Sentences with phrase «of general tech»

Eventually, she sees blockchain startups joining the bunch of general tech companies without being singled out solely due to the technology.

I have a feeling they want to cover as many different genres and niches as possible and not hundreds of general tech blogs.

Not exact matches

Since joining CNBC's Asia operations, Nancy has also interviewed Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al T; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on stage at the APEC meeting in Danang; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the height of the North Korean crisis in Shanghai and the CEO of Southeast Asia ride hailing and tech giant, Grab, after acquiring Uber's business in the region.

The on - demand economy is also projected to show significant growth, though the general trend of expansion in the number of users of 1099 forms (tax forms for independent contractors) started long before the recent tech boom.

The tech sector in general dominates the list, accounting for nearly half of the ranked companies.

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses why venture capitalists like her are cringing at the performance of tech IPOs this year.

The Seattle - based company plans to increase its Vancouver workforce five-fold to 5,000 by 2022 — mostly high - tech positions, said Jesse Dougherty, Amazon's general manager of web services.

Cuban, for one, is pessimistic about the possibility of a coherent U.S. policy under Trump related to advancing artificial intelligence and tech in general.

Metcalfe says he also learned from Jobs the importance of packaging products for the general consumer, not just for the tech community.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

He is also the general managing partner of G2T3V and Chicago High Tech Investors, both early - stage venture funds; a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT Innovation Council; and Governor Bruce Rauner's Innovate Illinois Advisory Council.

As Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was testifying before three congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, fielding questions from a succession of irate and mostly tech - illiterate legislators, his boss was preparing to break it to investors that curbing Russian information operations and other forms of abuse on his platform will be expensive.

«Kevin has become a real celebrity in the green industry,» says Paul Holland, general partner in charge of the clean - tech practice at Foundation Capital, an investor in Serious Materials.

He contrasted General Assembly to tech startups facing high burn rates, saying the company would be profitable by the end of the year.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoil.

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

While it's obvious to Boroditsky — along with, he says, everyone else «in the tech forward part of the market» — that the password has been dead for years, he's finally beginning to see the rumblings of acknowledgment from the general public.

You don't invest in tech companies in general -; should we take that as a sign of a start - up bubble?

The 39 - year - old actor posted a series of questions on LinkedIn a few days ago with the intention of starting a «live open dialog about gender equality in the work place [sic] and in tech in general» with his partner from venture capital firm Sound Ventures, Effie Epstein.

Bose owns a number of important patents related to noise cancelling tech, and in general seems to have made that more of its thing.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

But Square's lowered IPO share price is a bit of a downer for the tech sector in general.

The week will also feature speakers such as Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine who's now the Aspen Institute's CEO; Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group); General Wesley Clark, and tech entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

The lack of female leaders in general, and especially in the tech world, is one of the most highly discussed challenges.

On a recent Ventured podcast, I spoke with KPCB general partner Randy Komisar about whether or not there's a tech bubble and the consequences of raising too much capital.

As a cofounder at New York - based General Assembly, Hargreaves noticed a growing housing crisis affecting the tech education provider's students, many of whom couldn't meet the rigorous rental requirements stipulated by landlords in New York City.

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Marc is now co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where he's quickly become one of the most influential and dominant tech investors in the world.

Along with the specific ways the tech environment excludes certain underrepresented groups, the survey results show a general disagreement about the definition of a diverse workplace that extends beyond the tech sector.

Paul Holland, Foundation Capital general partner, discusses the business impact of the data scandal for Facebook and the rest of the tech sector.

He points out that manufacturing stalwart General Motors was booted out, as were Citigroup and Kraft, and he argues the current index skews too tech - heavy to encompass the true scope of the U.S. economy.

Right now the EU's General Data Protection Regulation can take credit for a whole lot of spilt ink as tech industry small print is reworded en masse.

Asked how far out he reckons graphene is from finding its way into real world electronics, he added: «While considerable challenges still exist, some great steps forward have been made over the past year or so and I expect high - tech applications of graphene in consumer technologies to appear in the general market within the next 2 - 3 years.

It's especially hard to defend this line of thinking now that big tech companies have attracted so much soft power they can influence elections, inflame conflicts and divide people in general.

With Aetna Inc. looking to move its headquarters from Hartford, on the heels of General Electric Co.'s shift to Boston, Connecticut's economic development strategy may now turn inward, boosting its cities to attract high - tech workers and fixing state government's crisis - prone budgeting.

«It's not a nurturing space — the region, in general, is not an interesting space for tech, the larger numbers are in gaming or tourism,» Lang, of UNLV, said.

The general aim remains valid, even if split in the two projects he is running: Combo, a coworking part of the Cowo Project network, the biggest Coworking network in Italy, and FabLab Firenze, an association of makers and tech enthusiasts.

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Investors on health tech trends: fewer, better pilots and smaller, reliable bets: The world of pilots is changing, according to a panel of health tech investors at HIMSS16 in Las Vegas moderated by Norwest Ventures General Partner Casper de Clercq.

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

I've often thought of tech companies in general as being very light with dividends, wanting to continually reinvest in their business rather than pay dividends.

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A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

Color has raised $ 150 million from venture capital firms like General Catalyst as well as Bay Area tech luminaries including Max Levchin, a PayPal co-founder; Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive; and Laurene Powell Jobs, a philanthropist - investor who is the widow of the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

In order to understand the potential impact that blockchain tech can have on marketplace platforms, it's important to take a look at the evolution of marketplaces in general.

Tech companies like Uber, Waymo and Lyft, as well as automakers like General Motors and Toyota, have spent billions developing self - driving cars in the belief that the market for them could one day be worth trillions of dollars.