Sentences with phrase «tech investment in»

«In an era of massive high - tech investment in next - generation products, it's stunning to me that we neither own the high ground on technology nor on manufacturing,» said Rooney.

It starts fulfilling platform commitments on clean energy, including funding for green infrastructure and clean tech investment in Canada's natural resource sectors.

Now the Wall Street Journal reports that, believing his hardline approach is succeeding, Trump is planning to lob more tariffs at China and to block Chinese tech investment in the U.S. WSJ

I recently got a tour of a MAJOR effort going on at the old Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey that should spark some major tech investments in New Jersey.

Ying leads Fosun's high - tech investments in the US, including FinTech, pioneering technology, digital health, and consumer internet.

Part of this optimism is reflected in planned technology investments — two - thirds (65 %) have plans for tech investments in the next 12 months — as well as hiring — more than eight - in - ten plan to hire both front and back of house staff in the next year (83 %, each).

Not exact matches

T. Rowe Price cut valuations for 12 of its 17 investments in private tech companies, including the accommodations share site Airbnb, ride share company Uber, cloud storage company Dropbox as well as open - source development company Cloudera, and Evernote, the organization app company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The facts: Standing beside Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 8, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a $ 7 billion investment to complete the company's new Arizona factory, which will «employ approximately 3,000 direct high - paying, high - wage, high - tech jobs at its peak, and over 10,000 people in the Arizona area in support of the factory.»

The firm's portfolio companies include FanDuel, Lemonade, and Rippe, but in the tech world, Tusk Ventures is most known for its early investment in Uber when it was just a «small transportation startup.»

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.

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.

In the latest sign that the luster of many of Silicon Valley's tech superstars continues to fade, the mutual fund firm T. Rowe Price recently marked down the value of many of its priciest tech investments.

This gambit and others — like additional senior hires and the use of tech to engage clients — is expected to increase Goldman's investment - banking client base by 10 %, to more than 9,000 by 2020 and to contribute $ 500 million of the $ 5 billion in new revenue the bank is chasing.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns toIn recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns toin on the action to bolster investor returns too.

It will give public investors more faith in their investments, and it could take some air out of the tech bubble.

From a broad industry perspective, tech's growth, power, and visibility make it «extremely vulnerable to increased regulation and taxation, most especially if recession wrecks government finances,» the firm's chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, wrote in a recent note to clients.

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

Conor Muldoon of Causeway Capital Management says the bank is benefiting from a cost - cutting campaign that involved closing branches and making big tech investments — one that's helping it expand more profitably in new markets.

Earlier today, the Ontario government announced that it is «partnering with Cisco Canada to launch the largest job - creating investment in the history of the province's tech sector.»

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

Nehal Raj, a partner at TPG who leads tech investments, said that EverFi's business meshes well with the firm's investment thesis, which involves homing in on an outdated process in a market featuring relatively few competitors.

Insurance companies have dramatically increased their direct investments in tech startups to the tune of $ 1.8 billion since 2010.

Entrepreneurs willing to endure scorching summers, punishingly high housing costs, and a dearth of local tech talent are able to exploit the emirate's unmatched investments in infrastructure, low taxes, and tolerance for expatriates.

If the marriage of fashion and tech is ever to bear fruit, the investment in innovation needs to be a two - way street.

Investment in ag - tech in 2014 reached $ 2.36 billion, according to online marketplace AgFunder, and had already reached $ 2.06 billion by mid-year 2015.

At $ 831.5 million, investment in insurance tech this year is already up nearly 10 times what it was in 2010.

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

Any tech - enabled company that intends at some point in the future to take growth investment or sell the company, will undergo a tremendous level of due diligence around their IP strategy and protections.

The industry is in a time of transition anyway as it prepares to roll out 5G tech, and in some cases, investment has increased over the past two years.

Investors in these start - ups run the gamut, but leading the pack are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, DST Global (the VC firm led by Yuri Milner, the Moscow - based tech entrepreneur) and Andreessen Horowitz.

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

A.I. is an area of much interest and investment in the tech industry, Heraud says, but it doesn't always have a mission behind it.

One of MSD's first investments was in an unknown, tech - focused private equity firm called Silver Lake, which at the time was raising its first fund.

Chinese firms have been less acquisitive in Canada (the Asia Pacific Foundation's investment monitor records less than $ 1 billion in tech deals since 2010) but that's expected to change.

At a time when tech analysts tended to be exuberant bulls while bankers were more skeptical, «Ruth was the oil in the machinery» that helped the team agree on which transactions to back, says Joe Perella, then head of Morgan Stanley's investment banking.

More generally, other Chinese companies will look at strategic investments in tech startups, much the way Google and Intel do now through their venture capital arms.

Over the past two years, China's largest tech firms have made a slew of major investments in India and Southeast Asia, and bankrolled ambitious bike - sharing ventures in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Founded in July, Version One has already raised $ 15 million in capital to make investments — much of that money came from local Vancouver tech entrepreneurs who wanted to give back to their community.

The firm is leading a major investment in gaming in an effort to reach young, tech - savvy internet users.

The push by the tech sector piggybacks on years of state - driven Chinese investments in infrastructure in Latin America, with a pool of 2,000 companies pouring more than $ 200 billion in the region as of January.

«I'm in,» said Inwentash, and by the time he parted with Ballard and Cohl, he was on his way to a seven - figure investment in the biggest thing ever to sweep up the Great White Way: a high - tech spectacle called Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Ronald Wan of Partners Capital International weighs in on the tech giant's $ 1.1 billion investment in Indonesian retailer Tokopedia.

He also has investments in U.S. tech ventures, including the Virgin One Hyperloop project,

Earlier in the week, S&P Global also sounded alarm bells, placing Sunac's corporate credit rating under CreditWatch negative given the Wanda acquisition, and an earlier $ 2 billion investment into flailing Chinese tech firm LeEco.

Goldstein, who comanages the investments of her family office, AthenaPartners, had been asked by the gathering's organizers to put together content on a topic of increasing concern to the LPs in attendance: the mounting discrimination and harassment problems in the tech world.

Ali Tajsekandar, Wishpond's CEO, believes that small businesses need to make investments in marketing tech.

The market has been positioned somewhere between awe and incredulity as new blockchain exchange - traded funds have attracted more than $ 200 million from investors in little more than a week of January, but it's a robot ETF that is blowing away the competition among trendy tech investments over the month.

Sacca, who is known for his early investments in tech companies such as Twitter and Uber, launched into an impassioned speech criticizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, firing off a barrage of charges against Trump that were as fast, furious, and hard to fact check as those coming from the candidates themselves.