Sentences with phrase «of tech change»

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The way I use a lot of my tech changed quite a bit this year.

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The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

«While C - level personnel changes are important, Twitter has also been quietly hiring experienced tech executives — mostly from Google — for other departments,» Rao writes in a January 2013 Greencrest report on Twitter, which was made available to Inc. «The hiring of these seasoned executives suggests a possible positioning for an initial public offering in the next 12 to 18 months, in our view.»

Nearly one year after Jack Dorsey retook his position as CEO of Twitter, very little has changed at the tech company.

Here are six big ideas about how tech incumbents are about to drastically change the face of education:

Many of those companies have promised to do better, but change is slow, as shown in the diversity reports that a number of tech firms now regularly publish that detail the demographic makeup of their employees.

Michael Reckmeyer, a portfolio manager of Hartford Equity Income, notes that that's a sticky business — big companies don't change their tech setups easily — and Microsoft's cloud and database businesses are dhelping mitigate the secular decline of desktop software.

And it embodies the powerful wave of change that has swept the economy since the financial crisis — one that has broken down the barriers between «tech stocks» and the rest of the market.

Toronto's CEO - turned mayor on how tech is transforming cities: «Why should the job of people in public life... be to try and stop change?»

But it was also appealing to become part of an emerging tech scene, instead of staying in one that's established and harder to change.

Wheeler holds forth at length about his change in direction in an op - ed piece for Wired on Wednesday, describing his experience as the head of a tech startup called NABU in the 1980s as one reason for his change of heart.

To truly bring more foreign talent into Canadian tech hubs — whether they're from the United States, one of the countries affected by the travel ban, or elsewhere — requires sweeping policy changes.

Since I'm writing for Data Sheet this week, and not CEO Daily, I should point out that all of this Change - the - World - Don't - Be-Evil stuff started in the tech sector — even if some players (looking at you, Facebook) have wandered astray.

As the business landscape is changing more and more rapidly — particularly due to the impact of new tech on customers expectations and staff behavior — being responsive requires a certain level of flexibility and vision from your employees.

Shaken up by the advent of digital tech, education is changing.

Also concerning for entrepreneurs is the scarcity of tech - focused funds (Kolind assures this is changing, however).

Tech Insider — Business Insider's recently launched sister site focused on tech, science, and innovation — is hiring a paid editorial intern to aid our coverage of world - changing idTech Insider — Business Insider's recently launched sister site focused on tech, science, and innovation — is hiring a paid editorial intern to aid our coverage of world - changing idtech, science, and innovation — is hiring a paid editorial intern to aid our coverage of world - changing ideas.

«It's about how do you leverage the diversity you bring into your company for the benefit of your products, for your work force, for your culture,» she told Inc.'s Salvador Rodriguez onstage at the Change Catalyst's Tech Inclusion conference in October.

Earlier this year he launched Singularity University with a handful of other tech luminaries with the stated mission of «preparing the world for accelerating change.»

He hoped his modest set of requirements would make a small impact, lead to more visibility for women in tech and, in turn, change the ratio.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

«Social is the only revolution out of all the tech revolutions that is actually changing society, that bleeds into our social fabric,» he said.

The focus on where the future is going is always focused on tech but the real challenge is talent and agility, which means keeping your people in a constant state of evolution, changing with your market quick enough to beat the trends.

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

Because of that, those wanting to start a health - tech company need to be willing to learn and adapt to the changing industry.

«Facebook is changing the world but it's clearly not changing the mostly white leadership and workforce,» said Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leaders and one of the biggest proponents of the tech diversity movement.

Craig Newmark, a member of the Advisory team for Women Who Tech, is the founder of craigslist, the web - based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising.

Chaudhry is a serial tech entrepreneur who has watched the status quo change over the past couple of decades.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

At the intersection of cloud computing and energy conservation, the field excites both tech geeks and climate - change warriors alike, but much of it remains in the theory stage.

The Brisbane Baylands project has received sharp criticism from people living in Brisbane, who don't want to see an influx of tech workers change the character of their neighborhoods.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal coTech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal cotech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

I spoke with experts in the fields of education, health, biotech, and clean tech to find out what major changes are afoot this year in the world of innovation and how you can get in on the action.

The result is a new crop of sleep - focused geniuses putting tech in the hands of regular people to change their lives when they're not awake.

If you don't want big tech companies to peek at and sell what you do online — in whatever form — you have to go out of your way to change it.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

To stay alive, ad - tech startups have to keep abreast of the constant changes.

It's all part of DST CEO (and billionaire) Yuri Milner's clever strategy that's changing the way tech companies grow up.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

In the future, the declining cost of tech might change those economics, but overcoming climate change is too important to bet entirely on that.

They have asked social media and tech companies to address the following and make changes to their existing terms of service:

While the largest tech giants are on record in support of the current FCC rules, their size likely means they will be able to negotiate with Internet providers to ensure any changes to net neutrality policy does not affect them.

Tech executives in Idaho, for example, are calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law — one of the most restrictive in the nation — that impedes an employee's ability to change jobs.

Their latest just came out and includes prognostications about tech, social, and political changes affecting entrepreneurs, but here to get you started are the basics of how they foresee the business landscape shifting.

Secondly, there could be changes to the Optional Practical Training program, which gives foreign graduates from U.S. colleges in science and tech an additional two years of work authorization.

The tech duo eventually changed the name of their search engine from Backrub to «Google» (thank god) and revolutionized the search - engine industry by using a new algorithm that ranked a webpage based on its back links (i.e. links on other websites that refer back to a given webpage).

But after a few years of rubbing elbows with tech bros and wannabe visionaries, I've found there's often more to learn from founders with ambitions less grandiose than changing the world.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

As the Grace Hopper Celebration approaches, it's a good time for the small group of leaders across the tech industry to pause and evaluate if they are doing enough (and doing it systematically) to effect real change.