Sentences with phrase «of early technology»

«Continued growth in the adoption of smartwatches and fitness trackers will now be from mainstream consumers instead of early technology adopters,» added McIntyre.

«Continued growth in the adoption of smartwatches and fitness trackers will now be from mainstream consumers instead of early technology adopters,» said Ms. McIntyre.

In the U.S., tablet users display the characteristics of early technology adopters: young males in upper income brackets.

«The archaeological record of the earliest stone tools does not support a nut - cracking stage in the development of the earliest technology... in most sites the pounding tools used by chimpanzees are very rare.»

The project research paper is devoted to discover one of the earliest technologies and art forms, also papermaking.

Irrigation was one of the earliest technologies developed 9000 years ago to offset droughts in the Fertile Crescent, triggered by onset of Holocene warming.

even tho the web gets 99 % of the traffic, i like to think that a few cul - de-sacs remain where strains of earlier technologies can still flourish.

Silicon Valley.com's Dan Gillmor says today in a special report that Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, the San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, including the popular Blogger.

Not exact matches

The cloud company plans to go public in early 2018, meaning it could be one of the biggest U.S. enterprise technology companies to list domestically in recent years.

«Most of the startups Bloomberg Beta invests in and works with have an open plan,» says Karin Klein, a partner at Beta, a Bloomberg venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies.

But the Boring Company is still in the early stages of testing its tunnel - digging technology.

He met Mike Peasgood and Steffen Lindner, both U of W alumni, during early work stints at local technology companies, and they decided to start a robotics business.

Within the young blockchain industry there is a widespread belief that the companies and countries that establish an early lead could guide the direction of the technology, for both commercial and national security purposes.

That's the sort of potential that drew early, big - name investors, who helped urge Beshara and his co-founder, chief technology officer Khaled Hussein, toward the «fun» social rather than the «do - good» social.

Imaginary Ventures will invest in early stage, direct - to - consumer businesses «at the intersection of retail and technology,» according to a release announcing its launch.

Canada, though, hasn't enjoyed much benefit for being an early adopter on the forefront of this technology.

Though it's too early to quantify, I've noticed a growing gap between the performance of small businesses who adopt modern technology and those who insist on dragging their feet.

The $ 75 - million Bloomberg Beta fund was created to back early - stage technology companies with the potential to transform the future of work.

Yet West, in her early 30s, says it's also a challenge «being asked what it's like being a person of color in technology.»

When Baker started D2L in 1999 at the age of 22, he became an early evangelist for technology's potential to improve the classroom.

As for me, I am still a little wary of being an early adopter of this technology.

If installed in smartphones, the authors say, this technology could provide a simple, low cost form of early detection.

Technology mid-caps CGI Group of Montreal and Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates of Richmond, B.C., made strategic international acquisitions earlier this year that will jack up their revenues by billions of dollars.

«One of the things that really drew me to the cryptocurrency ecosystem early on in 2012, 2013, when I started getting involved in Bitcoin, was the fact that it was a true intellectual meritocracy,» Demirors says on the latest episode of «Balancing the Ledger,» Fortune's show about the intersection of finance and technology.

Those retailers that reap the biggest benefits of AR and VR will be the ones willing to invest resources early, and fully commit to the technology.

This two - day activity - filled event includes a Day 1 hands - on workshop to continue the company's efforts in building and expanding end - user base among medical and dental healthcare providers, but also provide organizations with how - tos to become early adopter and users of 3D printing and bio-printing technologies.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

At a demonstration staged at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, for example, a robotic arm was given human - like reflexes through the deployment of 5G technology.

Starting with a dream to have a «computer on every desk and in every home,» Gates transformed the complex technology of computers in the 1970s into something accessible for everyday consumers — a mission he was passionate about early on.

INovia Capital, where he is a partner, is one of Canada's most prescient early - stage venture capital firms, with investments in many of the country's most promising technology startups.

Canada's tech industry is plagued with problems, not the least of which is a tendency for our startups to sell early or license their technology to foreign - based, usually American companies.

By recognizing the important of this changing technology early on, our company, Monoprice, took advantage of our ability to be quick and nimble, to be first to market.

No surprise that Sohn isn't what you would call an early adopter of new technology.

Shares of Spotify Technology SA are set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on April 3 in an unusual direct listing that gives insiders the option to sell instantly and does without the support of traditional underwriters - a recipe for potentially high volatility in early trading.

In 2010, Shilling was tasked with scouting out technologies that could be used to flag soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who might be showing early signs of PTSD.

VR is still in its early stages, but as we see it advance, we'll see more businesses jump aboard Considering VR can also provide real - time data collection and an estimated 43 million people were actively using the technology in some way as of June 2016, there's no reason not to attempt to embrace it.

Licensing a technology to establish early market share in an emerging product market is a time - honored strategy that's been executed by a number of well - known companies:

In the spring of 2013, Turtle Beach was introduced to Parametric Sound, the company that had developed the early HyperSound directional audio technology.

Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, the public (and media) looked on technology with wonderment and the hope of the better future it represented.

On the other hand, the longer - term impact and return of disruptive technologies is likely to be huge, if they survive the early challenges.

The technology boom had been underway since the early 1980s, and much of the low - hanging fruit of improved productivity had already been reaped.

Outside of those few early adopters, technology by itself has negative value to the majority of potential customers.

The space of things to be controlled is too fragmented and diverse to simply (or easily) converge on a single player, especially when early on there are already at least 4 possible technology solutions.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

The investors want to eliminate the «valley of death» between the early promise of a new energy concept and commercializing it into a viable technology, which «neither government funding nor conventional private investment can bridge,» the group said in a statement.

The separate partnerships announced Thursday are a milestone for Aurora's founders, Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell, and Chris Urmson, all early pioneers of the technology who led autonomous vehicles programs at Google (goog), Tesla (tsla), and Uber (uber).

In a note to clients early this month, analyst Vivek Arya wrote that the company represents «one of the more unique investments» in technology.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Indeed, Josh Bersin, an analyst at Bersin by Deloitte who tracks workplace technology, believes that the rise of VR as a training tool mimics the early stages of how companies first used YouTube to show training videos.

He is also the managing director of Lerer Hippeau Ventures, New York's most active early - stage technology fund.