Sentences with phrase «tech firms move»

A decision by China's central bank to rein in reserve funds held by payment firms could cost the industry upwards of $ 689 million a year, spur consolidation and alter the way Asia's biggest tech firms move money.

Not exact matches

The San Francisco - based start - up moved to store its Chinese data locally in 2016 but China further introduced a strict cybersecurity law last year that requires foreign and local tech firms to offer technical support to authorities who wish to access it.

The U.S. president is moving to roll back climate - change related regulations, but clean tech is an international growth area for ambitious Canadian firms

Meantime, The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims astutely records the journey of tech firms using their smarts and money to move well beyond bits and bytes.

An Israeli firm was making better software with cheaper implementation, so we bought it in late 2000, restructured, and moved all our customers onto that platform and our tech operations to Israel.

Richard Murphy, a tax specialist who has previously written about the way tech firms avoid paying UK tax, described the announcement as «a good move.»

Wall Street also moved lower in anticipation of a series of earnings from big tech firms this week, including Alphabet on Monday.

But is it still a top venture firm now that John Doerr moved to green tech and Vinod Khosla left to start his own firm?

The company moved into the large facility in 2012, helping transform San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood into a tech hub that now houses other promising tech firms such as Uber and Square, as well as a variety of smaller startups.

Indeed, in the years following the end of the tech boom, SEP (No. 93 on the PROFIT 500, with $ 11.4 million in revenue) had ridden a wave of expansion as a growing number of firms moved to search advertising and other forms of digital brand promotion.

McDonnell, who has years of experience in senior executive posts in the tech world, stepped into the top job four years ago and moved quickly to create a sales - oriented ethos at the firm.

Tech firms have a heightened need to avoid stagnant board membership because fast - moving strategies require fresh thinking.

Then there's the ripple effect: Ideally, Pinterest's move will push other tech firms to do the same.

The investing firm at the center of seemingly every major tech deal now has more help to deal with the barrage of interest in its every move.

The move seeks to capitalize on robust investor enthusiasm for Chinese tech stocks which have pushed valuations to heady levels for many firms, as well as on rapid growth in demand for commercial - use drones.

After the program, our fellows have gone on to work for our companies full - time or as interns, leaped over to other functional areas, moved over to venture investing, joined notable big tech firms, and even started companies themselves.

And US moves to stifle Chinese tech companies, such as a recent ban on selling American - made parts to smartphone maker ZTE, are only likely to confirm Beijing's view that it needs to do more to bolster its domestic industries, according to Louis Kuijs, head of Asia for research firm Oxford Economics.

Starting off his career at Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles working on Toyota, Lexus and T - Mobile, he then moved to San Francisco where he spent four and a half years leading a sales development team at publishing firm, Future US — ideating and producing integrated marketing campaigns to compliment tens of millions of dollars of media buys for clients such as Google, UBISOFT, Hyundai, The Walking Dead, NVIDIA, Bethesda and dozens more in the video game, music and tech industry.

In a matter of a few months I had transitioned from well paid international PR manager at a high tech firm, marathon runner and singer for a 10 - piece R&B band with charming boyfriend to unemployed (tech crash lay - offs), single (fully dumped), living alone (housemate moved to Denver) and soon - to - be band-less.

Swedish aerospace and defense firm Saab says its plan to move its North American headquarters to East Syracuse, creating 260 high - tech jobs, could suffer a setback if Congress passes a Republican bill to overhaul the U.S. tax code.

WASHINGTON — Swedish aerospace and defense firm Saab says its plan to move its North American headquarters to East Syracuse, creating 260 high - tech jobs, could suffer a setback if Congress passes a Republican bill to overhaul the U.S. tax code.

While the data dump was intended to soften opposition from elected officials to the tech firm's intrusion into the market, City Council member Helen Rosenthal (D - Upper West Side) called the new information a distracting «rabbit hole» that doesn't move the company any closer to compliance.

The European Union's ruling against Google underlines its goal to move our relationship with tech firms away from Silicon Valley's winner - takes - all mentality

in... Newcastle tech firm Atlas Cloud to create jobs with move to new HQ.

Carpetright is not your typical tech firm so to see the unprecedented levels of engagement, and business performance is a statement to the industry that paves the way for other traditional retailers and organisations looking to move their business forward.»

