Sentences with phrase «tech city on»

What appears to be an elegant, high - tech city on the outside, has a terrible secret hidden within.

Additionally, he and mused about creating floating tech cities on cruise ships moored in international waters off the U.S. coastline.

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Toronto's CEO - turned mayor on how tech is transforming cities: «Why should the job of people in public life... be to try and stop change?»

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

In Cincinnati and Sacramento, the cities are working on restructuring their workforce development programs to help foster more tech talent.

That's one of the main findings of a new report on high - tech incubators and accelerators, published by the not - for - profit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and by JP Morgan Chase.

Astro, a New York City home automation startup, just put a bright, new musical Twist on «smart» bulb tech.

Tell me about the economic impact that this kind of tech initiative can have on a mid-size city like Chattanooga.

The career - focused social network ranked the world's cities on the proportion of the workforce with tech skills.

Tech hubs like Silicon Valley and East London's Tech City are attracting people from around the world — individuals who are on their way to becoming tech - startup entrepreneTech hubs like Silicon Valley and East London's Tech City are attracting people from around the world — individuals who are on their way to becoming tech - startup entrepreneTech City are attracting people from around the world — individuals who are on their way to becoming tech - startup entreprenetech - startup entrepreneurs.

Robertson's economic vision places special emphasis on the clean - tech sector, part of his drive to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020.

«Meet People Who Don't Work in Tech,» reads the ad on Facebook by San Francisco - based startup UpOut, seeming to voice a collective desire of city residents.

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With more than 8,000 tech jobs available on Dice.com on any given day, New York City, unsurprisingly, is the most challenging place to recruit computer science graduates, the survey found.

This conference had all that, but it also had discussions about water use, agri - tech, and smart cities, which don't appear all that frequently on the agenda of U.S. entrepreneurship conferences.

Great news for the city's tech scene — not so much for the recruiters on the hot seats to get the job done.

Leaders from nearly three dozen tech companies, including Salesforce, Yelp, AT&T, Comcast, and Square, signed off on a letter to local officials last week, urging them to consider a development proposal that would add seven million square feet of commercial space and 4,400 housing units to the small city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Beijing has given tech giant Baidu Inc the go - ahead to trial self - driving cars on city streets, even as the autonomous vehicle sector reels from its first fatal accident in the U.S. this week.

One of these growing centers for innovation in tech is a city that might not otherwise be on your radar: Cincinnati.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

Based on the last five years, New York is clearly the U.S.'s No. 2 city for tech, after San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

This week the city introduced a ballot measure that would levy a 1.5 percent payroll tax on its largest tech companies.

Thanks to half a dozen colleges minting tech - savvy graduates, several incubators protecting fledgling companies until they're ready to go out on their own and an impressive roster of angel investors and venture capitalists, the city is officially a start - up hub.

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.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNBC last month at the United States Conference of Mayors that the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, but he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

If a city wants to foster tech growth or tech related growth, they need to figure out what their strengths are, build on them and not get involved with a lot of internal warfare.

For the tech entrepreneurs who have clustered in downtown Toronto's office district in recent years, Jackson, Mississippi — a smallish southern city of 180,000 people — may not be high on a wish list of potentially lucrative export markets.

On Wednesday, Quartz reporter David Yanofsky spotted paper flyers taped around Palo Alto's University Avenue, a major artery of tech offices in the city, warning Palantir employees» of their worthless company shares.

«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.

Progress was slow as the company focused on the Spotify transaction and was exploring the possibility of a Hong Kong listing as the city's exchange operator unveiled plans to encourage more tech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules, reported IFR.

As election day settled into evening on November 8, most of New York City's tech employees bounced from their offices in the Union Square or Flatiron neighborhoods to bite their nails in the company of friends and potent drinks.

THE SIMPSONS: Mr. Burns gives his employees high - tech eyeglasses in order to spy on them in the «Specs and the City» episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 (8:00 - 8:30 PM ET / PT) on FOX.

The Wi - Fi - equipped commuter shuttle buses offered up by tech giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and Facebook are now going to be taxed based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones.

While Apple is known primarily for its focus on music, the fact that Schusser also has a background in tech acquisitions — such as Shazam — and will work part of the time in Culver City suggests that Shazam and movies could become a serious part of Apple's ambitions, as opposed to just bonus content for music lovers.

How the Vegas Tech Fund plans to help transform the tech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million Downtown ProjTech Fund plans to help transform the tech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million Downtown Projtech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million Downtown Project.

«For years, corporations were flying out of Atlanta to look for tech on the West Coast and in New York City and Boston, before the Metro Atlanta Chamber got involved and asked them to stop and look in their own backyard.

«Just like in Silicon Valley or New York, well - funded and profitable startups have leveled the playing field and can compete directly on salaries with the City and big tech companies for the most talented people.»

During the day, I am often moving between meetings, about 50 percent with City government colleagues and partners working on City tech projects, and 50 percent with startups, organizations, and individuals in the tech community.

And while Rawlings acknowledged the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

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.

In 2017, all eyes will be on London, Paris, Berlin, and Munich — the top European cities for tech startups according to recent data from CBRE, a global real estate research firm.

What cities on Amazon shortlist have in common: a lifestyle appealing to tech workers Changing Skyline

Only a few months after launching the fashion tech company in 2012, Wallace remembers laying in a fetal position on her bed in a New York City sublet apartment, sick about what she would say to employees the next morning.

And, in its courtship of ride - hailing service Uber, the city has shown a willingness to try to lean on big tech to spur economic growth.

The nation's largest city has been on an ambitious, state - and city - backed push to broaden its strengths in finance and media and into high - tech, but it is short on Amazon's request for 8 million square feet of affordable office space.

We do this by rallying the community together to discuss, discover and demo the latest in wearable tech at events in various cities and by sharing stories, ideas and information on our blog and social networks.

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.

We considered reports on emerging tech scenes and talked to entrepreneurs from the cities that kept coming up.

With Aetna Inc. looking to move its headquarters from Hartford, on the heels of General Electric Co.'s shift to Boston, Connecticut's economic development strategy may now turn inward, boosting its cities to attract high - tech workers and fixing state government's crisis - prone budgeting.

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