Sentences with phrase «other tech cities»

«It was just the data point — the look on his face — when he was shocked that we don't support just basic, status quo services you'll find in other tech cities,» he said.

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With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

But there are two things happening in Silicon Valley that are qualitatively different from New York or London (or pretty much anywhere else): First, the sheer density of tech entrepreneurs per capita is 10 times greater than the norm for other cities, and second, there is a far greater level of information sharing between entrepreneurs here.

In order to be put to voters, the tech tax will need the support of at least six out of the 11 city supervisors, and aside from its three co-sponsors, no other supervisor has yet given his or her support.

«CloudFlare is proud to call San Francisco our home; we carefully chose this city over others as our headquarters to give our employees an innovative, diverse community to work and live,» the tech company said.

Mandel sat down with Inc. staff reporter Abigail Tracy and discussed why New York City has seen so much growth in the tech / information sector and what other cities can learn from the city's progrCity has seen so much growth in the tech / information sector and what other cities can learn from the city's progrcity's progress.

On Tuesday, city Supervisor Norman Yee proposed legislation that would prohibit the use of autonomous vehicles to deliver food or other products, according to tech news site Recode.

Wasserman, who helped create Ontario's Healthcare Ecosphere, which focuses on bringing innovative, problem - solving ideas to hospitals, says several other cities (including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC, and San Francisco) have their own health - tech bake - offs, too.

World - class tech hubs are growing in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other Asian cities.

Tech is also pushing out other industries and people from the city making SF even less diversified.

What makes Amazon's project unusual is its location — in the heart of a city, rather than on a sprawling suburban campus of the sort favored by most other big tech companies.

Unlike many other urban tech hubs, most of the growth of the New York City tech sector has come in the last decade.

Our goal was to identify lessons that leaders in other cities can use to support the growth of their own tech sectors.

There just isn't the developer pool and tech talent in Las Vegas that there is in other cities, including the Bay Area, or really even a knowledge economy in Vegas, said Chris Leinberger, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Internet - enabled ridesharing services such as Lyft, Uber and Sidecar are expanding rapidly in San Francisco, New York and other U.S. cities, billing themselves as a high - tech, low - cost alternative to cabs.

SoCal In NorCal Even amid a wealth of tech talent in balmy San Diego, bathed in an average of 266 sunny days per year, Krenn — and the city itself — continues to recruit software and other engineers from Silicon Valley.

Companies and startups from a wide variety of industries including autonomous, automotive technologies, water - tech, UAV, safe - city, social, mobile, cyber security, IoT, healthcare, smart - city, energy and security, amongst others.

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Well, other than the real Manhattan where Fortune 500 and the world elites must have a presence there for whatever reason, most likely egoistic, or perhaps hangout of the world biggest tech lunatics such as the case of Silicon Valley, most cities in the states are actually ghettos — Detroit is one and Canadians have been buying up their rundown houses as if they're free (almost, going by Canadian standard) just when Americans are avoiding them like the plague.

Adult writing groups and reading clubs are springing up in digital cities across the continent, and reportedly in other high - tech areas such as New Zealand and Australia.

And as they expand to other cities (which many are considering), they'll likely rely in part on capital from investors within the tech industry, if only because restaurants are already where a lot of tech money is going.

Another focus is Alain Kaloyeros, founding president and chief executive officer of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which he began under the current governor's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, and which has been credited with spurring the high tech industry in Albany and other upstate cities.

Michael Tolkin, a 32 - year - old tech entrepreneur who is among over a dozen long - shot candidates running to unseat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, appears to have outspent every other contender in the race, including the mayor, with a $ 5 million in - kind contribution to his own campaign.

Many of those jobs that you're hearing about for Solar City and these other high - tech companies that are coming, they're going to be trained at that facility.

Other efforts include the city's collaboration with Cornell University to create a tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Much like the Bloomberg administration courted tech companies, under mayor Bill de Blasio the city's Economic Development Corp. put a request for proposals offering $ 100 million in city land and other benefits for developers to build a life - sciences hub.

