Sentences with phrase «saying big tech»

«There's a ground swell of people [such as Apple investors] saying big tech needs to think about their impact upon children and not just about their bottom line profit,» David Monahan, campaign manager for the CCFC, told CNN Tech.

And just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, Turkle and other addiction experts say big tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend on them.

Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

One advocate said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years, NYT reports.

One advocate said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

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«This will be a big impact for helping Canadian tech companies meet their talent needs,» says Bergen.

Etsy is one of the biggest players in the NYC tech scene and, despite what its CEO says, it feels like an IPO could be just around the corner.

Own tech's Big Five, she says, «but be cognizant of the disruption that they're trafficking in, and how that can create other winners and losers.»

«Tech isn't even its own stand - alone sector, because it has tentacles into all the other industries,» says Koch, ticking off its impact in retail (e-commerce), automotive (self - driving cars), banking (mobile payments), health care (big - data genomics), and more.

Conor Muldoon of Causeway Capital Management says the bank is benefiting from a cost - cutting campaign that involved closing branches and making big tech investments — one that's helping it expand more profitably in new markets.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

He thought about this long and hard, and then he quietly said, «this is not a big idea, or flash, or tech, but the thing I have learned the hard way is the importance of learning to listen to your instinct.

Facebook's shares have lagged behind other big tech names, making the valuation potentially attractive, says Tim Seymour of Triogem Asset Management, which has accounts holding shares in the social media firm.

Investors are looking for bigger tech names to list on Hong Kong's stock exchange under the new rules, says Irene Chu of KPMG China.

«The biggest myth in tech is that consumers are free,» says Romanow, who was recently named one of the newest Dragons» Den personalities for the upcoming season.

«This practice started very deliberately with the big tech companies, which, even during the last recession, were thriving,» says Scott Dobroski, Glassdoor community expert.

Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's biggest companies for meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate.

«Facebook is changing the world but it's clearly not changing the mostly white leadership and workforce,» said Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leaders and one of the biggest proponents of the tech diversity movement.

Hoover says that, unlike at the big tech websites that have to do the work of researching and writing stories about new products hitting the market, about 3,000 whitelisted Product Hunt curators simply post a link to a product's landing page, so products get publicity faster.

She also said that it's hard to find tech - savvy people who want to work for small companies; they'd rather work for big, multinational corporations.

«Tech and telecom still rule a big part of the innovation roost,» Kim Wagner, a BCG senior partner and coauthor of the report, said in a statement.

But the biggest threat they face, Rosenblatt says, is dealing with the tech behemoths that pose a threat to their budding businesses.

«While other countries are looking in, let's be a country and a province that is looking out,» Clark said to a packed convention hall at the BC Tech Summit, Vancouver's biggest tech industry confab, held in MaTech Summit, Vancouver's biggest tech industry confab, held in Matech industry confab, held in March.

Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy of a bug?

Assange has said that WikiLeaks will share details of the vulnerabilities with Apple and other big tech companies, so they can fix the vulnerabilities that the CIA uses for its hacking tools.

«I'm in,» said Inwentash, and by the time he parted with Ballard and Cohl, he was on his way to a seven - figure investment in the biggest thing ever to sweep up the Great White Way: a high - tech spectacle called Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Leaving the traditional management duties to trusted associates, says Maccoby, has enabled him to focus on thinking big — a crucial element for success in today's tech world.

Analyst Kash Pashootan said there aren't enough big tech or startup firms in Canada to offer the same salaries or benefits.

The networking technology giant said Tuesday that it would debut a high - tech version of the traditional whiteboard dubbed the Spark Board that will let people scribble their notes and organize meetings on a big, digital screen.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

And now I would say, among the big tech companies, Microsoft is leading the charge.

Analyst Bryan Kraft said that its leadership in the space had made it «very difficult for the traditional media companies, or even other big tech companies, to catch up.»

Said saga, which started threats against several female members of the games industry, could be a big contributor to an anti-trolling tech revolution.

Big tech companies like Microsoft issued a patch for the so - called KRACK bug on Oct. 10, Apple is in the middle of testing patches for iOS and macOS, and Google, whose Android 6.0 devices are the most vulnerable, said it would release a patch in early Nov..

«After I read «The Big Short,» he went to the top of my list of idols,» said Johnson, who started his career as a real estate attorney before getting into tech in 2006.

«The biggest turn - off is if someone says they are «best - of - breed» or something similar in their given profession,» says Monica Roy, recruiting manager at a Seattle - based marketing and tech consultancy POP.

«We used to be very product centric in our marketing, show you a big device, show you the techs and specs, the features,» says Andrew Barrett, Samsung Canada's vice-president of marketing.

SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday it was considering listing its Japanese wireless business — a move that could reportedly raise $ 18 billion and would accelerate the conglomerate's transformation into one of the world's biggest tech investors.

«It's really exciting that some of the big tech companies are getting into this market,» she said.

«With the right tools and right culture, regular people can answer those questions themselves,» said Elissa Fink, chief marketing officer at Tableau Software, which has been the tech sector's biggest IPO of 2013, and after an initial public offering price of $ 31 has traded as high as $ 59.

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

The ridesharing tech company says geolocation and navigation technology is a big part of what keeps it running efficiently.

Speaking at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gavet, whose company owns travel sites such as Priceline.com, Kayak.com and booking.com, said the European Union's effort to create its much - touted «single digital market» is «the biggest question for tech startups here in Europe.»

That said, with an IPO on the horizon, Twitter now has a badge of honour that makes it one of the tech big boys: a failed music app, à la Microsoft's Zune and Apple's Ping.

You could say this year his thoughts were bigger: Artificial intelligence, saving planet Earth, and free speech all came up in the tech titan's conversation with Recode editor - at - large Walt Mossberg.

But even the tiny cars use software and sensors that is similar to the technology used by big tech companies and well - funded startups road - testing full - sized cars, he said.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

Wu Jihan, CEO of Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world's biggest mining operation, said in an interview that regional governments are welcome to legally set up bitcoin mining farms which are clean and considered part of the high - tech industry.

A tech hedge fund manager who made a big bet on cloud management company Box says his investment is paying off.

It's expected to raise about $ 10 billion at a market valuation of $ 80 billion or more, according Cate Cadell and Julie Zhu of Reuters, who say it's China's biggest tech I.P.O. since Alibaba — a huge win for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.