Sentences with phrase «of tech investing»

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-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.

Chinese tech giants Tencent, JD.com, electronics retailer Suning and property developer Sunac have teamed up to invest $ 478m in television maker New Leshi Smart Home, an affliate of troubled technology conglomerate LeEco.

By building prototypes of their products, getting them up and running, and understanding the basics of how they work, tech business owners can test out the riskiest aspects before investing money in additional development.

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.

«Combined with the revenue potential, favorability, satisfaction, and recommendation impact of these interactions, businesses can benefit significantly from investing in helping their customers on Twitter,» the 10 - year - old tech company said in a blog post.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

«Being able to discuss a key issue with someone qualified and not emotionally or financially invested in your business is huge for one's entrepreneurship journey,» says Galina Ozgur, GM of Grand Central Tech, a New York City - based tech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for scTech, a New York City - based tech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for sctech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for scale.

The Canadian - born Stanford computer science prof has quietly invested in nearly two dozen tech startups over the years — including Google, which is the origin of his fortune — but he appears to be taking a more active role in one of his portfolio's firms.

This is mainly down to the fact that SMB's realize this is something of an upgrade to their IT system, without on - site tech to manage or additional PC infrastructure to invest in.

«I had already invested in a couple of music - related tech startups that both failed,» he told Term Sheet.

International Editor Clay Chandler explains in the Dec. 1 issue of Fortune, is due to a big, concentrated push by the Chinese government to invest in developing home - grown tech industries, from robotics to A.I. (Please subscribe here, if you don't already — and give a subscription to a loved one for the holidays!)

The Vision Fund has upended tech investing in Silicon Valley by chasing after some of the sector's flashiest companies, Recode reports.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

This was Hamilton's dream job, but she noticed that many of the artists and music executives she admired were investing their music money in tech.

Unsurprisingly, the round of was led by Canada's OMERS Ventures, which has been investing heavily in Canada's up - and - coming tech stars over the last couple years.

Since Doug McMillon became CEO of Wal - Mart Stores in 2014, the company has been investing heavily in tech to offer services like in - store pickup of online orders, while giving workers pay raises to motivate them to improve customer scores and keep stores cleaner.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Irving pointed to Hulu's experience in the market and a partnership with streaming tech company MLB Advanced Media — which works with Vue — as reasons to think it'll avoid those troubles, but also said it is investing in another «set of partnerships» related to streaming tech to make things faster.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the Silicon Valley leaders who have invested in the continents tech ecosystem.

When it comes to investing in clean tech, «larger or more diverse economies stand to benefit more; smaller provinces, whose industrial structure is not as diverse, tend to have smaller economic multipliers,» explains the Conference Board of Canada in a report.

Musk joined a group of tech titans in December in investing in the newly established nonprofit research organization OpenAI.

At IBM, one of the best stories in tech investing has hit a bit of a snag.

Some of the industry's largest players are also investing in high - tech water recycling systems to frack with grey or brackish water.

«These idealistic hippie kids tend to have a more conservative mindset in terms of investing, because they saw the results of the tech bubble, September 11 and the [Great Recession of] 2008,» he said.

The Kapors, who invested early in Uber, are known in Silicon Valley for both their investing prowess but also their passion and engagement around issues of diversity in the tech industry.

Had Social Security started investing in stocks in the early 1980s or late 1990s, she argues, the trust fund would be significantly more flush than it is now, even taking into account the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000 and the meltdown in 2008.

Former Amcom Telecommunications chairman Anthony Grist has invested in listed tech company Decimal Software, which is seeking extra cashflow while awaiting the receipt of a research and development tax refund.

That company, founded by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Jack Ma, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S tech companies that will be valuable to Alibaba as it continues to expand.

By investing in the education of women in tech, the company is not only creating a more diverse applicant pool but also attracting female engineers through its exemplary commitment to education and inclusion.

Though the pledge left benchmarks up to the individual companies, it asked the tech firms that signed on to implement goals to recruit, retain and advance underrepresented talent, to publish data annually on the demographics of their workforce, and to invest in partnerships that would build a larger pipeline of diverse candidates.

Alibaba has purchased the remaining 57 % stake of China food delivery app Ele.me it doesn't already own, bringing the app's valuation up to $ 9.5 b. Tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, which has invested billions of dollars in Meituan - Dianping, are eager to cash in on China's growing online food delivery market, which is expected to grow 18 % to 241 billion yuan ($ 38 billion) this year.

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Bessemer Venture Partners controls 30 % of Shopify, while OMERS Ventures — which seems to invest in every worthy Canadian tech company these days — has a 6 % stake.

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.

Through the end of 2015, GE had invested $ 17 billion in clean tech R&D through Ecomagination while generating $ 232 billion in revenue from its products.

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.

The foresight of Lazaridis (not to mention his willingness to invest in the Waterloo region) could ensure Canada — not Silicon Valley — owns the future of tech.

«We've identified and connected with more than 1,000 very qualified tech professionals who are excited by the idea of investing their future here.

I've met twenty - somethings who are worth millions of dollars, investing in VC, starting tech companies and disrupting industries.

SoftBank expects to invest over the next five years at least $ 25 billion in the $ 100 billion tech fund, which would be one of the world's largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the technology industry.

Cuban's reticence for investing in the stomping grounds of Apple, Google, Oracle and other massive tech firms is unusual.

Big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have invested millions of dollars in their respective digital assistants, which they believe will be a major way that consumers will interact with computers — joining the standard keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen.

Chinese tech companies (particularly Alibaba, Tencent and Chinese Uber competitor Didi Chuxing) are looking further afield and investing their deep pools of capital in southeast Asian startups.

Last year, Microsoft Ventures chief Nagraj Kashyap told VentureBeat that the overwhelming majority of startups the company invests in are using clouds that compete with Azure at the time of the deal, and the tech titan doesn't force a change.

What's more, that funding round was likely a down round — when funding is raised at a valuation lower than the previous one — according to Fortune, further highlighting the cooling of the investing climate in the tech industry.

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

But firms like Blackrock and Fidelity certainly are investing large amounts of other people's money in Google, according to the tech giant's preliminary proxy filing.

Ferguson should bring more financial chops to the board as Alphabet (googl) and its CFO, Ruth Porat, look to streamline how the tech corporation invests in many of its moonshot projects, such as self - driving cars and contact lenses that can measure blood sugar.

Founder Frank Selldorff was a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and is also chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, a venture capital firm investing in innovative tech companies.

Another detail that made me (and some of the VCs I spoke with) pause: While notable investors have participated, including Goldman Sachs, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Promecap, not a single top - tier VC firm chose to invest in a tech company valued at more than a billion dollars.