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New Mexico can build a high - tech sector by moving the work the national labs are doing in creating new technologies «from the lab bench to the marketplace,» he also said.

Orrin Hatch, Republican Senator who introduced the Act, defended it saying: «The CLOUD Act bridges the divide that sometimes exists between law enforcement and the tech sector by giving law enforcement the tools it needs to access data throughout the world while at the same time creating a commonsense framework to encourage international cooperation to resolve conflicts of law».

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Not exact matches

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.

A comprehensive research briefing last September by CB Insights tech analyst Deepashri Varadharajan, for example — which tracked AI startups across industries from 2012 through the fall of 2016 — showed healthcare dominating every other sector, from security and finance to sales & marketing.

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.

The Vision Fund has upended tech investing in Silicon Valley by chasing after some of the sector's flashiest companies, Recode reports.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

Robertson's economic vision places special emphasis on the clean - tech sector, part of his drive to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020.

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.

The study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign workers.

By proximity alone, Toronto also has an indelible connection to Kitchener and Waterloo, home of BlackBerry and a thriving tech sector of its own.

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Aptly named XJ Partners, the company focused on tech firms in the health sector, where the software «lagged what we were doing on Wall Street by at least 10 years,» he says.

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.

So yes, it's encouraging to see an array of new companies from the consumer and tech sectors come to market — but the TSX is going to continue to be dominated by struggling resource stocks for some time to come.

Appetite among U.S. investors has been strong this year for tech sector debuts by Dropbox, Spotify and Zscaler, easing concerns raised by the fall in Snap Inc's shares last year.

Wharton is among a number of leading undergraduate business schools that reported strong job numbers for the 2014 class in recent career placement reports, driven by a robust hiring market for finance, steady internship to job conversion rates, and an increased appetite for jobs in the tech sector.

«It's definitely a trend that we're seeing, it's a trend that appears to be driven by the tech sector, but it is across all sectors,» he said.

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.

During the tech stock boom of the late»90s, the tech sector was driven largely by hardware and semiconductors — Cisco and Intel to name two.

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.

The U.S. tech sector was broadly opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump, motivated by concerns from data privacy to telecom regulation.

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.

Tech is by far the best - performing sector this year, advancing more than 20 percent.

Trump received a total of just $ 117,000 in donations from the entire tech sector, compared with $ 3.3 million given to the former Secretary of State, according to research by Crowdpac.

«Antitrust enforcers may need to take a close look to see whether competition is suffering and consumers are losing out on new innovations as a result of misdeeds by a monopoly incumbent,» Delrahim said of the tech sector.

When a dinner was held for President Barack Obama by some of the tech sector's most notable leaders, Hastings was there, alongside Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg.

As we see it, these sectors are where the growth is, driven by innovative tech firms, from Sunny Optical to Tencent; automakers such as Geely Automotive; and casino names like Galaxy Entertainment and Wynn Macau.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

LONDON, May 2 European shares rose on Wednesday, boosted by some strong earnings updates and a rising tech sector after results from Apple exceeded weak expectations, while investors» focus turned to euro zone GDP figures and the U.S. Fed meeting.

The tech industry also thrives by working in ways that can be incompatible with public - sector city building.

Fortscale was founded in 2012 by seasoned security entrepreneurs from Israel's high - tech sector, many of whom served in the IDF's Elite Intelligence and Cyber Unit.

As we see it, these sectors are where the growth is, driven by innovative tech firms, from Sunny Optical to Tencent, and automakers such as Geely Automative, Guangzhou Automotive and Great Wall Motor.

Maybe you feel it's because you didn't invent a cutting - edge product like Facebook or a SpaceX rocket, or perhaps you haven't had to «pull yourself up by your bootstraps,» as many in the tech sector have.

Our online M&A database, supported by a team of IT market analysts, tracks 650 tech sectors and provides proprietary data including values for key emerging technology deals, giving clients more leverage in their valuation discussions.

Led by Vivek Wadhwa, who holds titles at Stanford and Duke universities, and Lesa Mitchell, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation, the report «Women in Technology: Evolving, Ready to Save the World» draws on responses to an online survey from 500 women in the tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this spring.

Venture funding for tech companies in New York City increased by 240 % from 2003 to 2013, and more than 85 % of the sector's current companies and 86 % of its current jobs were created during this time.

Her «Being Agile» approach has been adopted by a broad range of high - growth businesses across sectors such as tech, fashion, manufacturing, and marketing.

Omnivore Founded in 2010 by Mark Kahn and Jinesh Shah, Omnivore (earlier Omnivore Partners) invests in startups operating in agri - tech, food products and rural sector, going by its website.

European shares rose on Wednesday, boosted by some strong earnings updates and a rising tech sector after results from Apple exceeded weak expectations.

In San Francisco rising property prices have been blamed on the inflated salaries in the tech sector, and led to company buses carrying employees from the city to the sprawling tech campuses in the Valley being stoned by protesters — what one tech executive described to me as «the Google bus piñata».

Although it is enabled by technology, this change is not just about the tech sector.

TGR: The housing bubble and the tech bubble were, by definition, confined to certain niches initially and then the impact reverberated to other sectors.

WSJ's Ben Eisen and Akane Otani: «Investors rattled by recent volatility are becoming choosier about which technology - focused stocks they scoop up, a reversal from 2017 that threatens to undermine the tech sector's dominance in the long stock rally.

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.

Tech is by far the best - performing sector in the S&P 500 this year.

By the end of 2000, many of those who had invested all their money in the high - tech sector welcomed in the New Year with negative signs beside their performance numbers for the year.