Sentences with phrase «tech industries»

Operating conditions have proved hostile for some large companies, with the Chinese government aiming to create «national champions» in high - margin and high - tech industries like pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

«Studying these profoundly important people shows us that there are ways we can nurture the breakthrough innovation potential in us all,» says Schilling, whose research focuses on innovation and strategy in high tech industries.

Plus, these funds are also much more inclined to invest in low - tech industries, multi-location service companies, franchise operators and Main Street manufacturing businesses than venture capital funds.

Copenhagen's high - tech industries are poised to boost Denmark's economy as the capital sets its sights on innovation and green living.

On the other hand, if the major studios drop the ball and successful new studios never materialize, we could lose out in one of the few creative tech industries where Canada is a real player.

International Editor Clay Chandler explains in the Dec. 1 issue of Fortune, is due to a big, concentrated push by the Chinese government to invest in developing home - grown tech industries, from robotics to A.I. (Please subscribe here, if you don't already — and give a subscription to a loved one for the holidays!)

After numerous designs, awareness of Woodland's idea grew and eventually the retail and tech industries got involved in trying to create a successful UPC.

The tech industry will zero in on a variety of topics involving A.I., including which fields will be the next to feel its impact as well as the thorny privacy issues that are sure to arise.

The current government has already flagged they don't understand the needs of the tech industry through the NBN policy decisions they have made and I genuinely hope this doesn't further extend to a «do nothing» approach in the upcoming budget and throughout the rest of their term.

The time for immigration reform is now: The tech industry is pushing hard for comprehensive immigration reform to get wider access to foreign talent.

In 2003, Andy Rubin and three others launched, Android Inc., which created the Android operating system, which would revolutionize the tech industry forever.

Microsoft (msft) is one of the tech industry's true cash machines.

Another, featuring execs from PayPal and Salesforce, will discuss the role of the tech industry in trying to shape LGBT hiring laws and best practices — especially in states like Indiana and North Carolina, where recent legislation has opened the door even wider for legally permissible discrimination.

The patent purchases and the new prior art tool are thus part of Google's larger strategy to lower the number and the value of patents affecting the tech industry.

«I think $ 20 billion honestly would be significantly undervaluing the platform's potential,» says Jason Moser, an analyst for Motley Fool, who believes Twitter serves a unique purpose in the tech industry and is a service that can not easily be replaced.

Thiel is said to be scaling back his involvement in the tech industry partly because he feels alienated by Silicon Valley's broad embrace of liberal values.

But the Patent Starter Program has the potential to create big long - term ripples in how the tech industry views and uses patents.

Eggers's novel hits shelves just as stories of the dark side of the tech industry seem to be multiplying.

Back in 2015, tech industry analyst Ben Thompson wrote about Snapchat's TV - like immersive qualities, coveted by advertisers.

I had a marketing degree and had never worked in the tech industry before.

Recent business news is slick with reports about startups, usually in the tech industry, getting millions of dollars in investment capital, typically from the gold - plated venture capital names.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

Canada's tech industry is said to be suffering from a talent shortage; by 2020, more than 200,000 positions will be unfilled, according to the Information and Communications Technology Council.

-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build better relationships with longtime business customers as the smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.

Instead, the startup program should be seen as just one part of Google's emerging efforts to remake the economic impact of patents in the tech industry.

While this defies the modern ethos of the tech industry, we have a responsibility to prevent the majority of unlikely and unwanted outcomes before they occur.

It's also known in the tech industry for being founded and led by Jack Dorsey, 38, who was separately named CEO of the social networking service Twitter last week.

As Slashdot points out: «given the broader trends within the tech industry, any company that refuses to offer cloud - based products risks appearing obsolete (just ask Oracle about that one).

Serial entrepreneur Alan Levy has quite a track record in the tech industry.

These include the H - 1B, common in the tech industry, which can be extended up to six years; the H - 2A, for agricultural workers; and the H - 2B, often used for hospitality and tourism workers.

The tech industry, we drive the consumer adoption into verticals instead of saying, «Where would it make sense to be used first?»

Then he did the thing that gave him an even bigger fortune and made him a tech industry star: He cofounded Nutanix, the poster child of the unicorn - startup era.

The tech industry has taught us the importance of thinking big, as opposed to growing incrementally.

It's one of the reasons Canada's strong startup scene isn't translating into a mature tech industry: we need more anchor companies.

Research shows that a lack of diversity is drastically affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, which costs the tech industry more than $ 16 billion every year.

The Saudis» corruption crackdown opened up a chasm under the tech industry's justification for taking money from the religious monarchy, NYT reports.

While promising young companies like HootSuite inspire new hope, Canada's tech industry still lies in the shadow of fallen titans.

On a national scale, our analysis reveals just how powerful the tech industry has become to the US economy in the past few decades.

Today's teens are at the center of a massive turf war that's roiling the tech industry.

With Research In Motion falling from favour, things look bleak for our nation's tech industry, but there is hope.

That contrasts with the tech industry's often fractious relationship to its host communities in the Bay Area, where newly minted multimillionaires have been known to buy residents out of their homes on the spot and complain to municipalities about homeless people marring their views.

These aren't the best of times for the tech industry.

Indeed, the tech industry's gender makeup is heavily skewed.

Mesher says Tsai's relationship with Alibaba's founder, Jack Ma, is reminiscent of some other significant tech industry pairings, notably Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and BlackBerry's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.

There is still a staggering low number of female founders in the tech industry.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

That may be especially true in the tech industry, where no one's future is secure for very long.

Organizers also laid some blame on the tech industry itself, saying that women fill only a fraction of its jobs, including in computer security.

According to the research firm Evercore ISI, the tech industry's giants have allotted more than $ 9 billion toward mergers and acquisitions so far this year — including the MuleSoft deal, valued at $ 6.5 billion alone.

Canada's tech industry is plagued with problems, not the least of which is a tendency for our startups to sell early or license their technology to foreign - based, usually American companies.