Sentences with phrase «other giant tech companies»

Amazon and other giant tech companies are trying to become synonymous with the internet in users» minds.

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The program resembles Amazon's Alexa Fund and reflects the extent to which Google sees the success of its smart assistant as a driver of future growth, as both companies (and other tech giants) vie for dominance in the home.

But the tech giants are increasingly encroaching on each other's turf with duplicative services, leading to a sort of department - store - ification of the internet where single - purpose specialty companies are becoming a rarity.

Asked about the potential threat of Amazon and other tech giants entering the health - care market, Larry Renfro, the chief executive of the insurer's Optum unit, said the company is trying to catch up when it comes to early - stage companies.

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

Not too long after payments technology company Square goes public, Dorsey will leave the company, while staying on as permanent CEO of the other tech giant he co-founded, Twitter TWTR.

In Europe, Facebook and other tech giants like Google are bracing for tough new data privacy rules that take effect May 25 and will apply to any company that collects data on EU residents, no matter where it is based.

Samsung, LG, Motorola and other tech giants have all introduced watches of their own to a somewhat lukewarm response in recent years, but the Apple Watch — given the company's unique ubiquity — holds potential for widespread adoption of the wearables category.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

U.S. industry groups representing Apple, IBM and other tech giants have blamed China's rules on inbound investment for infringing the intellectual property rights of U.S. companies.

Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.

It's obvious that many car companies, tech companies, homebuilders, architects, city planners, airline companies, and many other industry leaders could do more, and we could (and often do) offer plenty of unsolicited advice to them, based on our own perspective, but considering how slowly the wheels of change turn, and how consumers and manufacturers alike are complicit in the creation of our current petro - based economy, the move to a more sustainable economy is more likely to be one full of baby steps, and not giant leaps.

This report detailed organizations including oil companies and tech giants, entertainment companies and others that are holding themselves accountable for the carbon pollution released into the environment as a result of daily operations.

This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.

In communities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View, there are lots of attorneys serving the most the common practice areas, as well as numerous lawyers that specialize in areas that serve the tech giants and other area technology companies.

Legal publishing and software giant, LexisNexis, has chosen UK - based TagDox, along with four other companies to join its inaugural Accelerator programme for legal tech start - ups.

Most of the work on this, especially what we and others can learn about and report about, is coming from the giant companies that make up today's tech oligopoly — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Google and other tech giants often have huge recruiting efforts that can target students — but startups might not have those kinds of resources to find or grab them before they head off to those huge companies.

Tech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workTech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American worktech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

Unlike that boom, however he sees the eventual standards for IoT coming not just from networking giants, but healthcare, insurance and other companies that have traditionally held themselves aloof from broad tech industry standards setting.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose company mostly sells consumer products, has largely avoided being sucked into the rapidly expanding scandal over the alleged Russian effort to promote internal division in the US before the 2016 elections — unlike other tech giants like Google, Twitter and Facebook, all of which now admit some...

In Europe, Facebook and other tech giants like Google are bracing for tough new data privacy rules that take effect May 25 and will apply to any company that collects data on EU residents, no matter where it is based.

Though the South Korea tech giant isn't going to launch its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S9, at the annual event, there are other things from the company that attendees and fans should watch out for.

LeEco is a tech giant in China, part of LeShi, an umbrella of companies that started with China's first paid video streaming service (the Netflix of China, as it has been dubbed) and extends all the way out through a phone company, a TV company, a movie production house and a number of other businesses.

Unlike other companies like Apple, the South Korean tech giant is apparently among the few manufacturers that do its battery testing in - house, The Wall Street Journal reports.

While other cryptocurrencies are taking off in its wake, in general the market is padded with a huge number of flops and rumored scams, which is likely why Dorsey's non-crypto company Twitter is reportedly planning on joining other tech giants like Facebook and Google in banning many cryptocurrency ads.

The scandal added to the issues of a company that had been marred in the months previous by discovery of political interference thriving on its platform — along with those of other tech giants.

Virtual and augmented reality companies have caught the eye of other tech giants this year, including Facebook Inc..

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This has very powerful implications for the tech giants of today and many other internet companies who rely on your data as a primary source of their revenue.

After Amazon gobbled up Ring security last week for a reported $ 1 billion, we began to ponder what other companies the tech giant might add to its growing list of acquired smart home companies.

Like other tech giants, Microsoft has offered bounties for some time, and recently announced the indefinite extension of its Bug Bounty Program for Edge - but this is the first time that the company has established a complete program across its Windows operating system.

Cook's Apple, on the other hand, is a tech giant — the largest company in the world — with enormous advantages over its rivals in terms of what it is able to pull off.

What impact with the Facebook data privacy controversy have on the social media company, and other tech giants, eventually competing with banks?

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I / O is the search giant's own annual tech conference where Google executives detail upcoming changes to Android, search, and the myriad of other domains the company specializes in, like artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual reality.

This problem brings to light many other enhancements and additions of the regulations for other companies or tech giants as well in the future, not just for Facebook.

The offences vary, it can be multinationals avoiding tax, banks wrecking the economy, energy giants polluting the environment, utilities price fixing, tech companies passing consumer data to governments or many other things.