Sentences with phrase «tech sector as»

Despite being one of the hardest hit states during the Financial Crisis of 2008, Michigan is slowly regaining its lost prestige, with developments in the tech sector as well as having a robust healthcare system.

Cyber security is fast becoming one of the most important roles in the tech sector as cyber criminals and hackers become ever more sophisticated.

Not to mention the amount of speculations regarding high - tech sector as the Internet became popular.

The failure to eclipse the earlier highs — a setback that had been accompanied by a breakdown in market breadth, credit spread deterioration, the disaster brewing in the influential tech sector as well as severe stock overvaluation — doomed the popular index for the next two years.

During his two terms, President Barack Obama made three official visits to the Capital Region, using the area's emerging tech sector as an example of a direction for the national ecomony.

The Facebook controversy has increased fears that the tech sector as a whole may face increased regulation, which may limit their revenue streams.

However, the stock is significantly undervalued compared to the S&P 500, and Figure 3 shows that it trades at a discount to the tech sector as well.

Even while the tech sector as a whole is experiencing a correction, year - over-year, aggregate digital health investment increased by nearly 50 % in the first quarter of 2016.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

The demise of Nortel Networks in Ottawa provides some idea of what the Waterloo region and the tech sector as a whole can expect if RIM doesn't rebound.

In fact, Hub Ventures sees the tech sector as a vehicle for social impact.

We can use the tech sector as an example: when asked why women and minorities are underrepresented in tech startups, 49 % of male founders say that there aren't enough women in the pipeline with another 8 % of male founders blaming low recruitment into college STEM programs.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

And as we all know, the tech sector is looking pretty frothy these says, as company valuations have soared to astronomical heights.

Founded by David Tedman, Ryan Holmes and Dario Meli as a design and development agency, Invoke evolved into a startup generation engine, spawning one of the country's most promising tech firms in Hootsuite (of which Holmes is CEO), as well as other buzzy names in the sector, like Foodee, Quietly (of which Meli is CEO) and Memelabs.

But here — as elsewhere in a tech sector that's being driven by billions in less - than - discriminating venture capital dollars — revenue hasn't necessarily followed.

And a version of that is playing out in the stock market as the once invincible tech sector suddenly looks vulnerable.

This week, fresh from a tour of Israel's tech sector, I'm going to run through some of the highlights — as well as a lowlight or two — that I experienced.

More good news for Canada's tech sector: Toronto - based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $ 46 million in Series C funding.

But whatever the appropriate amount of celebration, it's clear that the Canadian tech sector is in fine form — as Sebastian noted, the Toronto - Waterloo corridor has the highest concentration of startups in the world bar the Valley.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

Alcoa's tale is held up as a wee candle flicker of hope in an otherwise depressing report on gender inequity in tech - driven sectors, including the oil and gas industry, automotive manufacturers and telecommunications companies.

The tech industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of doing business.

Just 3 percent of all Hong Kong - listed stocks, by capitalization, come from so - called «new economy» sectors — tech as well as biotech — according to a report last year by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse operator.

An outpost in Miami is seen as a way to link local «treps to the growing number of business tycoons who are based in Latin America, where Endeavor first got its start and has access to board members in sectors such as tech, telecoms, retail and finance.

The number of technologists actually in the tech sector, as narrowly defined, was found to be still fairly small: 58,000.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower amid strong earnings from the tech sector and commodity prices eased on concerns as China moves to reform its industrial sector.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

Beijing has given tech giant Baidu Inc the go - ahead to trial self - driving cars on city streets, even as the autonomous vehicle sector reels from its first fatal accident in the U.S. this week.

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.

Markets may have soared higher, but were dragged down by losses in the tech sector — an industry that has come under criticism by Trump during his campaign — as investors worried the president - elect's policies may lower profits for Silicon Valley.

But the S&P 500 total return and equal weighted indices have already broken through their 2007 highs, as have the sector indices for Discretionary, Staples, Health Care and Tech (and the NASDAQ).

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - Wall Street fell on Thursday as losses in industrials and interest - rate sensitive sectors offset marginal gains in tech stocks.

Between 2012 and 2016, as much as $ 486 million was invested in the global pet tech sector across 172 deals, according to CB Insights data.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters)- Wall Street's main indexes seesawed in choppy trade on Thursday, as gains in tech stocks offset losses in interest - rate sensitive sectors.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - Wall Street's main indexes seesawed in choppy trade on Thursday, as gains in tech stocks offset losses in interest - rate sensitive sectors.

Tech stocks took a beating in what could be an ominous sign for the sector, while health care and utilities also fared poorly as investors demonstrated a preference for cyclicals over defensive.

As head of the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, Ruffolo is injecting much - needed capital into the country's tech sector.

«As we see more volatility in the tech sector, it's easier to find more opportunities» to invest in the space.

«With the right tools and right culture, regular people can answer those questions themselves,» said Elissa Fink, chief marketing officer at Tableau Software, which has been the tech sector's biggest IPO of 2013, and after an initial public offering price of $ 31 has traded as high as $ 59.

Technology sector fever gripped the stock market as a whole, with the Tech sector priced at nearly one - third of total market value at its peak.

Because energy and tech are globalized industries that aren't tethered as closely to the U.S. economy as many other sectors, they weren't hit as hard by the recession, and can afford to shell out more money for attractive office space, says Ryan Severino, senior economist at Reis.

Small companies already profit in sectors as diverse as high - tech R&D and food and beverage manufacturing and distribution.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Acquisition has its benefits, but there is concern that Canada can't develop a thriving tech sector without large anchor companies such as RIM.

«We're hollowing out the whole high - tech sector right now,» says Chowaniec, who also serves as chairman of Startup Canada, which bills itself as a «national movement» to enhance entrepreneurship.

Tech, helped by a rally in semiconductors, was one of the better - performing sectors, up 1.4 percent, the same as the gains in financials.

A brief swoon in publicly traded tech stock prices last April — particularly in the enterprise sector — was seen industrywide as a warning shot that startups should control their «burn rates» and raise as much new money as possible to protect against a future funding drought.

Over the past few years, this tech stalwart has positioned itself as a leader in one of its sector's up - and - coming areas: information technology services.

He has stepped up to chairman to lead that strategy and has recruited Jeff Kelisky, another New Yorker with tech - sector experience, as chief executive.