Cuomo's office announced in April that Schwartz's firm would conduct «an immediate full review» of the Buffalo Billion — a portfolio of high - tech projects intended to reverse the fiscal fortunes of the western New York city — as well as a set of other facilities developed by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

The Rochester Photonics Institute, which is charged with developing high - tech initiatives in that city, and Mohawk Valley Edge, centered around Utica, are among the other organizations that could potentially fall under the ESD domain although they are not precisely like Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler.

He also pointed out that Amazon has already invested in a new distribution center in Lancaster and that the county is home to other tech companies, such as Yahoo!, IBM and Solar City.

While other bigger cities may argue that are better suited to attract high - tech talent, Lorigo said many of those cities are saturated.

The same day, de Blasio and other New York city officials will meet with leaders from the tech industry in San Francisco to talk about New York City's burgeoning tech seccity officials will meet with leaders from the tech industry in San Francisco to talk about New York City's burgeoning tech secCity's burgeoning tech sector.

Other sources include local biotechnology centers (many larger cities and / or universities have a biotech center for tech transfer or for starting «seed» companies) and larger biotech or pharmaceutical companies in the local area (try the Human Resources department!).

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

High - tech and biotech companies ring the important centers of innovation in Boston, Palo Alto, San Diego, Chapel Hill, Houston, and other cities.

The local newspaper states that the firings are a bit ironic, as Galway has «reinforced its positioning as a global hub in its other key employment sector — medical technology — with the announcement of two new high - tech manufacturing facilities in the city.»

While other districts, such as New York City, have sought qualified teachers abroad, the Chicago initiative is unique because the INS will issue visas similar to those used to fill shortages in high - tech fields.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

CUNY funds the full - time early college high school liaison assigned to P - TECH, as well as the liaison to City Tech's other early college high school partner, City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and TechnolTECH, as well as the liaison to City Tech's other early college high school partner, City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and TechnolTech's other early college high school partner, City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology.

Other new tech features finding their way into the Mazda 6 for the first time are mostly safety - related: lane departure warning, adaptive front lighting, adaptive cruise control with forward collision warning; and in low - speed, city driving conditions (up to 18 mph), Smart City Brake Support can take an unheeded warning one step further by automatically applying the brakes — similar to Volvo's City Safety syscity driving conditions (up to 18 mph), Smart City Brake Support can take an unheeded warning one step further by automatically applying the brakes — similar to Volvo's City Safety sysCity Brake Support can take an unheeded warning one step further by automatically applying the brakes — similar to Volvo's City Safety sysCity Safety system.

Other new tech added to the Polo range includes optional LED headlights, a battery regeneration mode, City Emergency Braking, Automatic Distance Control, Driver Alert and more.

Other new tech, described as being a world first, is a new feature added to City Safety that detects large animals such as elk, horses or moose at night or during the daytime.

The tested CX - 5 had the $ 1,505 Grand Touring Tech Package, which includes LED lights, Smart City Brake Support and navigation, among other items.

If you're part of a young couple looking for a new way to connect with a city and each other, or if you're simply a lover of tech, art, and culture, there's no time like the present to spend a relaxing weekend at Radisson RED, a lifestyle hotel that millennials inspired.

Longer term, Kimpton is developing a new hotel in San Jose as part of an expanded Tech Museum of Innovation in that city, among other projects.

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Still, given the fact that China is rapidly becoming a world leader in clean tech industries, that it is flexing its muscle in terms of international climate leadership, and that other cities around the world suffer from the same types of diesel - driven air quality problems that China has become known for, I think we can expect China's success story to translate into rapid adoption elsewhere.

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.

Also speaking up for the Clean Power Plan in «friend of the court» briefs are some 200 current and former members of Congress, former EPA Administrators and Secretaries of State and Defense, mayors of major cities, high - tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Apple and many others.