Sentences with phrase «tech giants in»

Following the passage of state and local laws aimed at improving pay equity for women and people of color, Amazon joins other tech giants in banning recruiters from asking interviewees for their salary history.

The Linux Foundation has partnered with financial and tech giants in a bid to advance blockchain technology, the underlying system that facilitates bitcoin trading.

Samsung has always been one of the world's largest Tech Giants in existence.

But the reality is that the business is shifting and with that shift, power is shifting away from publishers, towards tech giants in the first instance, and through them to authors and agents in the second.

In particular, they need to determine if they can work with these tech giants in a manner that enables them to get paid for their content and to access increasingly valuable data about users» patterns of news consumption.

Without changes, experts say that the agency is doomed to continue missing major privacy mishaps — at Facebook or the many other tech giants in its purview.

David Solomon, president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, discusses how the significant growth of tech giants in 2016 and the pace of technological change is leading to «significant strategic shifts» as companies reevaluate their business strategies.

It should be noted that Cook chose to hold the event «on his own accord» because «Apple does not have a corporate political action committee like Facebook (fb), Google (goog) and other tech giants in Silicon Valley,» according to Politico.

The report also examines the plans of various tech giants in the smart home market and discuss their monetization strategies, and makes suggestions for how these companies can position themselves to make their products and devices more appealing to the mass market.

The dominance of tech giants in the space has also made things more difficult for investors.

There, he headed several software companies including SAP, Zuora, and Savvion before joining Larry Ellison's tech giant in October 2014.

Google Assistant embodies Google's vision for how people will interact with the tech giant in the future — through voice, ambient computing, and context - aware artificial intelligence.

Former Coherent CEO Paul Lego joined the tech giant in January as part of the Apple Maps team and co-founders William Bencze and Brett Ledvina came on board last month in location engineering roles.

In 2016, Chris Hoofnagle, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, expressed unease with the third - party evaluators studying another tech giant in trouble with the FTC — Google.

The BlackBerry PRIV was pulled from the company's online shop and it currently can not be ordered directly from the Canadian tech giant in most parts of the world, while the firm's DTEK lineup is presently available at significant discounts.

At least five other panels of lawmakers have spoken with the tech giant in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica controversy.

The South Korean company's bout of positive press surrounding the Note 7 was short - lived though, as two consecutive recalls embroiled the tech giant in a furor of controversy even the most clairvoyant of industry experts could not have predicted.

LeEco is a tech giant in China, part of LeShi, an umbrella of companies that started with China's first paid video streaming service (the Netflix of China, as it has been dubbed) and extends all the way out through a phone company, a TV company, a movie production house and a number of other businesses.

This is a huge step for Google and a shift that moves the tech giant in line with Apple as an end - to - end hardware manufacturer, with devices like the Google Wi - Fi router, Google Home and the revamped 4K - capable Chromecast Ultra acting as further proof of the company's new hardware direction.

The documents don't reveal any other important details in regards to when this type of technology could be introduced to the consumer market by Samsung, and given that the information at hand was gathered from a patent application like many others filed by the tech giant in recent times, there is no guarantee that the gesture - based touchpad in question will be adopted en masse in the future.

For readers who are unaware, the «Fluent Design System» is a new visual language that was announced by the tech giant in May last year.

Samsung Galaxy S7 has already been crowned the king of smartphone photography, but with this kind of hardware and software combination, iPhone 7 Plus might just stand a chance of beating the Korean tech giant in this category.

Not exact matches

Since joining CNBC's Asia operations, Nancy has also interviewed Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al T; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on stage at the APEC meeting in Danang; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the height of the North Korean crisis in Shanghai and the CEO of Southeast Asia ride hailing and tech giant, Grab, after acquiring Uber's business in the region.

But in a new consumer confidence poll conducted for Fortune by SurveyMonkey, Walt Disney Co. beat out those three tech giants.

Chinese tech giants Tencent, JD.com, electronics retailer Suning and property developer Sunac have teamed up to invest $ 478m in television maker New Leshi Smart Home, an affliate of troubled technology conglomerate LeEco.

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

Apple News is the tech giant's answer to third - party apps that allow users to access content from all types of publishers in a single pane.

The program resembles Amazon's Alexa Fund and reflects the extent to which Google sees the success of its smart assistant as a driver of future growth, as both companies (and other tech giants) vie for dominance in the home.

It's a way many legacy companies are attempting to compete against giant tech companies — and in many cases protect their industry.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Whereas Apple's old logo connoted the free spirit of an upstart that was taking on staid tech giants, its current position as one of the most valuable corporations in the world calls for the sleek, futuristic logo it has now.

When owner Christin Römer tried to register the trademark in October, she got a cease - and - desist letter from a certain tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif..

The communications company's interest in Yahoo was for the assets and the brand of the struggling tech giant.

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

But it also illuminated the significant gap in technology literacy between legislators and the tech giants they want to haul in to address growing concerns about privacy.

The tech giant has launched a new international shopping feature that will allow people in several countries to buy products from its U.S. marketplace.

At the first event in the Steve Jobs Theater, the tech giant is hoping not one — but three — new devices will have consumers digging for their wallets to get their hands on a new smartphone.

With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high - end devices.

The now iconic image of an apple with bite taken out of it has been with the company since 1976, but the tech giant ditched the rainbow colors for the current slick chrome shade in 1998.

Like other enterprise tech giants, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe), IBM has been looking to revive its business in areas it calls its «Strategic Imperative,» which include cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence technologies.

The tech giant started trying to offload Boston Dynamics in 2016, as it wasn't giving Alphabet products that wouldn't end up on the battlefield.

Apple's stock rise after optimistic reports that the tech giant could return as much as $ 400 billion in capital to shareholders.

CNBC's Dominic Chu reports on how Facebook's weighting in ETFs is affecting those funds following the tech giant's earnings.

The tech giant sent test models to a select group in April 2013 and then released the device to the general public in May 2014.

But perhaps the biggest lesson Gould holds for aspiring tech giants — or, in the case of Canada, the governments who hope to foster them — was his belief in creating something that's not only new and different, but eminently worthwhile.

Patty McCord joined Netflix in 1998, back when the tech giant was a mail - order DVD rental business.

These tech giants succeeded because they were willing to reexamine their value proposition and shift accordingly rather than being stuck in their original silo.

After a year of mounting bad press about the tech giants, the companies are feeling the impact in different ways.

Tech giants like Cisco, Ebay, and PayPal are all headquartered in the city.

Indian music streaming service Gaana has raised $ 115 million in a funding round led by Chinese tech giant Tencent.