Samsung's countersuit is a typical move in the tech world, with major firms holding thousands of patents routinely suing and countersuing each other over patent issues.

In a move designed to help the European legal technology market «play catch up», The European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) was formally founded today (19 September), bringing together law firms, companies, legal tech providers, start - ups, and individuals with an interest in legal business and legal technology from all over Europe.

Because of this, organizations as varied as engineering schools, unions, law firms, universities and the tech industry move toward real expertise, programs and systems that weave diversity and inclusion into their organizational DNA.

Small law tech spending A 2016 survey by the International Legal Technology Association found that small firms were increasing their technology spend and moving to cloud - based services.

Lawyer, turned entrepreneur, Rick Klau of Google, leads off with a keynote at 9:30 discussing the dilemma of law firms having finally come to terms with Web 1.0 while the rest of the tech world has already moved on to Web 2.0.

The move is an interesting one as at present law firm incubators have tended to focus on helping lawyers and legal tech start - ups engage with each other for mutual benefit, bringing companies directly into the mix and at this early stage, takes things one step further.

In a novel move, MDR LAB, the legal tech incubator of UK law firm Mishcon de Reya has announced that two property sector companies, Derwent London...

In a novel move, MDR LAB, the legal tech incubator of UK law firm Mishcon de Reya has announced that two property sector companies, Derwent London and Coyote will sponsor the Real Estate category of its programme this year and mentor start - ups that join its second cohort.

Even though technology has changed so much about how we eat, shop, move, and connect, my partner and I, running a small law firm together, noticed that this tidal wave of tech didn't seem to be as overwhelming in the legal space.

There are sufficient firms and corporates out there who have been using automated technologies, for the tech companies to be able to have insights into the financial benefits of moving from manual review to machine review.

Rather like the stages of growing up, each phase of life has its pros and cons, but each stage also promises the opportunity to move to the next stage, in this case, the new wave of legal tech really becoming widespread because the economic case and ROI argument has been won and the partners of law firms, and the GCs in the corporates, will then fully believe in its value.

In the article, the authors urge firms to move to competency - based assessment and training so that all lawyers have the opportunity to develop appropriate tech competence.

The move comes after rival legal publisher LexisNexis acquired AI - driven litigation analysis company, Ravel, earlier this year and a general increase in interest among larger legal tech companies in acquiring AI capability to offer to both law firms and inhouse clients.

Here's a surprise turn of events: SoftBank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into the field: it is buying Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the secretive bipedal robotics firm Schaft.

However, unlike some public - traded firms that have seen their stock prices soar after announcing some kind of tie - in with the tech, the move doesn't seem to have had much of an effect on the price for Yum!

As a first move toward this possible future, Du has joined Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC), a more than 40 - member union of regulatory bodies, financial firms and tech startups investigating the technology under the direction of the Museum of the Future, the government's incubation arm.

The developments are a notable one, given that the past days have seen numerous reports about little - known firms — some of which specialized in the sale of, say, iced tea or electronic trading tools — that see their stock prices jump virtually overnight once they announce that they are moving to develop products or services around the tech.

The industry has also seen HR tech firms from other areas of the workforce management software world moving into the background checking space through deals such as CareerBuilder's acquisition of Aurico, a global provider of background screening and drug testing services.

The moves represent a turn for a commercial real estate market that until recently had the nation's lowest vacancy rate, driven by early stage tech firms scooping up space and Silicon Valley giants expanding to accommodate workers seeking an urban lifestyle.

After graduating with her bachelor's degree, Duckworth moved up the corporate ladder quickly at AMX Corporation, a high tech firm based in Dallas.

For the past decade, real estate tech startups - technology companies that focus on commercial and residential real estate products and services - have moved quickly, forcing traditional real estate firms to rethink their core business models and embrace digital first innovations.

But Atwood, the entrepreneur who moved with the assistance of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, said she can envision a corridor of tech firms there, drawn by the weather, arts community, and relatively short driving distance to San Francisco.

«We're starting to move into — I'll call it the smartness era» for light bulbs, says Dean Freeman, an analyst who covers so - called smart lighting and the Internet of Things for Gartner, a tech research firm.

But Paul Boyd, managing partner at ClearPath Capital Partners, a wealth management firm for tech entrepreneurs, says there is plenty of pent - up demand and a backlog of Reg D deals that are moving forward.