Sentences with phrase «of giant buildings»

When we think about «conventions,» most of us probably think of San Diego Comic Con and events of its ilk; we think of giant buildings full of anime cosplayers, booths of artists selling handmade fandom merch, and insider access via things like panels, signings, and media premieres.

When people talk castles, we mostly tend to think of giant buildings, luxurious surroundings, and...

From solar panels on the roofs of giants buildings of corporations to large wind farms and huge hydroelectric power plants, the evidence of renewable energy acceptance are sprouting sporadically around the land.

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When the United States Department of Commerce announced it would be imposing a 219 % tax on jets built by Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier on Tuesday night, the outcry was swift.

The new data centers underscores how cloud computing giants like Amazon (amzn), Microsoft, Google (goog), and IBM (ibm) are spending billions of dollars building out their infrastructure across the world so they can sell their technologies to non-U.S. customers.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

In a nutshell, BuzzFeed has been building a giant engine for understanding content flows and sharing behavior online, thanks to tools like Pound and The Hive — a kind of huge, real - time database that can ingest and track BuzzFeed content wherever it is shared across multiple platforms.

Google is secretly building a social - gaming startup, part of its effort to create fledgling companies within the internet - search giant.

Thornton is not trying to fulfil Munk's vision of turning Barrick into a diversified, empire - building mining giant with operations around the world.

Global clothing giant H&M is set to enter the Western Australian market after months of rumour and innuendo, with the retailer understood to be about to sign a lease to move into the GPO Building

The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

How many people did Apple put out of work this week, when the tech giant announced the Apple Watch and the Apple Pay point - of - sale technology built into the new iPhone 6?

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

And the California - style tasting area is a pop - up, built on the campus of e-commerce giant Alibaba BABA as part of a campaign by Mondavi to tap Alibaba's enormous customer base.

If you're worried that you might inadvertently drive past it, just remember that it's the only building on that particular drag in the shape of a giant milk bottle, so it's kind of hard to miss.

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

The state - of - the - art method for accomplishing this is Boeing's Delta IV rocket, which cost the aerospace giant roughly $ 2.5 billion to design and build.

Telco giant Telstra and national contracting companies Service Stream and BSA have been awarded contracts for the building and maintenance of the national broadband network (NBN).

And he is racing to make sure some of those vehicles will be built by his giant automotive group.

Lots of publications want to write about entrepreneurs these days, even those that built their reputations covering corporate giants.

One of the hotel's most remarkable features is its giant elevator, which is said to have been built so that President Ulysses S. Grant and his horse could fit inside.

The specimens in Mote's aboveground tanks come from massive coral, a slower - growing type that resembles giant boulders underwater and is responsible for building the main structure of reefs.

Fabric, which encompasses mega-popular tools for building mobile apps like Crashlytics, Answers and Fastlane, will become a part of Google's Developer Products division, joining the search giant's similarly - focused Firebase business.

Celtic legends held that the cave was once part of a bridge across the sea, built by giants to fight one another.»

Oregon has filed a lawsuit against software giant Oracle that accuses that company of fraud for its role in building the state's failed health insurance exchange.

I was playing with Magna - Tiles with my son one Sunday, and we had built this giant kind of castle complex, and it collapsed.

Thurston, a onetime professional cyclist who maintained MapMyFitness's position as a top fitness app from the iPhone's earliest days, tells the story in his new office in downtown Austin, in a brand - new building where giant images of Under Armour athletes adorn the walls (amid, of course, motivational mantras) and several hundred new engineers and other tech employees work.

What's your take: Is what's being built in Toronto a dystopia of corporate surveillance for private gain or a giant step closer to a more sustainable, enjoyable urban future?

«Many people think if you're going to try to find a new particle you need to build giant enormous collider like the Large Hadron Collider because you have to get lots of energy and smash particles together very fast,» Feng said.

A Boeing - Embraer tie - up may give the Chicago giant a foothold to sell small regional jets in China, where the state - run Commercial Aircraft Corp of China is testing locally - built passenger planes, Edward Jones» Windau said.

Tsinghua Unigroup, which had revenue last year of about 12.3 billion yuan, was also in talks about cooperating with a «world - class memory chip giant» to build a new chip factory in China, Zhao said, a move that could help his company acquire intellectual property needed to manufacture memory chips.

In Canada, this has translated into a more favourable investment climate, with pipeline giant Transcanada saying it is courting prolific British Columbia acreage holders as potential customers as it looks to build future pipeline transportation solutions to the Gulf of Mexico.

By the early 1930s, the area along 42nd Street, directly north and south of Grand Central had become known as the «Valley of the Giants,» home to three of New York City's six tallest skyscrapers: Walter Chrysler's silver spire, real estate king Irwin Chanin's eponymous building across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News Bbuilding across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News BuildingBuilding.

The team spent the first five years of the company's life building out what co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly describes as a «giant compiler, debugger, and programming language for genetic code.»

In April 2011, Steve Jobs showed me a book that had been prepared by Apple's architects to show illustrations of the new campus the giant company would build near its current headquarters in Cupertino, Calif..

These deals are the latest in a series of investments by Microsoft and other tech giants; last year it bought fiber capacity from Seaborn Networks to build better links to South America.

The Belt and Road is Chinese President Xi Jinping's landmark scheme to build infrastructure to connect China to the rest of Asia and beyond, a giant reworking of its old Silk Road.

On a windy, rainy day in mid-September, 40 dieticians make their way past the giant Muskoka chair in the building's lobby (there's another large cup of coffee on its armrest) and into the small McDonald's restaurant that serves as the building's cafeteria.

A good example is Calvin Ayre, a giant in the world of gambling, who first laid the groundwork for Bodog in 1992 to study the market, and wisely built it into a empire turning himself into a billionaire.

That's how you build a company of giants.

Workers extracted 170,000 cubic metres of dirt, and had to underpin two neighbouring buildings to prevent them from toppling into the giant crater.

Renderings, submitted to the Internet giant's hometown of Mountain View, Calif., show office buildings enclosed in tents of glass that look like undulating greenhouses.

The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.

The construction giant built the Trans - Arabian Pipeline for the Saudis in the 1940s, and it has been supervising additions to the giant petrochemical complex of Jubail since 1976.

A bunch of ex-employees of major technology companies — former Facebookers, Apple - AWOLers, Googlers gone rogue — have set up a new non-profit dedicated to fighting back against the technology giants they built.

Women — a discovery that led to a partnership with cosmetic giant Coty that, since the fall of 2009, has built Playboy an astounding $ 200 million bath - and - beauty business.

The building had already been rescued by a number of prominent firms, including the private equity giant Carlyle Group, and Zara, the Spanish fashion retailer founded and owned by Amancio Ortega, one of the world's wealthiest men.

Qualcomm filed a breach of contract lawsuit late Tuesday against four Taiwanese contract manufacturers that build iPhones and iPads for Apple — the latest salvo in an escalating war between two tech giants over patent royalties.

Peter Cashmore, founder of media giant Mashable, began as a tech blogger and has since built one of the biggest tech - news sites.