Sentences with phrase «tech companies calling»

With a thriving economy and many high - tech companies calling this city home, it is a great place to live and work in.

This brew of technology and in - house experimentation — tech companies call this «eating the dog food» — plays to the strengths of Bezos.

A small tech company called Chromologic received $ 200,000 from DARPA to study methods for shuttling large strands of synthetic DNA into cells, although this project was not explicitly related to GP - write.

Also last week, Intel spun off a new solar tech company called SpectraWatt, which was born with $ 50 million in investment capital from Intel, Cogentrix Energy LLC, PCG Clean Energy and Technology Fund and Solon AG.

A mobile tech company called Placed, analyzed the shopping behavior of showroomers and found 18 % of all of B&N's customers are buying the content via Amazon.

But no bargain when you look under the hood: Despite the name, 78 % of PSource's NAV is actually composed of shares in a green - tech company called PetroAlgae (PALG: US).

Levine is working with a tech company called Interlude, which will let viewers decide what the characters do.

And, (as of August 2017), a legal tech company called BestOne Information & Technology Co., Ltd has gained some attention in the field of legal research and is understood to be using AI technology.

In 2015, Alex sold a legal tech company called Edilex to a fast growing law firm who wanted to get into the tech game.

ESPN reports almost every race track on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series circuit has a deal with a tech company called Ingenuity Sun Media, which uses software similar to the stuff that scans audience demographics at other venues, particularly at entrances.

LG: I read that Lyft partnered with a self - driving tech company called Aptiv, to offer rides and so - called robot taxis, so I figured...

A new tech company called Sirin Labs is launching its first smartphone today.

Not exact matches

The company is attempting to help low - income, elderly, and homeless Americans connect to basic health care services with the help of a tech platform called Commons.

He remembers, for instance, working in tech support at an Internet advertising company and getting a frantic call from a woman who was «completely flipping out.»

Tech companies, he wrote, «will rue the day when you called in the government.

And then I shifted careers into tech and started a [dating app company] called HowAboutWe.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Beyond gyms, Mayweather has invested heavily in commercial real estate, opened a strip club in Las Vegas called Girl Collection, toyed with tech investing, founded his own promotions company, and launched The Money Team, which sells hats and apparel online (with hats selling for as much as $ 200).

By February 2005, he had invested $ 170,000 and personally launched the company, now called Odeo, with a demonstration at TED, the invitation - only tech conference held in Monterey, California.

The call for more diversity in tech companies will only get louder.

Under the so - called Stock Connect, investors in Hong Kong will be able to buy stocks listed on China's Shenzhen stock exchange, home to many of the country's tech and consumer companies.

Larry Page just dropped a bomb on the tech community, saying that Google will now be part of a collection of companies called Alphabet, which Page and Sergey Brin will run.

The Facebook - Cambridge fiasco is an important wakeup call, but it is likely only the beginning of a thorough examination of tech companies» widespread collection and possibly illegal use of user data.

A tech company based in Manchester called BitSol Solutions offers its employees a full week of paid leave if they get a new pet.

«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.

Yahoo, like other big tech companies, once maintained a separate business unit dedicated to research called Yahoo Labs.

Casual observers might be scratching their heads at news that, at first glance, would suggest the world's biggest tech company had a bad day despite releasing earnings many companies would be proud to call their own.

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..

Forbes called it «one of the stars of Canada's high - tech sector,» and the company has grown to 100 employees occupying a 23,000 - square - foot office complex filled with the requisite dot - com features like video games, pet dogs and no dress code.

Guthrie is there to greet and eat with what the company calls its «regional directors» — independent professionals who support the company's products (or, in tech industry parlance, «evangelists»).

Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test self - driving vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.

John Landgraf, the CEO of FX Networks, called its lack of disclosure «ridiculous» and accused tech companies of not playing on an even field.

The tech giant claims that roughly 45 % of its new hires in 2016 were of diverse backgrounds, and that it has established an advising and support service called the WarmLine for employees to consult with when considering leaving the company.

Big tech companies are known for providing what they call «Lifestyle Perks.»

He has called for a wall on the border with Mexico, but the plank that matters most for tech is his plan to increase mandated wage levels for workers arriving with H - 1B visas, and to require that companies prioritize hiring Americans.

Chou, an engineer at Pinterest, called for tech companies to release the demographic breakdown of their workforces after publishing the data she was able to gather at her own workplace in 2013.

Mattress companies are increasingly acting like tech startups, and perhaps the most interesting implementation of this is a company called Eight, which has built a «smart mattress.»

A must - read for any tech entrepreneur: Sarah Lacy calls big tech companies as dull as banks in TechCrunch today.

The big tech companies claim they haven't heard of the National Security Agency's program called PRISM.

Another high - tech company put its division heads — leaders who were used to calling the shots on their own — through a training program held on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.

Simon pumped more than $ 20 million over the past two years into small tech companies, among them a dress - rental service for weddings called Union Station, and Fashion Project, a marketplace for deeply discounted clothes.

Its fifth call to action is to «vote with our dollars,» or stop working with agencies, suppliers and ad tech companies that don't comply with its requirements.

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have called themselves tech companies.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

He launched a robotics company called Tech - No - Logic in Massachusetts in 2013 and, two years later, pulled in his first several - hundred - thousand - dollar investment.

Instead, the firm invests in what Roberts calls «real businesses,» largely tech - driven enterprises that focus 1) on their companies, not their exits; 2) on sustainable profit, not unsustainable growth; and 3) on their customers, not their investors.

Several tech companies, led by IBM, began to develop their own operating system, called OS / 2, to replace MS - DOS.

In January, two Apple (AAPL) investors called on the tech giant to set «an example about the obligations of technology companies to their youngest customers.»

One of these companies is China - based Future Mobility, which revealed its first autonomous - ready electric vehicle (EV) called Byton (bytes on wheels) at CES, the giant annual tech trade show in Las Vegas.

He also co-founded the secretive data - crunching start - up Palantir and bankrolled Breakout Labs, which only funds what Mr. Thiel calls «hard tech» start - ups that tackle things like new energy, transportation and biotech companies.