting to «disrupt» the tech ecosystem with new innovations, but few sectors are experiencing as much disruption as the auto industry, where dozens of start - ups are aiming to create the vehicle of the future.

The budget checks off some of the requests on the clean tech sector's wish list, starting with «nearly $ 1.4 billion in new financing, on a cash basis» for clean tech (a mix of equity investments, working capital, and project finance to come from Export Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada.)

Both new and old economy sectors (tech, industrials, energy) have contributed.

New York City Coming in at 9th in this year's ITM report, New York City's technology ecosystem, sometimes called «Silicon Alley,» is home to just about every startup niche imaginable, with notable sectors including education tech, health tech and financial tech playing a big role.

Venture funding for tech companies in New York City increased by 240 % from 2003 to 2013, and more than 85 % of the sector's current companies and 86 % of its current jobs were created during this time.

Unlike many other urban tech hubs, most of the growth of the New York City tech sector has come in the last decade.

We analyzed data on the age and educational history of New York City tech founders, and found that these myths do not tell the full story of the city's founders or the sector's success.

There is also an opportunity to connect Canadian businesses with new and like - minded partners in APEC economies such as Vietnam, where Canadian companies will find opportunities in sectors such as agri - food, education and training, information and communication technologies (ICT), clean tech and financial technology, as well as other services.

The firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences, principally in new drug discovery, enabling technologies and med tech.

In Canada, the relatively new area of clean tech maintained a consistent level of venture capital investment from 2007 to 2008, while investment in all other sectors declined significantly.

«The modern tech sector began on the West Coast when it was about developing new technology and programming,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of RXR Realty, a Google landlord at Pier 57, a new mixed - use space on the Hudson River that is scheduled to open this year.

The tech sector in New York City is booming, adding 25,000 jobs between 2009 and 2013, at a growth rate of 33 percent.

Considering their low correlation and superior performance (higher profit margins and return on equity) to the sputtering tech sector that have been pushing this market to new highs, and the more than 70 publicly traded names, it seems like there's something on the menu for everyone.

«Brooklyn, outside of New York City, is the third - largest city in the U.S.. It's also become a cultural epicenter and attracted a tremendous amount of young talent that's already drawn tech presence into the emerging office sector here.»

NYU is investing more than $ 500 million in new facilities and programs at the Brooklyn - based school, aiming to enhance its position as a hub of the borough's burgeoning tech sector.

By the end of 2000, many of those who had invested all their money in the high - tech sector welcomed in the New Year with negative signs beside their performance numbers for the year.

They are commonly found in the tech sector, but also include healthcare stocks and really any stock that represents a new company in a rapidly - growing industry.

New Norwegian wealth is derived largely from tech companies and other entrepreneurs, he notes, as well as the oil sector.

That record was then dwarfed Thursday when shares reached a new all - time high at $ 385, undoubtedly spurred by the EV company confirming it is in fact in talks with the Shanghai municipal government to build a Gigafactory and manufacture cars in the city's tech sector.

Indeed, the consumer staples sector appears to be the new tech as the market bids up growth and safety at the expense of value.

LeRoy said claims that Yahoo's presence would create a new regional tech sector were far - fetched to begin with.