Sentences with phrase «of tech billionaires»

The amount, on paper, at least, puts Spiegel in a rarified club of tech billionaires alongside Bill Gates, Google co-founder Larry Page, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

But the image of a tech billionaire suing hundreds of people to claim their land rankled many and led to an outcry on social media.

Looking for her parents and getting swept up in the mayoral race of tech billionaire Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), Annie looks for her parents while getting to know Mr. Stacks and his assistant Grace (Rose Byrne).

Book of Numbers By Joshua Cohen Random House • $ 18 • ISBN 9780812986655 In this epic and ambitious novel, the narrator is a ghostwriter named Joshua Cohen who's been hired to write the memoir of a tech billionaire also named Joshua Cohen.

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The claim: After Trump met with Japanese tech billionaire Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of SoftBank, on Dec. 6, 2016, the two announced that Son would invest $ 50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs.

In a series of tweets on December 1, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who founded SpaceX, said he planned to launch a Tesla electric car to Mars orbit in 2018.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

The billionaire tweets about what fuels his business endeavors, charitable causes, tech innovators and, of course, all things Square.

In the pilot episode of HBO's sitcom Silicon Valley, the character of Peter Gregory, a billionaire tech investor, delivers a TED Talk in which he smugly rails against traditional education.

It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it's beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

Musk, the Silicon Valley billionaire who is also the co-founder and CEO of SpaceX, has been one of tech's most vocal AI sceptics.

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

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

In June 2012, tech billionaire Larry Ellison purchased 98 % of Lanai, a 141 - square - mile island in Hawaii.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Maybe the billionaire tech mogul is a regular person like the rest of us.

If the Alibaba founder does acquire the Morning Post — which at one time was the most profitable newspaper in the world — he would be following in the footsteps of other billionaire tech moguls such as Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO who acquired The Washington Post for $ 250 million in 2013.

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

Billionaire medical magnate George Yancopoulos, the co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (regn), told Bloomberg that it's time for the country to «make some decisions about what to invest in,» arguing for more emphasis on health and less on tech development.

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, a telecommunications and tech investment group, revealed plans for the fund last October and since then it has obtained commitments from some of the world's most deep - pocketed investors.

The recently released trailer for Jobs, the biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, teases the dramatic business and personal stories behind the making of the late tech billionaire.

The billionaire investor is scaling back his role in the tech industry because he feels alienated by the liberal - leaning political climate in the San Francisco area and fears the effects of increased regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

This week, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks participated in a question and answer session on popular social news site reddit where he discussed all things business, basketball and, of course, Shark Tank.

At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in May, the self - made billionaire said he didn't appreciate the value of tech stocks at first.

Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan's nonprofit research charity launched with the staggeringly ambitious goal of tackling all human diseases.

Its latest ranking of the world's billionaires found that 29 of the top 50 hail from the US and nearly a quarter made their fortunes in tech.

Like several of his fellow 21st - century Chinese billionaires, Lei Jun earned his $ 14.4 billion fortune in tech.

Post, of MosaMeat, who created the first hamburger from cultured animal cells in 2013 with backing from Google billionaire Brin, believes some of his competitors have set unrealistic timelines to market in part because that's what tech investors want to hear.

The tech billionaire's new property boasts six - bedrooms, six bathrooms, and 10,923 - square - feet inside the One57 skyscraper on West 57th Street, south of Central Park.

The collective wealth of the world's richest tech billionaires has surpassed an astonishing $ 1 trillion for the first -LSB-...]

But in another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, there are echoes of a similar tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, who used his deep pockets to secretly fund a campaign against Gawker.

The collective wealth of the world's richest tech billionaires has surpassed an astonishing $ 1 trillion for the first time, new figures reveal.

But as Facebook has taken it on the chin over the way it has handled the personal information of its users, the leaders of other tech companies have demonstrated that even in publicity - hungry Silicon Valley, it is entirely possible for billionaire executives and their sprawling empires to keep a low profile.

Thirty miles south of Uber's headquarters, for example, Facebook employees have voiced frustration that Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and adviser to Mr. Trump, still has a seat on the social network's board.

Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who is attempting to destroy Gawker Media by funding lawsuits against it, has long served on the Facebook board of directors.

Peter Thiel, the gay tech billionaire, Facebook board member, and desperately thirsty speaker at the Republican National Convention, pulled out of his speech at a nightmarish neo-fascist conference in September after we highlighted his planned appearance there last week.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk recently estimated that AI could replace 12 to 15 per cent of the global workforce in 20 years.

Tech billionaires clash over the future of AI: Google founder Larry Page slams Elon Musk's «speciesist»...

Peter Thiel has agreed not to bid on the assets of bankrupt Gawker Media LLC in exchange for the web publisher's promise to end an investigation into the tech billionaire.

Tech billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, hates both gold and bitcoin, saying they're not viable alternatives to currency.

The speed of technology is reflected in the following infographic from ERS Solutions, which covers the wealthiest 10 billionaires in tech.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

Billionaire tech businessman and one of the Shark Tank show's «shark investors,» Mark Cuban has recently sat down with Kitco News, an outlet specialized on covering news about precious metals, to talk about his opinions on investing in various assets, including Bitcoin and gold.

April 23 (Bloomberg)-- Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, explains why he abstained from voting on Coca - Cola Co.'s plan to award employees with stock, how he feels about tech stocks and the U.S. housing recovery.

Garrett Camp, mostly known as the billionaire founder of Uber, was well on the tech scene before he even started the rideshare company.

For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.

02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested in the food tech startup which lab - grows meat directly from animal cells.

Near the end of an hours - long House hearing Wednesday in which other lawmakers took turns bashing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allowing privacy invasions, Collins spent four minutes «liking» the tech billionaire and much of what he did in two days of congressional testimony.

(Sandberg, of course, is a billionaire tech celebrity; still relatively early in her career, Weissman - Unni has a handful of publications in some of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, including Nature and PLOS ONE.)

Iron Man Super Tech: A bespoke high - tech exoskeleton not only protects billionaire Tony Stark from supervillains, it also lets him fly faster than the speed of sound, lift up to 100 tons, and confirm dinner reservations through his AI assistTech: A bespoke high - tech exoskeleton not only protects billionaire Tony Stark from supervillains, it also lets him fly faster than the speed of sound, lift up to 100 tons, and confirm dinner reservations through his AI assisttech exoskeleton not only protects billionaire Tony Stark from supervillains, it also lets him fly faster than the speed of sound, lift up to 100 tons, and confirm dinner reservations through his AI assistant.